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Jack Knox: Customers feel boxed in by Canada Post fuel surcharges

Jack Knox: Customers feel boxed in by Canada Post fuel surcharges

On Monday, Canada Post's fuel surcharges for domestic delivery reached 39.5 per cent, prompting Courtenay-Alberni MP Gord Johns to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
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Jack Knox: Nil could make us happier than being at the World Cup

Jack Knox: Nil could make us happier than being at the World Cup

This is the only time you’ll ever hear Canadians use the word, once every four years during the planet’s most-watched sporting event
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Jack Knox: Shovelling money out of our economy gives us the Black Friday blues

Jack Knox: Shovelling money out of our economy gives us the Black Friday blues

Since the phenomenon spilled into Canada, it turned out we were just as capable as our neighbours of going all Lord Of The Flies on each other if you dangled a $12 toaster in front of our faces.
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Jack Knox: After Holodomor, more grim history for Ukrainian newcomers to pass down

Jack Knox: After Holodomor, more grim history for Ukrainian newcomers to pass down

It was the frost-damaged potatoes that saved Iryna Starostina’s starving grandparents.
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Jack Knox: Ten-plaque bench is a celebration, not a memorial

Jack Knox: Ten-plaque bench is a celebration, not a memorial

Most commemorative benches, picnic tables and other pieces of public furniture are dedicated to people only after they’re gone. Most are in loving memory of the dearly departed, not the happily here.
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Jack Knox: Computer pioneer lived quietly in our midst

Jack Knox: Computer pioneer lived quietly in our midst

Kathleen Booth’s work was so significant that when the 100-year-old died this fall, her passing merited major media coverage in her native Britain. So why didn’t we all know that she had spent the past 44 years living in Sooke?
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Jack Knox: As monarch vanishes from ferries, take a deep breath

Jack Knox: As monarch vanishes from ferries, take a deep breath

B.C. Ferries has decided to not only remove the Queen’s portrait from its vessels, but to rid itself of the royal presence altogether: It will not replace the pictures with ones of King Charles
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Jack Knox: Halloween an excuse masquerading as a night for kids

Jack Knox: Halloween an excuse masquerading as a night for kids

First, adults decided to use the occasion to dress up as Sexy Whatevers and party in a way that caused them to lose their inhibitions/undergarments/stomach contents. Then, worse, it became an excuse to show up for work in a moose suit
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Jack Knox: Private calls in public places? Consider them an invitation

Jack Knox: Private calls in public places? Consider them an invitation

Those who talk loudly on cellphones in public places are acting as though others are A) invisible, B) deaf, or C) insignificant, so why not make eye contact, laugh at their jokes and add your own two cents’ worth?
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Jack Knox: It's all fun until someone jumps in the casket with the dead guy

Jack Knox: It's all fun until someone jumps in the casket with the dead guy

An act of kindness for a stranger turned into a bizarre story for Leah Flatman of Saanich, now living in Montreal
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