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Jack Knox: Running the gauntlet of outstretched hands at Christmas

Jack Knox: Running the gauntlet of outstretched hands at Christmas

Some days, going shopping during the holidays is like running a gauntlet of outstretched beggar bowls.
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Jack Knox: 25 years later, I'm ready to forgive Martha for ruining Christmas

Jack Knox: 25 years later, I'm ready to forgive Martha for ruining Christmas

After almost three years, the pandemic has frayed our nerves. Layering the pressure to have a perfect holiday on top of that doesn鈥檛 help.
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Jack Knox: Cost to build new Cowichan hospital soars by $559 million 鈥� and nobody blinks

Jack Knox: Cost to build new Cowichan hospital soars by $559 million 鈥� and nobody blinks

The cost for the new Cowichan District Hospital has soared from $887 million last year to $1.446 billion today. Health Ministry has an explanation, but why is the province taking on capital projects now?
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Jack Knox: Customers feel boxed in by sa国际传媒 Post fuel surcharges

Jack Knox: Customers feel boxed in by sa国际传媒 Post fuel surcharges

On Monday, sa国际传媒 Post's fuel surcharges for domestic delivery reached 39.5 per cent, prompting Courtenay-Alberni MP Gord Johns to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
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Jack Knox: Nil could make us happier than being at the World Cup

Jack Knox: Nil could make us happier than being at the World Cup

This is the only time you鈥檒l ever hear Canadians use the word, once every four years during the planet鈥檚 most-watched sporting event
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Jack Knox: Amid tales of dysfunction, don't forget need

Jack Knox: Amid tales of dysfunction, don't forget need

When encountering some bedraggled figure on the sidewalk, what do you feel? Sympathy? Fear? Resentment? Does your heart hurt or your lip curl?
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Jack Knox: Shovelling money out of our economy gives us the Black Friday blues

Jack Knox: Shovelling money out of our economy gives us the Black Friday blues

Since the phenomenon spilled into sa国际传媒, it turned out we were just as capable as our neighbours of going all Lord Of The Flies on each other if you dangled a $12 toaster in front of our faces.
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Jack Knox: After Holodomor, more grim history for Ukrainian newcomers to pass down

Jack Knox: After Holodomor, more grim history for Ukrainian newcomers to pass down

It was the frost-damaged potatoes that saved Iryna Starostina鈥檚 starving grandparents.
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Jack Knox: Ten-plaque bench is a celebration, not a memorial

Jack Knox: Ten-plaque bench is a celebration, not a memorial

Most commemorative benches, picnic tables and other pieces of public furniture are dedicated to people only after they鈥檙e gone. Most are in loving memory of the dearly departed, not the happily here.
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Jack Knox: Loaves and Fishes feeds the hungry, one tomato at a time

Jack Knox: Loaves and Fishes feeds the hungry, one tomato at a time

The volunteers who sort the food donated to Nanaimo鈥檚 Loaves and Fishes never know what鈥檚 going to be in the bins that pour into the warehouse each day
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