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Contributors Lucas Aykroyd Timothy A. Brown Michael DeFreitas Dr. Holly Fong Janet Gyenes Sharon Matthews-Stevens Manfred Purtzki Dr. Kelly Silverthorn Roberta Staley Mark Stevens

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5 July/August mix 25 CE calendar 37 sudoku 38 small talk

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SUPing around the Îles de la Madeleine. Far off the eastern coast of Quebec, it’s the perfect place to SUP (also see page 7) or do any summertime adventure. Story on page 32.

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from the editor Scenes from the Îles de la Madeleine, from colourful homes and kites to tasty brew and lobster. Bring your appetite for adventure and fab fare! Story on page 32. clockwise from top

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While this summer revelry is all very enticing, my goal, bucket-list-wise, is to also visit this all-season wonderland come winter to see the seals who sojourn here on ice floes. Stay tuned…

Another must-visit destination on my list: Morocco. The sensory intoxication of this north African country is off myriad…from the call of the muezzin to the tactile experience of preparing couscous. Our writer takes us through the challenges of a wannabe (kinda) chef fighting the distractions—from luxe casbahs to frenetic souks—surrounding him (page 16).

Back at home we celebrate all things Canadian with summer-and-beyond style picks (page 7). I’m coveting the mahoganyand-silver chain-link necklace by Vancouver jeweller Tania Gleave…

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And in Toronto, we’re anticipating the opening of the refurbed One King West hotel, once a bank and now a hotspot that combines new and old with the aplomb one expects from the architects responsible for the jaw-dropping ROM, aka Royal Ontario Museum (page 6).

Back on the west coast, we marvel at more Canadian splendour as seen from the new Sea-to-Sky gondola in Squamish, BC (page 5)…wow. So if you’re not feeling the need to burn serious calories with a grind up The Chief, you can catch a gondola ride alongside the legendary monolith with frontseat views of Howe Sound.

And while atop the rock, taking in the stupendous views, practice your photography. Check out our photo expert’s tips on framing views and drawing attention for stellar shots (page 8). He knows what he’s doing, winning yet another award—an honorable mention at the recent Travel Media Association Awards in Pittsburgh for one of his images seen in this magazine’s column…bravo!

That’s a call for a celebratory cocktail… and we’ve got a few to sample on page 22, in which our travels inspire some evocative and tasty tipples. My pick? A refreshing glass of “lion’s milk”…cheers! feedback@InPrintPublications.com

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veryone has a bucket list. Mine includes one far-off-the-beaten-path destination right here in Canada. It’s a remote and rather small (relatively) chain of islands off the east coast of Quebec and north of Prince Edward Island. The Îles de la Madeleine. How many of you have been there? And after reading the adventureand flavour-laden feature on page 32, how many of you will add it to your great Canadian bucket list?

Summer on the Îles de la Madeleine offers beer and cheese tasting followed by cave swimming and kite surfing (or, rather, vice versa!). While the hearty— appetite-wise and exertion-wise—certainly must apply, those more into lounging on seemingly limitless sandy stretches of beach will be just as fulfilled…the inevitable lobster feast here certainly helps.

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sea to sky This summer, you can touch the sky—quite literally— from two spectacular new viewing platforms. 1 One, seen here, is the overlook that juts out over The Chief, the second-largest monolith in the world (after Uluru or Ayers Rock in Australia) in Squamish, BC. It’s part of an easy-walk loop at the top of the Sea to Sky Gondola that includes a spine-tingling suspension bridge. Just opened this season, the gondola opens up alpine territory that was previously only accessible by a steep and intense hike (one that some hardcore BC folk like to run for exercise).

Now anyone can take in the 360-degree views, from the imposing Sky Pilot peak to shimmering Howe Sound, and then sip on Sky Pilot Northwest Pale Ale (by local Howe Sound Brewing) at Summit Lodge while soaking up more unending views. seatoskygondola.com >>

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homage to an centennial stunner If you were turning 100, on Canada Day no less, a little nip and tuck just stay might be in order. That’s what’s in the works for the Beaux Arts-style terracotta façade of the heritage building that anchors Toronto’s luxe One King West Hotel & Residence. The exterior restoration project promises to help the edifice age gracefully and preserve its good looks. (Inside, its suites will get a posh update as well.)

It doesn’t hurt to have great bones and pedigree.

After all, the 12-storey landmark building— Toronto’s tallest when first built—has garnered plenty of superlatives for its architectural elements and stunning scale. It was once HQ of The Dominion Bank and inside, Canada’s biggest and heaviest bank vault tipped the scales at 40 tonnes. Now the space is used for fashion photo shoots and Hollywood movies.

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2 Moving east get- across the Rockies away into Alberta is another new, fully accessible and jaw-dropping viewing platform—this one 280 metres over the glacier-formed Sunwapta Valley in Jasper National Park. The experience starts on a cliff-edge walkway with interpretive exhibits on the surrounding alpine ecosystem and culminates in the adrenaline rush of walking on air…the only thing separating you from the wild beyond is the glass-floored observation platform. It’s a natural and engineering marvel combined. brewster.ca ­—B. Sligl

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columns grace the space. Such architecture can be appreciated while admiring the 100-foot former tellers’ counter, which has earned the distinction of being one of Canada’s longest bars. Who wouldn’t want to network here during a business event?

Henri’s Bar, in the main lobby, is where the action flows, with a list of signature cocktails to sample (we recommend The Bank Note, above).

Not to be outdone by the heritage building (its suites will also be refreshed), the 51-storey condo tower suites will get an elegant update that’s scheduled for completion by November. The super-slim skyscraper, which earned its moniker “The Sliver,” for its narrow height-to-width ratio when it was built in 2005, is ideal for longer stays with ample amenities (think in-suite kitchens and washers and dryers), designer decor and sweeping city and lake views. There’s even an app that lets you schedule housekeeping, wake-up calls, room service and more. onekingwest.com —J. Gyenes BEACH BOOK Summer demands a good read. This season we’re finally digging in to the acclaimed juicy and cerebral Beautiful Ruins by Jesse Walter.

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Sojourn at home this summer to find sartorial superstars, edgey accesories and chic stays from sea to sea

Written + produced by Janet Gyenes

WHAT’S SUP? Stand-up paddle boarding sport (SUP) has added yin to its yang by bringing yoga to the mix.

We tested our balance and flexibility on Osoyoos Lake, BC with Breathe Studio’s (osoyoospilates.com) Rhonda, who coached us into downward dog, plough and warrior—all on our sturdy surfboards!

Hang loose? Namaste? Whatever mantra you choose, try SUP yoga this summer. RedNik Surf Co., Calgary; rednik.com. Golden Yoga Wellness, Saskatoon; goldenyoga.ca.

DaCane Surf Shop, Halifax; dacanesurfshop. com. Paddle Fit, Gatineau; paddlefit.com.

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style big love Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. Fashion designer, Anu Raina, has pledged her love for her city on her midriff-baring Spadina blouse, curvehugging T.O. pants and shapely Harbour dress (shown), which are part of her new T.O. collection. Raina’s references to the city’s skyline, street signals, subway lines and scenic spots are as haute as they are hot, thanks to shades of teal, malachite, prune, cobalt and black that keep the collection looking richly refined. $400, Harbour dress (on request only); anuraina.com.

