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. ...

All articles of Russell Wangersky

• Calling names a no-no, but bullying is A-OK
  Last week, Fisheries Minister Darin King stood up in high dudgeon and spent a whole chunk of time in the House of Assembly whining about how the ...
• Even our sacred places aren’t sacred
  Far in along the trail up the northern side of Trout River Pond in Gros Morne National Park, you come out from under the tree cover of a forest ...
• We're only human
  That’s no big news — I’ve been out of the fire service for years, but I still dream about fires, car accidents or medical calls two or three ...
• What CBC knows, but won’t tell you
  And for the CBC, that painful truth means that, even though its management and staff may have extremely sharp and legitimate opinions about the ...
• The heartbreak season
  Perhaps it’s absence, or maybe even its back-and-forth lateness, that makes spring here so particular. The way it comes, not in a rush, but in a ...
• Liberals, give it a rest
  By Tuesday, she was obviously highly offended with the opposition Liberals — and particularly with Opposition House Leader Yvonne Jones, who ...
• We don’t want a half-century of regret
  It is, of course, the most difficult kind of long-term contract to sign: in order to decide the right way, we have to accurately assess not just ...
• Senate needs more than fine tuning
  Quietly, everyone agrees on something else as well: while they might be all for changes to the Senate, any change is only acceptable as long as ...
• Laws of convenience
  Governments have plenty of information about you, and are supposed to keep it private. On Tuesday, I pointed out that Government House Leader ...
• Punch-and-Judy show
  The government and the opposition, that is. Because they sound, at this point, more like an old dysfunctional married couple than they are like a ...
• Looking after No. 1
  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 an ...
• Either way, we will pay
  But sometimes, what’s in plain sight can hide in the piles and piles of other things clamouring for your attention. And that’s certainly 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 to ...
• The world according to Toews
  Sometimes, they’re just funny; other times, they are so eye-rollingly over the top that you have to stop for a moment and ask yourself if you’re ...
• Trotting out the bogeyman
  That’s federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, speaking to the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs about the Conservatives’ ...
• Why it pays to read the fine print
  I wanted to write about the seagulls, honest I did. Tuesday night, against the deep blue of the last moments of evening sky, five or six flights ...
• He who pays the piper …
  Right in the midst of the provincial election, the provincial government and its energy company, Nalcor, got a shot in the arm for the Muskrat ...
• It’s what happens when you stop listening
  That’s an interesting argument, one that came from former Reform Party leader Preston Manning in The Globe and Mail earlier this week.Lord knows, ...
• 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
  On foot on the kind of bog-bike trail that isn’t through bog, where the travel of the wheels has worn the ground away to mica-rich sparkling ...
• Christmas creeps in on little cat feet
  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 went ...
• Out with the old
  With the Liberal party dismasted and barely afloat across the country, you have to wonder if the time hasn’t come for the centre-left to do what ...
• Why media boycotts don’t work
  It’s not really all that uncommon. And, eventually, it will fail. Right now, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is in a dispute with The Toronto Star about ...
• The bitter seed
  Turns out, some Norse cultures call that same hour the hour of the wolf. But it could just as easily be called the time of all fears. And all for ...
• A tale of two provinces
  The same year, the government of Manitoba actually brought in whistleblower legislation.So what’s the status here now?“It won’t be enacted until ...
• Another one bites the dust
  Run by Jim Romenesko, the store collected bizarre news stories from pretty much around the world. If firefighters were called to help a man who ...
• 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. ...
• Animal crackers
  Trial balloons — like the way getting rid of the gun registry was first floated in the House of Commons by a Tory backbencher as a private ...
• Life under the admiral’s rule
  Randy Simms delicately treads on this subject on the next page, suggesting that it’s time for a polite overhaul of our provincial House of ...
• Shifting ground
  The letter had a simple thesis: things are changing quickly in the energy export industry, and the Muskrat Falls project should be considered in ...