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Friday Wrap #56 – S is for subsidy, T is for tax break

April 27, 2024 Phillip Blancher

Thursday’s announcement of the $15 billion “investment” by Honda to build batteries and electric cars in Ontario is the latest in the longer line of car companies bellying up to the trough for tax breaks […]

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Friday Wrap #55 – Heading towards the inevitable

April 20, 2024 Phillip Blancher

  Ever look at a situation and think – there is no other plausible outcome but what’s right in front of us. I thought of this a lot this week after seeing the federal Liberal […]

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Friday Wrap #54 – It’s complicated

April 13, 2024 Phillip Blancher

It’s complicated – or at least it shouldn’t be complicated. When did it become okay for things not to work as advertised? Case in point – technology. Today I had to deal with web hosting […]

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Friday Wrap #53 – Is it over yet?

April 5, 2024 Phillip Blancher

As much as I look forward to this “once-in-a-lifetime” solar eclipse, I can’t wait until it is over. As I have written about here and elsewhere the hype and noise about this event continues to […]

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Friday Wrap #52 – Other dumb things…

March 29, 2024 Phillip Blancher

I wrote in my weekly column Wednesday about communication failures. Largely this is government-types trying to either over explain or micromanage things. Today, City News and other outlets reported that the Niagara region has declared […]

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Friday Wrap #51 – Win, lose, or draw

March 8, 2024 Phillip Blancher

It’s been a while since I wrote a Friday Wrap. Life gets busy. Some of that busyness ended Wednesday as the Futsal program I’m involved with concluded its season. It was the first year the […]

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Friday Wrap #34 – Cliché

February 12, 2024 Phillip Blancher

I dislike overused phrases, buzzwords, and corporate speak. It sounds trite. The phrases are everywhere, and it’s bull. Living my best life Stepping out of my comfort zone Low-hanging Fruit Team High-level Synergy Social media […]

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Friday Wrap #50 – Garbage Decisions

February 10, 2024 Phillip Blancher

Thursday, Bell Media decided to dump on the media industry, cut 4,800 jobs, sell 45 radio stations, kill off a bunch of local news shows, and lay waste to the scorched earth that is what’s […]

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Friday Wrap #49 – Late again

January 27, 2024 Phillip Blancher

Yup, late again. Normally I write these Friday afternoons or evenings, but I was at a hockey game last night for work so… I’m late. Saturday it is instead. Recently, I have taken to selling […]

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Friday Wrap #48 – The struggle is real

January 19, 2024 Phillip Blancher

Some weeks are easy, some are not so easy. Maybe it’s the winter weather that finally hit, or a let down after the Christmas Holidays, but the procrastination bug has hit. I am not alone. […]

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