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MADE IN CANADA
trust your
instincts 
We
made our annual trek to the Niagara Wine Festival yesterday, and got
back too late to blog. Been out campaigning today for the Ontario
Greens. It's almost as if summer caught up at last -- it was a lovely
clear warm weekend, and the Friday downpour that was the remnants of
Isabel left everything green and bright.
The
wine tour was a hoot -- a bunch of us hired a schoolbus to take us
around, so we didn't have to ration our tastings, and we ate out on the
patio of one of Niagara-on-the-Lake's finest restaurants until the
stars came out, and then sang songs on the bus all the way home. On the
way we picked up some decent wines and discovered some new local
artists -- cast marble sculpturers Robert and Barbara Abram of Trenton
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