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

• The boat that wouldn’t barbecue
  A few summers ago, we planned to buy a canoe. There are numerous ponds within a 10-minute drive, so we could toss the canoe onto the Jeep and ...
• It’s no mere laughing matter, but it’s a riot
  Riots are no laughing matter, but you’d never know it by listening to some ostensibly serious comments about Vancouver’s “Canuck Catastrophe” in ...
• Justice on the frontier of civilization
  As if the world can get any more off kilter, it seems Texas is now a paragon and exemplar of the fair meting out of justice.The cowboy state — ...
• Something to Crowe about
  There’s nothing like the arrival and accolades of famous people to make a place seem special.Offshore oil riches, pace-setting GDP growth and a ...
• Anti-smoking hysteria hits halls of higher learning
  You know anti-smoking hysteria has gone too far when even centres of higher learning don’t have the courage or the integrity to resist jumping on ...
• They must be on grass
  The “No mow zone” sign didn’t make much sense. The long, high grass on the hillside in Bowring Park was intentionally being left in its natural ...
• Goaded into giving
  Had you been in Santa Barbara, Calif., last week, you could have shelled out $400 to watch Prince William play polo. A bit pricey, but a bargain ...
• Pain and pensions
  Baby boomers are about to shoulder a heavy burden of blame. Doctors have long warned, and still warn, that as boomers become seniors - the ...
• Officialdom can be a riot
  The mayor's and police chief's comments would have been funny, except that louts had destroyed a considerable portion of downtown Vancouver. ...
• Accounting for the chaos of cash
  Somewhere, someday, an unheralded accountant is going to get up, leave his — or her — cubicle and do the public the enormous favour of explaining ...
• Looking for signs of normalcy
  Spring and political normalcy are both battling to make breakthroughs.Spring will eventually win, because Mother Nature’s power will prevail. The ...
• Danny’s shot at subsidy goes wide
  So much for the lack of a government subsidy being a deal breaker.Public money wasn’t needed after all for Danny Williams to convince the ...
• No dough for Danny
  So, a guy who rose to power by promising “no more giveaways” is out of office barely half a year before he tries to convince the people of ...
• The Almighty’s atrocious timing
  It comes as bad news indeed that the world will end Saturday, at least according to an overly moralistic California Baptist minister, and we know ...
• NDP begins its long decline
  The federal NDP will implode, of course. It is merely a matter of time. The only unknown is whether its self-destruction will occur because of a ...
• Harper, too, shall pass
  Almost three decades have passed, but it feels a lot like 1984.Among the 60 per cent of Canadians who voted Monday for something other than a ...
• Harper’s loathsome proposal
  It’s too bad Stephen Harper turned down an invitation to the royal wedding today, because Prince William could have given him some advice about ...
• Harping about majority
  Volunteers for local candidates have been phoning around, trying to identify which voters will likely cast a ballot in their favour May 2, but I ...
• Mother Earth and alter egos
  Later this month, the United Nations will discuss a treaty “giving ‘Mother Earth’ the same rights as humans.”As if to forestall anticipated ...
• ‘Ich bin ein banality’
  It is unlikely that, years from now, hundreds of Newfoundlanders (and possibly Labradorians) will proudly tell their grandchildren about being ...
• Bad news, bad behaviour
  It turns out it’s really the media’s fault after all. Apparently, the media aren’t merely impartial messengers bringing news to the masses who ...
• Give bombs a chance
  There was a time, in another era, when idealistic humanitarians protested against war rather than endorsed bombing a foreign country to “help” ...
• Who’s on first on board?
  Thank goodness there have been geniuses over the years who have helped the common citizen make sense of the cacophony that so often accompanies ...
• 'What did you think would happen?'
  Judging from readers’ responses on The Telegram website, there is apparently an epidemic in St. John’s of young hooligans throwing snowballs at ...
• Targa study should shift gears
  If the provincial government is in the mood to save some money, it could take Targa Newfoundland’s word for it that the annual road race brings ...
• Beware of pyramid schemes
  From a strictly selfish standpoint, I’m glad I’ve already seen the pyramids.If you have a desire to see them, other than in pictures, you’d ...
• Blowing in the wind
  Someday in the distant future residents of St. John’s might look back at 2011 and be mystified and repulsed by the era’s primitive approach to ...
• Where there's smoke, there's a lawsuit
  When I was in Grade 6, our teacher gave us a demonstration intended to scare us.On a countertop at the back of the class, she set up a ...
• Schooled in favouritism
  I’ve wronged teachers before in this space and suffered the consequences of their considerable wrath, even if it was sometimes misspelled and ...
• Lack of class
  For those who have long suspected there is something shady about how teachers are hired by various school districts around the province, finally ...