Australia Votes
A while ago I posted about the declining political fortunes of Julia Gillard, the atheist who was unceremoniously dumped as Prime Minister of Australia and leader of the Australian Labor Party to give...
View ArticleManufacturing Hysteria
Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, is claiming to be “defending freedoms.” In an email1 sent to people he hopes are of the same mind, Trudeau claims the PQ government’s plan is...
View Article“There Is Only One Ontario”
Ontario Liberal MPP Monte Kwinter got his name in the Globe and Mail and got unanimous support for his self-serving motion that affirms the province will not support any legislation that would restrict...
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Why atheists should oppose abolishing the Senate
The Senate of Canada The big political news in Canada this past week: the Senate, and the shenanigans going on there. What a mess, eh? Entertaining, in a morbid, cynical way, but what a damn mess. What...
View ArticleThe May Science
In Quebec we have politicians trying to use the word ‘secularism’ to rebrand their same-old-same-old party ideology, and elsewhere we have others trying to take the ‘science’ label for their own. “We...
View Article“Quebec’s Liberals Sabotage Assisted Dying Legislation”
Udo Schuklenk begins his February 21 article in the Kingston Whig-Standard by saying, What a week this has been. Schuklenk is referring to the subject of his article: Quebec’s Liberals have sabotaged...
View ArticleGod Says That You – Yes, You – Can Keep And Bear Arms
American news website The Daily Beast notes that “American gun lobbyists” such as Erich Pratt of Gun Owners of America have seized on the ructions in Ukraine as an example of the evils of gun control....
View ArticleTell The Government What You Think About Prostitution
Our government is soliciting (so to speak) input from members of the public about the issue of prostitution in Canada. As the relevant website explains: On December 20, 2013, in the case of Bedford v....
View ArticleJustin Trudeau’s Little Joke About Ukraine
Not long ago a gaffe was made in Canadian politics. Yes, gentle reader – a gaffe. The dead in their graves cried out to heaven in bitter outrage, and the sun wept tears of fire upon the wretched Earth....
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Religious Sensibilities
It seems a photo caused quite a stir on the internet recently. Was it a drawing of the prophet Mohammed? That seems absurd enough for people to get riled up over. No? Was it images of holy books being...
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Ontario: Christianity and Crown
Ontario’s official motto is “Ut incepit Fidelis sic permanet” (Loyal she began, loyal she remains). Ontario continues to be loyal to Christianity and the British Crown as indicated by Ontario’s...
View ArticleA Sappho Award For Ezra Levant
A couple of weeks ago the indispensable and insufferable Ezra Levant was given a Sappho Award by a Danish organization called, in English, The Free Press Society. The Society proclaims Sappho to be the...
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Can Corporations Believe in God and Opt Out of Providing Birth Control?
Next week, a case will be heard before the US Supreme Court concerning the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employer insurance plans cover contraception. The US Supreme Court will have to decide...
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This is not an unbelievers’ world
So last year I wrote about Freedom of Thought 2013, the report by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) about state discrimination against and persecution of atheists, humanists, and the...
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Ontario Celebrates Karol Wojtyła Day
On April 2, 2014, Ontarians, whether they are aware of it or not, will mark the first Karol Wojtyła (aka Pope John Paul II) day in Ontario. Bill 72, Pope John Paul II Day Act, 2014 was passed in what...
View Article“The Public God”?
One is tempted to suspect that Michael Enright and CBC Radio One got their most recent topic for the The Sunday Edition from the Canadian Secular Alliance. On March 26, the Canadian Secular Alliance,...
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Morgentaler Abortion Clinic in Fredericton to Close
tinyurl.com/ovddfk8 Canadian women are in danger of being denied easy access to abortion: The Morgentaler abortion clinic in Fredericton will close at the end of July following a 20-year fight with the...
View ArticleUnbelievable!
“Unbelievable” is the key word in Alberta Liberal MLA Kent Hehr’s statement: “Fifteen years after the Supreme Court outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, it is unbelievable this...
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“The Fragile State of Women’s Reproductive Rights”
On April 11, Canadian Atheist drew attention to this announcement The Morgentaler abortion clinic in Fredericton will close at the end of July following a 20-year fight with the New Brunswick...
View ArticleHow We Baptize Terrorists
I love Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska who ran for Vice-President of the United States back in 2008. She’s one of those political figures, like Rob Ford in Canada or George Galloway in the...
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