Sheilla Jones is an award-winning Canadian journalist with an advanced degree in theoretical physics. She is a Senior Fellow of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, where she is leading the Treaty Annuity/Individual Empowerment Initiative.
It’s no surprise, then, that her literary interests are varied, including Indigenous issues, popular science and Canadian politics. Or that investigative journalism should lead to plotting murder mysteries.

Left: Sheilla holds a rare 30th Anniversary Edition of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, Rare Books Collection, Institute of Astronomy , University of Cambridge, 2000.

Advance Notice: Book release June 2019

Let the People Speak: Oppression in a time of reconciliation

By Sheilla Jones

Foreword by Sheila North

     Since Indigenous Affairs (IA) became a stand-alone Canadian government department in 1966, it has mushroomed into a federal department unlike any other. IA has jurisdictional reach over 90 percent of Canada’s land mass, authorities that reach into every single federal government department and agency, with an annual budget (including its 33 federal co-delivery partners) of some $20 billion annually. Indigenous Affairs Plus (IA+) is effectively a “super-province.” Yet not a single person overseeing this new super-power within Confederation has been elected by Indigenous people to represent their interests....(more)

Read Sheilla's recent book reviews:

New: No Surrender: The land remains Indigenous, by Sheldon Krasowski, Foreword by Winona Wheeler, Winnipeg Free Press, March 9, 2019

Recent: The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World — and Could Destroy It, by Alanna Mitchell, Winnipeg Free Press, March 3, 2018

Recent: Real Quanta: Simplifying Quantum Physics for Einstein and Bohr, by Martijn van Calmthout, February 15, 2018

Recent:  Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us, by Sam Kean, Winnipeg Free Press, August 5, 2017

DOCUMENTARY

Infinite Possibilities:

The Science of Parallel Universes

By Sheilla Jones, with Dwight Vincent

CBC Ideas, 2002

Do we live in one of an infinite number of universes? Quantum mechanics seems to say that we do, but it’s not an easy to get a handle on a such a big idea. Sheilla Jones gives it a shot, along with cosmologists Dwight Vincent, Max Tegmark, David Deutsch and Bryce DeWitt. Run time: 55 min.



Creating a mystery series

By Sheilla Jones

The idea for the “Blood & Fire” murder mystery series was born of a collision of ideas: my on-going search for a mystery premise that is new and fresh, and husband Jim’s discovery that his great-great grandmother was the first matron of the Salvation Army’s Rescue Home for fallen women in 1896 Helena, Montana. It was the proverbial “aha!” moment. What better place for a strong female “detective” than managing a house full of prostitutes, drunks and outlaws... Read more

Did you know that the Salvation Army had its own international detective agency? Learn more about Mrs. Booth's Bureau of Enquiry, opening in 1885 in Hackney, London.

Curious facts about the Salvation Army:

Much of what people know about the colourful history of the Salvation Army is shaped by George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 play Major Barbara and the 1941 movie based on that play, or by the 1983 British television sit-com Hallelujah! starring the inimitable Thora Hird. But there is so much more.

Did you know...

• The legal right for citizens to hold street parades is due to the SA. Opponents of the SA went to absurd lengths to use the long-standing Highways Act as grounds to arrest Salvationists for obstructing the streets. After a period of mass arrests and vicious attacks...  Read more

BOOKS

Bankrupting Physics:

How Today's Top Scientists are

Gambling Away Their Credibility

Alexander Unzicker & Sheilla Jones

Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2013

The Quantum Ten:

A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science

Sheilla Jones

Thomas Allen Publishers, Toronto, 2008

Oxford University Press, New York, 2008

Rotten to the Core:

The Politics of the Manitoba Metis Federation

Sheila Jones Morrison

101060, imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, Winnipeg, 1995