Profile of Russell Wangersky

Biography

Sometimes there's more to news than what catches the eye. Russell Wangersky, the Editor of The Telegram , reports on the seen and unseen each Tuesday and Saturday in his column. You can reach Russell at rwanger@thetelegram.com

All articles of Russell Wangersky

• River of dreams
  Sometimes, things go right. Spectacularly, wonderfully right. Despite being close enough to the highway that you’d expect the junk left by ...
• Government needs to change its tune
  It may sound like Nero’s fiddling away, but it’s too early to say just how much of Rome is burning. This week, Kathy Dunderdale’s government got ...
• Big Brother is listening
  Like him or hate him, it’s important to pay attention to the growing story about Edward Snowden. The 29-year-old is the source of a huge block of ...
• At cross purposes
  It has not been the finest of hours. A parent complained to the Eastern School District about the giant cross children had to pass on the way ...
• Outside over there
  On the flat-top barrens above Old Perlican, it’s obvious that the ground itself has been convinced that spring is here. Bakeapple plants are ...
• Being given the business
  I have never really been a proponent of the right-of-centre belief that governments would run better if they were run like a business.Governments ...
• Facts are important — so let’s see them
  Last week, former fisheries minister Trevor Taylor used his column space in this paper to tear a strip off the Liberals’ Jim Bennett for asking ...
• 18,669 reasons to feel safe
  It’s 18,669 and counting. No, that’s not the number of times I’ve complained about the last seven sitting governments that I’ve covered in the ...
• Voting for the promise of goodies
  Last Wednesday, I woke up to a disappointing message about the federal byelection in Labrador. Not that Yvonne Jones won - she's an able ...
• A Guy like no other
  I’ve spent quite a bit of time fiddling around, wandering the room, checking electronic messages, anything at all to keep from sitting down and ...
• Useless advice for the unheeding
  Revelations come at strange times: for me, this one came in a grocery aisle, shortly after struggling to decide just when it was that hot, medium ...
• Business will profit, the rest of us lose
  My father was a scientist, a chemical oceanographer. He was interested in the makeup of the ocean — why nutrients were in one place but not ...
• Everything can’t be a popularity contest
  I was delighted when Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case, a band from Corner Brook, won the CBC Searchlight competition for Canada’s best new ...
• It's time for business unusual
  On April 27, Iceland’s Pirate Party took 5.1 per cent of that country’s vote and, based on that share, will have three seats in the Icelandic ...
• Vic Toews: omnipotent being
  This may seem a little harsh, but when stupid things are done by a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, there’s a very ...
• A cut below the rest
  “The pork butt — which actually comes from shoulder meat — will be called a Boston roast.” — from a Reuters news story on the U.S. meat ...
• And that’s final — kind of
  Lord knows, I don’t understand all the ins and outs of the fishery. Even to those on the inside, the industry is a welter of confusing ...
• Banks battling for more of your money
  As tempting as it is to jump on board the good ship Social Media, where Kathy Dunderdale and crew are sinking far faster than they can bail, I ...
• Shades of grey
  It’s just not that simple. This past weekend, in his Weekend Telegram column, former “Here and Now” boss Bob Wakeham talked about a recent run-in ...
• A tale of two industries
  Last month, despite all the cutbacks and belt-tightening in the provincial budget, the cabinet quietly let Corner Brook Pulp and Paper off the ...
• Facebook fury is not enough
  It took mere days for the doctored pictures to start to appear: Premier Kathy Dunderdale's face photoshopped onto Tina Turner's body in a remade ...
• Sink or swim: what's next for the Avalon caribou
  Remember that old saying about those who don’t learn from history being doomed to repeat it?Well, maybe you could add that those who ignore the ...
• Ever heard of Askov?
  Finance Minister Jerome Kennedy has certainly heard of Askov. He’d have to: he was a defence lawyer for years, and as a lawyer with standing at ...
• The five stages of government
  I’ve used the analogy of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five steps that a patient goes through when diagnosed with a terminal illness before. But here ...
• Too late to turn the tide
  The small wedge of stone beach at Adam’s Cove in Conception Bay North was planed flat on Sunday afternoon, and that’s in itself a gravel miracle. ...
• Spending is a hard habit to break
  The provincial government may be heading towards what it thinks of as some kind of austerity budget next week, but boy, they sure haven’t gotten ...
• Mortgages, benefits and the battle for the bottom
  Maybe I’m hopelessly optimistic about this — or maybe, at the same time, it’s hopelessly pessimistic. But things go in cycles and that means, ...
• Meeting the bullies
  Someone talks online about an issue that concerns them, and the anonymous attacks begin. “You’re stupid,” one poster sneers. “And probably ugly.” ...
• A highway littered with insolence
  I love the Doe Hills. Just west of Whitbourne, where the highway’s gone from divided lanes to one single ribbon, the road travels through a sweep ...
• Taking a different tack with taxes
  It’s like they’re putting something in Alberta’s water. As that province looks towards a potential $6-billion budgetary shortfall, there’s ...