Thanks to the internet, immunization is now controversial

A recent poll indicated 29 per cent of Canadians question the science of vaccines, even though nine out of 10 agree vaccines are effective.

A Cuban doctor vaccinates a child in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in a camp for displaced persons after a major 2010 earthquake there. Sophia Paris photograph courtesy of the UN

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

February 27, 2019

OTTAWA—One of the benefits of social media is being able to maintain contact with old friends from around the world. As graduates of a high school in Montreal half a century ago, many of my former classmates followed the exodus out of Quebec in the 1970s and 1980s and now live in Toronto, Vancouve...

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