Faithful readers of this column may recall that North America is experiencing a decade-long surge in the popularity of craft beer, as the unwashed masses throw...
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Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Alexander Keith Hops To It
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What’s Growing On in Gardening
With the thought of the warm days to come – you know, the ones that weatherman has assured us are on the horizon – many of us are itching to do something...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
English Spirits
The Right Honourable Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady herself, shuffled off this mortal coil last week. Readers in the audience that were of school...
Columnists - Jai Murugan
(Team)
There were usually the four brothers, the minimum number to pick two teams and have a game. The Imaginary brothers stayed away for fear of not being accepted...
Columnists - Mansoor Ladha
Golden Years not so bright for retirees
Everyone anxiously awaits retirement. We have visions of spending our Golden Years golfing every day and spending time at some exotic island with margarita in...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
California Dreamin’
Your globetrotting liquor reporter took a quick trip to California last month, and naturally, my thoughts turned quickly to booze. Flying into San Francisco, I...
Columnists - Tricia Ingram
Bird Is The Word
As I went out the door on my way to work this morning, I caught a glimpse of a cedar waxwing in a mountain ash tree by my driveway. Success! After setting food...
Columnists - Jai Murugan
(Seal)
My often too-real-for-comfort, but imaginary friend Kate absolutely hates seals. She believes they’re yappy, yippy smooth-skinned and stupid. They stick...
Columnists - Mansoor Ladha
Speak English, you are in Canada!
A reader wrote a letter to one of the local daily newspapers recently complaining about “Italian or Spanish-speaking men speaking their native language...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Vats In The Vatican
The eyes of the world were on Vatican City last month, as the big muckety-mucks of the Catholic Church elected a new pope. Your intrepid liquor reporter...