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We Need a Hunter S. Thompson

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 20, 2018February 20, 2018

Because the bastards are winning, and we must never make peace with it. ✎  Wayne…

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  • Podcasts

Podcast 96: Shelagh Rogers (an encore presentation)

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 17, 2018January 2, 2020

This week’s podcast is an encore presentation of an interview recorded on April 13, 2013.

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The Prime Minister’s Indigenous Rights Framework Changes Nothing

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 15, 2018February 15, 2018

Indigenous people have had to fight for recognition of every right we have. And we…

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We’re in no mood for explaining ourselves to Canada

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 11, 2018January 5, 2020

We don’t need, and we don’t want, a devil’s advocate to set us right about…

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Podcast 95: “Indigenous, Canadian, Indigenous-Canadian, or….” How do you identify?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 10, 2018January 8, 2020

This week I talk to Chelsea Vowel, Brooke Torgerson, Carey Newman, Conrad Saulis, Doug Jarvis, Karen Lawford, and Nahnda Garlow about identity.

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The Once and Forever Candidate

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 8, 2018January 2, 2020

Doug lacks even an interest in the mechanics of charm, and his style tends more toward resentment. But resentment is a cheque that someone will eventually cash if only you carry it around long enough.

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America’s Taliban Has Arrived

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 6, 2018January 2, 2020

We’ve reached the point at which no one can be under an illusion, unless of course it’s an illusion of one’s willful choosing. President Trump’s administration is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the giant con and tax-avoidance scheme of every palace-and-botox Word-of-God blowhard.

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Podcast 94: Celebrating the Work of Cree Author, Larry Loyie, with Constance Brissenden

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 3, 2018January 2, 2020

Visit the Living Traditions Writers Group website to learn more about Larry’s work. You can also order the iBook version of Residential Schools with the words and images of Survivors <a

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  • Personal Essay

Why Do We Dream?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 1, 2018January 2, 2020

They did not ask for the journey, and we don’t want to know too much about it, but they return holding a marvellous gem that they alone can explain. A gem from a dream of the departed who haunt them. A dream not of the day but of the relentless, interminable day. A fascinating gem that I do not want to ever hold.

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Colten Boushie’s Death Must Have a Purpose

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 30, 2018January 5, 2020

The two solitudes of Saskatchewan, the reserve and the farm, remain as estranged as ever, and Indigenous people everywhere hold their breath in anticipation of a trial they don’t dare allow themselves to believe will be fair and impartial.

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Podcast 93: Money and Personal Finance, with Terry Goodtrack

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 27, 2018January 28, 2018

On Episode 93 of The Roundtable, I talk money, personal finance, and financial literacy with Terry Goodtrack (CEO, AFOA Canada).

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The Debate About Indian Residential Schools Misses the Point

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 25, 2018January 24, 2018

The Indian residential school debate is and has always been about the right of one ethnic or cultural group to dominate and absorb another.

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  • Politics

One Day There Will Be An Indigenous Prime Minister

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 23, 2018January 24, 2020

One day there will be an Indigenous Prime Minister of Canada. And I couldn’t care less.

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Podcast 92: Talking Books with Angie Abdou (In Case I Go) and Frank Busch (Grey Eyes)

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 20, 2018January 2, 2020

Angie Abdou is the author of “In Case I Go.” She and Frank Busch talk about the making of this novel.

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  • Personal Essay

Life, edited

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 18, 2018January 2, 2020

I have seen sun-bleached photos, of aunts and uncles, the happy brides and grooms whose future self will divorce and remarry, or perhaps not, retaining across the decades some small semblance of this person frozen in time, covered in wedding confetti, surrounded by those I remember as once living among us.

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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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Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and finalist of the 2015 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

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