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Wanderings – Two wrongs don’t make a right

December 17, 2025 Phillip Blancher

The Merriam-Webster dictionary editors announced their word of the year for 2025 on Monday – slop. Slop, as defined by that dictionary, is “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by […]

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Wanderings – Is technology making us too connected?

December 10, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Canadian academic and philosopher Marshall McLuhan once wrote about technology that “we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” What he meant by this is that we create tools to do things, but […]

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Wanderings – Not asked questions left unanswered

December 3, 2025 Phillip Blancher

It’s unfortunate that Premier Ford has such a restrictive policy when it comes to reporters asking questions at press conferences. Had the opportunity to ask more than the only one question and one follow-up at […]

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Wanderings – Playing the consolidation long game

November 26, 2025 Phillip Blancher

There is a growing trend within the Ontario government to concentrate power. It started in 1995, waned for a while in the 2000s, and since 2018 has ramped up efforts to eliminate other authorities. Premier […]

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Wanderings – Looking for a place to happen

November 19, 2025 Phillip Blancher

This is not an issue unique to one rural community; rather, it is common to many rural communities across the country — a place to hang out. Having raised four children successfully to adulthood, this […]

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Wanderings – Floor crossing is not wrong or right

November 12, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Last week’s federal budget should have been the primary focus of Members of Parliament in Ottawa. Instead, the budget was only one of three rings of the circus on Parliament Hill. Two of those rings […]

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Wanderings – Three ways to save Canada Post money

November 5, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Too often, people are quick to point out problems but not offer any solutions. Clearly, there is a big problem with Canada Post. The national mail service is on track to lose another billion dollars […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Recent published columns

  • Wanderings – The ups and downs of being a sports fan
    May 6, 2026
  • Wanderings – Banning social media for youth a good start
    April 29, 2026
  • Wanderings — A chance to change the highest office
    April 22, 2026
  • Wanderings – Floor crossings highlight need for voting reform
    April 15, 2026
  • Wanderings – Trickle-down consequences
    April 8, 2026
  • Wanderings — Premier Doug Ford’s glass house
    April 1, 2026
  • Wanderings – Driving into danger
    March 25, 2026
  • Wanderings – Getting started is that much more difficult
    March 11, 2026
  • Wanderings – Is Alto the next Seaway project?
    March 4, 2026
  • Wanderings – Shortchanging the Future and Basketweaving
    February 25, 2026

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
    February 18, 2024
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