Rod Mickleburgh
Rod Mickleburgh is a Senior Writer for The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver. He is currently the main news reporter covering the 2010 Winter Olympics. His weekly Notebook that runs every Friday in the British Columbia section and on the Globe's Web site is a spritely, humorous and often pointed round-up of political events and little-noticed esoterica from the country’s most western province.
During Mr. Mickleburgh’s long career in the news business, he has worked for the Penticton Herald, Prince George Citizen, Vernon News, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, CBC-TV and finally, la crème de la crème, The Globe and Mail. At the Globe, Mr. Mickleburgh has covered health policy, spent four years as the Beijing correspondent, and, since his return from China in 1998, mined the rich news vein of British Columbia.
In 1994, he was a co-winner, along with colleague Andre Picard, of the Michener Award for coverage of Canada’s tainted blood scandal. In 1993, he was nominated for a National Newspaper Award for the Globe’s award-winning series on the changing face of health care.
Mr. Mickleburgh’s book, Rare Courage, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2005. It profiles, in their own words, Canadian veterans of World War II.
Come on and take a free ride
The streetcar is back in Vancouver for the first time since brainless decision-makers banished them in 1958