Profile of Peter Jackson

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

All articles of Peter Jackson

• The bully in the mirror
  There will always be bullies. There, I’ve said it. Let the outrage begin. “How dare you!” scream the experts and the ...
• Six poems for a toonie and a quarter
  So, it turns out this Metroverse project is about posting existing poetry on buses, not composing poetry about buses. As a regular Metrobus ...
• A fly in Trudeau’s ointment
  Fish swim. Indeed they do. That gem of wisdom came from former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.“Fish swim” was Trudeau’s terse response to Brian ...
• Keeping it simple — and stupid
  There’s political advertising. And there’s bad advertising. And then there’s both.On the bad side, consider the Newfoundland Power TV ad from a ...
• Global warming real: attack on scientists, surreal
  With the flood of emails and comments I received after last week’s column, I could be forgiven for thinking tropical storm Leslie had arrived ...
• The only monkey in this trial will be Mark Steyn
  “Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.” — Clarence Darrow The hockey ...
• Eastern School board still giving cheaters a chance
  Just in time for the release of a paper slamming no-zero marking policies, the Eastern School District of Newfoundland and Labrador appears to be ...
• The war on men who know what’s best for women
  “First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to ...
• Hotter than July: the melt continues
  Someone tweeted a thought the other day that had been on my mind for a while. In short, will the warming climate finally convince Newfoundlanders ...
• Colds, coughs and mixed signals
  My wife has a cough. A nagging, persistent one. It keeps her (and me) awake at night.“I took three tablespoons of cough syrup last night,” she ...
• The prince and the peevish pauper
  I have a new hero. He is, according to a first-hand account, a “primitive, stupid, demented-appearing man in a sloppy pair of trousers and ...
• Michigan outdoors: beer, Bavaria and beyond
  “I guess you’re wondering about all the white crosses on people’s lawns,” the girl said.My wife had noticed them. My vision’s not so good.There ...
• The pipes, the pipes are galling
  As a Telegram columnist, I try to be fair, accurate, persuasive and, occasionally, whimsical, but anything that appears on this page with my ...
• The company they keep
  Jason Kenney needs to hire some new staff. Then again, maybe he has exactly the staff he wants. A few weeks ago, a petition appeared on the ...
• Sanity seekers unite: no more loud pipes
  ”This is a fairly complex issue and that will take some time. At this point we have not found a feasible way to deal with it. … No other ...
• My codless life in the Land of Cod
  A tiny part of me, deep in my primal core, doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about the codfishery, or its much-dissected closure 20 years ago.Don’t ...
• We’ll rant and we’ll roar like true Newfoundlanders
  Xenophobia (n): an intense or irrational fear of or contempt for that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples. That is my ...
• Black is white, and the sky is any colour we say it is
  On Monday, Justice Minister Felix Collins unveiled the province’s new “open and accountable” Access to Information and Privacy Protection Act — ...
• My excellent adventure with U.S. Customs
  I came back from holidays last week to discover I could be making comparable money slinging coffee at the hospital.I wouldn’t have this treasured ...
• Putting medical research to the test
  There is evidence to suggest that cancer screening is nowhere near as effective as the public is led to believe. Meanwhile, MS patients have been ...
• Don't let the music die
  “Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”— Frank ZappaWith apologies to Joni ...
• The new invaders
  I had always assumed Mexico’s history centred around struggles against Spanish overlords and American interlopers.But a friend informed me ...
• Get on the omnibus — or else
  “Everything is not black and white anymore. The budget is not the budget.” — Loyola Hearn, May 2005 Loyola Hearn was in a tight spot. The ...
• Stompin’ at the Savoy
  Does privilege improve the performance of politicians? Do they function better not having to worry about that expensive second brandy, or the ...
• Will lawsuits spell the end of homeopathy?
  I’m embarrassed to admit that World Homeopathy Awareness Week, April 10-16, somehow escaped my notice. Because if there’s anything I’m dedicated ...
• Cute behind glass — not so in the flesh
  Walking up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, you hit the southeast corner of Central Park at 59th Street. In July, it’s usually hot and sticky. Exhaust ...
• Just answer the questions
  If the PUB was the jury in a criminal trial, you might say it just delivered a nullification verdict.Basically, it did a bunch of things it ...
• You can’t do an air search without aircraft
  CBC-TV’s “The Fifth Estate” aired its much anticipated documentary on the death of Burton Winters Friday. The Labrador teen froze to death on the ...
• All the news that fits
  What makes something a news story? And who decides?They are questions that many readers — on blogs, in letters, in phone calls and in online ...
• The life and times of Pierre Poutine
  His friends had little doubt Pierre Poutine was destined for a life of crime. Even as a small fry on the streets of Joliette, he was always ...