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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 84: “CBC Indigenous” Journalist Jorge Barrera

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 28, 2017October 27, 2017
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  • Writers and Writing

More Thoughts on Unpaid Internships and Writing for Exposure

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 25, 2014January 3, 2015

THE ONTARIO MINISTRY of Labour recently announced an enforcement “blitz” of provincial regulations governing unpaid…

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  • Writers and Writing

The Limits of Honesty in Writing

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 17, 2012January 2, 2015

TRUTH, LIKE WEATHER, arrives in degrees. Just as the weather is all around, so too…

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  • Writers and Writing

Making a living, dead languages, and why so many pros write so badly

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 10, 2011January 6, 2015

RARE IS the day that I do not find a piece of bad writing in…

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  • Writers and Writing

News of the World and the Ethics of Journalism

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 8, 2011January 7, 2015

The demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, though sensational, is of little significance…

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  • Canada

Is Fox News Coming To Canada?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 2, 2011January 8, 2015

We all knew someone was going to say it, but how appropriate that it was…

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  • Interviews

An Interview with Heather Menzies

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 3, 2010January 10, 2015

[The following was first published in ASH Magazine Volume 4 Number 1, Winter 1996.] Your…

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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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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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