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Botterill’s memoir Why Not You is sure to inspire future rosters in women’s sports

Decorated Olympian. Hard-hitting hockey analyst. Inspiring author. Winnipeg’s own Jennifer Botterill is adding yet another chapter in her historic and storied career.

Botterill’s autobiography Why Not You: My Story of Perseverance, Hockey, and Olympic Gold, that hits the shelves Sept. 22, takes a step-by-step look back at the former forward’s many sports lives — from her days as a ringette player growing up in Winnipeg in the 1980s, to her Olympic debut as a fresh-faced 18-year-old at the 1998 Nagano Games, to her burgeoning career as a hockey analyst as part of the beloved Hockey Night in Canada broadcast crew.

And wrapping up her long resumé was something she already had in the works before she was inducted into the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame last November.

“It was just nice timing on how it all worked out,” Botterill told the Free Press last week.

Cabernet Sauvignon star of wine festival

The Winnipeg Wine Festival will celebrate the king of red wine grapes next weekend — the theme of this year’s festival, which takes place Sept. 25 and 26 at the RBC Convention Centre, is Cabernet Sauvignon.

Cab Sauv, as it’s also known, is the world’s most widely planted wine grape of any colour, first coming to prominence in the 1800s in France’s Bordeaux region, where the grape is still popular. Rather than single-variety wines, Bordeaux reds tend to be blends, with those coming from the left bank of the Gironde estuary being Cabernet-dominant, while right-bank wines are Merlot-dominant, with Cabernet Sauvignon playing a supporting role. Cabernet and Merlot work well together and many other countries have followed suit in blending the two.

A team at University of California Davis put Cabernet Sauvignon through a DNA test in 1996 and discovered its parent grapes are Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc — it’s likely that at some point the two varieties, planted next to each other in some vineyard, crossed and mutated and became the grape we know today. (Someone growing grapes in the 19th century must have had an inkling of what was up, as the grape has been called Cabernet Sauvignon since long before the DNA test.)

Flavour-wise, most Cabernet Sauvignon wines are big and bold, with a core of deep dark berry flavours, some graphite and spice notes and relatively bright acidity. It’s a grape that is well-suited to barrel aging, with most examples seeing at least some time in wood.

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Desperate Poilievre wants Canadians to believe the sky is falling when it’s just cloudy outside

Pierre Poilievre has a problem.

Canadians just don’t seem to be paying much attention to him anymore.

So, naturally, the Conservative Opposition leader has decided to turn up the volume.

At a recent party caucus retreat in Penticton, B.C., Poilievre delivered the familiar message: Canada is in trouble, Canadians are hurting and the Liberal government is making everything worse.