From drag brunch to chicken cookies, here’s what you’ll find at this year’s CNE

I used to associate old age with ominous human decline. Then I started hanging out with an octogenarian super athlete named Dag Aabye. Dag lives in a school bus on the side of a mountain in British Columbia. When he’s not stoking the fire in his bus or writing in his journals inside that bus, he can be found cutting wood or running day and night through blizzards and heat waves. He runs for several hours straight up and down that mountainside on hand-cut trails that he maintains himself with a chainsaw. While on one of those trails not long ago, he shared with me seven words of wisdom...