/spgh/taxonomy/term/621/all en /spgh/channels/news/how-covid-19-made-canada-comfortable-marginalizing-37-million-people-montreal-gazette-january-14-336546 <p>Phoebe Friesen, Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit, is among the experts quoted by the <em>Montreal Gazette</em>.</p> <p style="margin-left:40px">"After the announcement of Quebec’s tax on the unvaccinated, ƻ����Ժ biomedical ethicist Phoebe Friesen told Reuters that it would make just as much sense to start levying a tax on obese people. “If you want to be consistent and logical, you should charge all sorts of people for their hospitalization if it’s based on behaviour that they’re ‘responsible’ for,” she said."</p> Mon, 17 Jan 2022 23:06:32 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 1156 at /spgh /spgh/channels/news/quebec-tax-unvaccinated-may-be-lawful-sets-risky-precedent-experts-reuters-january-12-2022-336492 <p>Phoebe Friesen, Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit, is among the experts quoted by Reuters.</p> Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:06:51 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 1150 at /spgh