Mia Rabson
Reporter with the Canadian Press
About Mia Rabson
EVs cost less to operate but still too much to buy to make them attractive: PBO
It is already more cost effective over the long term to buy an electric vehicle than a gas-powered model, but the savings must get substantially higher if Canada is to meet its EV sales targets, the parliamentary budget office concluded in a new analysis.
Trudeau still confident he offers what Canadians want, despite dismal poll results
Trudeau is in Halifax for a three-day cabinet retreat preparing for the upcoming fall sitting of Parliament, and the time for him to woo voters is becoming increasingly narrow.
Canada imposes tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, aluminum, steel
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in Halifax today that Canada will impose a 100-per-cent tariff on electric vehicles, along with 25 per cent tariffs on aluminum and steel.
Feds allocate 56 government properties for affordable housing
The federal government has added 56 properties to a new public lands bank of locations that are suitable for long-term leases so developers can build housing, a move the Housing Minister says will help boost the supply of homes Canadians can afford.
Immigration, housing on cabinet retreat agenda
The Liberals are in a make-it-or-break-it moment, following more than a year of slumping polling numbers and at most a year left before the next federal election.
One-third of Canadians say they are personally impacted by severe weather: poll
The results from a recent Leger poll suggest more than one in three Canadians have been touched directly by extreme weather such as forest fires, heat waves, floods or tornadoes.
Feds free up money to study health of Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands
More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal government is funding a study to do just that.
Tories reject allegation they are behind bot posts after Poilievre rally
The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.
Liberal caucus stays quiet after major byelection defeat that rattled party
Liberal campaign co-chair Terry Duguid insisted on Thursday that his caucus is united behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, even as the majority of elected Liberals remain silent on the prime minister's political future.
Feds say carbon price will lower carbon emissions 12 per cent by 2030
The numbers are being published today just as the House of Commons is set to debate a Conservative motion calling for the information to be released.