The Capital Chronicles

with Mia Rabson

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• Mouthy and not-so-mouthy: how Manitoba MPs stack up

   If there is a race in Ottawa to be the MP with the most to say, Manitoba's Kevin Lamoureux won the silver medal.

  View Full Post 05/13/2013 10:41 AM 0

• Two fives will get you 10, but do they melt?

  The Bank of Canada revealed the final two bills of our new "polymer notes" — or plastic money, to use the plain language they taught us about in journalism school.

  View Full Post 04/30/2013 12:57 PM 0

• Attack ads are cash cows for all

  

  Most Canadians who have even a passing interest in federal politics will have heard by now that Justin Trudeau is the new Liberal leader and that the Conservatives released their first anti-Trudeau attack ad less than 24 hours after Trudeau won.

  View Full Post 04/18/2013 12:04 PM 0

• NDP quickly closes debate on contentious motion

  A Winnipeg NDPer surprised a lot of people Sunday when just minutes into a debate on the proposal to tone down socialist rhetoric in the statements defining, he moved to call the motion to a vote.

  View Full Post 04/15/2013 12:47 PM 0

• Canadians favour proportional represention

  A new environics poll released today by Fair Vote Canada has some interesting results.

  View Full Post 04/8/2013 11:45 AM 0

• They're in the money

  In late March, your MPs quietly voted in favour of giving themselves a pay raise.

  View Full Post 04/4/2013 2:37 PM 0

• Budget Day from the Finance Minister's point of view

  Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is generally known as one of the more affable members of the federal cabinet.

  View Full Post 03/22/2013 3:12 PM 0

• Lemons into lemonade. Or cold hard cash.

  

  It's a rare politician who can turn a gaffe into a positive.

  View Full Post 02/20/2013 3:12 PM 0

• Leafs' fans not welcome

  Okay, Winnipeg.

  View Full Post 02/13/2013 3:14 PM 0

• Don't Drop the Haggis

  There are a lot of traditions on Parliament Hill. And sometimes fun and games.

  View Full Post 02/1/2013 1:59 PM 0

• No more sports tickets, capiche?

  So remember last year when the Manitoba NDP members were left with egg all over their Jets'-enthusiast faces after it became clear several cabinet ministers had accepted free tickets for  much-coveted Jets' home games?

  View Full Post 01/29/2013 3:51 PM 0

• #Ottiwapiskat takes on stereotypes

  The stereotypes of First Nations Canadians which flood newspaper website comment sections, Twitter, my email inbox every time I write a story about First Nations, and very likely, dinner conversations across this country, are rampant.

  View Full Post 01/14/2013 1:46 PM 0

• No more cats

  

  It is the end of an era on Parliament Hill.

  View Full Post 01/4/2013 11:05 AM 0

• Sen. Zimmer's wife's acting debut

  Maygan Sensenberger likely didn't expect her first 15 minutes of fame would come as the result of an outburst on an Air Canada flight between Ottawa and Saskatoon.

  View Full Post 12/13/2012 2:41 PM 0

• ELA petitions not a sign of discord

  In the last two weeks at least three Conservative MPs have tabled petitions in the House of Commons calling on the government to change its mind about the decision to no longer fund the Experimental Lakes Area.

  View Full Post 11/29/2012 12:27 PM 0

• Trudeau and those other people

  With all the attention that lad Trudeau has received since announcing his candidacy for the Liberal leadership Oct. 2, it may have seemed like the campaign has been underway for weeks already.

  View Full Post 11/16/2012 10:11 AM 0

• Voting chaos, but don't get too smug

  Many Canadians watched in wide-eyed horror or amusement Tuesday as Americans went to the polls to cast their votes.

  View Full Post 11/7/2012 11:25 AM 0

• Language wars

  If Canadians ever needed to wonder why there is animosity between French and English speakers in this country, one need only witness an exchange between NDP MP Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe and Auditor General Michael Ferguson, at the Public Accounts committee of Parliament, last Thursday.

  View Full Post 10/29/2012 11:42 AM 0

• Odds and sods from the nation’s capital

  Statistics Canada last week began releasing the findings of the 2011 Census. The first release, population counts, is from the short form census which all of us had to fill out. Information from the controversially voluntary national household survey will not come until next year.

  View Full Post 02/13/2012 1:32 PM 0

• A loonie for your thoughts?

  

  Manitoba NDP MP Pat Martin is going after the penny again.

  View Full Post 02/9/2012 3:44 PM 0