Mia Rabson
Reporter with the Canadian Press
About Mia Rabson
RCMP needs a redo says house committee studying systemic racism
It's time for Canada to have a "reckoning" about the RCMP, says the chair of a House of Commons committee that studied systemic racism in policing.
Emerging Delta variant means Canada should speed vaccine rollout
Canada is on the cusp of hitting its first national vaccination target, but chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the Delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 might mean the country has to up its vaccine game again.
Great Britain finds vaccines preventing hospitalizations from Delta variant
A new study in England suggests even just one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines are extremely good at keeping people from ending up in the hospital if they contract COVID-19 from the Delta variant of the virus that causes it.
If your first jab was AstraZeneca, Moderna or Pfizer now cleared for second
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization says people who got the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for the first dose can be offered either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna for the second.
Canadian-made vaccine could be ready for use this summer
Canada's first homegrown vaccine for COVID-19 is showing promising antibody results in hundreds of participants in a Phase 2 trial and could be ready for a final authorization request this summer.