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When it comes to racism, the RCMP may be bad-apple friendly

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 18, 2020June 20, 2020

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki has affirmed that the problems within the RCMP are bigger than “a single individual or the actions of one person.“ She’s right.

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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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When Christie Blatchford Came Calling

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 15, 2020March 13, 2020

Christie Blatchford made it very clear to me that she was interested in law and order, and only in law and order. That was both her strength and her limitation.

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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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Podcast 99: a 20-year Retrospective of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, with Mike DeGagné

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 31, 2018January 2, 2020

On this week’s show, I talk to the former Executive Director of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 20 years after the AHF’s founding.

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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 94: Celebrating the Work of Cree Author, Larry Loyie, with Constance Brissenden

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 3, 2018January 2, 2020

Visit the Living Traditions Writers Group website to learn more about Larry’s work. You can also order the iBook version of Residential Schools with the words and images of Survivors <a

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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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Podcast 88: Tim Fontaine, Editor-in-Grand-Chief of Walking Eagle News

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

On this episode of The Roundtable, I talk with Tim Fontaine, Editor-in-Grand-Chief of Walking Eagle News

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The Roundtable Podcast 72: Crimes Against Headlines

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 29, 2014January 3, 2015

• Week of 28.09.2014 Walking In LA | One Month to the Toronto Mayoral Election…

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On Going to the Pow Wow

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 28, 2012January 6, 2015

IN ALL CULTURES, social dance figures. The pow wow has, as is the case with…

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Doing the Math in Attawapiskat

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 1, 2011January 6, 2015

EARLY IN THE week, during an interview whose topic was the relationship in Canada between…

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Canadians need to educate themselves about indigenous peoples

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 27, 2011January 6, 2015

TOMORROW MORNING I will get on an airplane and fly to Halifax, where the Truth…

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Watch Yourself, Canada

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 24, 2011January 6, 2015

ABOVE THE fold of October 4th’s Globe and Mail there was featured a piece by…

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  • Personal Essay

In Which I Lose My Passport and Very Nearly Also My Mind

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

I discovered some days ago that my passport wasn’t where I was certain I’d put…

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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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