Profile of Peter Jackson

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Peter Jackson is The Telegram's Commentary Editor. You can reach Peter at pjackson@thetelegram.com

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• That guy with a bag on his head? Must be a journalist
  It ain't easy being a journalist. We like to believe we're God's gift to humanity, rooting out the rot in government, standing up for the little ...
• Deniers still ranting like street-corner prophets
  You have to wonder what the weather is like over at the National Post. While the rest of the world continues to warm at an unprecedented rate, ...
• Media shares blame in vaccination scare
  The mantra of modern journalism has always been objectivity. Outside of designated editorial commentary, reporters are duty-bound to get all ...
• A wanton act of social science
  “This is not the time to commit sociology.”Prime Minister Stephen Harper, April 11, 2013Hank checked his watch again. Only five minutes had ...
• On zoos, and the animals that inhabit them
  If you think Newfoundland’s House of Assembly is a zoo, you haven’t looked in on the British parliament lately.British House of Commons sessions ...
• Onward, Boston
  The 1985 film “Brazil” wasn’t big at the box office. It’s a Kafka-esque comedy set in a futuristic dystopia where the government controls ...
• Scientists push back against government suppression
  It’s not too often you get a photo of a mutant fish in the mail.In March of last year, that’s exactly what showed up at the offices of federal ...
• Canada’s steady slide into darkness
  I was born with normal arms and legs, but I narrowly missed a very different outcome. My mother was presented with the option to take a drug to ...
• Hockey parents just aren’t funny anymore
  Sports are not only fun, they serve a purpose.They bring out some of the more admirable qualities of the human spirit: endurance, tenacity, ...
• If you don’t like fancy food, don’t eat it
  Some stereotypes die hard, and one of them is that of the food snob who turns up his or her nose at common victuals in favour of pretentious, ...
• The Tom Flanagan case: verdict before trial
  Social media, still in its infancy, has already become one of the most powerful tools of mob action. The connotation is typically negative, but ...
• New Pope unlikely to rock the boat
  There’s a scene in the 1982 film “Gandhi” where a young collared minister climbs up on the roof of a moving train to join a handful of Indian men ...
• My kingdom for a hatchback! Richard then and now
  I’m still having trouble with this Richard III thing.First, how does someone stand on a piece of asphalt and get a hunch that the remains of a ...
• No, you’re a racist
  “Ladies, I apologize. And you, sir, are worse than Hitler.”— from “The Simpsons”There’s a rule of thumb in public policy debate that as soon as ...
• Environmental stewardship is not innate
  If there was ever a microcosm to illustrate aboriginal issues raised by the Idle No More movement, it is the George River caribou hunt in ...
• Don't know much about geography
  Immanuel Kant said space is all in our minds. The 18th-century philosopher argued that perception of spatial reality relies on our own intuitive ...
• It’s too late to apologize
  There’s a scene in the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” that comes to mind when I think of public apologies. It’s that moment when ...
• Idling in the past dashes hope for the future
  A decade ago, Mushuau Innu were leaving the beleaguered town of Davis Inlet, Labrador, for the brand new community of Natuashish, 15 kilometres ...
• Idle no more: another move in the wrong direction
  It never ceases to amaze me how aboriginal affairs in this country remain hopelessly buffered against serious, rational debate.Instead, whenever ...
• It’s Christmas — let’s all go to Krampus
  “Is editing out Santa’s pipe in ‘’Twas the Night Before Christmas’ censorship? We debate that today on ‘The Current’ at 9 a.m.” — Tweet from ...
• For unto us a dam is born
  Good evening, brave and righteous Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. Today is a day that will live in infamy. It will live, not die, but live and ...
• Cleanup bills? No problem — become insolvent
  Even those who strongly supported Danny Williams’ tenure as premier have to admit that on at least one or two occasions, he perhaps failed to ...
• Dear Quebec: kindly mind your own business
  Newfoundlanders are a bunch of whiners. But we’re certainly not the only ones — or even the worst ones. Quebec’s Pauline Marois truly excels in ...
• Natural gas: viable alternative or pipe dream?
  Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve complained about arguments and tactics forwarded by Muskrat Falls critics. It would be reasonable for someone ...
• Power enough for everyone — even Quebec
  In papers submitted to media, the anti-Muskrat Falls company 2041 Group warns that a key question about water rights on the Churchill River has ...
• Power contracts and power plays
  I keep coming back to a word, and that word is vexatious. It’s a common legal term, and one that rose to prominence in the uproar over Bill 29, ...
• There’s nothing tender about this trap
  I was going to follow up on Muskrat Falls and water management agreements today. But I’m still trying to dig up some information.Besides, I ...
• Muskrat critics are hard on the ears
  I won’t go as far as to say I’m leaning towards supporting the Muskrat Falls project. But I will say I’m becoming more annoyed with the ...
• The return of the giant genitalia
  Every few years, someone revisits the controversy over the big vagina on the wall. The topic was broached most recently by Geoff Meeker in his ...
• Is it really another giveaway?
  Why are we always giving stuff away? I mean, that’s what we’re doing, right? Giving it away? Every few days, the clarion call goes out, in the ...