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When I started my career in the wine biz, over 30 years ago now, riesling was the one grape that had eluded me. It was like bebop jazz, I knew it existed, but that didn’t mean I had to like it. I eventually came to love both, sometimes together, and now I regard riesling as…

After the third or fourth high-speed turn down Canyon Ski Resort’s thrilling Canyon Coaster, my bacon biscuit breakfast started doing backflips in my belly. That may sound, from a linguistic standpoint, kinda cute. But in real time, when you’re’ white-knuckling it down a hair-raising “pipe,” plunging down a steep hillside and screaming like a wild…

A flash of brilliant magenta and green, accompanied by the sound of furiously beating tiny wings, was my first hummingbird encounter in my backyard. And then it was over before I could even register that it had happened! It left me wanting more. Since then, I have planted hummingbird-friendly flowers and provided other enticements to…

Canada’s political divide is deepening — and our voting system is making it worse. Read More

And now, the Canada Disability Benefit, a long-awaited federal program meant to lift people out of poverty, is being clawed back by Alberta. AISH recipients are told to apply, only to have every federal dollar deducted from their provincial benefit. What should have been a turning point is instead a trap. Read More

Another devastating forest fire season is upon us and the eastern U.S. has been sizzling under a record-breaking heat dome. We can no longer ignore that climate change is the cause. Read More

Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen recently wrote to the mayors of both Edmonton and Calgary with “concerns” about bike lanes. His first letter to Edmonton called for the cancellation of the 132nd Avenue project, but the letter to Calgary was more vague, stating “we need to seriously consider on how to maintain adequate capacity for motor…