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Tainting of grapes from wildfire and controlled burns has cost the Australian wine industry more than $300 million over the past five years. A free, one day symposium to be held in Melbourne this month will bring together Australia’s leading smoke taint...

*This is a Guest Post by regular reader Warren Sanderson    More specifically these are my impressions from three and a half weeks spent in four cities on the Pacific North West – Vancouver and Victoria in British Columbia and Seattle...

Day 13 Canada - Victoria, Canada Victoria, Canada Where I stayed Fairmont Empress Whistler is certainly a hip-hop-happening place. Heaps of young folk enjoying those extreme sports that comprise' reckless endangerment'. Like downhill dirt-bike riding...

OTTAWA — As Canada enters a year marked by national birthday celebrations and the beginnings of an inquiry into the country’s past, sordid treatment of its indigenous peoples, Nunavut-based throat singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis hopes her music will open minds...

Visual Arts The well-attended recent Seattle Art Fair provided a numbered of opportunities to get a glance at work and artists we don’t often see in this region. Bay Area artists such as Ruth Asawa and Hung Liu had a number of works on view. Asawa,...