Canada 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleConservative 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...
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