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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. 

Current Issue

Summer
2025

In this edition of Sage60, we continue to celebrate Canada with two all-Canadian stories. First, we offer a look at six festivals taking place across the country — from Cavendish, P.E.I. to Calgary, Alta., and several points in between. We also ramp up for summer with a story that offers five cocktail recipes from distilleries across the country, along with a sixth, this one a mocktail from an über-cool cocktail bar on Ottawa’s Sparks Street.

But not everything about summer is coming up evening primroses. We also take a look at how to protect ourselves when wildfire smoke hits our communities and cities. And, we have a primer on what precautions to take should you decide to venture south of the border to the United States either this summer or in the near future.

Sage60, our digital version of our popular Sage print magazine, gives readers fresh content four times a year, and it releases six weeks after each print edition. We hope you enjoy this issue. 

Features

Sage60 looks at cool festivals in a variety of genres, from chamber music to roots. 

In our continuing ode to Canada, we reached out to five distilleries and one cocktail bar to ask for their favourite summer cocktail. 
 

Experts are advising monitoring symptoms and erring on the side of caution, especially if you have pre-existing conditions. 

From registration requirements to concerns about social media scrutiny, Canadian snowbirds are facing new realities under Trump’s second term.

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