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Standing In for the Wet’suwet’en People

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 26, 2020June 20, 2020

As Robert Jago has written, “we don’t know how many chiefs are opposed to the pipeline, we don’t know for certain what percentage of people in the Wet’suwet’en country support or oppose the pipeline and we don’t know if the pipeline was approved by a referendum, a town hall or a simple vote in council.”

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Neil Peart, 1952–2020

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 11, 2020February 15, 2020

Neil Peart yielded an army of air drummers, and at one time or another many of us were the Jason Segel character from Freaks and Geeks, playing along to Tom Sawyer in our parents’ basement.

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  • Podcasts

Podcast 102: Senator Yvonne Boyer

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 28, 2019January 2, 2020

Warning: this podcast discusses coerced sterilization of Indigenous women. Visit Senator Boyer’s website senatorboyer.ca for healing and counselling resources.

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Podcast 101: Journalist and Former APTN Executive Director of News Karyn Pugliese

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 21, 2019January 2, 2020

On this episode we discuss APTN, Indigenous media, and the 2019 election.

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Podcast 100: Kenn Richard

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 15, 2018January 2, 2020

On this episode, I talk to Kenn Richard, founding Executive Director of Native Child and Family Services of Toronto

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  • Current Events

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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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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  • Current Events

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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  • Current Events

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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  • Podcasts

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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  • Current Events

NatChief PB is Doing Very Good Great Things at the AFN

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 7, 2017December 6, 2017

For the first time in Canada’s history, a federal government has a plan for Indigenous people that is going to be great for them

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  • Current Events

An honest telling of Canada’s story will make Canadians uncomfortable

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 9, 2017November 8, 2017

An honest telling of Canada’s story will make Canadians uncomfortable, but in the long-run Canada will be better for it.

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  • First Nations

Is it Even Possible for the MMIWG National Inquiry To Do Better?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 2, 2017November 2, 2017

So far the MMIWG National Inquiry has been a disappointment, but I wonder how much it is within the power of this organization to do better. To what extent is the National Inquiry hindered by Canada?

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  • Current Events

The Reconciliation Scam

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 24, 2017October 30, 2017

A lot of people fell for the Trudeau pitch, but the shrink wrap has been off a while now and buyers’ remorse has set in.

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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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