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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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  • First Nations

Looking back on this week’s Truth and Reconciliation final event

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 5, 2015June 12, 2015

It’s a sunny Tuesday in Ottawa, and I’m having shawarma with my son on Bank…

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  • First Nations

My Truth, My Reconciliation

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 28, 2015June 12, 2015

Will Canadians learn anything of useful value from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada?…

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  • Music

Bloomistry Live at Raw Sugar Cafe | 10.10.2009

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 1, 2015

Bloomistry live at the Raw Sugar Cafe, Ottawa, Canada. October 10, 2009 Audience recording. Dmitri…

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  • Music

Bloomistry Live at Kaffé | 23.10.2009

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 28, 2015March 26, 2015

Bloomistry live at Kaffé 1870, Wakefield, Quebec. October 23, 2009 Audience recording. Dmitri Koev, bass;…

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Bloomistry Live at Westfest | 12.06.2010

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 27, 2015March 27, 2015

Bloomistry live at Westfest, Ottawa, Canada. June 12, 2010 Soundboard recording, MP3 (320 kbps). Dmitri…

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Bloomistry Live at Zaphod | 03.15.2010

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 22, 2015March 25, 2015

Bloomistry live at Zaphod, Ottawa, Canada. March 15, 2010 Soundboard recording, MP3 (320 kbps). Dmitri…

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  • Writers and Writing

Full Circle: download and read the story here

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 17, 2014January 2, 2015

Follow me on Twitter. Find my latest book, Residential Schools: with the Images and Words…

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  • Canada

Romeo Dallaire and the 80/20 Rule

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

THE DATE WAS Thursday February 15, 2007, and I was on my way to a…

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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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  • Music

Rock On, Rock Off: Reflections of an Ageing Musician

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 7, 2013May 17, 2017

TEN YEARS AGO, in 2003, an acquaintance of mine named Elaina Martin created Westfest. This…

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  • Toronto

Rob Ford is an Effect, Not a Cause, and We’ll Survive Him

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 27, 2013January 5, 2015

AS I WRITE this it is impossible to say whether the drama surrounding Toronto Mayor…

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  • Canada

Abortion, Augie and the March for Life

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 10, 2012January 5, 2015

SUBMITTING MYSELF TO the Ottawa weather, which today possessed all the charm of wet underpants,…

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  • Canada

The Once and Future Liberal Party of Canada

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 13, 2012January 6, 2015

A FEW DAYS to the weekend’s Liberal policy convention, I had a conversation with the…

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  • World

Living in the Age of The Endless War

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 12, 2011January 6, 2015

ON A WALL at the National Capital’s War Monument are inscribed these words, past which…

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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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