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Goodbye to Osoyoos – our friend with ‘a great personality’

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In the landscape comparison game, the Rocky Mountains are the gorgeous supermodel, while Osoyoos’ semi-arid desert is our friend with ‘a great personality.’

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Here’s the dirt on ‘terroir’: Wine-tasting Part 2

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I picked up a handful of dry vineyard soil and easily crumbled the sand and stones, hoping that Road 13 winery’s motto – “It’s all about the dirt” – would help me understand the elusive concept of ‘terroir.’

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Artistic ray of light shone through residential school blackness

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Into the horrific story of Canada’s residential schools, a ray of light shone in the person of Anthony Walsh – a white teacher who encouraged his Indigenous students to express their culture through art.

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Desert cycling is a thorny challenge

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I grasped the small hard two-pronged thorn with my fingers, tugged it from my bicycle tire, and heard the dismaying “pssssssst” as the air fizzled out.

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