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MEGA STYLE For Vancouver artist, Tania Gleave, diminutive just won’t do. What woman wants shrinking violets when she can wear a look-at-me rose on her wrist or ring finger? adorn Gleave’s sculptural jewelry pieces command attention—and a closer look. Hand-carved ebony “chain” links imitate iron with their shapely heft (Gleave was inspired by a chain she found in a shipyard), a crow’s “skull” is eerily elegant (especially when capped with a sterling silver crown) and oval slices of horn are tied together with leather. Gleave often marries natural materials with unexpected elements such as pyrite, copper, quartz and faceted resin for a look that’s anything but blasé. Her runway-worthy pieces were paired with designer Anu Raina’s T.O. F/W 2014 collection during Toronto 2014 World Mastercard Fashion Week (above). From $65–$895, Peter Kiss Gallery; taniagleave.com.

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p h o t o p r e s c r i p t i o n m i c h a e l d e f r e i ta s Michael DeFreitas is an award-winning photographer who’s been published in a wide variety of travel publications. With his initials, MD, he’s been nicknamed “doc,” making his photography prescriptions apropos.

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s I waited for the sunrise to wash over Guatemala’s Atitlán Volcano that towered over Lake Atitlán, I reviewed the composition on my camera’s LCD screen.

Sandwiched between a large expanse of clear sky and open water, the volcano seemed isolated and unappealing. I needed to find a way to create more interest and focus the gaze on the lovely light hitting the top of the volcano.

I relocated my tripod behind a palm tree and composed the shot with a few palm fronds wrapping around the top and sides of the scene. The silhouetted branches added a bit of drama (like peeking through the bush) and helped draw the viewer’s attention to the volcano. A shallow depth of field softened the frond’s impact. Happy with the result I moved a few more times finding other things to attention “frame” the volcano. grabber Use linear In a previous column, and curvilinear elements I explained the rule of to frame your subject and draw the eye into thirds and how it helps an image—and create focus a viewer’s attention arresting photos. to the part of the image you want to emphasize. Using frames or borders are other prophotographer tricks to draw attention to a particular area of an image. They have the same impact as framing/matting a picture to hang on a wall. The frame/mat quickly draws the viewer’s attention into the image to seek out the subject within it.

Framing can be obvious (like using a window or other “hard” object), or it can be subtle (like a red rose amid a background of green foliage). And the “frame” does not have to completely surround the subject to work well. Sometimes a bit of framing across the top or along the sides works just as well.

Arches, windows or doorways make great frames.

Using leading lines is another simple technique to help you focus attention or draw the eye in draw a viewer’s eyes towards an important Like any canvas hung on a wall, photographic subjects benefit from some thoughtful framing within the composiarea of the image. We all have a natural tion of the photo itself. Use whatever’s available in the scene, whether architectural or natural elements. top The tendency to follow lines, so using them to Atitlán Volcano in Guatemala is given dramatic framing with wisps of silhouetted palm fronds. above left An archway “point” to centres of interest in your photo is an easy and effective framework. above right And look for leading lines. A winding road or path, with an “S” curve can produce more dramatic images. Like moving between opposite corners of your scene, produces a strong leading line that draws the eye into the photo.

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> Don’t let the frame or leading line become the focus of the image

unless that is your intent. Try making frames soft or silhouetted and have your leading lines pointing to something interesting.

> For greater impact, try to place the main subject of your image on one

of the rule-of-thirds intersections or lines within the frame or the scene.

> Most framed and leading line shots require a medium wide-angle

lens (something in the 28mm – 35mm range). A really wide-angle lens tends to make your point of interest too small and distant and your framing too large and imposing (because it’s closer).

> Leading lines such as roads, trails and paths tend to work best when shot from a low angle. This makes it easier to place both sides of the road or path in the lower corners.

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gear up Frames and leading lines tend to work better for vertical shots. Sometimes it takes a while to compose the shots and holding your camera in the vertical position for extended periods is tiring. Luckily most DSLR camera manufacturers make vertical grip attachments that screw onto the bottom of your camera body. The grips have similar ergonomics to your camera’s regular side grip and include a shutter release button, making it much easier to compose and hold verticals shots without contorting your arms. Vertical grips typically run $150 – $200.

frames, leading lines can be obvious (like a road or trail leading up to some mountains) or subtle (like someone pointing or looking towards your point of interest).

China’s iconic Great Wall is one of the most photographed subjects on earth. However, getting an interesting photo can be difficult as many photographers run the risk of having the scene speak for itself. As I walked the wall with my camera, I looked for ways of using aspects of the wall to create greater impact.

I decided to try and use both framing and leading line techniques to accentuate the wall snaking across the emerald green mountainsides. I used an arched opening in one of the guard posts along the wall for my frame and the ramparts as my leading line.

Leading lines tend to work best when they originate in one of the lower corners of your image and run diagonally up towards the center of the image. Roads, paths and trails provide strong leading lines, especially if you can position both sides of the road or path in the opposite lower corners of your scene. “S” curves (like winding roads or paths) also produce strong leading lines.

The most difficult part of using leading lines and frames is finding them. It takes a bit of practice to visualize them, so before your next trip, practice finding and using frames and leading lines around your neighbourhood—whether tree branches or sidewalks. Find your angle!

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s everyone knows, white composite fillings must be hardened using a dental curing light. As everyone also knows, dental curing lights, be they LED, tungsten halogen or light-emitting diodes, run off electricity. In most of Africa, electricity is capricious, with power outages that last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. So, just as Winnipeg dentist Aaron Kim flicked on the tungsten halogen curing light to finish off a filling in the back molar of a young patient’s mouth, the electricity flickered off, leaving the Kitwe, Zambia clinic silent and dark. Necessity being the mother of invention, Kim looked for a nonelectrical solution to his problem. And there it was—the golden rays of the hot African sun shining through a window. Kim moved the boy directly into the sunlight, and directed him to keep his mouth open. “The sun cured the composite filling in almost the same time as a curing light,” says Kim. “The next day I checked to make sure it had cured. It had hardened and I didn’t have to do anything else.”

Dentistry in the developing world requires wells of patience and ingenuity— not to mention a sense of adventure— traits that aren’t generally needed in the well-oiled, efficient calm of a Canadian clinic. When Kim first went to Africa in 2002 to examine and treat the teeth of children living in an orphanage in Kitwe, 370 km north of the capital Lusaka, he wondered if he had the right stuff for Zambia, with its heat, lack of refrigeration and rudimentary infrastructure. But, like most visitors to Africa from the West, Kim realized his fears were groundless, and he found himself not only in love with the country but impressed by the teeth of the 650 children who squirmed in his dental chair over a two-week period (and who nicknamed him ‘Uncle Tooth’).

Only about 20% of the kids had cavities, most of them small, and few extractions were needed. This is due in part from chewing tree bark called “muswak,” that helps remove surface plaque and has antimicrobial properties, Kim says from his office at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Dentistry, where he is Assistant Professor and Director of Clinics.

