New Republic’s Article: Ireland Abortion Case Reveals Draconian Horror of...
The New Republic has published Jerry Coyne’s article about an Irish refugee forced to carry the fetus of her rapist called, Ireland Abortion Case Reveals Draconian Horror of Catholic Law. You may...
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Infantilizing Believers: a No-Win Game
Last night US President Barack Obama addressed Americans on TV to inform them how the US will engage in the elimination of ISIL (aka IS, ISIS), the Sunni jihadist group that has proclaimed itself a...
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The Non-Conference: TORONTO 2014
WHY A CONFERENCE FOR NONS: In Seinfeld, Jerry sits across from George at the diner and inanity ensues. From this sidetracked conversation about salsa George has an epiphany. The show they will...
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God and the Winnipeg Police Force
This past Saturday evening (Nov 8), the Humanists, Atheists and Agnostics of Manitoba (HAAM) invited Police Chief Devon Clunis to speak with them. Chief Clunis gave a talk called, Creating a Culture of...
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No Atheists in Foxholes? I could care less.
When the dust settled on the terrible attack on parliament last month, we noted with frustration the irksome phrase “no atheists in foxholes” appeared in a speech, otherwise moving in its call for...
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Rick Mercer Calls Attention to Harper Government’s Anti-Science Stance
Earlier this week, Rick Mercer ranted about treatment of science by the current Canadian government. His words echo the statistics I’ve written about previously, that talk about how Canadians are...
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Egypt’s Muslim and Christian Scholars Team Up to Rid Egypt of Atheism
According to World Bulletin, Muslim and Christian scholars in Egypt have teamed up to forge “a ‘scholarly response’ to atheism.” According to Halim, a spokesman for Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, over...
View ArticleTwenty Fifteen
George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published in 1949; the year 1984 has come and gone, but the culturally literate recognize references to words and phrases from the novel: Big...
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This is not an unbelievers’ world – 2014 edition
Last year, when I was writing about the 2013 Freedom of Thought report, my plan was to do a thorough analysis of the data in the report. That didn’t happen, mostly because Canadian Atheist was shut...
View ArticleLetter to Wladyslaw Lizon, MP
Renton Patterson, from Civil Rights in Public Education (CRIPE), sent an email to Wladyslaw Lizon, MP for Mississauga East-Cooksville, to congratulate Lizon for his successful efforts to have April 2...
View ArticleCanada Has a Blasphemy Law!!!
Not many people know that Canada has a blasphemy law, but thanks to Centre For Inquiry Canada (CFIC), Canadians are finding out that Section 296 of the Criminal Code says (1) Every one who publishes a...
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Atheist Freethinkers’ Press Release
In its press release, Atheist Freethinkers (AFT) “Condemns Horrific Attack on Charlie Hebdo [and] Calls for Repeal of Blasphemy Laws”: Montreal, 8th January 2015 — Atheist Freethinkers (LPA-AFT), an...
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“My Dress Is Not a Yes”
On January 9, Huffington Post Canada announced, Toronto students T essa Hill and Lia Valente, both 13, have started a Change.org petition as part of “We Give Consent,” a campaign calling on the...
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Common Sense, Integrity, Fairness, and Fiscal Responsibility
Guest post by Renton Patterson I have often wondered what goes on in an orientation session for newly-elected Ontario MPPs. I’m sure it would be an enlightening experience to be in on such a session....
View ArticleGreece’s New Godless Prime Minister
I’m encouraged by the victory of Syriza, a “far-left” party with very real communist roots, in the recent elections in Greece. Syriza took nearly half the seats in the unicameral Hellenic Parliament,...
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God Keep Our Land, Secular and Free, if You Don’t Mind
Guest post by Chloë-Lynne Adriaans Grade 12 student http://is.gd/F40oG0 The room stills. All present wait together, one baited breath, a unity of expectation. The man in the suit, the center of all...
View ArticleSecular humanist– equals but separate
I was recently reading various articles on the Internet about Secular Humanist Judaism. Various atheists I have known in person are proud to be referred to as a cultural Jew; that is they may keep some...
View ArticleJames Lunney: Again and Again and Again
Over the past week, James Lunney, Conservative Member of Parliament for Nanaimo – Alberni, has been in the news and has been discussed on blogs inside and outside Canada. Sean McGuire calls Lunney an...
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The Chicken or the Egg Question Revisited
Simon Thomas from Oxford Words Blog examines “the ontological quandary: ‘which came first: the chicken or the egg?’” After discussing “the earliest recorded use of chicken in English” and the...
View ArticleLet’s Not Do Breakfast
The National Prayer Breakfast held in Ottawa is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the slogan “50 Years of Making a Difference,” which is an extraordinary claim unaccompanied by any extraordinary...
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