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Month: August 2025

Published Columns

Wanderings – Fact, fiction, and what’s posted online

August 27, 2025 Phillip Blancher

AI-generated cartoon A fire in the middle of the night consumed a stone house near where I live recently. The house was empty and there were no injuries. That is where I thought the story […]

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Wanderings – Counter tariff soup or profiteering?

August 20, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Canada is one of only two countries in the world to have imposed reciprocal or counter-tariffs on American products, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods six months ago. It was […]

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Wanderings – Triskaidekaphobia and Araskavedekatriaphobia

August 13, 2025 Phillip Blancher

The headline of this column is not a bunch of random letters typed on the keyboard by a two-year-old. Rather it is a very real condition. Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13. It […]

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Wanderings – Rewarding the bad guys

August 6, 2025 Phillip Blancher

We have a global problem. We, meaning the global community – countries and government leadership, reward those who are the aggressors. The bullies, the terrorists, those who commit ill against others. Those are the people […]

Recent published columns

  • Wanderings – Banning photo radar not the easiest solution
    October 8, 2025
  • Wanderings – Simple things should not be this difficult
    October 1, 2025
  • Wanderings – Are politician pay raises well earned?
    September 24, 2025
  • Wanderings – Why building big things should be tough
    September 16, 2025
  • Wanderings – Dumber than a bag of hammers and other phrases
    September 10, 2025
  • Wanderings – Change should not be this difficult
    September 3, 2025
  • Wanderings – Fact, fiction, and what’s posted online
    August 27, 2025
  • Wanderings – Counter tariff soup or profiteering?
    August 20, 2025
  • Wanderings – Triskaidekaphobia and Araskavedekatriaphobia
    August 13, 2025
  • Wanderings – Rewarding the bad guys
    August 6, 2025

Recent photography

  • Grass River Falls
    July 14, 2024
  • Canada Day Fireworks
    July 8, 2024
  • What to do with a filter?
    July 8, 2024
  • Hockey photos… the playoffs
    February 18, 2024
  • Black and White
    October 1, 2023
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