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  • Personal Essay

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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  • Personal Essay

The columnist versus the commons

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 13, 2017March 13, 2017

If the revolution ever arrives, it is probable that the talking heads and the spokespersons and the pundits will be rounded up and shot, by way of reply to all of these one-way conversations.

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  • Humor

Let’s Talk Tee-Vee

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 18, 2014January 3, 2015

A LOT OF PEOPLE (at least two of them) have asked about this little TV…

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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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  • Canada

Another Way of Looking at Minister Flaherty

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 17, 2014January 4, 2015

THE CURRENCY of the word outpouring was notable this week: over at the National Post,…

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  • First Nations

Face It: Indian Residential Schools Were Bad

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 13, 2014February 26, 2015

LAST WEEK, Paul Russell (the letters editor at the National Post) ran a piece entitled…

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  • First Nations

Canadians Need to Understand Before It’s too Late

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 19, 2012January 5, 2015

IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR since the Attawapiskat First Nation housing crisis became a widely deliberated…

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  • First Nations

The Richard Smoke Trial

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 8, 2012January 6, 2015

ON DECEMBER 23, 2011, Ontario Superior Court Justice the Honourable Alan C. R. Whitten rendered…

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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

C.D. Howe And The Three-Point Tempest

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

This week the election campaign delivered another manufactured controversy in which Canadians will take no…

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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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