The 2002 excursion to Zambia was are organized by the Presbyterian Church. the beginning of many international His arrival is broadcast on local radio. “You dental missions to two continents for Kim, almost want to cry when you see their a partner at Winnipeg’s Sturgeon Creek teeth,” says Kim. “I’ve seen six-year-old kids Dental. In 2007 he returned to Kitwe but with permanent teeth and I had to remove was dismayed by the changes. In just five them all.” years, the incidence of caries among Zambians had dramatically increased, the result, Kim says, of the influx of fast-food chains and increased access to soda drinks. The kids at the Kitwe orphanage would require regular dental care to tackle this sugary scourge. To this end, and with the support of the NGO Villages of Hope-Africa and the International College of Dentists, of which Dr. Kim is a member, blue- prints were drawn up for a combined medical Dr. Aaron Kim and dental clinic. tackles grassroots The inauguration dentistry with funding of the clinic was from Winnipeg donors in 2013; the clinic Worse, the painful teeth and and the International boasts two dental inability to chew results in malnutrition, College of operatories, an and the result is soft bone, ironically Dentists.

X-ray unit, sterilizers making Kim’s job of extraction easier. and dental carts in “They struggle so much with pain; it’s addition to a medical wing amazing how much the human body can with a four-bed, in-patient capacity. One handle.” Kim only pulls teeth—he doesn’t University of Manitoba dental student, have the materials or team members Huma Rohan, who is Zambian, is working needed for restoration—once extracting at the clinic this summer, providing care to 550 teeth from 350 patients in seven days. the young patients, says Kim, who plans to Two years ago, Kim began tackling the extend his missions into Gabon on Africa’s problem from the grassroots, opening a West Coast next year. dental clinic and mobile unit in 2012 in San Many thousands of kilometres away, Pedro Carcha in northern Guatemala with in the Central American country of funding from Winnipeg donors as well Guatemala, Kim faces similar but more as the International College of Dentists. severe challenges. Cola drinks, sugary teas Kim encourages Guatemalan and foreign and high-carbohydrate foods are more dentists to help at the clinic, and hopes this ubiquitous here than in Africa, and the small step will help the people live healthier, result is rampant tooth decay. As a onehappier and more productive lives. “This is man dental team, Kim treks deep into the confirmation of my purpose-driven life and traditional territories of indigenous Mayan my life-long dream.” peoples, setting up one-week clinics that July/August 2014 Just For Canadian dentists

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Dr. Kelly Silverthorn is Just For Canadian Dentists’ automotive writer. He tries to keep one convertible and/or one track-day car in the family fleet.

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said auto-impressing. If I still stretched to the same extent today, what vehicles would I be answering with? Let’s see…either something obscure but transcendent, like a 1963 Avanti R2, or something expensive and cutting edge, like the 2015 McLaren 650S. Most practising doctors and dentists could—if it were truly important to them—likely afford both the Avanti and the McLaren. Both cars are works of art, and probably no worse investments than REITs. But my fellow colleagues don’t indulge their automotive vanity to this degree, nor do I. Though each time a vehicle lease/purchase cycle comes around we yin-and-yang our way towards finding the right balance of approach/repulse to such automotive social climbing.

Back in my UWO undergrad days, the status-order worthy base was BMW, progressing through Porsche 911, and reached its zenith with anything Ferrari. I still remember somehow accompanying a friend-of-a-friend named Roger in his Ferrari to a gig by rock band Carol Pope and Rough Trade. The valet attendant certainly gave the red 308GT4 the priority treatment. At the break between sets the leather-clad leading lady bee-lined to our table to toast Roger,

her guitar-playing friend. I was convinced; a pinnacle car could lead to more interesting friends and a more compelling social life.

Flash forward to a few days ago when my wife, our university-aged son and I, visited a bird-sanctuary. Twenty-odd plain-Jane vehicles are in the parking lot—minivans, Priuses, SUVs, including our rental—but also one gorgeous sedan, a late-model Maserati Quattroporte. Whoever is making the trade-offs for that Italian mistress experience is no university student.

Between avian identification arguments, my crew debates whom among the other birders is the owner of said seductive sedan.

We had no way to confirm it, but our crew is unanimous in their certainty that it’s the golden-tanned, sartorially stylish and botoxsmoothed late-40s couple.

A couple of days later I’m killing time in a cafe in Toronto’s upscale Yorkville while my wife pursues the purse of her brand-fixated (but thankfully Hermès-free) dreams. In Yorkville, among the look-at-me 10-mph cruise scene, the Maserati would almost fade to background noise among all the Audis, Bentleys, Mercedes, Porsches and Jaguars. To stand out here you need an Aston Martin, Ferrari or Rolls Royce. But

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ife demands decisions both great and small: clothes, grooming, housing and cars. Both friends and strangers form impressions of us based on our decisions: positive, negative or indifferent. I’ve often pondered this my choice/their impression correlation. As an automotive journalist, I’m often asked, “what do you drive?”

Now a particular car choice can tick one or many boxes beyond mere transportation: handyman’s handbag, ATV-for-grownups, pontification of our driving prowess, manifestation of our artistic sensibilities, pledge of our planetary passion, ardent outlier, even mobile love shack and/or tanning parlour. In reality we could get by with any car, but the wide diversity of automotive products allows our choice of vehicle to speak volumes about us as an individual.

Those interested enough to ask what I drive presumably have some interest in cars. The manner in which they ask suggests that I am expected to impress them with erudite and indulgent choices. When I was a university student I put maximum effort and resources (even A thing of beauty student loans!) into …and a status symbol that says a lot about its owner. The McLaren 650S Spider, starting at CAD $305,500. mclarenautomotive.com

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I wonder if even these three celebrated brands would stand out in Dubai?

If ever there was a car consciousness club, I could be president. So I struggle to understand how I have become almost indifferent to my own peacock preening of auto social climbing? Am I lucky to have moved on, or am I missing out on one of life’s highest forms of social media? My leave of it certainly didn’t occur in one epiphany at some horoscope-addled stroke of midnight.

No, it occurred in multiple smaller steps over an extended period of time.

Other persons start having input into your spending. I still remember almost swallowing my tongue when I realized we’d just paid more for a couch (in a very lovely taupe hue, mind you) than my car at the time had been worth. Before long, ankle biters arrive and priorities change; keeping kids safe in a reliable, crashworthy, all-wheeldrive, family-mover is a societal expectation.

A few exotic car trips through the schools of depreciation and costly repair also exact their toll on any cost-be-damned passion parade.

Then there are those damned cultural legacies. The family I grew up in had an “everything in moderation” ethos. I don’t know whether to be thankful or curse. To this day I can’t really let loose and buy the best watch, best car, best wine, best house, best vacation—best anything. Though, I’m sure we’ll have more retirement savings than we’ll likely ever need.

Granted, when someone is expectantly asking “what car do you drive?” they aren’t after four levels of digression and a thousand words of psycho-babble evasion.

Nevertheless, like a politician straining not to disappoint a constituent, I studiously avoid giving a direct answer to this line of questioning.

Rather, my answer to “what do you drive” is something more like, “automotive journalists all own boring, practical transportation. We regularly get to drive the latest and greatest, so why endure the downsides of owning them?” Backroad benefits, without showroom commitments, so to speak. Lucky me.

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A favourite evening past-time in Essaouira: haggle with the fishermen for the catch of the day then watch the sunset over the Atlantic.

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e’re standing in a rooftop kitchen high above the Atlantic in the Moroccan city of Essaouira.

I’m paying homage to a stainless steel table guarding a stove with gas burners and strange clay pots. My comrades wield glittering knives with the dexterity of Olympic fencers.

