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

• Ottawa on high alert
  Maybe people are used to it in Ottawa, but still, it’s startling. The police presence, that is.Since the last time I was on Parliament Hill, the ...
• The world according to Toews
  Two weeks ago, I pointed out in a column that one of the best things about federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is that, whether he means ...
• World of wonders
  There are a few things I want to mention, so pay attention for a moment. There are places in this province, in the height of August, where you ...
• Sharing information - what a concept
  In Antarctica, a group of Russian scientists have finally reached Lake Vostok. The lake, which is about the size of Lake Ontario, has been ...
• Covering all the bases
  When you’re talking formal logic, there’s a term called “tautology.” What it means is a statement that is always inherently true. Some of the ...
• Trotting out the bogeyman
  "I don't know if the statistics demonstrate that crime is down ... I'm focused on danger." That's federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, ...
• A convenient distraction
  Ah, it’s not easy being so evil. Last week, the premier (and since then, a host of MHAs and cabinet ministers — see letters) have pounced on me ...
• Why it pays to read the fine print
  Russell Wangersky I wanted to write about the seagulls, honest I did. Tuesday night, against the deep blue of the last moments of evening sky, ...
• Cold comfort
  Jan. 23rd, and it was the first time this winter that it’s been cold and still enough to hear the trees crack on the northeast Avalon. It’s an ...
• He who pays the piper ...
  The devil is clearly in the details. And those details, well, they can sure take a long time to surface. Right in the midst of the provincial ...
• Williams proves the point
  Somewhere, the gods of irony are having themselves a great big chuckle, or maybe even a belly laugh. Late last week, former St. John’s city ...
• What happens when you stop listening
  Spend enough time on top, and you forget how to be anything but on top. And when you do, you also forget critical skills. That's an interesting ...
• Making you pay
  It’s the time of year when income tax suddenly springs to mind. This year, the tax forms have a funny greenish colour when they make their way in ...
• Roadside requiems
  In her memoir "Bird Cloud," Annie Proulx remembers the way the state of Maine used to put up official state crosses at the scene of highway ...
• Barrens, but hardly barren
  Up high over Small Point, heading back on the high ground that will soon be barrens and the brown-stick winter of brush, the small ...
• Try these easy-to-keep resolutions
  Ah, the time of the year when resolutions are all the rage. Here are four that the provincial government might want to stop and think about for a ...
• Christmas creeps in
  The cats know things - and that's good. Just when the snow started to really come down last weekend, the furnace clicked off and the house ...
• Litigation just fans the flames
  I’ve been a deputy-chief of a volunteer fire department and I’ve been a rank-and-file firefighter as well. I’ve sent people into fires and I’ve ...
• Out with the old
  Well, it has happened in Quebec - you have to wonder if it could happen in this province, or maybe if it could even happen again federally. ...
• Taking potshots at the poor
  Dear Margaret Wente: you have annoyed me for years, you of the lofty perch at The Globe and Mail who once famously described Newfoundland and ...
• Why media boycotts don't work
  In Toronto, the centre of all things Canadian, there are those who are calling it "a Canadian first." Well, no - maybe it's a "Toronto first," ...
• Logic? Where’s the fun in that?
  Yesterday was a funny kind of day — one of those days when you truly learn that facts matter less than ideology.Yep, Monday was the day that the ...
• The bitter seed
  I once wrote that 2 a.m. is the hour of bad decisions. A time when almost any decision you make can turn out, in the light of day, to be ...
• Some topics can’t be avoided
  A week or so ago, Memorial University’s Harris Centre held a public forum on the how the media deals with mental illness. The message from ...
• A tale of two provinces
  Back in 2007, the government of Danny Williams announced it would bring in whistleblower legislation. The same year, the government of Manitoba ...
• Salt, sun and winter’s advent
  The CSL Salarium was in port Sunday, low in the water and rusty on the deck, orange hard-hatted workers like toy figurines moving in amongst the ...
• Another one bites the dust
  At the beginning of September, a website known as The Obscure Store and Reading Room closed up shop. Run by Jim Romenesko, the store collected ...
• Clear as mud
  Early last week, Nalcor Energy told the province's Public Utilities Board that it plans a few changes in its dealing with the board. The energy ...
• Now there’s a bright idea
  On a quiet weeknight next to Quidi Vidi Lake, there were only an handful of cars zipping through the pools of light underneath the streetlights. ...
• That’s juniper to you
  It’s a larch, really, or a tamarack, a strange evergreen that isn’t ever-green. But here, where it’s one of our native trees, it’s called a ...