COMMONS: Cults

In this bonus episode, COMMONS producer Noor Azrieh sits down with Peter Smith to discuss his reporting on right-wing conspiracy groups like Qanon and Romana Didulo.

But at what point does it go from being harmless entertainment and turn into something more sinister?

Romana Didulo, the self-proclaimed Queen of Canada, is unlike almost any other cult leader Canada has ever seen

MLMs have become such a ubiquitous part of North American life that their tenets are rarely ever questioned.

Nearly 1.4 million Canadians and almost 50 million Americans are involved in multi-level marketing.

Mary-Jayne Blackmore is one of the oldest children of Winston Blackmore, the most famous polygamist in Canada. 

The media have portrayed the Raelians as not just a cult, but a strange phantasmagoria of extraterrestrials, orgies and clones. But its followers insist it is the only true path forward for humanity.

The Cult Wars have been raging for decades.