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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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  • Humor

How my school days prepared me for a world which doesn’t exist, and didn’t prepare me for the one that does

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 13, 2014January 2, 2015

SCHOOL DAYS. They were so long ago, you probably don’t remember them. Or maybe what…

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  • First Nations

FNCFNEA: An Interview with Grand Chief Gordon Peters

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 30, 2014January 3, 2015

Download entire interview (320 kbps mp3) | Visit The Roundtable on Facebook. Grand Chief Gordon…

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  • Writers and Writing

Intellectual Dishonesty Still Beats Learning Grammar

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 29, 2014January 4, 2015

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH Carolina has a bit of a mess in its lap. Back…

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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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  • Ontario

When Toddlers Save the World (or — It Was Dr. Mustard, in the Study, with a Lead Argument)

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 22, 2011January 6, 2015

THOSE OF YOU who know me only through these sometimes-prickly writings of mine — which…

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  • Politics

There’s much talk about debate these days, but do we even know how to do it?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 1, 2011January 7, 2015

WHEN I was in high school, I had the good and (even in those days)…

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  • Personal Essay

The Lost Art Of Penmanship

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 11, 2011January 7, 2015

As I recall it now, the awards day was for all of us gathered in…

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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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  • Personal Essay

How I Survived My Education

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 24, 2010January 10, 2015

WE ARE ALL deeply indebted to our education system, for despite it, and maybe even…

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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.

✍ wayne.k.spear@gmail.com

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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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