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KNOX – Would you rather be trapped at home, or on a cruise ship?

March 22, 2020 // 1 Comment

IN ALL HONESTY, says Metchosin’s David Kirkham, there are worse places to be trapped than a cruise ship off the coast of South America. There has been no sign of COVID-19 [Continue]

KNOX – When in Rome, wash your hands but don’t steal the hand sanitizer

March 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

THEY HAD to screw the hand-sanitizer dispenser to the church wall. With all of Italy desperate for disinfectant gel, and the dispenser tantalizingly close to the front [Continue]

KNOX – Michelle Obama sells inspiration in uninspiring times

March 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

FUN FACT: At 56 years of age, Michelle Obama will be the youngest headliner to play Victoria’s arena in the past five years. OK, that’s not true, though the acts that [Continue]

KNOX – No one voice can speak for the Wet’suwet’en people

February 23, 2020 // 2 Comments

TUESDAY MORNING, a group that included a handful of old white guys who looked, well, kind of like me demonstrated outside the Langford home of Premier John Horgan. In doing [Continue]

KNOX – Viral message – Keep calm and wash your hands

February 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

TO REPEAT: In 2003, a total of 44 Canadians died of SARS, and we panicked. By contrast, 8,511 of us died from garden variety flu and pneumonia in 2018, and we yawned. As [Continue]

KNOX – The dilemma of dealing with porn in public

February 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT WASN’T JUST that the guy was watching porn on his phone, in public. It’s that the porn was of a particularly bizarre and graphic nature, the kind where the average [Continue]