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Podcast 95: “Indigenous, Canadian, Indigenous-Canadian, or….” How do you identify?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 10, 2018January 8, 2020

This week I talk to Chelsea Vowel, Brooke Torgerson, Carey Newman, Conrad Saulis, Doug Jarvis, Karen Lawford, and Nahnda Garlow about identity.

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  • Current Events

The Debate About Indian Residential Schools Misses the Point

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 25, 2018July 2, 2021

The Indian residential school debate is and has always been about the right of one ethnic or cultural group to dominate and absorb another.

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  • Personal Essay

Social Media, Conversation, and Connection

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 26, 2017July 2, 2021

We go to the Internet for conversation and camaraderie and connection. There, we smell the virtual smells of other people, and it isn’t always pleasant or pretty.

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  • Podcasts

Podcast 83: Talking Twitter, with Jon Kay

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 21, 2017October 21, 2017

The Roundtable Podcast Season 5 Episode 83, “Talking Twitter with Jon Kay.”

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  • Politics

Sir John A. Macdonald: a morally unremarkable man

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 25, 2017August 25, 2017

By the time I have finished this little essay of mine, the Twitter storm which…

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  • Fiction

What is to be Done with Mr. Crusher’s Enemies?

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

Convention be damned, thinks Crusher: there will be no deference to norms in the his White House.

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  • Current Events

Twelve things Millennials have amazingly never experienced

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 3, 2015January 3, 2020

Show a Millennial a 20-D printer that can make a functioning human liver out of silicone pellets, and they’ll say “That’s awesome”— which is what they say about a new craft beer or the latest Drake song. What does blow the minds of Millennials is when you tell them that you saw the Rolling Stones in the 1970s for five dollars.

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  • Humor

How Hard Could It Be to Have a Billion Twitter Followers?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 4, 2014January 2, 2015

OKAY, first of all. So I joined the Twitter around February, nine months ago. That…

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  • Roundups

My Top Ten Posts of All Time, by Social Media Shares (2010–2014)

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 5, 2014January 3, 2015

The following are my most widely-shared posts on Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Reddit, Pinterest,…

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  • Writers and Writing

Social Media: a Soliloquy, Monologue or Conversation?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 8, 2014January 2, 2015

IN THE LATEST Roundtable Toronto Podcast, episode 65, Mandy, Greg, Andy and I discussed the…

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  • Podcasts

Margaret Thatcher, Pablo Neruda, Cher, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Shelagh Rogers, Nutella, Crisps, Bed Bugs

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 14, 2013January 5, 2015

• Podcast 38 | Week of 14.04.2013 Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3) | Visit…

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  • World

Linda Sobeh Ali and the Mediocrity of Palestinian Leadership

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 18, 2011July 5, 2021

IT HAPPENS that I today regard the sudden retraction from Canadian soil of Linda Sobeh…

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  • Writers and Writing

Scrapping The Social Media

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 9, 2011January 8, 2015

Were you to find me by chance at the local pub, I’d be in the…

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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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Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors, A National History — winner of the Golden Oak Award and finalist of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Rated 4.25/5 on Goodreads!

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