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Year: 2023

Friday Wrap

Friday Wrap #23 – Milk, cows, and unsocial news

July 1, 2023 Phillip Blancher

There is an old adage: Why buy the cow when you can drink the milk for free. I am reminded of this as the media world in Canada panics because of the fall out from […]

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Trustee censured by the UCDSB

June 29, 2023 Phillip Blancher

nnBROCKVILLE – An Upper Canada District School Board trustee was censured for violating the trustee code of conduct.nnTrustee Curtis Jordan, who represents Ward 9 (Stormont and Glengarry Counties) at the UCDSB, received a six-month censure […]

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Train still off the rails

June 29, 2023 Phillip Blancher

nnMORRISBURG – Work to return the miniature train ride at Upper Canada Village to service remains incomplete 11 months after it derailed.nnThe popular miniature train, known as The Moccasin, derailed July 28, 2022 in what […]

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June 29, 2023 Phillip Blancher
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In recognition of Truth and Reconciliation

June 29, 2023 Phillip Blancher

nnMORRISBURG – One of the last initiatives of the 2018-22 term of South Dundas council was the announcement on September 30, 2022 of an orange bench to be installed at the South Dundas Municipal Centre […]

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Published Columns

Wanderings – I prefer dessert to desert

June 28, 2023 Phillip Blancher

I am fortunate at this point in my journalism career to still work in a newsroom, and at a weekly newspaper. Not because of my own ability or inability, but because there still is a […]

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Friday Wrap

Friday Wrap #22 – A failure of titanic proportions

June 25, 2023 Phillip Blancher

I originally intended on posting this Friday, but it was too soon after the discovery of the wreckage of the “sub” Titan. I held off, but maybe I shouldn’t have. — Phil — As far […]

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