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  • Glover in goal

    I may get into some trouble from other Manitobans who I didn’t notice on the field but just thought a quick shout out should go to Saint Boniface MP Shelly Glover for holding her own in a soccer match on the lawn of Parliament Hill Monday night.

    View Full Post 06/16/2009 10:29 AM 0

  • Polls polls everywhere

    Apparently I missed the memo that this was supposed to be poll week.

    View Full Post 06/1/2009 2:25 PM 0

  • Co-operation is underrated

    As I’ve written about here before, if you’re not a cabinet minister, your chances of successfully getting a new law introduced and passed are pretty low.

    View Full Post 05/26/2009 5:03 PM 0

  • Cops on the hill

    Saint Boniface MP Shelly Glover is going to chair a new Conservative Law Enforcement Officers’ Caucus.

    View Full Post 05/25/2009 2:59 PM 0

  • Please Mr. Harper. We want to hear.

    Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to Winnipeg yesterday. But unless you work at the virology lab or bought a ticket to attend a private dinner for the Frontier Centre, you would have had absolutely no chance to hear from him.

    View Full Post 05/20/2009 2:42 PM 0

  • A few more minutes on the museum

    A couple of additional notes about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights article that appeared in the paper on Saturday.

    View Full Post 05/19/2009 11:28 AM 0

  • Partying on the Hill

    I am a little behind the (Hill) Times on this one since the survey was actually published about a month ago.

    View Full Post 05/14/2009 2:29 PM 0

  • Conventions no longer conventional

    The Liberals are gathered in Vancouver this weekend to celebrate their Liberal-ness, anoint Michael Ignatieff their king, and no doubt, spend countless hours remembering and laughing at the gaffes of their opponents.

    View Full Post 05/1/2009 4:17 PM 0

  • Don’t hit the panic button

    There is a lot of debate right now about whether public health officials and the media are going overboard on the swine flu.

    View Full Post 04/30/2009 12:35 PM 0

  • A rare passing

    Winnipeg MP Joy Smith was practically beaming today as she stood up in the house to vote in favour of her private members’ bill to set a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for a conviction of human trafficking of a child.

    View Full Post 04/22/2009 4:29 PM 0

  • The politics of asbestos

    Michael Ignatieff is perhaps being reminded right now that as the leader of the opposition and -- theoretically anyway -- the prime minister in waiting, everything he says is going to be used against him in the court of public opinion by the lobbyists and pundits who seek to influence said public.

    View Full Post 04/9/2009 3:46 PM 0

  • Look kids! I met the president!

    I know everybody wants a piece of the Obama mania pie but it’s really enough already.

    View Full Post 04/7/2009 12:47 PM 0

  • Progressive in-action

    Ah. Progress.

    View Full Post 04/2/2009 2:50 PM 0

  • Fun with finances

    I have finally managed to have some Excel spreadsheet fun with the annual expenses claimed by Manitoba’s 14 elected MPs in 2007-08.

    View Full Post 03/23/2009 5:47 PM 0

  • Ignatieff outtakes

    Michael Ignatieff had much more to say in the interview he did with me this week than I could fit into the story in today’s paper. That is one of the downsides of the print edition, but the bonus of having a website and a blog is that I am not limited by things like space.

    View Full Post 03/19/2009 5:43 PM 0

  • Economic speculation for dummies

    You know the old saying,"If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all?"

    View Full Post 03/11/2009 12:31 PM 0

  • Two blogs for the post of one

    I haven't written here for a while as other things pulled my attention away from the blogosphere temporarily.

    View Full Post 03/6/2009 1:49 PM 0

  • Obama Day slideshow

    It's been almost 24 hours since President Barack Obama left Ottawa.

    View Full Post 02/20/2009 12:30 PM 0

  • Canada hearts the U.S.

    President Barack Obama is on the ground in Ottawa, chatting happily with Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean at the Ottawa airport.

    View Full Post 02/19/2009 9:43 AM 0

  • All the circumstance, none of the show

    I am somewhat excited to be in Ottawa this week.

    View Full Post 02/17/2009 4:49 PM 0

About Mia Rabson

Mia Rabson is a born and bred Winnipegger whose interest in politics seemed clear when she dressed up as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for Halloween in the 7th grade.

Her interest in writing was no surprise to her parents, who learned early in Mia’s life that no piece of blank paper — or wall, for that matter — was safe in her hands.

She holds an honours BA in English from Queen’s University, a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Western Ontario, and has completed a political journalism fellowship in Washington, D.C. with the Washington Centre for Politics and Journalism.

Prior to working for the Winnipeg Free Press, Mia briefly worked for the Detroit News in the paper’s Washington bureau.

Mia joined the Free Press team in February 2001, and in April 2001 was appointed to the Manitoba legislature bureau. In December 2004, she was appointed bureau chief at the legislature. She became the newspaper’s parliamentary bureau chief/national reporter in Ottawa in January 2008.

In 2008 she was nominated for a Michener Award with a team of reporters from the Free Press for its coverage of the province’s child welfare system.

She counts reliving the invasion at Dieppe, France, with veterans of the failed Second World War expedition and overcoming her fear of heights to touch the Golden Boy statue atop the Legislative Building among her favourite experiences as a reporter.

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