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Rebound year for fresh vinifera or French hybrid grapes Farmers sold 89 708 metric tonnes of fresh vinifera or French hybrid grapes in 2025, up by over one-fifth (+22.0%) from a year earlier. To place Canada’s fresh vinifera or French hybrid grapes into a wine perspective, farmers grew enough grapes to make approximately 80.8 million 750 millilitre bottles of wine. Nevertheless, it was not a vintage year, with marketed production of fresh vinifera or French hybrid grapes falling 24.0% below the record high of 117 999 metric tonnes set in 2019. Marketed production of fresh vinifera or French hybrid grapes topped 100 000 metric tonnes every year from 2016 to 2020 but has trended downward since then. In 2025, almost three-quarters (73.6%) of fresh vinifera or French hybrid grapes were grown in Ontario, while one-fifth (19.5%) were grown in British Columbia. These grapes were also grown in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Alberta, although in much smaller quantities. During the 2024/2025 fiscal year, imported wine sales in Canada fell for the first time since we began tracking alcohol sales by origin in 1992/1993, while domestic wine sales increased 1.9% to $2.3 billion.

The Southern Fish is home to the bright luminary Fomalhaut, a lovely young star that shines brightly in the evening sky. Look south late this evening to find the bright star Fomalhaut in Piscis Austrinus above the horizon, forming a large triangle with the Moon to its upper right and Saturn to its upper left. Credit: Stellarium/USGS/Celestia/Clementine

As NASA continues humanity’s slow march back to the Moon, different pieces of the puzzle of establishing a more permanent base there are falling into place. One of these pieces is the the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTR), and [Cleo Abram] and [Michelle Khare] got a look at the LTR candidate from Lunar Outpost. Designed to help astronauts traverse the lunar surface as well as function as a semi-autonomous rover when uncrewed, the LTR will be an integral part to any future Moon base. NASA announced earlier this year that it would be moving forward with the LTR featured in this video and another from competitor Astrolab. Regardless of manufacturer, the LTR will have to deal with some wild conditions in the lunar environment.