Profile of Brian Jones

Biography

Brian Jones is an editor at The Telegram . He has worked as a journalist and editor in St. John's, Vancouver, Calgary and Yellowknife. You can reach Brian at bjones@thetelegram.com

All articles of Brian Jones

• A royalty regime made right here
  If you’re gullible enough to believe Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s recent diatribes against Quebec, perspective might be found by pondering some ...
• Food fight
  It’s easy to get greedy when you’re fishing. You haul one up, and as soon as it’s off the hook and in the cooler, you want another one, but ...
• Henderson’s heroics hit 40
  Big, big anniversary today — it was exactly 40 years ago that Canada’s soul was saved when Vladislav Tretiak didn’t get a pad out in time to stop ...
• Freedom of speech on long decline
  All those pictures in the news of devout Muslim protesters torching cars, burning American flags, hurling rocks and chanting slogans of ...
• Making the young pay
  The intergenerational war against the young continues unabated and without apology.The baby boomers, who in their youth invented the slogan ...
• Spanking takes a hit
  This week the Canadian Medical Association Journal published an editorial urging the repeal of Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada — the ...
• Lessons in cold calculation
  A primer in political rhetoric was on full display last week, revealing the trickery and knavery to which politics too often sinks. While on a ...
• Hitting the beach with the Jetsons
  Every now and then, evidence emerges about how fantastically wrong the experts were in their predictions of a decade or two ago.It has been a few ...
• Snakes in the grass, and other things to avoid
  The thing to keep in mind about economic experts is … they’re not.This is something to remember whenever, say, a premier or cabinet minister ...
• Where there’s smoke, there’s zealotry
  Strangely, the scholars who run Memorial University chose the midst of its Havin’ A Time reunion to publicly brag it has moved another step ...
• See shepherd run
  Paul Watson is on the lam, having skipped bail in Germany and gone on the run to avoid possible extradition to Costa Rica, where he is accused of ...
• Premier masters inconsistency
  It is fun to follow the outlandish irrationality that poses as reasoned debate on the blogosphere.A story on The Globe and Mail’s website this ...
• News of summer
  It has come to this, after two decades of the cod moratorium and an empty, largely deserted ocean: kids fishing off the wharf are a ...
• Stand up for Fonyo, but not Lord Black
  Even people who detest Conrad Black have to admit the guy is a walking, breathing, living lesson in political philosophy. Citizens of multiple ...
• Hooked on culture
  Oil may gush, but cultural angst thrives, afloat amidst the flood of petro-dollars. In Newfoundland (and Labrador), some people worry the ...
• ’Tis the season to go ‘in boat’
  The first time our dory leaked, I panicked. The boat was a goner, I figured, and would never float again. We weren’t even on the water. The dory ...
• Lame performance should subdue provincial patriots
  This year, I’m voting against putting the pink, white and green up on one of our four flagpoles.Usually, we fly the tricolour, two Canadian flags ...
• ‘Racism’ charge doesn’t add up
  These are strange days indeed in Newfoundland (and Labrador) politics, where up is down and two plus two equals five, and the populace’s greatest ...
• Swinging the axe in good times
  Astronomers calculate there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth.Astronomical numbers can really mess with your head. As ...
• Dollars to doughnuts
  From the You Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up Department comes news the provincial government really can’t run a doughnut shop.Purists will point out ...
• You spray, you pay
  Sometime this spring or summer, some shiftless suburbanite will be dragged into court in shackles and put before a judge, charged with the ...
• Politics in the 4th dimension
  When I’m working the late, late shift, one of my small joys is coming home at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. and flicking on the Discovery Channel or the ...
• Don't kill me, I'm Canadian
  Newfoundlanders (and Labradorians) sure get around. Take any given news story from the mainland, the U.S. or more greatly beyond — in the ...
• Conrad the occasional Canadian
  These are great days to be a Canadian. Never mind that the United Nations no longer says Canada is No. 1 in the world, or that our primary claim ...
• Driving to the right, fuelled by oil
  A plea to my fellow Newfoundlanders (and Labradorites): please do not follow the lead of Alberta and keep a Progressive Conservative government ...
• Consumers take it on the nose
  An advertisement in this week’s issue of The Village Voice asks readers, “Would you like to stop using cocaine?”Such is life in the planet’s ...
• Don’t ignore alarm bells again
  Newfoundlanders (and Labradorians) who weren’t around or of age during the concocting of the Upper Churchill hydroelectric project in the 1960s ...
• Memorial University policy endorses racial...
  The administration at Memorial University apparently thinks it’s OK to discriminate against white people. A MUN news release distributed ...
• Beware idealism’s downside
  Despite its many foibles and foolishness, you’ve got to admire youthful idealism. Where would we be without it? Too many of us would be Tories, ...
• Where there’s smoke, there’s a lawsuit
  Now that the Quebec government’s lawsuit against tobacco companies has made it to court, Newfoundlanders (and Labradorians) will find out what ...