KNOX – No, a pet under the Christmas tree is not a good surprise
NO, DON’T SURPRISE anyone with a puppy for Christmas. A homemade gift certificate for a new pet, maybe. You could wrap it up with a leash or litter box. But an actual [Continue]
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KNOX- 25 years later, I’m ready to forgive Martha for ruining Christmas
FOR THE RECORD, I no longer want Martha Stewart to die. Sure, I might have daydreamed about her catching a mild case of COVID, one that would – and here’s irony! – [Continue]
KNOX – Customers are feeling boxed in by Canada Post’s fuel surcharges
I MAILED A PAPERBACK to Edmonton last week. The postage cost $21, more than the book itself. No, I told the postal clerk, I don’t want you to charter a jet and read it to [Continue]
KNOX – After Holodomor, more grim history for Ukrainians to pass down
IT WAS THE FROST-DAMAGED POTATOES that saved Iryna Starostina’s starving grandparents. They had buried and forgotten about the vegetables but dug them up after the Soviets [Continue]
KNOX – The day, 80 years ago, when our air force accidentally attacked Canada
EIGHTY YEARS AGO, the Second World War came home to the Saanich Peninsula. Literally. On Nov. 16, 1942, a Mrs. A. Bramwell was doing the dishes when a bomb plowed through her [Continue]
KNOX – Queen’s portrait is gone from B.C. Ferries, but so is the King’s
B.C. FERRIES is keelhauling the King. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the corporation has decided to not only remove her portrait from its vessels, but to rid [Continue]
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