Sheilla Jones

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Sheilla Jones is an award-winning Canadian journalist and best-selling author who also holds an advanced degree in theoretical physics. She has long been driven to tackle frustratingly complex issues—whether it is quantum physics or Indigenous politics in Canada—and try to make them less mysterious to the public. But mysteries fascinate Sheilla, who has teamed up with award-winning author Jim Burns to create their own—bringing an unusual historical mystery series to life.

Sheilla is co-chair of the Modernized Annuity Working Group and editor at Woolly Mammoth Publishin g, Winnipeg. She has been reviewing books on Indigenous issues, popular science and Canadian politics for many years, including for the Winnipeg Free Press, The Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada.

Publications and News

Book Review: Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism, by Travis Hay, Winnipeg Free Press, November 26, 2021

New in Paperback: Bankrupting Physics: How Today’s Top Scientists are Gambling Away Scientific Credibility by Alexander Unzicker and Sheilla Jones, July 2021, available on Amazon

Journal article: A Modern Annuity for Canada—Concrete Reconciliation, by Gregory Mason, Sheilla Jones and Wayne Helgason, Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development (Canada), Vol. 12, No. 1, 2021, pp 92-110

Journal article: Mrs. Booth’s Most Unusual Enquiry Bureau, by Sheilla Jones and Jim Burns, Ripperologist (UK), Issue 167, June 2020, pp 22-28

Book review: A Woman in Engineering: Memoirs of a Trailblazer, by Monique (Aubry) Frize, Literary Review of Canada, December 2020

Book review: Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity, by Darryl Leroux, Winnipeg Free Press, February 8, 2020

Sheilla Jones, signing books at the McNally's Winnipeg launch of Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation, September 19, 2019.

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.