Sylvia Shawcross Now you’d think that Jacinda Ardern, a WEF star, would have picked a different turn of phrase to explain her exit. Instead of lamenting that she didn’t...

Sylvia Shawcross And so most of us are surviving the festive season which for some is more like the festering season. I am writing this as an apology from...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

CJ Hopkins Well, it has been quite a year, 2022. I’m officially dubbing it “The Year of the Gaslighter.” I was going to dub it “The Year of the...

James Corbett is joined by Rob Kittredge and Hatim Kheir of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to talk about their participation in the Public Order Emergency Commission in...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

Sylvia Shawcross Please note: This is not a humour column so avoid if despondent or if a highly judgmental holier-than-thou arse feeling omnipotent on a keyboard and by just...

Sylvia Shawcross Oh for heavens sakes! It took awhile but I finally figured it out. They have discombobulated their desires into a substitute agenda because they can’t face what...

Todd Hayen Everyone knows if you pour sand in a car’s gas tank it will eventually destroy the engine. It will get all clogged up and fail to function....

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

The pull of Right vs Left Politics is still so strong, at least here in the USA, that I feel the need to state at the outset that my...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal (or in this case “The past two weeks in the new normal”) is our (mostly)...

Sylvia Shawcross I’m afraid to go out there now. In the world I mean. Not because it is getting more and more violent or because of the germs or...

Todd Hayen Vultures are birds that seek out wounded animals about to die and then swoop down on them when they are dead (or close to death) and devour...

Sylvia Shawcross Now, some of us, admittedly not a large number at this point, find ourselves up at midnight reading The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet and wondering...

Sylvia Shawcross Now, as the crimes against humanity mount in a world on the precipice of colossal change, our hope lies in Artificial Intelligence. This is the way it...

Ray McGinnis At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

Todd Hayen PhD Stop the party, folks, it’s not over until the fat lady sings, and she is only taking a break. I’ve written about this premature euphoria several...

A joint project between the Central Bank of Canada and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be researching the possibility of an entirely digital Canadian dollar, it was announced...