Russell Wangersky

Opinion: A fall flâneur’s counfounding curbside finds

I’m trying hard to get used to moving slowly — trying to adapt to the idea that there is no rush, that the idea is to get done what can be done. That it isn’t what must be done.

Winnipeg’s urban forest won’t really reach forest status again for perhaps a full generation. I won’t see it. But I’m watching the last one disappear.

Opinion: Bankrolling the bilious simply beggars belief

Notes on the unifying weirdness of cable public television.

Sure, it’s only late August, and August temperatures are still around, into the high 20s Celsius during the day. But the first note of autumn’s song has been sung.

Opinion: Swap bitter stench of grievance for trails’ transcendent scents

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

It was an experience that, as a Canadian, I’d never had before. One I hope I never have again. And it’s going to nag at me for a long time. For the first time, I was told that if I needed to see a doctor, I’d have to pay. Cash.

There’s a planet, I don’t know which one, set just below and to the left of the moon in the brightening sky, and the No. 11 buses are storming the bus lane in 10-minute intervals to downtown in cold D...

At 7 a.m. in the dark of a December morning I was at the office, tearing the foil top off a small tub of yogurt. A different yogurt than usual, bought only because it was on sale at Safeway, the cheap...