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Among the many joys in life, FOOD tops our list. After working hard, we love to spend time with friends and eat! It's peach season in Niagara and the recipe below will bring some innovative flavours to your next late Summer barbecue. Peach Mango Salad Serves 8. 4 shallots, or 1/2 red onion 2 red sweet peppers 2 garlic scapes sliced in to little rounds 4 or 5 peaches or nectarines sliced, about 4 cups of fruit 2 mangos peeled and sliced 1 clove of garlic minced or grated to

The Statue of Liberty is one of the world’s greatest icons, so recognizable that it is used as a lost marker of all human civilization in (spoiler alert) Planet of the Apes. It has appeared in countless movies, photographs, souvenirs and comics. Few things represent AMERICA quite so hard as well, and it’s easy to feel like she has always been there, towering over New York Harbour. Yet Liberty is a relatively modern construction, built by French ideas and manufacturing in

This July 4 marked 250 years since the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence in the United States of America. One day before this official anniversary, Madonna released a new album that is decidedly built on the concept of freedom from tyranny too, only on the dancefloor. In my humble opinion, it is a far greater celebration of liberty than any of the official commemorations on offer this summer. Without any comment on UFC, the stallin

If enterprise in its purest form is about executing on great ideas, creating value, working with teams, inspiring customers and making a cultural impact, then business might just be the greatest art of all. This post gets an MFA to help the MBAs, reports on orchestration, recalls the world’s first abstract (female) painter, rewatches a 1970s BBC miniseries and looks through an artist's eyes. “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.” -Andy Warhol Way back

Any full life includes joy and collapse, love and loss, laughter and sorrow. When your proverbial house falls down, you can rebuild to spec or choose a new plan. The big question is, in the wake of destruction, are you going to recreate something that was there before, or go for something new? Are you going to raise a Frauenkirche, or build yourself the Barbican? Similar challenge, different finish Bill Burnett and Dave Evans draw an explicit parallel between life design a

We recently had the opportunity to ski with friends, an experience I am feeling very grateful for. Skiing was not on the itinerary for me when growing up and after a classmate broke her leg in grade 2 learning the sport, it became completely out of the question. I missed every ski trip to Holiday Valley and Kissing Bridge in high school, very envious of the happy people spilling out of a returning coach bus at night just as jazz band was wrapping up. They carried boots and li

According to The Global Story , enough people don’t read that we may very well be out of the ‘literate society’ that took off in the 18th century and Neil Postman described as revolutionary in Amusing Ourselves to Death . As a person who distrusts popular things, being an outlier on this particularly disturbing trend is just fine. I love reading, and love books. If it’s subversive and difficult now (once AGAIN, thank you history) to hold and read a book, I’m there for it