Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch brings up an ideological...
With a legacy characterized by Canada’s worst human rights record in the modern era, utter disdain for the environment, the proroguing of Parliament (twice), and the muzzling of scientists, I think all...
View ArticleLeave the Goats Alone
Ages ago, when I had a crappy office temp job, the news reported a church arson. (Office chitchat was common but most people were polite enough to avoid politics and religion, in favour of sex and...
View ArticleReflections on the Sanders Campaign: Implications for the Left
Guest post by Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson I would vote for Bernie Sanders. It’s not just that he stands for universal education, real Medicare, racial equality, reduced income inequality, and action on...
View ArticleBritain’s Existential Issue
Guest Post by Anisur Rahman The future of Great Britain is at a critical juncture now. The country is facing an issue which would determine whether it remains within the European Union (EU) as a single...
View ArticleAFT Denounces Polish Government’s Plans to Ban Completely All Abortions
Atheist Freethinkers press release makes very clear its disgust with the Polish government’s plans to ban all abortions: AFT Denounces the Polish Government’s Plans to Ban Completely All Abortions...
View ArticleHealth Canada and the Hijab
Waleed Al-Husseini posted this photo on his Facebook page on March 10 and commented Voici le genre de publicité que le ministère de la santé canadien produit . . . (Here is the kind of advertising...
View ArticleAnd Shub-Niggurath For PM
I’m not, generally speaking, the kind of Canadian who gets too caught up in the three-ring circus of U.S. presidential elections. The marathon campaigns that go on south of the border may be one of the...
View ArticlePetition Against Religious Symbols
The following RPL Petition Against Religious Symbols Worn by Canadian Cabinet Ministers is available on Petitions24.com: Petition of the Rassemblement pour la laïcité (Alliance for Secularism) against...
View ArticleThe Amusing and the Absurd
Peter Marsh’s tongue-in-cheek response to Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger’s bill to change the words ”all thy sons command” in “O Canada” to “all of us command” is amusing but oh so familiar: Since the...
View ArticleCanada Includes “All of Us”
There’s another piece of good news from another Liberal MP. An article in the Guardian, tweeted by BC Humanists, announces “Canada Considers Changing National Anthem to Include Country’s Women” Liberal...
View ArticleThe Circus of Religion
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Canadians are fascinated by the United States and American politics. An article in the Globe and Mail entitled “The U.S. Circus of Religious Nationalism”...
View ArticleCatholic Schools: Debate? What Debate?
An article on CanLII Connects.org says On April 4, 2014, the Ontario Divisional Court ruled in Erazo et al. v. Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board that, pursuant to the Education Act, certain...
View Article“Justin Trudeau Not Ready . . .”
The Vancouver Sun and other Canadian media report Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he isn’t planning for the moment to call Saudi Arabian authorities to ask that jailed blogger Raif Badawi be freed....
View ArticleAngela Merkel: Multiculturalism Is a Lie
In a Reuters video via the Globe and Mail, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterates her belief that multiculturalism in Germany remains ‘a lie,’ telling immigrants to ‘obey our values and traditions...
View ArticleNo prayer for you
I’m not easily offended. I don’t much care about the magical incantations people often feel the need to mumble, but if someone says they will pray for me… in a goodwill sorta way… I will simply take it...
View Article“Stop showing off, Canada. You’re embarrassing us.”
Update: Mélanie Joly, Canada’s new Minister of Canadian Heritage, is one of the 16 cabinet ministers who skipped “So Help Me God.” ————– “Stop showing off, Canada. You’re embarrassing us,” are the...
View Article“A Humanist Reflection on #Elxn42”
Ian Bushfield, Executive Director for the BC Humanist Association, has listed his expectations from Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberal government: “From what he promised during the campaign, there...
View ArticleFranke James : “My Dangerous Art”
On Sunday, October 11, more than 40 members of the BC Humanist Association enjoyed a brilliant and whimsical yet frightening presentation by the PEN Canada/Ken Filkow prize winning artist Franke James....
View ArticleWomen of Mass Distraction
Sorry, but yes, once again, I am talking about… the Niqab: It is clear that the canard about a tiny number of Muslim women hiding their identities behind niqabs at citizenship ceremonies will be the...
View ArticleWhich is worse, being Christian or being Conservative?
Just this week, the Angus Reid Institute released an interesting survey about Canadian attitudes toward the European refugee/migrant crisis. Most of the results really weren’t all that surprising....
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