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  • Canada booms with music festivals from spring to fall, and they range from the comparatively tiny to the nation’s largest — that being either Ottawa Bluesfest, in the nation’s capital, or the Festival d'été de Québec, in the Quebec capital, depending on who’s doing the answering.

  • Cocktails, like many things, are seasonal, so, in the elbow’s up spirit of our current Canadian patriotic moment, we set out to ask independent, Canadian distilleries for recipes built around their craft spirits.

  • Wildfire smoke is eerie on the landscape when, like fog, it makes distant buildings disappear before your eyes. But it’s also potentially lethal, especially for those with pre-existing conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and pulmonary disease.

  • Pre-pandemic, Canada’s snowbirds flocked by the millions to warmer climes in the United States, especially Florida, Arizona and California. Then stormed in Donald Trump 2.0 with his 51st state rhetoric and trade war. 

Past Issue

Fall
2024

Sage60 gives Sage readers fresh content four times a year, and it releases six weeks after each print edition. In this edition, we examine the trend of low- and no-alcohol beverages, on which many craft breweries are jumping. We also look at lifelong learning and interview retirees about how they keep their brains active. In tandem with that, we explore what puzzles, games and activities our members enjoy as a way to keep the cognitive synapses firing. And finally, we interview a cataract surgeon and researcher who conducted a study on how Ontario’s move to private clinics for cataract surgery has affected care. He found that low-income Ontarians are being left behind. Given that many provinces have the same policy as Ontario, it’s likely happening elsewhere, too. 

Features

More and more people are opting to replace at least some of their alcohol consumption with no-alcohol options. 

Activities that involve thinking, learning and remembering can prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer’s or other aging-related dementia, studies find.

Mind games and puzzles can contribute to a healthy brain and stimulating the brain is one way to prevent dementia, according to current medical thinking. 

A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal made this finding. Other provinces’ programs are set up much the same way although the topic hasn’t yet been studied outside Ontario.