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 hero right here
  Steve Fonyo's year is apparently getting better. In January, he was stripped of his Order of Canada, and Canadians barely noticed, let alone ...
• The power of negative thinking
  What the world needs now is a whole lot of negative thinking. We've tried the "be positive" route for the past few years, or decades, and it ...
• Justice twisted, twice
  Every time the RNC or RCMP parade a haul of illicit drugs before the cameras to boast about the great job they are doing keeping Canadians safe ...
• Banishing bans
  The way things are going, anything you like or need could be banned tomorrow, so you'd better enjoy it while you can. Canada has a culture of ...
• The naked truth can be irrational
  The exhibitionists among us are going to have some extra fun when full-body scanners are installed later this year at the St. John's ...
• Putting privacy in focus
  Artist Andy Warhol's famous prediction, that someday everyone will be famous for 15 minutes has grotesquely morphed in modern times. Fame doesn't ...
• Freedom of speech goes south
  Premier Danny Williams is definitely a leader made for the 21st century, an era that is reviving the divine right of kings, even if electors put ...
• Tough days ahead
  The funny, strange, inevitable thing about bullies is that they keep on bullying until they unwittingly pick on someone who is capable of beating ...
• Sin and 'satanic' songs
  The Beatles have been "forgiven" by the Catholic Church. L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper, says the Holy See now ...
• From hinterland to boomtown
  The oil boom that forever changed the look and culture of Calgary - although "culture" is a term that doesn't usually come to mind first to ...
• Sex versus seals
  Not having watched "Saturday Night Live" since the 1970s, I don't know whether it's true, as someone once told me, that when Pamela Anderson ...
• Dealing with drinkers
  There is a strange vote taking place today in Natuashish. Regardless of whether most residents of that Labrador community vote in favour or vote ...
• Drinking to destruction
  It's been a bad week for the booze business. Not "bad" in that sales suddenly plummeted - this week featured St. Patrick's Day, after all - nor ...
• Sharing in sorrow
  Today marks one year since the March 12, 2009, crash of Cougar Helicopters Flight 491, which killed 17 of the 18 people on board. A memorial ...
• Paying politicians
  It will never happen, but one way to instantly improve politics across Canada would be to set politicians' pay at the average salary of their ...
• Slicing sternums
  Thanks to Dr. Thierry Mesana of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, I have a mental image of some poor guy on an operating table - not poor ...
• Own the hokum
  In Olympia, Greece, you can walk onto the field where - long before the era of corporate sponsorships and high-tech cheating - races were held ...
• Bumps on freedom road
  The dark brilliance of George Orwell and Franz Kafka notwithstanding, we should recognize the wicked humour occasionally shown by bureaucrats and ...
• Healthy dose of hypocrisy
  No matter how closely you follow the news - even if you work in the media - it's easy to feel as if you missed something. One of the main ...
• Learning from schoolchildren
  Younger Boy and the other 600 students at his school enjoyed a doubly long recess one day this week, as a reward for meeting the school's goal of ...
• Poe visitor goes offline
  Lost amid the more important headlines this week was a small news item declaring that the so-called Poe Toaster was no more. There was no actual ...
• Merchant mayhem
  Premier Danny Williams is too busy trying to find an extension cord so he can plug in electric power from the Lower Churchill, so he probably ...
• 'Wounded' and unwanted
  Just when you thought there was nothing new to say or discover about the House of Assembly's constituency allowance spending scandal, it is ...
• Paul Watson, premiers and presidents
  A popular present under our tree this Christmas was a .177-calibre pellet gun. Once the wrapping was off and the safety regulations read, we ...
• Christmas and kidploitation
  I've never subscribed to the notion that Christmas is for kids. Lights, beauty, joy and goodwill can be universally enjoyed, no matter which ...
• Another season of sidewalk insanity
  It seems both appropriate and perverse that on the same day this week, St. John's city council increased residents' taxes by 12 per cent, and a ...
• Sales tax rebellions brew, but not here
  The first few months after we moved to Newfoundland in 1989, I constantly made a fool of myself in stores. "That will be $25," the cashier would ...
• Thirteen men and the premier
  Premier Danny Williams wants to win the Big One. It's late in the fourth quarter of the Upper Churchill Bowl - some argue the game is long over - ...
• What to do with white elephants
  The good burghers of St. John's may have been suckered by their city council into believing it's acceptable to annually pour between $1 million ...
• Preparing for global winter
  When Older Boy asked if he could have chickens, I might have hesitated if anyone informed me beforehand that a rooster can pump out pieces of ...