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Once upon a time, Heather O’Neill wrote a fairy tale about Sofia, a teenage girl in a fictional, occupied European country, as she and her travelling companion, a talking goose, walked the countryside in hopes of retrieving her mother’s lost manuscript, which would hopefully save their homeland. The result is The Capital of Dreams, the Montreal-based O’Neill’s latest novel.

Here are reviews of a half-dozen wines I’ve recently tasted and enjoyed — some falling under the “Wines of Europe” umbrella (Italy in particular), others coming from new world wine-producing countries…

The “pretendian” phenomenon — someone falsely claiming Indigenous heritage and appropriating Indigenous culture, often for their own benefit, financial or otherwise — has been making headlines recentl...

Zan Lazarevic / Unsplash For summer sipping, it’s hard to beat a well-chilled glass of Sauvignon Blanc. Sure, Pinot Grigio is light and fresh, but it often lacks the lively, vibrant fruit flavours an...

There are plenty of tasty options out there for those who are craving a red wine in warmer temps that don’t involve big oak, heavy tannins or searing alcohol levels.

Summer’s a great time to catch up on your favourite beach reads — easy, breezy books that can be devoured in a day. But diehard book nerds know fall’s the time when the most anticipated titles of the year typically drop — from the latest in literary fiction to biographies, historical tomes, memoirs and more. Here are 20 titles — 10 fiction, 10 non-fiction — to watch for in the coming months from local, national and international authors. NON-FICTION Everything and Nothing at All: Essays By Jenny Heijun Wills (Knopf, Aug. 27) The Winnipeg-based author of the memoir Older Sister. […]

A hot and steamy August long weekend — is there a better time to crack a cold one and relax? But for those who aren’t beer drinkers, a “cold one” means something quite different than a crisp pilsner o...

Wine is often thought of as a marriage of art and science — why not add sport to the mix?

Regular readers of this column will have seen the terms “Old World” and “New World” bandied about. These terms have been around in the wine lexicon for decades — but are they still useful and relevant...

There’s never been a more important time to be supporting Canadian producers of wine, beer or spirits — locally and otherwise. While Canadian wineries continue to produce reds, whites, bubblies, rosés...