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  • Politics

The Old Familiar Madness

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 22, 2018January 2, 2020

Don’t be fooled by the editorial pages and the other scoundrels, the other liars and cowards—we’re not doing politics anymore, we’re preparing for tribal warfare.

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  • Personal Essay

A Picture. A Thousand Words.

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 31, 2014January 3, 2015

OTTAWA, 1999: my partner’s uncle shows me the program of a reunion, several years earlier,…

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  • Podcasts

The Roundtable Podcast 70: War & Religion

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 31, 2014January 3, 2015

• Week of 24.08.2014 Pastafarians | Ferguson, MO | Toronto Election 2014 | The Islamic…

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  • World

How Ethnocentrism Blinded the War’s Critics to the People of Iraq

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

SCANNING THIS WEEK’S renewal of the Bush and Blair trials, I wondered: do I alone…

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Death and Language

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

AN EDITOR ASKED ME not long ago if I might change the word “died” to…

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  • World

Can the World Do Anything for the Girls of Nigeria?

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

AS I WRITE THIS, the swell of a Western grassroots outcry against the Nigerian outfit,…

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  • Religion

The Taliban Vs. Civilization

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 4, 2013January 4, 2015

THE NEWS from Afghanistan has been nothing but bad, and every indication is of worse…

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  • World

The War in Mali

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 28, 2013January 5, 2015

EVEN IF THE contemporary account of al-Umari is greatly exaggerated, the 1324 transit of the…

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  • Personal Essay

What Should One Remember on Remembrance Day?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 11, 2012January 5, 2015

EVER SINCE November 1919 the 11th of November has been designated Remembrance Day throughout the…

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  • World

Ratko Mladić: How Civilizations Tumble

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 17, 2012January 6, 2015

ACROSS THE NEXT dozen or-so months, the Hague tribunal deliberating charges against former Bosnian Serb…

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  • Canada

How J.S. Woodsworth opposed the war and saved capitalism

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 29, 2012January 5, 2015

ONE MIGHT HAVE anticipated, with all the recent talk of conscience rights, that J.S. Woodsworth…

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  • History

Looking Back at Pearl Harbour

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 7, 2011January 6, 2015

THE DECEMBER 7, 1941 Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbour swiftly entered the realm of national…

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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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  • History

Commemorating The War of 1812

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

THERE IS a debate these days in the Canadian media over the Harper Government decision…

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  • History

Why the US Should Not Apologize for the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 6, 2010January 10, 2015

Looking backwards at the savagery, at the irrational and disgusting business of industrial murder 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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