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

• 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 ...
• Sign me up — for everything
  Hey, Jason Kenney: I’m gay. I’m transgendered. I’m a small-l liberal lawyer working for peanuts in downtown Toronto. I’m Jewish. I’m Muslim. I’m ...
• Wealth of experience ignored
  “There’s one thing to be a pundit. There’s one thing to be an armchair critic. … If the pundits have some other expertise that they can bring ...
• Playing whack-a-mole with abortion issue
  Keep your eye on the mole. Or more to the point, keep your eye on the motion — Motion 312, that is. Next week, on Sept. 26, to be precise, a ...
• Kicking puppies and other political strategies
  It’s an interesting play: faced with the departure of a longtime caucus colleague, Premier Kathy Dunderdale and her me-too caucus have decided to ...
• There's more where that came from
  Watching the strips of roofing peel off the top of the Nalcor building on Tuesday, I was struck by the thought that there’s got to be a financial ...
• Bleeding money
  Manitoba customers may have the lowest electrical rates in Canada, and Manitoba Hydro and its subsidiaries may be spreading their expertise ...
• Builder-boats as friends
  I’ve always had a strange fascination for carpenter bugs; builder-boats, some people call them, while others go with the more proper sow bug or ...
• Muskrat Falls will eventually be our only option
  Has the train actually left the station? Is there a barn door somewhere, looking for its horse? Or is it a case of, when you leave a decision for ...
• How about a little advice from away?
  Soon, we’ll be heading into the fall House of Assembly debate over Muskrat Falls — and, if recent history is any judge, it will probably have ...
• Outside, over there
  I don’t know exactly when it was. Or where. The moment when I knew. I have my suspicions:. Perhaps when I was in a big backwards-running bay off ...
• Gaps in the spray program
  The alders just go brown and then black and eventually drop their leaves, leaving the sticks of their branches behind. The raspberries? Right ...
• Now things are getting nasty
  Two caveats: first, Telegram columnist Brian Jones is a big boy, and he is perfectly capable of fighting his own battles. Second, I may be ...
• Now things are getting nasty
  Two caveats: first, Telegram columnist Brian Jones is a big boy, and he is perfectly capable of fighting his own battles. Second, I may be ...
• The brand that got away
  Once, not that long ago at all, there were two big publicly traded fishing companies at work in Atlantic Canada - Fishery Products International ...
• Cost overruns, by nature, are unforeseen
  Natural Resources Minister Jerome Kennedy was back on the airwaves over the weekend, extolling the virtues of Nalcor and the Muskrat Falls ...
• Life from a ladder
  I spent Regatta Day in St. John's on a ladder, stuck up high between the neighbour's house and the side wall of our place, working in the narrow ...
• Get ready for this year’s chemical burn
  Yesterday morning, they were supposed to start up again — you can call it a kind of toxic followup. The chemical second part to a one-two punch, ...
• Slaves of technology
  Maybe Marshall McLuhan was right — and not necessarily in a good way. McLuhan’s argument that “the medium is the message” sometimes confuses ...
• What a difference a year makes
  Today is July 24. Yesterday, then, was the 23rd. And on the 23rd, Premier Kathy Dunderdale called the media together to tell them that, with the ...
• Surrounded by sound
  There is the steady beat of a truck's backup warning alarm from the loading dock, a metronome "beep-beep-beep" as the big truck rolls slowly ...
• Surrounded by sound
  There is the steady beat of a truck’s backup warning alarm from the loading dock, a metronome “beep-beep-beep” as the big truck rolls slowly ...
• What goes around, comes around
  When I moved here 26 years ago, I knew it was a unique and beautiful place. I also knew that, to me, there was a lot about it that was foreign. A ...