Mia Rabson

Reporter with the Canadian Press

448 Articles

Dr. Supriya Sharma, chief medical adviser at Health Canada, arrives to hold a technical briefing in Ottawa on Friday, March 5, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Health Canada to rule on Pfizer COVID treatment drug within two weeks

Health Canada should be ready to make an authorization decision about Pfizer's Paxlovid antiviral treatment for COVID-19 in a week to 10 days, chief medical adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma said on Thursday, January 13, 2022.

COVID-19 vaccines are administered at mass vaccination clinic run by Switch Health in Mississauga, Ont., on Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Chris Young

Canada stocking up on Pfizer, Moderna doses for 2022

Federal COVID-19 vaccine contracts mean Canada should get enough doses to give two or three more mRNA shots to every Canadian, every year until at least 2024.

Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson rises during Question Period, in Ottawa, on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Fred Chartrand

This federal program was slammed as poorly designed and a waste of money and here's what Wilkinson's doing about it

The program offers loans of up to $50 million to help oil and gas producers meet or exceed regulations enforcing cuts to their methane emissions.

Race to a Safer World

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Keurig pays hefty fine for false, misleading claims on K-CUP recycling

The Competition Bureau says Keurig Canada will pay a $3 million penalty for making false or misleading claims that its single-use K-Cup pods can be recycled.

Race to a Safer World

FedEx workers offload a plane carrying 255,600 doses of the Moderna COVID‑19 vaccine which came from Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Wed., March 24, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

Less than half of Canada's promised vaccine donations delivered

Canada has delivered about one-quarter of the direct vaccine doses it has promised to help less wealthy countries and can't say when more doses will go out the door.

Coronavirus in Canada

Nunavut's chief public health officer Dr. Michael Patterson speaks to reporters during a press conference in Iqaluit on Monday, May 31, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Emma Tranter

Omicron forces remote communities to lock down, ban outsiders

The latest wave of COVID-19 is bringing health-care resources in some remote communities in Canada to the breaking point as case numbers explode.

Coronavirus in Canada

A woman leaves a grocery store using plastic bags in Mississauga, Ont., on Thursday, August 15, 2019. File photo by The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

Feds to ban plastic straws, bags by end of next year: Guilbeault

It's the end of days for plastic grocery bags and Styrofoam takeout containers in Canada.

Race to a Safer World

Petro-Canada’s electric vehicle charging station is photographed while on display at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto on February 14, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov

Canada’s electric vehicle charging ambitions falling short

The Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association says Canada needs to be building millions of stations.

Government tops up EV rebate program by $73 million

Transport Canada is topping up its electric vehicle rebate program so there is enough money to cover demand until the program gets retooled in the spring.

PM gears mandate letters toward a more inclusive, fair Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his cabinet ministers need to focus on tangible results and not lose sight of the government's broader goal of creating a more diverse and inclusive Canada, even as Omicron is threatening to push the transition from pandemic to recovery down the road yet again.