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Year: 2025

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Wanderings – Shiny objects and bad ideas

May 14, 2025 Phillip Blancher

In the trailing days of the 2025 Federal Election – a blast from the past appeared on the pages of the Globe and Mail – Preston Manning. Manning warned that a Liberal government returning to […]

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Wanderings – Canadian election reflections

May 7, 2025 Phillip Blancher

The 2025 Federal Election was one of the most interesting elections in the last 40 years. There were many upsets, and the results were not quite what was predicted – yet the results are exactly […]

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Wanderings – Why is science the enemy?

April 30, 2025 Phillip Blancher

When did science become the enemy? I think I missed the memo here that said that anything scientific must be bad. It certainly was not the case when I was growing up. Science was (and […]

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Wandering further afield – Pre-Election thoughts

April 27, 2025 Phillip Blancher

It is a day to go until election day and I’d thought I’d share a few thoughts about this 2025 Federal Election. This election has been interesting and not what I expected three months ago. […]

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Wanderings – A unique campaign like any other

April 23, 2025 Phillip Blancher

The 2025 Federal Election is nearly here, and it has been an interesting campaign to watch on a national and local level. A 36-day campaign period is short by most election standards in Canada, but […]

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Wanderings – Work not platitudes needed on Highway 138

April 16, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Highway 138 is a death trap. The road, which connects the City of Cornwall to Highway 417 north of Moose Creek, is a 35 kilometre corridor of carnage. Late last month, another person died driving […]

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Wanderings – Promises, promises

April 9, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Political campaigns are wonderful things. All the party leaders are trying to get you to vote for them. Big campaign rallies bring the party faithful together while glorious leaders wearing various jackets speak about hope […]

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Wanderings – Are campaign signs effective?

April 2, 2025 Phillip Blancher

It is election season – again. This is our second election campaign in less than three months, and while we escaped this particular scourge in February, we’re not so lucky with this campaign. The scourge […]

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Wanderings – What are political polls really worth?

March 26, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Opinion polls are fascinating things to read about. Take a random group of people, ask them some questions, then maths people do some work and extrapolate this tiny sample of people to project a result […]

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Wanderings – Reversing course is a better option

March 19, 2025 Phillip Blancher

We are facing an extraordinary wake-up call as Canada enters a federal election period, with a very clear fork in the road for Canadians to decide. The hostile actions by U.S. President Donald Trump towards […]

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Recent published columns

  • Wanderings – Shiny objects and bad ideas
    May 14, 2025
  • Wanderings – Canadian election reflections
    May 7, 2025
  • Wanderings – Why is science the enemy?
    April 30, 2025
  • Wanderings – A unique campaign like any other
    April 23, 2025
  • Wanderings – Work not platitudes needed on Highway 138
    April 16, 2025
  • Wanderings – Promises, promises
    April 9, 2025
  • Wanderings – Are campaign signs effective?
    April 2, 2025
  • Wanderings – What are political polls really worth?
    March 26, 2025
  • Wanderings – Reversing course is a better option
    March 19, 2025
  • Wanderings – Putting our money where our mouths are
    March 12, 2025

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