William Watson: Herd mentality versus herd immunity and the coronavirus
How to weigh the trade-off between what’s best for a population’s physical health and what’s best for its material well-being?
Herd immunity was a term...
Liberals retreat on sweeping bill to allow them to tax and spend without Parliament’s approval
The Liberal government announced late Monday that it has agreed to change draft legislation that proposed to grant itself wide-reaching new powers to tax...
Emergency bill would grant cabinet sweeping powers to tax and spend without parliamentary approval through end of 2021
The Liberal government is planning to table an emergency spending bill Tuesday that would grant the federal cabinet sweeping new powers to tax and...
Is There Actually a Link Between Vaping and Coronavirus?
Jack Drennan had tried to quit vaping before, but it took a global pandemic to make him finally follow through
“I heard you get a lot...
As Economic Toll Mounts, Nation Ponders Trade-Offs
Cost of confronting pandemic is millions of jobs, trillions in wealth lost to save potentially millions of lives
The White House is discussing easing social-distancing guidelines as...
