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

• 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 ...
• Washing their hands of pension risk
  You can understand the anger, at least to a point: in recent labour disputes at both Canada Post and Air Canada, one of the major sticking points ...
• Temptations and pitfalls in a web-savvy world
  Interesting old world we live in, where a lesbian blogger in Syria, Amina Abdallah Aral al Omari, turns out to actually be a 40-year-old American ...
• All that’s old is news again
  For the last four years in a row, I’ve written about this province’s growing fiscal problems.Fiscal problems? What fiscal problems? It sounds out ...
• Levelling the playing field — let’s go all the way
  In Ottawa, they’re preparing to “level” the elections financing playing field. What will be level, of course, is that all political parties will ...
• Dunderdale’s done deal
  A representative of the premier’s office wrote a note after my column last week about Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s new reticence to answer ...
• Many happy returns
  If you live near a maple tree, this is the time of year when you realize how tenacious nature really is. When the helicoptered maple seeds have ...
• A failure to communicate
  Dear Sir/MadamAm Mr. Ned and I would like to order COLUMNS from you and would like to know the types and sizes you have in stock as well as the ...
• All aboard for the Senate patronage express
  There’s not much that can be written about Fabian Manning’s reappointment to the Senate that hasn’t been said already. Response has ranged from ...
• Distraction calling
  I pulled out to pass an RV on the Trans-Canada Highway near the Salmonier Access on Sunday night, when the driver of a speeding pickup decided to ...
• The wonder of away
  It’s the very first of the mountain meadow flowers you’ll see. The mountain sage hasn’t even begun to show its dark-green leaves yet, and the ...
• In the blink of an eye
  There’s not much difference along the edge of the Alberta Trans-Canada Highway yet, not heading north through the grasslands and the huge fenced ...
• Your vote — a commodity?
  It’s a funny little comment that I’ve heard quite a few times since Monday’s federal election, and one that rankles. People talk about the ...
• Promises, physics and the parallel universe
  “I think we have a good record here of delivering on what we’ve said we would do,” Stephen Harper said during a campaign stop in Conception Bay ...
• We've got their number, too
  I was at the front door on Saturday morning talking to two young and sincere Siobhan Coady supporters — “She’s just a couple of streets away!” — ...
• Navigating the river of grief
  I suspect my dad was never really fond of the green canoe. I know he found it hard to get into; that, with his weight and poor eyesight, he found ...
• Double-double trouble
  Several times a week, I trundle around Quidi Vidi Lake, up past the supermarket and out along Forest Road before zig-zagging home again, all in ...
• Some of the shine has gone
  Go to the passport office in St. John’s, and you’ll understand exactly why Fortis wanted to build a great big office tower right spang on the ...
• Curiouser and curiouser
  Imagine — just imagine — that you owned a little cabin on a pond. A place with no electrical service, with no road in at all. The fishing is ...
• Paying for the power play
  First up, to explain a major mistake about a third of the way into last week’s column about the Muskrat Falls project. In that column, I said ...
• A licence not to care
  Stephen Harper might be right. We might not care. But that’s not necessarily good for us, or good for this country.We’ve been told by Harper that ...
• One clean line
  I want to write that one single, clear clean note, but I want to write it in words: is that too much to ask for? Just once. Just to write it ...
• Winner takes all
  In another world, the provincial government would have said things a lot more simply. They would have said that there was a vacancy on the ...
• Tuning out the violence
  A decade ago, my oldest son and I had a ritual: we’d sit down together on the couch or the floor on the weekend, and we’d watch car racing. In ...
• Lies: the new truths
  “I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.” — Chico Marx of the Marx BrothersSometimes, the more barefaced the lie, the harder it is ...
• I'm your audience, CBC — for now
  First of all, I know I work for the competition. CBC Radio and The Telegram both cover news and current events, and both try to find a way to ...
• Nothin’ to see here? Prove it
  Once more into the breach, and once more into the question of the curiously silent provincial government and its choice of a St. John’s law firm ...
• Hello — who are you?
  It was only a matter of time before trolls got automated. Last week, George Monbiot in the Guardian pointed out a U.S. Air Force tender for ...
• Relax, your government knows best
  And now back to a topic rudely interrupted by the fact that a provincial government that touts itself as one of the most open and accountable in ...
• The long shot that didn't pay off
  It was a strange one from the beginning. The province’s energy company, Nalcor, usually looks at big energy or oil plays. Instead, it was joining ...