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Mia Rabson

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493 Articles

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.
News, Politics | May 16th 2022

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.
News, Politics | May 13th 2022
Barbara Violo, The Junction Chemist Pharmacy,

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.
News, Politics | May 10th 2022

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.
News, Politics | May 6th 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.
News, US News, Politics | May 5th 2022

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.
News | May 2nd 2022
Rundle Park,

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.
News, Politics | April 29th 2022

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.
News | April 27th 2022
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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.
News, Politics | April 27th 2022

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.
News, Politics | April 22nd 2022
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