Edward James Burke-Timon has been writer and editor for almost a decade, in that time working at the head of several well known, and often infamous, national and international publications.  He has a keen interest in political history, natural freedoms both societal and socio-sexual, the politick of Freethought Economics, philosophical, as well as practical, Libertarianism.

His namesake Timon of Phlius was a Skeptic philosopher and man of letters through whose teachings, poetry and satire the world was introduced to the founder of Skepticism, Pyrrho, with whose tenets he is thought to have inextricably woven his own to produce a huge body of work of which very little survives today, though to which many have referred and commented ever since.  The Timon of Acts 6:5 was of the first 7 Deacons of Jerusalem, an original of the 70 apostles, held in high regard, who having tended to the destitute widows of Greece was appointed Bishop of Bostra (in modern day Syria) and then martyred by crucifixion having miraculously survived the flames of a red hot furnace in to which he had been thrown. It is of small wry wonder then that a much later Timon, of The Bard´s conjure, was to become the symbol of cynical misanthropy. The contemporary Timon, however, can claim no such infamy, favour or accomplishments, though he does appear wilfully jovial and perhaps a little stoic, nay, even happy to be alive...

Having taught English in Greece, he excelled through the late 1990s in Communications, Internet and Telecommunications, cutting his teeth with the UKs first Internet Service Provider, PIPEX, he went on to work in broadcast, B-Sky-B/Hewland, and on to operations director for a highly innovative ISP, Onet/Recall Plc.  Throughout the 21st century he has been highly active within Experiential Marketing and Events industries and employed in various media, broadcast and traditional, having become an adept social commentator.  In 2007-2008 he curated a major London exhibition, Amora, exploring sexuality and human relations through cutting edge spatial multimedia projections, interactive full immersion scenery and touch screen infotainment technologies.  He is a passionate believer in community project building and the power of community media.  

"It is not simply enough that I should succeed, those closest to me must also excel and succeed in the pursuit of their greatest happiness.  Through yielding to mutual nurture and playing to each others strengths, we might just gain enough opportunity to learn that our power lies solely in our unity and with the sharing of our knowledge, the open feeling of our being; that it is only those who would wish to dominate, who would divide us from ourselves. We are free to be the best we can be. To be happy. Together."

He accepted the Editorship of The Canary News at the end of 2010, going on to become publisher and sole majority shareholder in the summer of 2011. He is currently engaged in the service of a community, residing on a small tri-continental transoceanic island gateway, to promote future innovation, sustainable growth and cultural expression of a truly cosmopolitan population who have  many times found themselves at the forefront of western historical progress over the past 500 years, and whose hardy stoicism has much to offer a modern world too often caught up in its own sense of division and rarely enough in the necessity our unity, as only an islander, an Isleño, can truly know.  He is proud, as a citizen of Ireland and resident of Gran Canaria, to serve the Isleño cause.