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Standing In for the Wet’suwet’en People

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 26, 2020July 2, 2021

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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The AMC and Indigenous Media

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 19, 2019July 2, 2021

For days now this matter has been covered by CBC, CTV News, Global News, and the Winnipeg Free Press. But it was the reporting of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network that triggered an unspoken community rule not to air the dirty laundry where outsiders can see it.

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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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We’re in no mood for explaining ourselves to Canada

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 11, 2018July 2, 2021

We don’t need, and we don’t want, a devil’s advocate to set us right about…

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Colten Boushie’s Death Must Have a Purpose

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 30, 2018July 2, 2021

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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Podcast 90: Cindy Blackstock

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 16, 2017November 2, 2020

Since 2007, Cindy Blackstock has been in a battle with Canada over policies that discriminate against First Nations children.

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NatChief PB is Doing Very Good Great Things at the AFN

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 7, 2017July 2, 2021

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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  • Books

An iBook, Now in its 2nd Edition! “Residential Schools: With the Words and Images of Survivors”

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 6, 2017

In 2016, Residential Schools: With the Words and Images of Survivors won the Golden Oak…

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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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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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  • 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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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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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

What Did the Prime Minister Really Know About Bruce Carson’s Past?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 13, 2014January 3, 2015

MEET BRUCE CARSON, as early as the 1970s a compulsive thief and fraudster and, 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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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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