Town Talk: Canucks Autism Network gala nets $1,123,695

QUIET KNIGHT: As he did at the Face The World gala’s 1990 founding, Sir Tom Jones co-hosted the recent running at Jacqui Cohen’s Point Grey waterfront home. Before $2,500-a-ticket attendees tucked into Gotham-restaurant-furnished beef tenderloin, butter-poached lobster and Le Vieux Pin and La Stella wines, Cohen announced that earlier events had generated more than $18 million for hundreds of local charities. As for Jones influencing those celebrations (the first raised $85,000), Coh