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Category: Personal Essay

Non-fictional writing of a personal nature.

  • Personal Essay

A Faggot On The Alexandra Bridge

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 7, 2010January 10, 2015

I’m not one given to the media fetish of the Ten (or One or Twenty…

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  • Personal Essay

CSIS: Getting It Right, Through Accident

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 6, 2010January 12, 2015

Some days ago, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Richard Fadden, said in what…

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  • Personal Essay

Goya and Me

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 23, 2010October 16, 2016

The foremost recollection is as an eight year-old confronted with “Saturno Devorando a Su Hijo”…

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  • Personal Essay

Food Crimes

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 13, 2010January 10, 2015

It was not long ago that bread came from the local bakery, milk could be…

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  • Personal Essay

The Adult And The Child

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 6, 2010January 10, 2015

It happens now and then that one hears something praised for its childlikeness, perhaps a…

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  • Personal Essay

‘My Canada includes …’

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 16, 2010January 10, 2015

The bumper sticker I often saw at the time of the 1995 Quebec referendum on…

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  • Personal Essay

Of Youth and Age

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 12, 2010January 10, 2015

T.S. Eliot’s 1922 poem, The Waste Land, begins: April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs…

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Kingston, Ontario, in the 1990s

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 5, 2010July 24, 2021

One’s lasting impression is of the old-world feel of the place, ivy growing on limestone…

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  • Personal Essay

The Roller Derby

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 3, 2010January 10, 2015

If you are of a certain age you will recall the days of the banked-track…

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Ottawa — Random Notes Toward A Portrait

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 2, 2010January 10, 2015

It perhaps goes without needing to be said that persons born and raised here find…

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  • Personal Essay

In Bill Gates’s World (1998)

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 23, 2010January 10, 2015

I am not sure exactly how much money Bill Gates is ‘worth’ as I write…

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Of Roads and Rage

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 22, 2010January 10, 2015

One of the great frustrations of modern life is its sanctions against rage. For instance:…

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  • Personal Essay

Keep Turning A While

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 19, 2010January 10, 2015

The chief attraction of a city for me is the endless variety. There are always…

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  • Personal Essay

In Praise Of Garbage

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 18, 2010February 18, 2018

I was walking along Elgin Street in Ottawa when I saw a woman of about…

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  • Personal Essay

Homelessness Considered

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 17, 2010January 10, 2015

Although regarded as extraordinary, homeless persons in general I find are in no way unusual.…

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Wayne K. Spear has been a writer for over thirty years. His work has appeared in the National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, Ottawa Citizen, and elsewhere. He was a weekly CTV News panelist and currently hosts The Roundtable Podcast.

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