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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club translates its 'familects'

Opinion: Familect is what you get when you smush the words “family” and “dialect” into one word. And you end up with "sqwacks" and "sqwans"....

12.04.2024 7

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club translates its 'familects' Opinion: Familect is what you get when you smush the words 'family' and 'dialect' into one word. And you end up with 'sqwacks' and 'sqwans.'

12.04.2024 8

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club loves a bargain

Got a parking ticket? Life is short. You pick your battles. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account....

05.04.2024 6

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club loves a bargain Got a parking ticket? Life is short. You pick your battles.

05.04.2024 7

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Jane Macdougall: Humanity and professionalism calm the potential storm of an ER incident Opinion: We want our police to be models of uninterrupted forbearance. Even if many of us couldn’t lay claim to the same.

29.03.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: Humanity and professionalism calm the potential storm of an ER incident

Opinion: We want our police to be models of uninterrupted forbearance. Even if many of us couldn’t lay claim to the same. You can save this article...

29.03.2024 7

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club does the math in time for Easter

This week the Bookless Club maps out how we're all related. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account....

23.03.2024 8

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club does the math in time for Easter This week the Bookless Club maps out how we're all related.

23.03.2024 6

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club says, 'Not today'

My mom asks what the matter is. I tell her I don’t want her to die. You’ll leave the milk out. The basement door wide open. When the call...

15.03.2024 6

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club says, 'Not today' My mom asks what the matter is. I tell her I don’t want her to die.

15.03.2024 7

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club wonders if we make ourselves late or does lateness happen to us? Opinion: Lateness isn’t always your fault. And really, except for rocket launches, does five minutes one way or the other really affect much?

08.03.2024 3

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club wonders if we make ourselves late or does lateness happen to us?

Opinion: Lateness isn’t always your fault. And really, except for rocket launches, does five minutes one way or the other really affect much?...

08.03.2024 7

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club's lifetime of museum memories

What resonates with one person may fall flat for another. My son was entranced by the Rembrandts at the Frick Museum in New York City. He was 10. Some...

01.03.2024 2

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club's lifetime of museum memories What resonates with one person may fall flat for another. My son was entranced by the Rembrandts at the Frick Museum in New York City. He was 10.

01.03.2024 4

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club has money in the (piggy) bank

What are you going to put in a modern-day piggy bank? E-transfers? Bitcoin? It seemed like the perfect gift for a four year old. It was a piggy...

23.02.2024 5

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club has money in the (piggy) bank What are you going to put in a modern-day piggy bank? E-transfers? Bitcoin?

23.02.2024 5

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and the diaper industrial complex

Opinion: I’m referring to potty training in the West. We’re bad at it. We used to be better. What used to take a year, now routinely takes up to...

02.02.2024 6

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and the diaper industrial complex Opinion: I’m referring to potty training in the West. We’re bad at it. We used to be better. What used to take a year, now routinely takes up to three.

02.02.2024 7

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and 'grandpa chic'

'Grandpa chic' is just the stuff you have accumulated over the years. Good stuff. Serviceable stuff. Stuff they just don’t make anymore. You, baby,...

26.01.2024 6

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and 'grandpa chic' 'Grandpa chic' is just the stuff you have accumulated over the years. Good stuff. Serviceable stuff. Stuff they just don’t make anymore.

26.01.2024 5

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and a love-hate relationship with Snow Days If you’re a kid, it’s literally a gift from the heavens.

19.01.2024 5

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and a love-hate relationship with Snow Days

If you’re a kid, it’s literally a gift from the heavens. Snow is a beautiful misery. If you’re a kid, it’s literally a gift from the...

19.01.2024 5

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club has a peculiar lamp thing

Opinion: A lamp is an active participant in whatever theme you’ve got going. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but at my house it takes the...

12.01.2024 2

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club thinks music is a powerful drug Music, the most abstract of the arts, is increasingly considered when it comes to a broad spectrum of health challenges.

05.01.2024 4

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club thinks music is a powerful drug

Music, the most abstract of the arts, is increasingly considered when it comes to a broad spectrum of health challenges. When you think of drugs, the...

05.01.2024 5

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and the Same Old Lang Syne

There’s a song that will go into heavy rotation over the next 48 hours. It was a hit back in 1981. You know the one — Daniel Fogelberg’s Same...

