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Month: October 2025

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Wanderings – Brilliant moves needed

October 29, 2025 Phillip Blancher

People who are in the wrong, and know they are in the wrong, hate having it pointed out to them. To take that one step further, a bully who knows they are doing wrong hates […]

Published Columns

Wanderings – Eliminating school board trustees a good start

October 22, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Ontario’s education system has a lot of problems. Most of those problems can be attributed to restrictive funding formulas, chronic underfunding of programs, and having four publicly funded systems that compete against each other on […]

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Wanderings – Saying goodbye to a colleague and a friend

October 15, 2025 Phillip Blancher

I never had the privilege of being taught in school by Wendy Gibb, but I had the honour of working with her for nearly 10 years. When I restarted my original career vocation of print […]

Photography

Trainspotting in Quebec

October 13, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Wandering further afield, I went trainspotting with youngest son on October 12. This time, we went to Coteau, Quebec, and De Beaujeu, Quebec to do some trainspotting. If you wonder why I use the British […]

Published Columns

Wanderings – Banning photo radar not the easiest solution

October 8, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is scrapping photo radar. Well, good riddance! I’m glad all the serious problems in our province have been solved, that the premier can now devote his time to trivial issues like […]

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Wanderings – Simple things should not be this difficult

October 1, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Readers can file this column under the category of curmudgeonly late 40-something-year-old complaints, but I’ve let this go too long without saying – when did customers no longer matter to businesses? A little over a […]

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  • Wanderings – Not asked questions left unanswered
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  • Wanderings – Playing the consolidation long game
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Recent photography

  • Trainspotting in Quebec
    October 13, 2025
  • 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
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