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The Life of Cities

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 3, 2018January 2, 2020

In a city, you wear your anonymity like a childhood sweater. We are all theoretical, without sin, mute yet plenipotentiary, emerging into the rush-hour light with undeclared purpose.

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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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  • Books

An iBook, Now in its 2nd Edition! “Residential Schools: With the Words and Images of Survivors”

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 6, 2017

In 2016, Residential Schools: With the Words and Images of Survivors won the Golden Oak…

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  • Books

The Ottawa Book Awards and new work from Chelsea Vowel

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 16, 2016October 4, 2016

I’ve been working away these past months at the 2016 Ottawa Book Awards reading list. One…

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  • Obituary

Larry Loyie, 1933–2016

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 18, 2016April 18, 2016

I learned today that my friend and co-author, Larry Loyie, is gone. Larry’s Cree name…

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  • Personal Essay

Uncle Al

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 9, 2015March 9, 2020

HE WAS, quite simply, one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever known.

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  • Humor

The Cree should have a flip-chart easel ceremony. No, just kidding.

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

THERE’S AN EASY WAY to tell you’ve been spending too much time with the Cree,…

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  • Business

Business writing on LinkedIn, The Pulse, by me!

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

WHEN I AM not mesmerizing the masses with my work here at waynekspear.com, I’m being…

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  • Books

Residential Schools: reviewers recommend my latest book

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 25, 2015February 25, 2015

Above, l. to r., authors Wayne K. Spear, Constance Brissenden, and Larry Loyie, and Jeff…

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  • Personal Essay

Yes, it’s true. I have a new website.

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 15, 2015

I wasn’t going to announce this until it was official, but what the heck. I…

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  • Personal Essay

Is one of these your perfect journal?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 6, 2015February 6, 2015

Yes, it’s true: I have a lot of blank books DOZENS OF THEM, tucked away…

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  • Writers and Writing

I’m tired of being a crappy blogger, and here’s what I’m doing about it

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 11, 2015January 28, 2015

If you are a blogger, the odds are you have been going through the same…

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  • Humor

Some tips for keeping warm in interstellar space. I mean, Canada.

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 7, 2015January 28, 2015

IF YOU LIVE in Canada, or northern USA, you know how nasty Winter can be.…

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  • Humor

Make anything funny with this one simple trick

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

LAST MONTH my family went on a mission. It was my son’s idea, and it…

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  • Personal Essay

11 teeny-tiny, totally do-able things that are great for your life

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

WHAT IF I SAID you can change your life for the better, and that all…

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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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