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Jack Knox: Nourish Cowichan tries to ensure no child goes through school day on an empty stomach

Jack Knox: Nourish Cowichan tries to ensure no child goes through school day on an empty stomach

The Times 91原创 Christmas Fund has helped to fund the work of Nourish Cowichan
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Jack Knox: So many stories, so few Second World War vets left to tell them

Jack Knox: So many stories, so few Second World War vets left to tell them

Of the dozens of veterans of the Second World War who shared their stories with me over the years, only a few are still with us
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Jack Knox: Computer pioneer lived quietly in our midst

Jack Knox: Computer pioneer lived quietly in our midst

Kathleen Booth鈥檚 work was so significant that when the 100-year-old died this fall, her passing merited major media coverage in her native Britain. So why didn鈥檛 we all know that she had spent the past 44 years living in Sooke?
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Jack Knox: As monarch vanishes from ferries, take a deep breath

Jack Knox: As monarch vanishes from ferries, take a deep breath

B.C. Ferries has decided to not only remove the Queen鈥檚 portrait from its vessels, but to rid itself of the royal presence altogether: It will not replace the pictures with ones of King Charles
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Jack Knox: Saanich councillor wants to merge fire departments

Jack Knox: Saanich councillor wants to merge fire departments

Saanich Coun. Colin Plant thinks his municipality, Victoria, Esquimalt and Oak Bay should consider dumping cumbersome inter-municipal agreements, combining forces and deploying firefighters as needed
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Jack Knox: Halloween an excuse masquerading as a night for kids

Jack Knox: Halloween an excuse masquerading as a night for kids

First, adults decided to use the occasion to dress up as Sexy Whatevers and party in a way that caused them to lose their inhibitions/undergarments/stomach contents. Then, worse, it became an excuse to show up for work in a moose suit
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Jack Knox: Private calls in public places? Consider them an invitation

Jack Knox: Private calls in public places? Consider them an invitation

Those who talk loudly on cellphones in public places are acting as though others are A) invisible, B) deaf, or C) insignificant, so why not make eye contact, laugh at their jokes and add your own two cents鈥� worth?
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Jack Knox: It's all fun until someone jumps in the casket with the dead guy

Jack Knox: It's all fun until someone jumps in the casket with the dead guy

An act of kindness for a stranger turned into a bizarre story for Leah Flatman of Saanich, now living in Montreal
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Jack Knox: Victoria's Olive Bailey kept her Bletchley codebreaking past secret

Jack Knox: Victoria's Olive Bailey kept her Bletchley codebreaking past secret

During the war, Olive Bailey, who has died at the age of 101, was stationed in Hut Six, where army and air force code breakers worked. She remembered Alan Turing chaining his coffee cup to the radiator so he wouldn鈥檛 lose it
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Jack Knox: Six months after arson, Ukrainian-Catholic priest looks to the future

Jack Knox: Six months after arson, Ukrainian-Catholic priest looks to the future

Police still don鈥檛 know who torched Father Yuriy Vyshnevskyy鈥檚 home while the family was inside.
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