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Jack Knox

Jack Knox

Jack Knox is an award-losing columnist with the Victoria Times Colonist. Since joining the Times Colonist in 1988, Jack has worked as a copy editor, city editor, editorial writer and editorial page editor. Prior to that he was an editor and reporter at newspapers in Campbell River, Regina and Kamloops.

As a journalist he has debated policy with prime ministers and premiers, and has interviewed a murderer in his cell. He liked the murderer. Career highlights include being blasted with blowhole spray by Luna the whale (it tasted like fish), interviewing a porn movie star in the nude (her, not him) and getting a phone call from Barack Obama four days before he (Obama, not Jack) was elected president.

He is the author of three books, two of which were nominated for the Leacock Medal for Humour.

Email
jknox@timescolonist.com

Recent Work by Jack

Jack Knox: Sad end to book sale mystery: Soldier died at 19

Jack Knox: Sad end to book sale mystery: Soldier died at 19

The diary was in a box of donations to the Times Colonist Book Sale. How did the diary arrive at a Victoria book sale, we wondered, and what happened to the author?
Jack Knox: The Kinder Surprises of the Times Colonist Book Sale

Jack Knox: The Kinder Surprises of the Times Colonist Book Sale

Book sale is on Saturday and Sunday at the Victoria Curling Club.
Jack Knox: Volunteers are the (aching) backbone of Times Colonist book sale

Jack Knox: Volunteers are the (aching) backbone of Times Colonist book sale

There are maybe 400 of them, including a core group of 100 who have been around for the entire process leading up to this weekend’s sale at the Victoria Curling Club.
Book dropoff Saturday, Sunday at Victoria Curling Club; and, can you spare 100 tables for our book sale?

Book dropoff Saturday, Sunday at Victoria Curling Club; and, can you spare 100 tables for our book sale?

Book drop-off on April 22 and 23 at Victoria Curling Club, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. both days; book sale is on May 6 and 7.
Jack Knox: At the end of the day, local journalism matters

Jack Knox: At the end of the day, local journalism matters

There’s no substitute for real reporters doing real legwork, producing pieces that don’t get published without passing the scrutiny of a real editor.
Jack Knox: What do you do after catching a puck in the mouth? Get up

Jack Knox: What do you do after catching a puck in the mouth? Get up

Victoria Playmakers hockey tournament for seniors has seen players with more titanium than a Boeing factory, more burning joints than a Grateful Dead concert
Jack Knox: Seeking absolution on Email Debt Forgiveness Day

Jack Knox: Seeking absolution on Email Debt Forgiveness Day

Feeling of failure comes with trying to keep up with a never-ending conveyor belt that spits out emails, texts and voice messages faster than you can read them
The struggle to keep Canada's oldest Chinese temple open

The struggle to keep Canada's oldest Chinese temple open

The Yen Wo Society, which owns the narrow, four-storey building topped by the temple, is keen for more Victorians to take a look. Members of the group, struggling with their role as guardians of the Tam Kung Temple, want more people to take an interest in a heritage structure that needs about $600,000 worth of repairs.
Jack Knox: In a city of single seniors, we can relate to Roger the marmot

Jack Knox: In a city of single seniors, we can relate to Roger the marmot

For an animal that many didn’t think would emerge from hibernation this spring, Roger looks pretty youthful.
Point Ellice House closes: 'We weren't bluffing'

Point Ellice House closes: 'We weren't bluffing'

The operators of the Victoria heritage gem had warned for years that they would have to pull the plug if the province didn’t provide sustainable funding.
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