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KNOX – Throwing paint on church doors will do nothing to help Ukraine

March 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

SOMEBODY JUST VANDALIZED St. Sophia’s Orthodox Church in Fairfield, throwing red paint on the front doors. The vandals probably thought they were striking a blow for [Continue]

KNOX – A prayer for peace in Ukraine

February 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

FATHER YURIV VYSHNEVSKYY is shovelling snow from his stairs before Thursday morning’s service. What, he is asked, does a priest tell parishioners to do on a day like [Continue]

KNOX – The pandemic has brought families much closer together

February 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

SHE WAITED UNTIL the closing ceremonies were over, then turned off the television, which had the same effect as unplugging Bob’s life support. “Alice, something’s wrong [Continue]

KNOX – How do we contain auto traffic downtown without cutting off access?

February 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

CALL IT NUMBER NERD Nirvana. Or, depending on your perspective, an alternative to NyQuil. When Statistics Canada unveiled its first set of findings from the 2021 census [Continue]

KNOX – Protests, from vaccination mandates to B.C.’s goat-milking laws

February 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

I UNPLUGGED for January. Disabled my email, turned off Twitter, threw the phone in the toilet and focused on a single project, distraction-free. Slept like the dead every [Continue]

KNOX – A year of fan mail – ‘I used to love reading your columns but…’

January 9, 2022 // 1 Comment

“[BLEEP] OFF AND DIE you piece of [bleep].” Alas, that was the entire message, meaning there was no way to know what I had done to inflame the anonymous writer. He [Continue]