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KNOX – NDP government will have to disappoint some by saying ‘no’

September 17, 2017 // 1 Comment

THE B.C. SCHOOL Trustees Association is happy about the hundreds of millions for new teachers, but wants more money to build schools. The Wilderness Committee is happy about [Continue]

KNOX – Status quo is main factor in who pays for hospital parking

September 10, 2017 // 3 Comments

WHEN CAMPBELL RIVER’S brand new hospital is unveiled today (Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017), one of the planned features will be missing: pay parking. Ditto for the new [Continue]

KNOX – Salt Spring Island: ‘A difference of opinion surrounded by water’

September 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

YEARS AGO, a Salt Spring resident described a typically testy public meeting where an angry audience member leaped up to point an accusing finger at an elected official: [Continue]

KNOX – This piano isn’t just for playing; it’s for listening, too

August 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

JUST DOWN the hill from the Salt Spring Island library, his back to the passing traffic, Kenny Slater is playing a bouncy tune. He has 20 years as a percussionist under his [Continue]

KNOX – Note to the racist right: Stop wearing my khakis

August 20, 2017 // 1 Comment

GREAT, NOW I have to burn my khaki pants. Guess I’ll use my tiki torch. This is one of the unintended consequences of the racist right running amok in Charlottesville: They [Continue]

KNOX – On the anniversary of the horror in Nagasaki, a story of survival

August 13, 2017 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEKEND, Rudi Hoenson planted a seedling in Oak Bay. It came from a tree that, improbably, survived a nuclear blast in Japan — just like Rudi himself. You might have [Continue]