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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• A Christmas visit
  ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the House,The cobwebs had gathered like ticks on a grouse.The green chairs sat empty, the ...
• That old Christmas card
  Top 10 excuses for posing in front of the words “Lest we forget” for a Christmas card: • 10. Came down to a toss-up between that and “We are the ...
• More on muddied messages
  I don’t like corporate philanthropy. I’m particularly down on those that fund health initiatives — especially children’s health.At least, that’s ...
• Sending the wrong message
  Is there anything more sad than a new addition to a children’s hospital being named after a fried chicken magnate?The Janeway Children’s Hospital ...
• Names will never hurt me
  The day I was born, my father popped out to pick up some cigars. When he entered the store, he was greeted by a display for a new brand of ...
• Going to the gutter
  Has politics become too negative in this province? Danny Williams thinks it has, and he blames the media. But as a number of observers have ...
• Coyne flips
  In Andrew Coyne’s world, prime ministers talk, but premiers “squawk.”Coyne is the epitome of centralist smug. As a political pundit for Maclean’s ...
• Scaredy dog
  OK, first things first. Halloween and Mardi Gras are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS! One happens in October, the other in March (or thereabouts).If you see ...
• Remembering the parkway vigil
  This past Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of the Parkway Protest at Memorial University.On the morning of Oct. 17, 1980, a student named Judy ...
• Where we’re to
  Do we still live in Newfoundland and Labrador?I fired off an email to the premier’s office and a spokesperson confirmed what I already knew.This ...
• Thin line between love and hate
  In the halcyon days of 1969 (halcyon, at least, in the drug-soaked minds of the time), John Lennon and Yoko Ono had a meeting with Prime Minister ...
• Of guns and citizenship
  “Farmers, hunters, sport shooters and other firearms owners … are treated as suspect, as second-class citizens, their only crime being that they ...
• Hate-filled worms invade Big Apple
  My wife and I visited New York’s Ground Zero in April 2004. It was a big open hole surrounded by a tall chain-link fence. The fence was still ...
• Beware the self-appointed preacher
  There is no God. British physicist Stephen Hawking has confirmed it. In his new book, “The Grand Design,” Hawking argues that the law of gravity ...
• Newfoundland should pay up
  If you argue that, in principle, the polluter should pay, you can hardly justify expropriating a company’s assets and not coming up with ...
• The two faces of power talks
  Its elusiveness makes it so. It’s been talked about and pursued for decades, but no one has so far been able to get it off the ground.Former ...
• Mahone Bay reverie
  It’s a sunny day, hot but not sweltering. I’m with a trio of white-haired women, one of them my wife, another my cousin and the third a capable ...
• Summertime blues
  I’ve always been more struck by the image than the technique. It depicts well-dressed socialites relaxing on the tree-strewn shores of the River ...
• No questions, please
  It’s been building at a slow creep, but authorities are now raising red flags about a new environmental hazard.The threat? Unanswered ...
• Playing to the paranoid
  The federal government’s scrapping of the mandatory long census form last week may not have been the most catastrophic move in Canadian politics, ...
• A piece of the action
  But he wasn't the shiniest Gucci in the closet. Didn't have the smarts to make it as a made guy Vinnie was small potatoes. Started out stealing ...
• As the world burns, the debate turns
  Well, golly gee. That global warming stuff shore must be true, 'cause it's powerful warm out there! Of course, anyone who judges climate on such ...
• Complaints at Sound Symposium
  In the media, we get lots of complaints. Sometimes it's a simple customer complaint, like how in tarnation we managed to publish the wrong ...
• Violence obscured an important message
  Whenever I watch the riots that accompany international summits these days, I think back to a scenario I came across in my university years. In ...
• Fresh approach or Rage TV?
  Canada may finally be getting a "fair and balanced" news channel. Quebecor boss Karl PÉladeau is paying the dough towards a new Sun TV News ...
• This ain't the Battle of Jericho
  OK. So you go to this whopping big party and everyone's pumped. You're greeted at the door by a crowd blowing those noisemaker horns. "Fwaaarp," ...
• Religious zealotry not behind anti-VLT lobby
  The headline said it all: "Amended NDP bill on VLTs passes." Well, no, that wasn't the crux of the story. It's the secondary headline that said ...
• Big Brother is asking for it
  If you thought online mudslinging couldn't get any worse, wait till federal bureaucrats get in on it. According to a Canadian Press story on the ...
• Following orders: the Abitibi ruling
  Court decisions often have a tone. They are supposed to be objective interpretations of law, but invariably a certain amount of disdain, ...
• Bay Roberts should have 'scored some more'
  Last week, MoneySense magazine released one of those fun rankings that everyone loves to read and no one should ever take seriously. In its ...