Commentary Looking at the phrase “informed consent” on a page, it’s obvious it contains two interdependent words. There’s the noun “consent,” which means, well, agreement. And there’s the adjective “informed,” which means you know everything possibly necessary about what you’re agreeing to. As phrases go, it’s not that complex. So why, when it comes to the medical-political matrix of COVID-19, has the Canadian and U.S. mainstream media apparently decided that the “informed” part of the two-word binary is pretty much dispensable? Put another way, why are so many otherwise fine and fully functional journalists furiously fixated on pushing the ideology of “mandated consent” when their actual job is to provide the “informed” part? Put another way still, why do I have to get behind the paywall of a tiny Ottawa-based subscription news service to learn what should be top of the newsfeeds from now until COVID no longer overwhelms water-cooler …