I’ve just sliced off a sizable chunk of my thumbnail with my own razor-sharp utensil.

Meanwhile, my vegetables stare up at me with contempt.

Aromas arise from ceramic bowls set before me: saffron, cumin, tumeric. But they need magic hands to make magic— other hands than mine.

For I am a challenged chef.

You’d think the company and venue would inspire me to greatness. But no.

The guy across the table, a food writer from Chicago, frankly intimidates me. Even more intimidating is the fellow standing beside him. Youssef Khalaoui, our escort for this Access Trips culinary adventure, is both well-versed in traditional Moroccan cuisine and fluent in English and Berber. And he manipulates his paring knife with the abandon of a Whirling Dervish.

The venue itself does nothing to aid my concentration.

The kitchen is perched like a stork on the top floor of Riad Mimouna (a gorgeous hotel replete with a murmuring fountain, a lobby with tiled walls and Arabesques and arches—a veritable set piece for “Scheherazade”), a hotel that itself perches atop the walls of a colonial medina in this city built on the sea, its maze of narrow alleys populated by vendors selling teapots, hand-woven carpets, hand-stitched kaftans and Moroccan leather purses

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(their clarion call is “looking is free”), where locals congregate nightly beside the fishing boats to haggle over the catch of the day, north of a beach with rolling dunes where you can book the requisite camel ride and gaze seaward at an island where, 900 years ago, lepers were quarantined.

But I digress.

The kitchen reclines between a glass-walled dining room overlooking a concatena-

trip is a cultural experience as much as an opportunity for multiple amputations with sharp objects). The insistent call of a nearby muezzin lays down an exotic descant.

Now someone notices the arrival of sunset and I flee to the terrace to be greeted by a fiery display as spicy and satisfying as the repast we’ve abandoned mid-task.

Thankfully, back inside, I discover that someone’s com-

A multitude of spices add kick to a traditional delight called chicken pastilla.

The Kasbah Omar, overlooking the Ourika Valley.

Argan oil prepared at a local co-operative.

From our open-air kitchen we gaze down steep mountain slopes toward the pewter waters of the Ourika River snaking seaward, past olive groves and apple orchards, past villages of mud-coloured dwellings sprouting like cacti, skylines stabbed by those ubiquitous minarets tion of sandstone buildings highlighted by minarets and a terrace sporting magnificent sea views.

The sounds are as distracting as the views. In the dining room a trio practices licks from traditional Berber tunes (this

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pleted my Salade Marocaine, a delightful concoction of cumin and cucumbers, tomatoes and onions, all mixed in with argan oil, while the fish is now ensconced in that selfsame clay pot—a tagine.

I know what a tagine is be-

cause the recipe book enclosed with our itinerary has described it. And during our erstwhile explorations of the souks (ancient markets) we’ve seen something like a thousand of them. The tagine is a hallmark of Moroccan cuisine—a sort of sub-Saharan crock-pot.

But the question remains as to whether I’ve actually mastered this quest for culinary excellence or achieved my true goal of avoiding same.

For, like any true hero, I must undergo a series of trials and challenges before I achieve either Valhalla or dinner.

So next I find myself in Kasbah Omar—a gorgeous, elegant and well-disguised hostelry in the middle of an actual Berber village in the High Atlas Mountains.

And I’m dicing vegetables yet again, while most of my party has graduated to intermediate skills. At one point, our chef for the day, an otherwise pleasant local, scowls at me, brandishes her knife and says something in Berber—a phlegmatic combination of Arabic and Spanish, with the occasional French word thrown in to add to the confusion.

Youssef, our tour escort, grins at her. He grins at me.

“What’d she say?” I ask.

He shakes his head. “There is no direct translation.” Then he laughs heartily.

“She says it is time for you to do some work.”

My sins are eminently forgivable: both surroundings and collateral adventures are even more distracting than the seductions that served me so ill in Essaouira.

From our open-air kitchen we gaze down steep mountain slopes toward the pewter waters of Ourika River snaking seaward, past olive groves and apple orchards, past villages of mud-coloured dwellings sprouting like cacti, skylines stabbed by those ubiquitous minarets.

Here, collateral adventures include grocery shopping. Here, we stock up on provisions by hiking to the market with a

A camel ride on a local beach is a welcome antidote to the pressures of preparing the evening meal.

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Tagines, integral to Moroccan cuisine, in action in the Ourika River Valley.

The first cooking lesson on this culinary tour involves preparing a fish tagine in the rooftop kitchen of Essaouira’s Riad Mimouna.

Mint tea is a must-do in Morocco, whether you’re in downtown Marrakech or a High Atlas Mountain café like this one.

The preparation of couscous is an intensive hands-on process.

Morocco boasts a fascinating blend of architectural styles, from Moorish to medieval, from French to Spanish—sometimes all in the same town.

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With a view like this from a rooftop kitchen, high atop Kasbah Omar surrounded by a Berber village, it’s easy to get distracted from the task at hand.

The souks (traditional markets) of Marrakech are an adventure in their own right: confusing, nerve-wracking and sublimely beautiful.

Our tour group heads cross-country for provisions.

Local musicians entertain shoppers at the central market in Essaouira.

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donkey for a grocery cart. Here, we stop for mint tea inside a tin-roofed hut where a local named Abdul, gap-toothed but friendly, pushes a tin plate of steaming cow’s-foot soup my way. “Taste,” he says, grinning. “Is good, m’sieur.”

We pass a parking lot for donkeys beside the rushing river and encounter row upon row of cucumbers, piled high in front of each stall, carrots, mounds of lettuce.

Then it’s back to our casbah to prepare tonight’s menu: chicken pastilla. We learn it’s the first course in a traditional wedding feast; we construct a soup that is a staple during Ramadan.

The pastilla is a taste sensation. Baklava meets quiche meets chicken pie, suffused with sweet and savoury and a combination of spices we can only imagine until we at last achieve Marrakech.

At which point I bail at last on the whole culinary thing.

The city is too appealing. The souks here are like Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market on amphetamines. I am seduced by oboe tones of the snake charmers, the sinuous swaying of their cobras at Djemaa el Fan, one of Africa’s most famous squares (“they’re probably defanged,” says Youssef), I am sidetracked by the Koutoubia Mosque, the Saadian Tombs, a garden designed by Yves St. Laurent.

How does one not go AWOL? But I am once again inspired, dining on lemon chicken on our last night in Morocco with my culinary colleagues in a tree-shaded garden inside the city walls. I vow to sign up for cooking lessons back in Canada.

As long as they’re held in a casbah.

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COOKING IN THE CASBAHS If you want to test your culinary skills—or acquire some—along with hands-on lessons in Moroccan culture, sign up for the Moroccan Culinary tour with Access Trips.

This nine-day adventure includes cooking in the casbahs in Essaouira, the High Atlas Mountains and Marrakech, along with a multitude of activities from carpet-buying lessons to mountain hikes to visits to souks and cultural landmarks. The almost allinclusive trips (flight excluded) run regularly throughout the year. USD $2,990 per person.

For tour information and trip highlights, log on to accesstrips.com. getting there Royal Air Maroc offers daily non-stop flights from Montreal to Casablanca (tour escorts meet you at the airport) starting at CDN $1,250. Check out royalairmaroc.com.

wealth y den tist m an fred pur tzk i Manfred Purtzki is the principal of Purtzki & Associates Chartered Accountants. You can reach him at manfred@purtzki.com.

master your mortgage Take these easy steps to write off your mortgage

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r. Bob just received a $500,000 inheritance from his mother’s estate.