29.12.2023 10

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and the Same Old Lang Syne There’s a song that will go into heavy rotation over the next 48 hours. It was a hit back in 1981. You know the one — Daniel Fogelberg’s Same Old Lang Syne about running into an old flame in a grocery store on Christmas Eve.

29.12.2023 8

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club's quest for a perfect house

There you have it — my ideal house. A shipping/receiving facility at the back door, two vanities, and a walk-in closet. We’re only days away from...

15.12.2023 6

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club goes out for movie night

Opinion: COVID put a big dent in a lot of our routines. Movie-going is one of the things that suffered most due to the pandemic. There are a couple of...

01.12.2023 6

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club goes out for movie night Opinion: COVID put a big dent in a lot of our routines. Movie-going is one of the things that suffered most due to the pandemic.

01.12.2023 5

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club follows its nose

Having a good nose has long been associated with health and safety — it's always on the job, even when you sleep. Do you remember Tweed perfume? ...

24.11.2023 5

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club follows its nose Having a good nose has long been associated with health and safety — it's always on the job, even when you sleep.

24.11.2023 6

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club going back to school?

This time around I would be a mature student. Clearly, first time around I was an immature student. And how. University was so hard the first time...

17.11.2023 9

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club going back to school? This time around I would be a mature student. Clearly, first time around I was an immature student. And how. University was so hard the first time around.

17.11.2023 5

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club remembers

Opinion: Given the troubles plaguing the world at the moment, I hope everyone buys a poppy. And maybe this year, we shouldn’t take them off. The...

10.11.2023 6

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and 60 pounds of apples

Opinion: When I was a kid, I used to eat about four or five apples a day. It didn’t matter what variety, I loved them all. There’s a saying I...

28.10.2023 3

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club and 60 pounds of apples Opinion: When I was a kid, I used to eat about four or five apples a day. It didn’t matter what variety, I loved them all.

28.10.2023 3

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: Something for construction workers to think about while on those new flushing toilets

Tires are one of the essentials of our mobile society. Without them, commuting, excursions, and transportation would seize up. I’ve had to replace...

20.10.2023 10

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Jane Macdougall: Something for construction workers to think about while on those new flushing toilets Tires are one of the essentials of our mobile society. Without them, commuting, excursions, and transportation would seize up.

20.10.2023 4

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club asks if you name your cars

When I was a kid, everybody named their cars. I have a friend who grew up with a "Betsy" parked in the family’s garage. Her name was Esmeralda. ...

06.10.2023 2

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club knows that teachers are real rockstars This is the 167th instalment of The Bookless Club. That’s 167 questions that we’ve pondered together. We started this thing, you and I, back when the pandemic stalked the planet, instilling fear and isolation into every community. The objective of The Bookless Club was to create connection, to create diversion.

29.09.2023 2

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club knows that teachers are real rockstars

This is the 167th instalment of The Bookless Club. That’s 167 questions that we’ve pondered together. We started this thing, you and I, back when...

29.09.2023 2

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The lasting legacy of a favourite teacher

Teachers can touch you in many ways, even when they catch you skirting the rules Did I remember Mr. Crittenden?, she asked tentatively. I hadn’t...

22.09.2023 30

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Jane Macdougall: The lasting legacy of a favourite teacher Teachers can touch you in many ways, even when they catch you skirting the rules

22.09.2023 7

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club asks: Baking vs. cooking vs. delivery Some cooks are terrible with a bundt pan and some bakers turn tail at the sight of a roasting pan.

15.09.2023 6

The Province

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club asks: Baking vs. cooking vs. delivery

Some cooks are terrible with a bundt pan and some bakers turn tail at the sight of a roasting pan. So, what are you? A cook or a baker? Generally...

15.09.2023 6

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club's policies that miss the mark Maybe this makes sense to you. Maybe, like me, it makes no sense to you at all.

08.09.2023 6

The Province

Jane Macdougall

Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club's policies that miss the mark

Maybe this makes sense to you. Maybe, like me, it makes no sense to you at all. Maybe this makes sense to you. Maybe, like me, it makes no sense to...

08.09.2023 5

Vancouver Sun

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