Ottawa company La Siembra celebrates 20 years of fair trade chocolate

 In 1999, three people bought a small mixing machine and set it up in the basement of an Ottawa church where they manually canned tins of hot chocolate and cocoa powders with the help of various volunteers.  Today, they are known as La Siembra Co-operative, a worker-owned co-operative, and as

Place in the Sun Puts 300 Days of Sunlight in a Bottle of Shiraz

 Three hundred days of sunlight might seem like a dream, with all this wacky Canadian spring weather, but Place in the Sun has managed to bottle those golden rays. Here’s something new to sip on this summer—Place in the Sun has a South African Shiraz made with the grapes of