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

• Poke and counter-poke
  Meanwhile, in the category of everyone briskly digging holes for themselves, what a week it was.The Liberals named a former Harper Conservative ...
• You snooze, you lose
  Maybe we’re just too comfortable — too comfortable to notice, or too comfortable to care. In Toronto on Oct. 25 — yesterday — a grey day ...
• He’s not just the premier, he’s a bully
  I waited and thought for a couple of weeks before writing this, because in some ways his reaction was so typical that any comment on it would ...
• Save now, pay later
  A columnist in Whistler talks about it at a crowded table in one of the resort’s gingerbread-fronted and forcedly trendy restaurants — except ...
• Being there
  I can’t wait to be looking at mountains again — real mountains, the Rockies, those jagged lines of sharp teeth that stretch on and on, the sheets ...
• Hyperbole has become iconic
  It’s funny the effect that language can have. I was in Halifax a week or so ago, looking at the huge hole in the downtown where The Halifax ...
• Parks and plunder
  Maybe it’s not important. Maybe it’s not important because it’s out along the edge of the hydro line in Pippy Park. Maybe it’s not important ...
• All in good fun
  Waiting to meet someone on Tuesday night, stuck in front of a barroom large-screen television, I got to watch NHL player Ian Laperriere get hit ...
• From e-mail to e-attack
  When an airplane rolls to a stop at the gate, you can hear the two constants: the metallic clicks of all the seatbelts being undone as passengers ...
• Turning adversity into opportunity
  Between the turnoff to Perry’s Cove and the outer edge of Kingston, up above Carbonear, water crosses under the road in three significant places ...
• Sorry, the sky wasn't falling after all
  If you’re a courtroom lawyer, the long-running saying is that you should never ask a question to which you don’t already know the answer — ...
• Adding insult to injury
  By now, most people in this province are familiar with Cpl. Brian Pinksen, the 21-year-old soldier from Corner Brook who died in Germany as a ...
• A bill to stop stuffing bills
  With every passing day, we stumble one step closer to the day when a vote on a private member’s bill in the House of Commons will decide the fate ...
• I've seen that movie too
  Put that movie on again. I like it — you know the one. The one with the evil empire lining up the aim on their death star to wipe out the brave ...
• One of a kind
  You can’t ever know everything about a person — the best you can do is to know a facet of them, one or two sides of someone, some handful of the ...
• We’re changing the world
  Perhaps it would be easier if I were more devotional — if I had a more clearly defined religion or belief. Perhaps if I did, the world wouldn’t ...
• How to keep them coming back
  But with August and the main part of the tourist season winding down, we’ve got to start thinking about the next step — and the next thing we ...
• Dreading the home-care crunch
  They were detailed studies into the impact of informal care for the elderly and the infirm, and both suggested in the tidiest and most clinical ...
• Premier makes curious cabinet gamble
  In other words, I didn’t find out right away about the throwaway comment from Premier Danny Williams on VOCM’s “Open Line” that he personally ...
• Stealthy invaders increasing in number
  Looking down through the clear water, the big footprints are clear enough that you can not only make them out, but even create a picture of the ...
• Straighten up and drive right
  Sunny on Friday, and by the time I’d driven fromthe Village mall to St. Philip’s and then back in on the Outer Ring Road tothe east end, I’d ...
• Worth fighting for
  The berries had the right dusty light blue, but lacked the difference in size between individual berries, and they seemed to have ripened all at ...
• Finding stories everywhere
  Off an ATV trail that kicks sideways away from the road to Broad Cove, there’s a narrow, grown-over path that heads down to the river. It cuts ...
• The sound of silence
  After successfully escaping the Regatta for another year (See? That sentence fragment alone already announces “curmudgeon.”), I was getting onto ...
• So much for true Grit
  It might have been an argument that Jones is a bit of a scrapper. Maybe it’s supposed to mean something else. Unfortunately, it’s most apt from ...
• What I'd like to know, and what I'm left to think
  It was the kind of plausible science that makes its way into the media and has the advantage of making some discrete sideways sense. Calcium is ...
• Jostling for power and position
  In the Maritimes, there’s a new plan to build a 500-megawatt transmission line between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. N.S. Premier Darrell Dexter ...
• Back before they were memories
  Lazy days The summers there had an otherworldly, slow feeling to them. No television, but plenty of salt water in a part of the coast full of ...
• Drifting through paradise
  At the beginning, it's not a road that offers much in the way of opportunity: alders hemmed in tight on both sides, low brush on both sides ...
• Impaired logic
  Consider this a technicality warning - some people find columns about particular pieces of legislation interesting. For others, dishwater is more ...