He is planning to use the funds to pay off a $500,000 mortgage on his Whistler property worth about $800,000, which is equal to the purchase price he paid a few years ago. The condo is almost exclusively used to earn rental income. Dr. Bob also has a million-dollar home in the city with a remaining mortgage of $700,000.

Below are three steps that Dr. Bob may consider to eliminate the house mortgage.

1. He applies the $500,000 estate funds to the city mortgage, leaving a remaining balance of $200,000.

Below are two illustrations of how to make your home mortgage tax deductible.

Assume that the shares of your Dentalco are worth $500,000 and equal to your house mortgage, you need to: a) Sell the Dentalco shares to a family member or a family trust for $500,000 in exchange for a promissory note.

Your gain on the transfer of the $500,000 worth of shares is sheltered by the $800,000 capital gains exemption.

Even with the mortgage rates at historic lows, it pays to convert personal debt into a deductible practice or investment loan

2. He sells the Whistler condo for $800,000 to his dental corporation, Dentalco.

The company will assume the $500,000 mortgage and borrow an additional $300,000 to pay for the purchase price.

3. Dr. Bob receives the $300,000 tax-free from the company: $200,000 to pay off his city mortgage and the remaining $100,000 to fund personal and living expenses for the year.

Dentalco now has a debt of $800,000 that is fully deductible. More importantly, he can now use the low corporate after-tax rate to pay off the principal of the loan. Dr. Bob would need $1.45 million of before-tax practice cash flow to pay off a personal mortgage of $800,000, assuming a 45% personal tax rate. Since the corporation only has a tax rate of 14%, the company only needs $930,000 of pre-tax cash flow to service the $800,000 mortgage—a saving of about $500,000! In your tax planning, always make sure that you incur debts in the corporation rather than personally.

b) Arrange that a family member or trust borrows $500,000 from the bank to pay off the promissory note owing to you. c) Use the proceeds to pay off your $500,000 mortgage.

mortgage. In this scenario: a) Dentalco borrows $300,000 on a line of credit to pay dividends to the children over a two-year period. b) The dividend of $150,000 per year is applied against the mortgage. c) The children report $150,000 worth of dividends each for two years. Provided the children have tuition fees of $5,000, their combined tax cost is only $28,000.

The result is that the loan interest in Dentalco is now tax-deductible. The personal tax on the dividends is minimized if the income is spread among family members in the low tax bracket.

Even with the mortgage rates at historic lows, it pays to convert the personal debt into a deductible practice or investment loan. You will save thousands of dollars that can be put to better use by financing your children’s education or putting into your retirement nest egg.

d) Take out a new $500,000 mortgage and use the proceeds to pay off the trust bank loan to purchase take your your shares. mortgage

into your own In the end, you still have a $500,000 mortgage on your hands! home. The difference is that the interest is now tax deductible, because the proceeds from the new mortgage are used to pay off the taxdeductible share purchase loan. The result of converting a 3% house mortgage into a deductible investment loan is that it reduces the effective mortgage interest rate from 3% to 1.65%.

If you sell the shares of your corporation to your spouse, you need to file a special election with your tax return so that the sale takes place at fair market value rather than at tax cost.

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t h e t h i r s t y d e n t i s t ja n e t g y e n e s Janet Gyenes is a magazine writer and editor who likes to dally in spirits, especially when discovering something like corenwyn jenever (a gin-like Dutch spirit)—straight or in cocktails like the “bramble.” Have a boozy idea or question? Send it to feedback@inprintpublications.com

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he small group of men sitting in the jungle of ’Atiu, one of Polynesia’s Cook Islands, silently stare at me as I bring the coconut-shell cup to my lips, down the tangy “bush beer” in a single gulp and pass it back to the “bartender.” He fills the cup with the home brew once again—not from its traditional tumunu or coconut trunk barrel, but from an industrial-sized plastic bucket—and passes to the next person.

The Aretou Tumunu is one of a handful of organized weekly drinking sessions native only to ’Atiu, and a 200-year-old ritual that was illegal until 1985. Not much has changed: we’re sitting on coconut-stump stools inside the thatch and corrugated metal-covered hut, drinking beer made from sugar, yeast and oranges or some combo of fruit. The tumunu isn’t solely about alcohol. Everyone, including guests, takes a turn speaking and sharing news or something about themselves. We learn that there are only four visitors currently on the island (whose population hovers around 500), chat a bit about soccer and share some info about Canada. In some respects, the session is a cultural exchange.

{more local flavour} Caipirinha {Brazil} Drink this spirited cocktail made with cachaça. Think of it as your mintless mojito—muddle a spoon of sugar with lots of lime, add ice and pour in 2 oz. of cachaça.

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medronho, he remembers drinking when This kind of “local flavour,” working in the Algarve region two decades whether bush beer, wine or spirit, ago. It turns out that the underground often reveals something about aguardente (“firewater”) has now the history of a place, its been legitimized and people and culture, the regulated by the terroir, the economy....

Canada’s government, On a recent trip Classic Caesar effectively keeping to Portugal, for Ingredients 1 oz. vodka // the tradition alive instance, my 4 dashes Worcestershire sauce // 2 dashes hot sauce // 4 oz. Mott’s and, perhaps, husband and I Clamato cocktail // 3 dashes freshly earning some sought out the local ground salt and pepper tax dollars. farmers’ moonshine, Method Fill glass with ice, add all Farmers still ingredients and mix thoroughly. hand-harvest the Garnish with fresh celery and lime. “strawberry fruit” of the medronho or arbutus tree and distill the spirit in small batches following their own recipes. When we visited Monchique in the mountainous region of the Algarve where medronho trees thrive, we discovered a trove of the spirit being sold at a co-op of sorts. Here, we sipped the fiery medronho neat and sampled a liqueur laced with cinnamon and local honey while we browsed the photos and bios of more than a dozen distillers on display.

Not all local libations have such deep cultural roots. Consider Canada’s classic Caesar cocktail: What precipitated the idea to mix vodka with a clam-and-tomato juice concoction? Interestingly, the Caesar was invented in Calgary in 1969 by bartender Walter Chell, who continued on page 24 >>

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Here are a few more hyper-local takes on drinks that we’ve sampled on our travels —like of-the-moment Brazil’s caipirinha. What’s your favourite on-the-road discovery?

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Pimm’s Cup {England} A summer staple, this herbal ginbased sipper, is a refreshing aperitif spiked with mint, cucumber, strawberries and wedges of lemon and lime.

Ginginha {Lisbon} Cool off in the eveeditor’s ning with a shot of ginginha, a morellocherry liqueur (left).

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Raki {Turkey} Sip this anise-flavoured liquor over ice. Add cold water and watch it turn white, earning its nickname “lion’s milk” (right).

the hungry dentist Dr. Holly Fong is a practising speech-language pathologist with three young children who’s always trying, adapting and creating dishes.

French fave

This summer, try a Salade Lyonnaise

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alad during summer is a no brainer.

The difficult choice is what to pick from the abundance of available fresh produce. A favourite is the Salade Lyonnaise. This combination of bitter greens, crisp bacon, warm vinaigrette and creamy, barely cooked eggs is a fireworks explosion for your taste buds. The overall effect of perfectly balanced fattiness, sharp bitterness, tang, salty meat and creaminess is unbeatable.

