Rob Wipond is a freelance journalist and creative nonfiction writer who writes frequently at the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, community issues, policing, surveillance and privacy, and social change. His articles have been nominated for seventeen magazine and journalism awards, and he’s the author of the book Your Consent is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships (BenBella, 2023).
The White House has apparently denied a British Independent reporter a previously promised place aboard US President Donald Trump’s aircraft after the journalist challenged him over a proposed whistleblower reward programme. Andrew
Canada and Turkey will begin negotiations on a free trade agreement in November, as Ottawa seeks to expand its international economic partnerships amid a worsening trade dispute with the United States. The announcement came during Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s
At least 16 people have been killed and 32 injured in a magnitude-7 earthquake in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, according to the state news
Thousands of people demonstrated across Poland to demand abortion rights, accusing Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government of failing to deliver on its election promise
Following excerpts adapted from the author’s most recent book, Your Consent Is Not Required, published by BenBella Books, Inc. Upon retiring to the sunny Okanagan Valley in British Columbia in 1997, my
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