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

• 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 ...
• Titanic trouble amidst booming economy
  The mind of officialdom, as I’ve said before, can be mysterious and downright creepy. In Nova Scotia, the provincial government is attempting to ...
• ‘Shut up and give us our money back’
  The über-patriots might be right that Newfoundlanders (and Labradorians) are the toughest people ever to walk the planet or float upon its ...
• Premier looks cool in school, but remains oblivious
  It certainly was a bizarre juxtaposition this week: as the Public Utilities Board (PUB) held hearings about the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric ...
• Predicting Premier Dunderdale’s downfall
  Seeing former premier Danny Williams out this week at a public event that wasn’t a hockey game may have kindled nostalgia among Newfoundlanders ...
• Febreze-bearing teacher gives boost to bullies
  There are so many rude, obnoxious adults — who presumably raise like-minded kids — it isn’t surprising there seems to be an equal number of ...
• Premier stokes fear for political gain
  For someone who presides over the government of a “have” province enjoying an oil boom, Premier Kathy Dunderdale sure is pessimistic.To hear the ...
• Capitalism tires down the stretch
  If you’re betting on capitalism, ask for good odds. It looks like the leftie radicals, socialists and unionists might finally start to win a few, ...
• Wikipedia gets it wrong, again
  The danger of relying on Wikipedia for valid information was on worldwide display this week, as operators of the famous site shut it down for 24 ...
• Messing with Muskrat
  The news about Muskrat Falls goes from bad to worse to farcical. You’re tempted to laugh, but are prevented from doing so by sad knowledge of the ...
• Reverting to feudalism
  Good news on the economic front — despite rising demand at Canadian food banks, none of the 100 highest-paid CEOs in Canada had to rely on ...
• Derision gives idealism a thrashing
  No need to mark it down on the calendar, but 2011 is on the verge of joining all those other years in which hypocrisy ruled triumphant, while ...
• For onto you another child is born
  Typically, a bunch of geeky scientists picked Christmas week to make a blockbuster announcement in a field of study that could eventually ...
• ’Tis the season to spend
  Younger Boy gets his argumentative streak from me. He seldom gets in trouble for arguing, because I’m mostly to blame for that aspect of his ...
• Giving the gift of spirits
  Various food hampers set up around town to accept donations for “the less fortunate” this Christmas don’t post signs advising, “No alcohol,” so ...
• Three economists walk into a bar …
  Most economists and other economic experts would be great standup comedians if they weren’t so serious all the time.Of course, their shtick at a ...
• Hard times in a ‘have’ province
  There must be something about having oil money spilling out of their pockets that makes governments pessimistic and cheap, and unable to let ...
• Dollars for debt, but none for you
  Thousands of Newfoundlanders (and Labradorians) were probably tempted to look under their mattress this week, just in case an extra million ...
• Brave new world busts cabbies
  We now live in a society in which agents of the government spy on private citizens and dish out fines for behaviour that harms no one but the ...
• Meeting Paul Henderson, but missing The Goal
  Last Saturday when we pulled into the parking lot at Torbay’s Jack Byrne Arena — or, as Younger Boy affectionately calls it, the Jack Barn — ...
• Policy on cheating insults hardworking students
  Anyone with children in the Eastern School District has reason to worry.Not only does the district have preposterous new rules regarding students ...
• The House of Dunderdale
  Contrary to the common admonition, “Kids, don’t try this at home,” citizens of Newfoundland (and Labrador) should do exactly that.While it is ...
• Perpetually PC
  Such is the optimism in Newfoundland (and Labrador) that all three leaders were happy with their party’s performance in Tuesday’s provincial ...
• Dunderdale is no Danny
  The best thing about Tuesday’s provincial election is it will likely end 60-odd years of Newfoundlanders’ (and Labradorians’) bad habit of ...
• Voting for another Upper Churchill
  If you like the infamous Upper Churchill deal — which hands Quebec 95 cents of every dollar earned and Newfoundland (and Labrador), a mere nickel ...
• Road to riches can be strewn with ruin
  Even the most devout skeptics probably didn’t see it coming — the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced this week it will ...
• Money from nothing
  The mortgage mayhem, gargantuan greed and resulting recession of 2008 should have forced the economic "experts" to cease their ...
• Money from nothing
  The mortgage mayhem, gargantuan greed and resulting recession of 2008 should have forced the economic “experts” to cease their arrogant ...