by Okanagan Life | Jun 30, 2017 | Paul's Voice
The sesquicentennial begins with kind, gentle and hopeful facts: that Canada is the most peaceful country on earth; we possess no mass destruction weapons and we have only 198 jails. (One might be the smallest in the world at only 270 sq. ft.) The Okanagan celebration...
by Okanagan Life | Apr 19, 2017 | Best of BC Wine Awards, Paul's Voice
https://okanaganlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/paul-wine.m4v When you sip your next glass of wine this spring, please pour it from a bottle from one of the wineries found within these pages. Okanagan small businesses need you not only shop local, but to...
by Okanagan Life | Dec 31, 2016 | Paul's Voice
When John Cabot witnessed the Grand Banks off Newfoundland in 1497 he saw so many fish — the sheer numbers were hard to comprehend. Cabot wrote that the waters were so “swarming with fish that they could be taken using baskets let down and weighted with a stone....
by Okanagan Life | Oct 9, 2016 | Paul's Voice
The Earth’s total land mass is 148,939,063 sq-km which is roughly 29%. Canada claims 9,984,670 sq-km of that or 7%. The regions Okanagan Life serves amount to 30,000 sq-km or a miniscule 2/1000ths of 1% of the planet. On that tiny note, I’d like to congratulate and...
by Okanagan Life | Aug 15, 2016 | Paul's Voice
I try to be a more tolerant, loving and empathic person in spite of my human neurological deficits, irrational beliefs, memory failures, optical illusions and knew-it-all-along bias. However, I know I cannot succeed if my brain dwells on the negative—even when the...
by Okanagan Life | Jun 24, 2016 | Paul's Voice
Dear Donald, My Father refused to call Americans, Americans. Rightfully so, he would argue, everybody living in the North, South and Central Americas—were in fact Americans—so he called them USers. I did not understand why my father had a problem with USers. He was...
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