Traditionally, the salad is made with frisée, a bitter green in the endive family. However, escarole, radicchio and arugula all work beautifully. For the bacon, choose a slab of European style bacon or pancetta and dice into ½-inch cubes. Add some Dijon Pair the creamy Salade Lyonnaise with mustard and shallots to the bacon a flinty Sauvignon Blanc, drippings to make a tangy, sharp like the 2012 Terroir de Silex dressing. Use the freshest eggs you Sancerre from Hubert Brochard can find as they’re easier to poach with its delicate citrus and because the whites won’t spread grassy nose followed by herbaceous + mineral out as much. Cook them in barely hints. Mmmmm. simmering water for about 3 minutes or so until the whites just solidify and the yolks are as runny as possible. Toss the greens 4 – 5 cups frisée or with the warm dressing, garnish with the escarole or a bacon and top each serving with a wellcombination of escarole with drained egg. Let each person break the egg radicchio and and mix it into the salad to coat everything arugula in a creamy vinaigrette. That, in a nutshell, 1 tablespoon olive oil is the Salade Lyonnaise. You can also tweak 300g slab of European it by adding some croutons (especially style bacon or when made from brioche) or diced and pancetta, cut into roasted beets or thinly sliced fennel with ½-inch cubes some shredded apple to add a subtle sweet 1 small shallot, chopped element.

3 tablespoons champagne or sherry wine The salad pairs best with a flinty vinegar Sauvignon Blanc. The 2012 Terroir de 1 tablespoon Dijon Silex Sancerre from Hubert Brochard is an mustard elegant wine with a delicate citrus and 1 tablespoon parsley, grassy nose followed by tastes of citrus, fine finely chopped herbs and hints of mineral—a beautiful freshly ground pepper complement to the salad. Bon appetit. salt 4 eggs

Salade Lyonnaise Rinse and dry the greens.

Tear the greens into bite-size pieces. If using escarole, remove and discard the tough central vein. Put the greens in a large salad bowl.

Add the olive oil to a heavy bottomed skillet placed over medium heat. When the oil is shimmering, add bacon and cook slowly until crisp and browned all over, about 10 minutes. Remove the bacon to drain on a paper towel-lined plate.

Add the shallots to the hot bacon drippings. Cook until softened, a minute or

two. Add the vinegar and mustard to the skillet and bring just to a boil, stirring to emulsify. Remove from heat and stir in the parsley.

Set aside.

Meanwhile, bring about 2 inches of lightly salted water to a boil in a deep skillet, then reduce heat to the lowest setting so that the water is barely bubbling. Set a small strainer over a small shallow bowl. Break an egg into the strainer. Lift the strainer to discard some of the loose egg white and gently slip the egg into the bubbling water. Repeat

(serves 4)

the procedure with the other eggs and cook for 3 – 4 minutes, just until the white is set and the yolk has filmed over. Remove each egg with a slotted spoon, draining as much water as possible. Reserve on a plate.

If necessary, gently reheat the dressing so that it is warm. Pour over greens, add the bacon and toss to coat. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Divide the salad into 4 individual servings and top each with an egg. Serve immediately.

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thirsty [continued] wanted to recreate the flavours of his beloved spaghetti vongole in a cocktail to mark the launch of an Italian restaurant. His instinct was spot-on: an estimated 350 million Caesars are made with Mott’s Clamato annually. The tomatoclam cocktail was introduced the same year.

You’re not likely to find a Caesar cocktail in Italy, but you’ll certainly spot wine glasses filled with a luminous orange liquid, a hallmark of the aperitivo. As its name suggests, this late-afternoon trend involves “opening up” the appetite with a beverage, a little food and lively conversation. The drink of choice is typically a refreshing spritz, which is made from a 3:2:1 ratio of Prosecco, Aperol (Campari’s sweeter cousin) and soda. In Florence, the spritz I sipped while sitting on

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a sun-drenched piazza, was accompanied by diminutive dishes of olives and potato chips, gratis. The salty snacks pair perfectly with the slightly bitter and bubbly beverage.

While the spritz is undeniably Italian, the provenance of the rum-based Mai-Tai is somewhat muddled.

Donn Beach (born Ernest Gantt), a native of New Orleans who later moved to Hollywood and opened a string of tiki restaurants and bars, claimed to have invented the cocktail in the 1930s. Last year in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, I sipped the “original” cocktail at Don’s Mai Tai Bar in the Royal Kona Resort, while watching for the elusive “green flash” as the sun slid into the sea.

Months later, I discovered the cocktail creation controversy after tasting another version of the Polynesian-inspired libation, which has been the signature cocktail at

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When it comes to local flavour, sometimes it’s the atmosphere and company that’s truly most intoxicating

the Tonga Bar & Hurricane Lounge in the luxe Fairmont San Francisco hotel since 1945. Unlike the Mai-Tai at Don’s, which is made with falernum, the version I had at the Polynesian-inspired Tonga Bar while listening to the band performing on a barge floating in the “lagoon” (a former swimming pool) is crafted with handmade orgeat (made from almonds), in addition to the requisite rums, orange liqueur and lime juice.

Research revealed that it was just across the bay, in Oakland, where Victor “Trader Vic” Bergeron claims he invented the cocktail in 1944 for friends visiting from Tahiti. According to The PDT Cocktail Book, Bergeron’s friends pronounced the drink Maitai roa!, Tahitian for “Very good!”

From my Pacific and poolside perches, both were maitai roa, regardless of which came first. As far as Polynesian authenticity, neither come close to the Aretou Tumunu on ’Atiu, but these legacies have helped American tiki culture endure.

And when it comes to local flavour, sometimes it’s the atmosphere and company that’s truly most intoxicating.

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tart in the heart of Winnipeg, the Exchange District National Historic Site 1 , where turn-of-thecentury architecture was once the city’s commercial and cultural centre. Now the area is all about trendy shops, galleries and eateries. After exploring, stop for a pint and game of darts at local watering hole, the King’s Head Pub and Eatery, right on Old Market Square, which is abuzz in summertime with events and fests. fest Across from King’s Head, the 27th annual Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival takes place July 16 – 27. It’s the second-largest event of its kind in North America, with over 170 international companies coming together to showcase independent theatre. {winnipegfringe.com} Of course, the Winnipeg Folk Festival is the must-go event for every local.

