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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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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 – Are politician pay raises well earned?

September 24, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Knowing your own worth, whether that is in the workplace or in the greater world, is often difficult to figure out – unless you’re an elected politician. In that case, it’s easy – you’re worth […]

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Wanderings – Why building big things should be tough

September 16, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Echoing a time long ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney has lamented that Canada used to build big things. “We used to build big things in this country, and we used to build them quickly. It’s […]

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Wanderings – Dumber than a bag of hammers and other phrases

September 10, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Wit and witticism are part of the standard fare for most writers. There isn’t a writer who I know of who turns down a catch phrase, or turns a blind eye to a funny quip. […]

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Wanderings – Change should not be this difficult

September 3, 2025 Phillip Blancher

After years of resisting the herd mentality, stubbornly digging my heels in, and sticking with what I know, I made the switch. I am now an iPhone user. The case for switching has made sense […]

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