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An Interview with Garnet Angeconeb

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 5, 2018July 2, 2021

Last Summer, Garnet Angeconeb met with Senator Lynn Beyak to reconcile. Now he says she should resign.

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Podcast 83: Talking Twitter, with Jon Kay

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 21, 2017October 21, 2017

The Roundtable Podcast Season 5 Episode 83, “Talking Twitter with Jon Kay.”

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  • Fiction

Once the Indians

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 8, 2016November 21, 2016

The year is 2020 and Indians, as they were known, have been extinct in Canada…

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  • Fiction

Mr. Twoskies Goes to Ottawa

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 4, 2016November 21, 2016

“A dynasty in the making” was the headline on the day Mr. Twoskies gave his…

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  • Personal Essay

Mo

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 19, 2016November 9, 2016

Morrie is from Valley East in the Sudbury Basin, a long way from this west-end…

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Education is the key to reconciliation

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 22, 2015June 22, 2015

BRITISH COLUMBIA’S Education Minister, Peter Fassbender, announced late last week that the province will introduce…

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Looking back on this week’s Truth and Reconciliation final event

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 5, 2015June 12, 2015

It’s a sunny Tuesday in Ottawa, and I’m having shawarma with my son on Bank…

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  • Humor

This is an offensive aboriginal stereotype, even if it does describe me perfectly

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 21, 2014January 2, 2015

I‘M SURE you’ve all seen it: the offensive “Native” stereotype of the guy who has…

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  • Current Events

Why Would Anyone Want to Be the National Chief of the AFN?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 21, 2014January 7, 2015

THE ASSEMBLY of First Nations 35th Annual General Assembly, held last week in Halifax, was…

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  • First Nations

FNCFNEA: An Interview with Chelsea Vowel

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 21, 2014January 4, 2015

In this interview with Chelsea Vowel, we discuss the recent Bill C-33 – the First…

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  • Canada

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

We Are Better than Blockades

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 19, 2014January 4, 2015

GREETINGS, PEOPLE. This is one of my regularly scheduled posts in which I address something…

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  • Film

Reflections on Jeff Barnaby’s “Rhymes for Young Ghouls”

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 11, 2013January 10, 2015

WE ARE INFORMED by the Oxford English Dictionary that the word “ghoul” derives from an…

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  • First Nations

An #idlenomore Reading List

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 20, 2012January 5, 2015

“As Attawapiskat shows, matters may go on unresolved for years and even decades. I am…

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  • First Nations

Canadians need to educate themselves about indigenous peoples

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 27, 2011January 6, 2015

TOMORROW MORNING I will get on an airplane and fly to Halifax, where the Truth…

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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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Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors, A National History — winner of the Golden Oak Award and finalist of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Rated 4.25/5 on Goodreads!

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