Join the party and catch acts like Ben Harper, Ani DiFranco, Bonnie Raitt and Joan Baez, July 9 – 13. 2 {winnipegfolkfestival.ca} SAMPLE It’s summer, so outdoor fare is where it’s at, and in Winnipeg that means partaking in the city’s burgeoning food-truck scene—from Filipino cuisine at Pimp My Rice to local artisan ice cream at Cornell Crème (on a bike!). There’s also Corn on the Curb, Extreme Fries,

Grass Fed Grill, Smashbox Poutine and Tokyo Rabbit to name a few more {pegcitygrub.com}…Beyond food trucks, tuck in via a patio crawl, hitting multiple patios in one evening, or do a cycling tour of restaurants on the “Moveable Feast” tour guided by the Downtown BIZ. {downtownwinnipegbiz.com} Or just meander across the pedestrian bridge over the Red River for the “goog”…an ice-cream confection that consists of an upside-down blueberry shake, hot-fudge sundae and bananas topped with whipped cream. It’s a classic summer treat at the retro Bridge Drive-In, or BDI as locals call it. tour Winnipeg even has it’s own The Da Vinci Code-style tour. Discover the mystical symbols and occult clues concealed in the design of the Manitoba Legislative Building by its mason architect. Sphinxes, hieroglyphic inscriptions and numerological codes, oh my! 3 {heartlandtravel.ca/ hermeticcodetours.htm} Just outside the city, immerse yourself in the prairie on an eco tour at Fort Whyte, where you get up close to a herd of bison and imagine bygone days when they roamed free across the plains. 4 {fortwhyte. org} Or check out Journey to Churchill at the revamped Assiniboine Park Zoo. Opening July 3, it’s the world’s largest

and most comprehensive Arctic species exhibit. So if you can’t make it up north to see the impressive polar bear in the wild, you can meet resident ursine, Hudson 5 , along with caribou and muskox, in Winnipeg.{assiniboineparkzoo.ca} see The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the country’s oldest ballet company (2014 is its 75th year!), has a summer tradition of putting on free performances in Assiniboine Park. Catch “Ballet in the Park” on July 23 – 25, and then, if you also want to release your inner ballerina and try an arabesque or two, take one of company’s summer adult and master classes. En pointe! {rwb.org} Don’t miss a stroll along the ancient gathering place of The Forks, where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers meet {theforks.com} and you can gawk at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. If the museum’s stunning architecture is any indication of the exhibits inside (opening September 20), then wow. Images from the Canadian landscape—mountains, clouds, prairie grass, ice, snow—are integrated with geometry and human rights symbolism. 6 {museumforhumanrights.ca} —B. Sligl For more on what to do in Winnipeg this summer, go to tourismwinnipeg.com. Manitoba info: travelmanitoba.com.

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It’s all about water and wind on the Îles de la Madeleine…here, kayaks navigate the reddish cliffs of the coastline.

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Cross the Îles de la Madeleine off your Canadian bucket list this summer. For more info on these magical isles go to tourismeilesdelamadeleine. com and quebecmaritime.ca. And for more on Québec’s charms, whether the Îles or beyond, visit bonjourquebec.com.

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’m exhilarated, laughing, and completely soaked. I’ve gone swimming in caves before in Cancun, Mexico, but doing it in the Îles de la Madeleine is a completely different experience. This isn’t about paddling slowly underground with a guide offering laid-back commentary about ancient limestone formations.

Instead, on this late summer day, I’m sporting a helmet, wet suit, and life vest as massive waves in the Gulf of St. Lawrence slam me into reddish-brown cliffs on the coastline of Grand Entry Island. Amazingly, I simply slide down the sandstone, unharmed. Where else could you do this?

“Stay mellow,” guide Sandrine Papageorges urges me and my buddy Robin in a charming Québécois accent. Lithe and fit, the 20-year-old island native seems as comfortable in these rough waters as the harp seals who return here by the thousands to give birth to their pups in February.

Small wonder: she leads three tours a day.

Our seven-cave route sometimes challenges my mellowness. One cave is called

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“Antichambre,” where I hold my breath underwater as I slip through a tight tunnel.

Another is dubbed “Grotte de l’incertain” (The Grotto of Uncertainty), where green-lit waters give way to intimidating darkness as I go deeper. Sandrine beckons us onward.

Supervised by a second guide following us in a kayak, Robin and I gain confidence, doing the backstroke, climbing on seaweedladen boulders, and leaping wildly into the surf. We survive with smiling faces. It’s an hour and 15 minutes of adrenaline I’ll never forget.

Visiting the Îles de la Madeleine for a taste of adventure is a rare treat. The archipelago, also known to English speakers as the Magdalen Islands, comprises seven inhabited islands, six of which are connected by the main road, Route 199.

Windswept year-round, this 205-squarekilometre area is magnificently varied. It encompasses 300 kilometres of sandy beaches, wetlands burgeoning with blueberries and cranberries, and picturesque, weather-beaten wooden houses and churches.

Only 15,000 people inhabit this isolated Québec region, and 95% of them are French-speaking. Acadian settlers first

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arrived here in the mid-1700’s. Many island residents are also descended from survivors of the 400-plus shipwrecks on these shores.

After my swimming adventure, I enjoy a delicious marine-themed lunch with fresh clams, scallops, and lobster in a creamy béchamel sauce at my 26-room inn, the Auberge La Salicorne. (The inn also organizes the swimming tours.)

It’s like staying in an old country house, with quaint wooden furniture and cabinets supplemented by flatscreen TVs and modern bathrooms. My room is named after Adeleine Chiasson, a local woman who bore nine children and imported the Îles de la Madeleine’s first haymaking machine.

Hopping aboard a comfortable minibus operated by Autobus Les Sillons, Robin and I ride to Le Fumoir d’Antan, which specializes in smoked herring. The traditional-style smokehouse on House Harbour Island was founded in the mid-1990’s when herring stocks rebounded after years of overfishing.

After learning about the process of pickling, hanging, and smoking, I buy a jar of the pungent, salty delicacy for $4.95. Other products include smoked mackerel and seal sausage.

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Cave swimming, Îles de la Madeleine style.

Relaxing on Plage Pte Loup.

Fromagerie Pied-de-Vent.

Must-sample lobster.

Colourful kites and houses.

Tasty brew: À l’abri de la Tempête.

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Walking the beach at Dune du Sud.

The culinary adventure continues at Fromagerie Pied-de-Vent, where artisan cheeses tantalize my taste buds. While the titular raw-milk cheese is the signature offering at this cheerful yellow-walled establishment, La Tomme des Demoiselles—a sharp, tangy cheese aged for more than six months—is even tastier. Robin and I both wish we had more time to sample what the cheese manufacturer’s cast of Canadian cows yields.

Is there any better way to cap off a long day than with a cold beer? Non! Accordingly, our minibus heads to À l’abri de la Tempête, one of Québec’s smallest microbreweries.

It opened in 2004 in a converted fish factory on the shore of Grindstone Island, and now brews 100,000 litres of beer a year.

“We always try to make the beer taste like the island,” explains our bartender. No kidding. Herbs, spices, and seaweed add zest to these daring creations from master brewer Jean-Sebastien Bernier. My favourite is the more traditional Palabre du Coucher de Soleil, a Belgian blonde ale with fruity notes.

Homey and laidback, À l’abri de la Tempête attracts a diverse crowd. Visitors

who’ve quaffed a pint have ranged from New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair to longtime Montréal Canadiens defenceman Francis Bouillon.

Our next day blends artistry and adrenaline. We start at the 1983-designated historic site of La Grave in the island of Havre-Aubert, the original settlement for these islands.

Adjacent to a natural harbour, more than 20 vintage buildings house unique shops and art galleries like Artisans de Sable, featuring whimsical works made with local sand. I’m captivated by a $295 chess set, and a $125 hourglass reminds me of Dorothy’s clash with the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz. While thankfully no tornado has ever blown my house away, I get a wonderful wind-driven experience at Aérosport Carrefour d’Aventures. It was founded in 1998 as Canada’s first kite sport school.

“The Îles de la Madeleine are a mecca for kite-surfing and kite-buggying,” says coowner Tania Berthelot. “People come from all over the world. Normally we get 15 to 20 knots of steady wind here.”

