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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

Spring
2025

Sage60 gives Sage readers fresh content four times a year, and it releases six weeks after each print edition. In this edition, we celebrate Canada’s best bites by consulting chefs and culinary authors to come up with one quintessential ingredient from each province and territory. We also ramp up for summer with a story on super-active retirees who share their secrets to staying fit and continually moving. In a story that seems counter-intuitive to run online, we share strategies from the experts on how to limit your doomscrolling now that you’re retired and why limiting it is important. (And we stand by our claim that Sage60 is safe to read at all times.) Finally, we talk to several members who have secured themselves some ink after their 60th birthday. They share their reasons for getting tattoos and their experiences in doing so. 

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In an ode to this great land, Sage60 asks the experts to pick one ingredient from each of the 10 provinces and three territories that’s worth celebrating. 

A study has shown that 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week can reduce all-cause mortality by 31 per cent compared with no physical activity.

There are many good reasons to escape the thrall of your smartphone, including avoiding “suffering from retirement.”  

Just as younger generations are getting more ink, so are baby boomers and older retirees.