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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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  • Writers and Writing

Today, A Poem

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 15, 2010January 2, 2015

Three Pathetic Fallacies River is a lonely geography, the silence of its endless course colder…

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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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  • Personal Essay

Kingston, Ontario, in the 1990s

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 5, 2010January 6, 2015

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

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  • Wayne's Picks

Milton Rogovin

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 4, 2010January 5, 2020

Rogovin once told Cheryl Brutvan in an interview, “I never could warm up to the middle class in photography.” Among the working classes, among the poor, among those who live on the street, he finds not only suffering but also dignity and beauty.

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  • Ontario

Ontario Under the Harris Government

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 1, 2010January 10, 2015

WHENEVER THE TOPIC turns to politics I am thoughtful of this aphorism, written by H.L.…

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  • Politics

A View from the Stadium: Politics and Sport

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 25, 2010January 10, 2015

A common view among academic writers, and especially writers of the political left, is that…

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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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  • Personal Essay

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

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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  • Personal Essay

Capitalism: For and Against

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

You’ve heard often and perhaps recently that socialism is defeated and that capitalism is therefore…

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  • Personal Essay

The Secret Life of Work

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 15, 2010January 10, 2015

Here are some general observations of the work that goes on in a modern city.…

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  • Personal Essay

The Confessions of a University Drop-Out

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

During the years 1992-1998 I was a full-time Ph.D. student at Queen’s University at Kingston…

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  • Canada

Democracy Makes the Best Television

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

A university graduate, I have endured years of Theory. That is fine, yet were I…

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  • Personal Essay

A Winter of Discontent: The Broadsheets vs The Tabloids

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 8, 2010January 10, 2015

One may infer a few things about my writing career from the first publication –…

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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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