Instructor Steve Mantha takes us to the

nearby La Martinique beach with hardpacked sand dotted with seashells. The eight-year Aérosport veteran hooks up a 3.5-square-metre kite to a 23-metre rope attached to a tandem buggy, and invites me to hop in the back.

As we zoom up and down the beach, Steve masterfully controls the huge kite, which dives hawk-like toward the sand and then rises again. I hear the kite whistling as the salty wind whips my hair. Again, I only wish I had more time to master this sport myself. It’s pure excitement.

Dining that night at La Tables Des Roy, arguably the archipelago’s best restaurant, I savour my veal carpaccio and bouillabaisse gourmande soup with mussels, halibut, and lobster. I flew to the Îles de la Madeleine from Montréal, but in the morning, I’ll depart by ferry for Prince Edward Island.

I’m already planning my next visit.

Maybe a summer cruise out of Montréal with CTMA Cruises? They offer different themes, from whale-watching to history to gourmet cuisine for $1,000 per person/ week. In any case, I’ll be back for another taste of adventure.

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practice management timothy brown Timothy A. Brown specializes in dental practice appraisals, brokerage, consulting, locum placements, associateships and practice financing across Canada. You can reach Timothy at timothy@roicorp.com.

A good sale is three-fold

How Disney, princesses + business sales converge into a business epiphany

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his past March my nephew David Rourke and his five-year-old daughter had the opportunity to join a group of dentists on a Disney Cruise organized by the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry.

While the week was filled with non-stop swimming, ice cream and princesses—lots of princesses—David was also able to present information to the dental group about the constantly evolving topic of appraising and selling dental practices.

Leading up to his presentation David had a good idea of what he wanted to convey but he had difficulty deciding how he should open the discussion to get everyone’s attention.

It was on the way back to his cabin on the first night that David had an epiphany.

It was already past his daughter’s bedtime when they passed through the main atrium, but there was little he could do to stop her from joining the other little princesses dancing whimsically to the live music.

She quickly made a new friend, which meant that David and her parents, or grandparents as they turned out to be, were now obligatory friends. It didn’t take long for the grandfather to ask David about his career and upon learning that he was a professional practice business broker, he proudly announced that his business of more than 30 years would be sold in the fall. What amazed my nephew was that despite knowing that David was a broker, the grandfather didn’t have a single question. Instead, after a long conversation it was clear that he had already

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done three crucial things that every person selling his/her business should do.

First, he had surrounded himself with a trusted team of professionals to handle the sale and guide him through the process. He clearly had confidence in his team (a lawyer, a banker, an accountant and a broker) and had empowered them to deliver the best result. While selling a business can be a bit complicated and often stressful, here he was on a cruise with his grandkids.

Second, he had fully detached himself from the business that he had started 30 years ago and dedicated most of his life to.

He maintained that the sale process wasn’t going to be personal for him. Of course, when he talked about the more-than-100hour work-weeks in his early years and the struggle to pay rent, it was abundantly clear he had invested much of himself in the business. However, to get the best result in a sale, he understood that this was strictly a business deal—and that keeping the personal side out of the entire sale process would yield the best result.

Third, he sold when the time was right for him. He’d been approached in the past by interested parties with very good offers, but it hadn’t been the right time…then. He wasn’t trying to cash out at a market peak, nor had he held on too long to a business that was starting to decline. His business was healthy and robust, and now he was simply ready for the next chapter in his life.

At the end of the night, when it was time to take the little princesses back to their castles, David was thoroughly impressed with how the grandfather was handling himself at such a critical time in ownership. His epiphany: those three elements—delegation, detachment and timing—were instrumental in his success.

I am told that the gentleman in question did have a few margaritas during this conversation and towards the end of the evening he finally let David know what he was selling his business for…$95,000,000.

Little wonder he was in such good spirits— he even bought David a beer!

Note to the reader: The business mentioned above turned out to be a major generic pharmaceutical company.

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dr. pamela davidson’s motto: “There is a right way to do things and a wrong way. If you are going to bother doing something, you may as well do it the right way.” It comes from her father, who’s also her inspiration. This family-focused dentist’s favourite regular escape is to Hawaii for get-togethers with her clan, including her kids. And when she’s not travelling and practising dentistry, Dr. Davidson gets creative and channels her inner interior designer or partakes in pottery and painting; “Both allow me to work with my hands in a messy and free way, in contrast to the precise and micro movements involved in dentistry.” Or she might just shop and add to her shoe collection—some 120 pairs…

My name: Pamela Davidson

Must-see TV show: House of Cards

I live and practise in: Vancouver, BC

Favourite music or song: Graceland by Paul Simon

My training: BSc (Biochem) and DMD from UBC, Kois Center Graduate Why I was drawn to dentistry: I knew I wanted to work in the health care field and while growing up I wanted to be a physician, however, I wanted to work for myself and wanted the flexibility of working part-time while my children were young. It has worked out well and I still love it.

My last trip: Las Vegas The most exotic place I’ve travelled: Hong Kong The best souvenir I’ve brought back from a trip: Very large pottery café au lait cup from Florence, Italy. It survived my backpack and trek around Europe and I still use it 25 years later. from top

Dr. Pamela Davidson channelling her inner cowgirl at the Calgary Stampede; with her two kids in Hawaii; the makings of her pottery hobby; and showing off some serious “cool.”

A favourite place that I keep returning to: Hawaii Dream vacation: Trip to southeast Asia and Australia with my kids If I could travel at any time, I’d go to: Enjoy the present too much Favourite book: Too many to list Favourite film: This is Spinal Tap

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My first job: Server at Dairy Queen (I gained 10lbs that summer) The gadget or gear I could not do without: iPhone My favourite room at home: Kitchen My car: Lexus GX My last purchase: Shoes My last splurge: All new furniture for my house (it was a much needed fresh start for us) My most-frequented store: Grocery store My closet has too many: Is over 120 pairs of shoes too many????

My fridge is always stocked with: Milk, eggs and hot sauce My medicine cabinet is always stocked with: Vitamins My guilty pleasure is: Movie theatre popcorn mixed with peanut m&m’s Favourite exercise/ sports activity: Walking the beach Favourite sport to watch: Hockey Celebrity crush: Peter Dinklage I’d want this with me if stranded on a desert island: Satellite telephone My secret to relaxing and relieving tension: Red wine

A talent I wish I had: To twitch my nose to make things happen like in Bewitched My scariest moment: My son came close to being run over by a car when learning to ride his bike. I had to grab his shirt to stop him.

My fondest memory: Birth of my children A big challenge I’ve faced: Being a single mom One thing I’d change about myself: I would be 2 inches shorter (I am 6’1”) The word that best describes me: Caring I’m inspired by: My father My biggest ego boost: When my kids tell me I am a great mom My biggest ego blow: When my kids tell me I am an uncool mom I’m happiest when: Family get-togethers, especially in Hawaii My greatest fear: Ruining my children My motto is: From my father: “There is a right way to do things and a wrong way. If you are going to bother doing something, you may as well do it the right way.”

A cause close to my heart: Children with disabilities (my brother has cerebral palsy) Something I haven’t done yet that’s on my must-do list: Make it to age 100 If I wasn’t a dentist I’d be: An interior designer

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