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

• I’ll give the diseased fish a pass, thanks
  Fish for long enough, and you’re bound to catch a salmon or trout that’s obviously sick. I can remember one distinctly unhealthy salmon I caught ...
• Golden years, but tarnished
  “A former child actor who provided the voice of Charlie Brown in several ‘Peanuts’ animated television specials from 1965 to 1969 is set to be ...
• Something’s missing here
  Well, there’s an interesting twist. Last week, an independent review of the Muskrat Falls project, done for the Nova Scotia government, found ...
• What she said, what you heard
  I was probably asleep when the Golden Globes were on — it’s not something I’d be likely to watch, and everything live seems to start too late ...
• Things can change — and they do
  “In the current global financial environment the large development capital cost for the Mary River Project is difficult to finance. This same ...
• Even the best designs have flaws
  A study out of Newcastle University’s faculty of medical science, “Water-induced finger wrinkles improve handling of wet objects,” was just ...
• Let them eat cake…
  There are those who bridle at the idea of Senator Fabian Manning trundling around the province, handing out federal government cash under any ...
• Conspiracy theories impose order on chaos
  Sometimes, you read something and it rings so completely true that you can’t comprehend a better way to say it. That’s what I thought when I read ...
• Leaving the bad behaviour behind
  Perhaps trying to take advantage of the slow news period between Christmas and New Year’s, the provincial government began trundling out its ...
• Directions to a sacred place
  Here are the directions: early morning, right turn off the railbed, onto the road that goes up the hill. Careful with your feet - the old ...
• Directions to a sacred place
  Here are the directions: early morning, right turn off the railbed, onto the road that goes up the hill. Careful with your feet — the old ...
• Shooters’ thirst for fame should fail
  I’m sure this won’t be a popular column among journalists who believe the right to know trumps responsibility for the damage some of that ...
• Remains of the day
  Out on a cold afternoon, walking up the road from an old house to an even-older, long-abandoned railway line, a graded ribbon of gravel and stone ...
• Read the judgment
  Now that the furor over the Supreme Court of Canada’s verdict on AbitibiBowater and the provincial government has settled a bit, I’m going to ...
• The Speaker's colours are showing
  There’s perhaps nothing that better shows how comfortable members of the provincial Progressive Conservatives are with being the government — or ...
• Dam projects up for independent review in Manitoba
  It’s easy to be rattled by the latest details to come out about Ottawa’s agreement to agree sometime in the future to a loan guarantee for ...
• Me and the premier brought you this truck
  In the middle of last week, a little dust-up happened in the House of Assembly. Buried deep in question period, an NDP MHA complained that the ...
• Putting your mouth where your money is
  Interesting news from the other side of the ocean, where a British Conservative Party official, falsely accused of child abuse, has threatened ...
• One step forward, two steps back
  Thursday, the provincial government finally crept into the 21st century, doing what a host of other provinces have been doing for years: it put ...
• The time to buy is … now?
  Alright — ready for a little heresy? It’s hard to believe that houses on the Northeast Avalon are worth what people are paying for them. It’s ...
• Muskrat Falls has long been a done deal
  Live through enough winters, and you know what they look like on the horizon. You know the wet black of the branches, the way the light in the ...
• Muskrat Falls and a box of provisos
  Last month, the provincial government announced the new expected bill for Muskrat Falls, and released yet another study from Manitoba Hydro ...
• What happens on the road
  “You don’t want to see these guys without their masks on.” — from “The Autopsy Garland,” one track from The Mountain Goats’ “All Eternals ...
• Mines and deals
  I made an interesting mistake in my column on mining and Muskrat Falls on the weekend. Something of a mistake of omission rather than commission ...
• Let's call this what it really is — a tax
  “Mining is an energy intensive industry, and it is important to understand the possible power requirements of these Labrador developments, based ...
• Cities crumbling beneath our feet
  On the railway tracks over Yonge Street in Toronto, the big green and white GO trains start slow and loud and lumber up to speed, dragging ...
• We’re still the poor cousins in Canada
  Everything, they say, is relative. And they, whoever they are, happen to be right. Last weekend, meeting with fellow Tories, Premier Kathy ...
• Work is creeping into downtime
  Thanksgiving Monday is certainly not the day when you’d expect to see more signs of the changing balance between work and life in our society. ...
• Sorry, we can't tell you that
  Here’s a little object lesson about how the world of access to information has changed in Newfoundland.Years ago, then-opposition leader Danny ...
• Watching the Muskrat
  Shoot the messenger. When you haven’t got the goods to support your own argument, it’s probably the most popular method to deflect attention from ...