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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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Gord Downie will not make things better

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 16, 2017November 16, 2017

Is the Indian Affairs education system and philosophy right? Do the deaths of Indigenous children justify a change in the policy of this Department? As the years go on, it seems more and more likely that Duncan Campbell Scott spoke for Canada and Canadians.

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Georges Erasmus Calls for Action on RCAP Recommendations

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 17, 2016

In November, it will have been 20 years since the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples…

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The Ottawa Book Awards and new work from Chelsea Vowel

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 16, 2016October 4, 2016

I’ve been working away these past months at the 2016 Ottawa Book Awards reading list. One…

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Miche vs Canada: the dangerous quicksand of First Nations rights

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 3, 2016October 26, 2017

This is a story about folks who just want a chance to clean the slate and…

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The Indian Residential Schools Are Still With Us

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 2, 2016May 2, 2016

In 2010, I interviewed the former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Phil Fontaine,…

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Who are the Indigenous influencers in Canada?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 24, 2015June 24, 2015

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eBook Download: Reconciliation & the Way Forward

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 12, 2015March 15, 2018

LAST WEEK in Ottawa I had the pleasure of launching the book Reconciliation & the…

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Full Circle: download and read the story here

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 17, 2014January 2, 2015

Follow me on Twitter. Find my latest book, Residential Schools: with the Images and Words…

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  • Current Events

The Long Tsilhqot’in Journey to Aboriginal Title

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 28, 2014January 3, 2015

THE WEBSITE of the Xeni Gwet’in (pronounced Honey Gwi-deen) reads like a manifesto: In a…

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Looking Beyond the First Nation Control of First Nations Education Act

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 15, 2014February 15, 2015

LAST WEEK I WAS interviewed for a CBC program on the topic of Bill C-33,…

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  • Canada

Notes Toward a Candid Conversation About Genocide in Canada

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 27, 2014May 29, 2015

AS THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION Commission of Canada hosts its national event this week, in…

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The Sixties Scoop

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 26, 2014January 4, 2015

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS reported this week that Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson will host…

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  • First Nations

Give the First Nations Education Act a Chance

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 10, 2014January 4, 2015

THE ISRAELI DIPLOMAT, orator and polyglot, Abba Eban, is today memorialized in the truism that…

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The Sound and the Fury of Indian Politicians

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 11, 2013January 5, 2015

WHILE THE POLITICAL theatre of a possible meeting of some vague nature between the Prime…

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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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