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Wanderings – Addressing Canada’s other, other housing issue

September 6, 2023 Phillip Blancher

Canada has a housing issue. No, not a supply or affordability issue. Nor is it the lack of people in the construction trades. Our latest, but not latest, housing problem is 24 Sussex Drive, also […]

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Wanderings – The un-handyman learns

August 30, 2023 Phillip Blancher

Eighteen years of home ownership has taught me a little about fixing, repairing, and then fixing the repair on a home and the contents therein. The year we bought our home my parents gave me […]

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Wanderings – Lazy rivers and self-serve checkouts

August 23, 2023 Phillip Blancher

I went on vacation recently. It was a brief trip, and the first time in three years that I’ve gone away. The last time I tried to go away, it was to complete the second […]

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Wanderings – Stalled progress and stilted plans

August 9, 2023 Phillip Blancher

Many years ago, when I was in my final year of high school, a plan was released to upgrade passenger rail services between Windsor and Quebec City. I remember this plan clearly as the cover […]

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Wanderings – Did I miss a memo somewhere?

August 4, 2023 Phillip Blancher

Recent interactions in life have led me to the point of wondering if I have missed something out there – a memo, an article, a story – something. Correct me if I am wrong (my […]

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Wanderings – I have the TV streaming blues

July 26, 2023 Phillip Blancher

A recent internet and cable outage has led to a significant change in my home – I cut the cord. Well I almost cut the cord. I still have high speed internet, but the PVR […]

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Wanderings – Noteworthy newsroom notions and nonsense

July 12, 2023 Phillip Blancher

Working in a physical newsroom is an interesting experience. The smell of printer’s ink, the sound of a press running, the ringing of phones, and the tactile feel of newsprint held in your hands. Just […]

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Wanderings – I prefer dessert to desert

June 28, 2023 Phillip Blancher

I am fortunate at this point in my journalism career to still work in a newsroom, and at a weekly newspaper. Not because of my own ability or inability, but because there still is a […]

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Wanderings – Caveat emptor or something like that

June 21, 2023 Phillip Blancher

I grew up mostly along a railroad track. Not on one particularly bad side of the tracks or the other, but I lived near them. My father enjoyed a long career with the railroad which […]

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Wanderings – Handling the basics of technology

June 15, 2023 Phillip Blancher

Have you ever noticed that there are things in the world that do everything, but the job the thing was meant to do? I can name quite a few items that fit this description, but […]

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