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KNOX – Guy ‘ The Flower’ Lafleur hit the sweet spot of shared experience

April 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

I ONCE BOUGHT a Montreal Canadiens sweater with the number 15 on it, because even in my driveway dreams I wasn’t good enough to wear Guy Lafleur’s number 10. Nobody [Continue]

KNOX – Mystery of who owns Meghan and Harry’s vacay mansion solved

April 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

DURING THE MEGXIT MADNESS of a couple of years back, when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle decided to step back from royal life, one of the great mysteries was the ownership of [Continue]

KNOX – Trying to keep a head of the game with wax museum collection

April 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

KEN LANE KEEPSs hundreds of disembodied heads in his Saanich basement. He forwarded photos of a couple of them last week — or, at least, pictures of the boxes in which [Continue]

KNOX – Picking up COVID test with a float plane just part of the service

April 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

HERE’S AN EYEBROW-RAISER: federal health authorities just paid for a float plane to pick up a woman’s COVID test from Lasqueti Island. No, this is not an April [Continue]

KNOX – Another Jack, flags, housing and the Queen’s missing head

March 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

A GRAB BAG for the first weekend of spring: • There has been a certain amount of chortling/eyerolling — it depends on where your sense of humour is at — about the [Continue]

KNOX – A key question for Ukrainian influx: how will it be paid for?

March 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

AT VICTORIA’S UKRAINIAN Cultural Centre, they just sent over money to buy 25 bulletproof vests for paramedics back in the old country. Now they brace for the flood [Continue]