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What is Good Writing?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 18, 2014January 4, 2015

BECAUSE I KNOW that some of my readers are also writers, I post an occasional…

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  • Podcasts

The Roundtable Podcast 58

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 29, 2013January 4, 2015

• Week of 28.12.2013 Thousands across eastern Canada still in the dark | Stephen Harper…

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  • Podcasts

Podcast 9: Eggs, Miley Cyrus, Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, Michael Bryant and more

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 19, 2012January 6, 2015

• Podcast 009 | Week of 19.08.2012 Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3).

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  • Canada

What difference does it make what Michael Ignatieff says?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 25, 2012January 5, 2015

In his essay “Notes on Nationalism,” George Orwell observed that “if one harbours anywhere in…

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  • Obituary

Remembering Christopher Hitchens

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 16, 2011January 4, 2015

I FIRST CAME across the writer Christopher Hitchens when he was a young Socialist contributing…

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  • Writers and Writing

How Writers Write

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 6, 2011January 2, 2015

THERE IS an enormous store of narrative concerning the working habits of authors, much of…

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  • World

How Different are Anna Hazare and Mohandas Gandhi?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 27, 2011January 7, 2015

IN RECENT days, critics of the so-called anti-corruption activist and Lokpal Bill agitator, Anna Hazare,…

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  • Humor

Bill Hicks and the Comedy of Wishing Things Were Otherwise

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 15, 2011January 7, 2015

THE TRAILER FOR Matt Harlock’s and Paul Thomas’s 2009 documentary film “The Bill Hicks Story”…

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The Compulsion to Write (pt. 2)

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 25, 2010January 5, 2018

In his essay, “Why I Write,” George Orwell identifies the following ….

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  • Wayne's Picks

The Compulsion to Write (pt. 1)

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 24, 2010March 15, 2020

Illustration by Anthony Russo I was eight years old and urinating in the bathroom of…

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  • Personal Essay

(Big) Business As Usual

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 4, 2010January 10, 2015

[Originally published in ASH Magaine, Volume Four Number Three, Summer 1997.] Now and then I…

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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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