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

• Animal crackers
  You can dismiss it if you like, but there may be more to the sneak attack on the beaver’s role as a national symbol than you think. Trial ...
• The fraternity of lost souls
  Out under a big maple downtown, the orange and brown crabbed leaves coming down all around me in the fall damp. It’s mist and dark, the hissing ...
• Life under the admiral’s rule
  An advanced democracy we are not. Randy Simms delicately treads on this subject one page ago, suggesting that it’s time for a polite overhaul of ...
• Constant contact
  “as small as a world and as large as alone.” — e.e. cummings I spent a little time in the Anglican Cemetery off Forest Road on the weekend, up in ...
• Shifting ground
  Weeks ago, a provocative letter to the editor talked about the rapid change in energy markets as a result of the “shale gale,” the huge expansion ...
• Incorporate me
  I already know it. Sarcastic or ironic columns regularly miss their mark — add the smallest little drop of irony, and you’re almost guaranteed to ...
• Accountable, to a point
  So here’s a question, and I don’t mean for it to be confrontational. When a politician talks about being “accountable,” what exactly are they ...
• America’s hurt could come this way
  The I-90 West winds towards Erie, Penn., with two sinuous ribbons of asphalt, two lanes on each side, a wide belt of trees in the median. At ...
• Promise me you’ll keep your promises
  I can understand why voters walk away from elections, and why, in an Elections Canada survey following the 2000 federal election, the ...
• Signs of the times
  PC candidate Charlene Johnson must have thought she hit the campaign sign jackpot. A great big sign, right on a corner of Route 70 next to a road ...
• It’s The Captain calling…
  It’s funny how the simplest of irritations can wind you up and make you do the stupidest things. Getting caught behind a painfully-slow-moving ...
• Hook, line and sinker
  Forgive my confusion. After one too many blows to the intellect, I suddenly thought I was back in the late 1980s again.Remember the 1980s and ...
• Fish and ships — and politics
  There’s an old saying that lawyers have about cross-examining witnesses in court: never ask a question that you don’t already know what the ...
• When does remembrance become rubbernecking?
  It’s Sept. 13, so the last waves of the 9-11 remembrance should be fading away from the airwaves — and perhaps it’s safe to say this out loud ...
• A strange choice
  I’ve waited a few weeks to write about this, just in case I decided to reconsider. I was on vacation when it happened, my mind a thousand miles ...
• Spending spree
  Right at twilight in the valley at the foot of the Tablelands in Gros Morne and the light is a curious yellow, half the fading sun coming through ...
• The forest and the trees
  It’s funny what catches your attention; the way that once you start seeing something, you can’t stop seeing it. Like the pin cherries. Now, they ...
• Lead, don’t follow
  Epiphanies can come in strange places. They can arrive in an orange kayak, bobbing in the warm waters of Bonne Bay. They can arrive while you’re ...
• Voyage into the unknown
  Sometimes, you break rules. Sometimes you break a few; sometimes you break a lot.Travel with teenaged boys and you’re bound to break some ...
• Timeless magic
  At a wedding in Ochre Pit Cove, in a church that’s now a private home but that was doing double-duty with its old job. Double-duty because the ...
• A million little pieces
  I hope, for everyone’s sake, that by the end of the next provincial election, this province’s politicians will be at peace with themselves — ...
• Bursting balloons
  “Although Congress and President (Barack) Obama have agreed to raise the debt ceiling, a majority of Americans say that the debate has made them ...
• Summer by a nose
  Not the nicest summer, this one, by far: too much grey, and every time it starts to get warm, the rain is back.Sunday, I watched the rain in ...
• And the muzzling continues
  My father was a scientist — a chemical oceanographer, to be exact, completely concerned with the makeup of seawater and the way that chemical ...
• Stuck on the message track
  You’ve got to feel a little bit sorry for Nalcor. They’re following the rules, staying on point and on message as they try to respond to ...
• Don’t shoot the messenger
  A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the way the provincial government is spending beyond its means. That point raised a lot of complaint, right ...
• At the sound of the tone...
  Today, I think I'll be fishing. Not a bad forecast, really, 20 degrees with showers, and there was enough heavy rain last week to start pulling ...
• Playing judge and jury
  “Aye, ye dinnae ken me but I ken you. You’re the lass that didnae play for your country.”That’s the sentence that greeted Gail Munro, a team ...
• Make-work, by any other name
  There's a long boardwalk that starts at Bradley's Cove, near Western Bay, that stretches out and up a hill in front of you like a curving ...
• Much to think about on Muskrat Falls
  Back when the whole 2,800-megawatt Lower Churchill project was being pitched, the government was touting it as “the best and cheapest” source of ...