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

• Time smashes most myths
  It's strange how some things can be utterly misunderstood or misinterpreted while they're happening, and only become clear years later. Stranger ...
• Raising alarm isn't necessarily 'alarmist'
  A lot of people are taking flak over the fact there isn't an influenza pandemic laying waste to nations and creating victims by the million. ...
• In denial about winter and sin
  When man-made rules go headto-head against nature, bet on nature. The fixed date for putting studded tires on vehicles has never made sense. ...
• Wiseman's hold on Paradise mayor's chair is invalid
  There must be plenty of people in Paradise who regret how they voted in the town's Sept. 29 mayoral election. I refer, of course, to those ...
• Youth development
  Not that you'd ponder moving to Paradise because of it, but you've got to admire an electorate that dares to try to put a teenager in the mayor's ...
• Council fiddles as cove declines
  Driving home recently after visiting friends in picturesque Harbour Main, a thought struck me: why has Portugal Cove been allowed to devolve into ...
• Keeping an eye on the police is not ridiculous'
  "Someone was looking for information that was the result of a police investigation, and there are certain things that just can't be made public." ...
• 'Brown baggers' bring boost to city
  In the grand Newfoundland custom of pointing fingers of blame at others, a majority of incumbents and challengers in the upcoming St. John's ...
• Making a mark on democracy
  Hurricane Bill was such a wimp it didn't even blow down a plastic wind fan we'd stuck in our flower garden a few weeks before. The cheap doodad ...
• Getting the goods from the hinterland
  It is the great and glorious blueberry season, when we can pick here, there and everywhere without obtaining a permit or licence, and can fill ...
• Capt. Bartlett, the body and the boy
  Letter to the editor - It has been 20 years since I interviewed Iqaluit author Kenn Harper and reviewed his book, so some details are sketchy in ...
• Life and death in the fast lane
  They said, "Slow down! I see spots!" The lines on the road just looked like dots. - From "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody and His Lost ...
• All the news that's fit to suppress
  Some years ago, it was customary for various activist groups to declare an annual list of the Top 10 stories suppressed by the commercial media. ...
• Losing the right to free water
  When one boy got stung on the finger, we figured it was an isolated irritant of summer, but when a second boy was stung on the cheek, we went ...
• A transmission line runs through it
  Considering the ongoing debate about the wisdom and cost of running power lines from the planned Lower Churchill project through Gros Morne ...
• Answers to some questions about Afghanistan
  Last week, I wrote that news photographers are doing the best job of informing Canadians about the situation in Afghanistan, and that every time ...
• Getting an accurate picture of Afghanistan
  News reports about four more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan brought to mind a book I read in the 1980s. "The First Casualty," by U.K. ...
• Painting portraits of tragedy
  It's birthday season in our house - two in one week. While shopping for presents, we came across a toy gun that looked like something out of ...
• Versions of democracy
  Reading recent news reports about Iran, it can be confusing whether this is 2009 or 1979. Angry young Iranians massed in the streets: check. ...
• Blasting off in new directions
  One of my alma maters has had me in their bad books for about a decade. Back in the 1990s, I'd get calls every year from the University of ...
• Fur, fascism and file-sharing at the EU
  Stinging nettle season, as it always does, snuck up on us fast. One moment, you're admiring your tidy new stack of firewood, and the next, you ...
• A twisted state of affairs
  Sometimes things get so twisted, they're impossible to straighten out. Slinkies are like that. A few hundred trips down the stairs and they ...
• Muted anger in the colony
  Perhaps it is the legendary friendliness of Newfoundlanders (and Labradorians) that accounts for the apparent inability to express much ...
• Offshore workers face fear of flying
  To the point - There wasn't much fanfare this week when helicopter flights resumed to the offshore oil platforms. People who don't work in the ...
• Forced to fly
  There is something bothersome about the revelation this week by offshore oil industry executives that helicopter flights to production platforms ...
• True lies about the seal hunt
  The European Parliament's vote this week to ban the importation of seal products into that effete continent has been lambasted by one side for ...
• The forgotten pandemic
  This is one of the saddest stories I've ever heard. My dad told it to me when I was about 12. Before my dad was born, his parents lived in ...
• Outdoor smoking ban goes too far
  It's bound to happen this summer: a soccer mom at a St. John's pitch will be standing on the sidelines puffing a cigarette while watching Junior ...
• Forget seals - what about kangaroos?
  It is weeks into spring and the annual bloodfest off our coasts, but there still isn't word on which big-name celebrity - if any - will come to ...
• Stoned and stunned
  This column was originally going to be about the violent drug war in Vancouver, with the premise being, "What the h--- is going on out there?" ...