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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: Off the tourist track in Italy, little is lost in translation

Jack Knox: Off the tourist track in Italy, little is lost in translation

In a small northern city, some residents don’t speak English, but the language barrier can be an unexpected bonus.
Jack Knox: You can't solve the world's problems, but you can help a neighbour

Jack Knox: You can't solve the world's problems, but you can help a neighbour

Why do we do what we do? Because it’s not about solving an intractable problem, it’s about helping people, real ones.
Jack Knox: Asking for your help, even when it's uncomfortable

Jack Knox: Asking for your help, even when it's uncomfortable

The Times Colonist Christmas Fund is a good cause, but Jack Knox still feels like that long-vanished friend who only reappears when he wants to borrow your truck.
Jack Knox: Island woman knows 'you get back what you give'

Jack Knox: Island woman knows 'you get back what you give'

All the money raised by the TC Christmas Fund flows to Vancouver Island charities that provide help for people who could, as was the case with Shirley Howard in the 1960s, benefit from the goodness of strangers.
Soap for Hope washes away some of the money worries for seniors

Soap for Hope washes away some of the money worries for seniors

Volunteer elves stuff Ziploc bags with toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, deodorants, lotions and other items that many recipients can no longer afford to buy — and finish it off with a personal touch.
Jack Knox: Food costs taking a bigger bite out of non-profits' budgets

Jack Knox: Food costs taking a bigger bite out of non-profits' budgets

We haven’t always lived in an age when so many Victorians have had to choose between paying the rent and filling their stomachs.
Jack Knox: The face of need not always what you expect

Jack Knox: The face of need not always what you expect

“For me, one of the benefits of being involved with the fund is that, every year, it dispels my own image of what need looks like.”
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.
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