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Route 101 in Peterborough was closed for more than an hour on Christmas Day, as icy road conditions made travel treacherous around the region.Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard said the department received nearly a dozen calls about cars off the...

  VICTORIA -- The recent, record-setting heat wave on Vancouver Island had winemakers and distillers paying careful attention to their grape crops – with a trio reporting no major negative effects. In the Cowichan Valley, Enrico Winery says it was their staff who were most unhappy trying to avoid the heat under scorching temperatures that reached 42 degrees Celsius one day. “Nowhere in the vineyard did we have so much leaf burn that the vines can’t recover,” says winemaker Daniel C...