Mia Rabson
Reporter with the Canadian Press
About Mia Rabson
Guilbeault lays out steps Canada must take to adapt to climate change
Dozens of experts advising the government on adapting to climate change say Canada needs to do more to prepare infrastructure for the threats of extreme weather and get faster at helping Canadians recover from floods, fires and major storms.
Parks Canada faces huge repair bills with a smaller budget
The capital budget for Canada's national parks and historic sites is being slashed by more than two-thirds this year even as more than 30 per cent of the agency's assets remain in poor or very poor condition.
Help other countries with COVID vaccines and treatment or virus will live on
Canada needs to turn its COVID-19 aid attention to expanding vaccine production everywhere or the virus will continue to run wild, mutate and bring new waves of disease, says a prominent expert.
Oil companies' record profits should be invested in climate action: Guilbeault
Canada's big oil companies are making record profits this year and should be using some of that extra cash to invest in things that curb their greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
Liberals promise to protect abortion rights but details are vague
Liberal lawmakers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are vowing to defend access to legal abortions, but the issue's divergent and divisive history in each country guarantees they'll go about it in very different ways.
Feds and Ontario invest in Stellantis plants' transition to EV production
Stellantis, the new company created a year ago by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France's Group PSA, is investing another $2.4 billion to its electrification projects.
Feds enshrine right to healthy environment but what does it mean?
More than five years after being told it should enshrine the right to a healthy environment in its environmental protection act, the federal government is moving to do it.
Canada's emissions dropping but reporting is incomplete
But in an audit of Ottawa's "greening government" strategy, environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco said Canada still isn't reporting on its indirect emissions, nor does it include Crown corporations in its reporting or planning.
Carbon pricing disproportionally hard on Indigenous groups, small biz: audit
Canada's carbon pricing system is disproportionately hard on Indigenous communities and small businesses and not hard enough on the biggest emitters, the federal environment commissioner said on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in a new audit.
EV popularity growing but still off federal targets
Electric vehicle sales grew almost 60 per cent last year but they need to pick up the pace even more to hit the new federal sales mandates expected by the end of this year.