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

• This is what ‘access’ looks like now
  Examples. By now, if the provincial government really had a cogent reason for changing its access to information laws, we should be hearing ...
• You’ll know only what they want you to know
  Oh, there’s just so much to talk about, so many individual and restrictive changes. But let’s just call it what it is: the provincial government ...
• The more, the cheaper
  It’s great to hear the chairman of Alderon Resources, Mark Morabito, say that Muskrat Falls power is crucial to the future expansion of the ...
• Closing the gates on information
  Some time this week, a shoe that’s been held in the air for more than a year will drop and the provincial government will introduce changes to ...
• People and health care — what governments miss
  Over the last few months, journalists and even economists have been talking about the Harper government, and the way, despite hiccups and ...
• There’s more than one kind of thievery
  It’s funny: write a column about memory (as I did last weekend) and someone will just go ahead and steal a piece of it. Early in the morning on ...
• After the memory bank is closed
  Where do those things go, these things that I remember, when I’m gone? Do they just wink out, like stars behind a steadily advancing berm of fog, ...
• Time to dump on the dumpers
  There’s a river that curves up out of the Goulds and heads back into the woods below all the new forage fields, a river that winds underneath the ...
• Not seeing the forest for the trees — or even...
  There’s cause, and then there’s effect. The two are intrinsically linked, however carefully governments and self-serving citizens want to ignore ...
• Calling names a no-no, but bullying is A-OK
  Try this on for a hypothetical situation. Last week, Fisheries Minister Darin King stood up in high dudgeon and spent a whole chunk of time in ...
• Breaking the rules
  Many businesses in this country are well familiar with a piece of federal legislation known as PIPEDA — the Personal Information Protection and ...
• Even our sacred places aren't sacred
  It was the stones that struck me most. Far in along the trail up the northern side of Trout River Pond in Gros Morne National Park, you come out ...
• Elusive justice
  Billy Earle is the first to admit that he’s no saint. He’s a survivor of abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage and, as with many, that survival is ...
• We're only human
  I dreamt about being in a fire last night. That's no big news - I've been out of the fire service for years, but I still dream about fires, car ...
• What CBC already knows, but won't tell you
  Sometimes, your biggest strength ends up being your biggest weakness. And for the CBC, that painful truth means that, even though its management ...
• Guess who’ll pick up the slack
  Oh, what a tangly regulatory world we live in. The province’s Public Utilities Board (PUB) usually generates press only when it’s setting new ...
• Heartbreak season
  Perhaps its early absence, or maybe even its back-and-forth lateness, that makes spring here so particular. The way it comes, not in a rush, but ...
• If Wells could talk …
  I imagine that, right now, Andy Wells feels like he could simply explode at any moment. He’s done a masterful job so far of not speaking his mind ...
• Liberals, give it a rest
  You've got to agree with Premier Kathy Dunderdale on this one - because she's got a point. By Tuesday, she was obviously highly offended with the ...
• Province doesn’t like what the PUB served up
  So, all that’s old is new again — sort of. Faced with a report from the province’s Public Utilities Board (PUB) saying that the Nalcor case for ...
• We don't want a half-century of regret
  Fifty years is a long time. That's about the length of time that we're signing ourselves up for a Muskrat Falls power contract. It is, of course, ...
• House of babble
  All right: I’ll admit it. I’m boring. I actually read Hansard, the written record of this province’s House of Assembly. Not just ...
• Senate needs more than fine-tuning
  When it comes to reforming Canada's Senate, most people agree about one thing: it doesn't wo
• Spring in my step
  I know March is too early, far too early, that it’s the time of the year when your heart is too easily broken by 40 centimetres of snowfall ...
• Laws of convenience
  On Tuesday, I wrote about the apparent double standard the provincial government has for the use and abuse of your personal information. ...
• A tale of two standards
  Last Thursday’s government release of the ostensibly “threatening” phone message by Liberal MHA Jim Bennett to the constituency office of cabinet ...
• Punch-and-Judy show
  It's only a handful of days in, and I think the whole bunch of them should be sent to a marriage counsellor or something. The government and ...
• Enough is enough
  Sometimes, the most interesting columns are someone else’s. And one of those certainly worth a read is Lawrence Martin, writing for iPolitics. At ...
• L'etat, c'est moi
  I wonder, sometimes, how many people look at living in this country as a privilege, and how many expect it as a right. I thought about that on ...
• The big chill
  We occasionally do print anonymous letters in this newspaper, but very rarely. Primarily, we withhold names to protect the identity of minors or ...