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Join a Great Team: Volunteer with CFIC
Join a Great Team: Volunteer with CFIC

Have you ever thought about being a CFIC volunteer?

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Join a Great Team: Volunteer with CFIC
Where Secular Minds Meet: CFIC Discord
Where Secular Minds Meet: CFIC Discord

Join CFIC’s Discord server to connect with like-minded adults, chat about secularism, and explore ideas from Canada and around the world.

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Where Secular Minds Meet: CFIC Discord
A Discussion About Food Security, Food Waste and New Solutions in Manitoba with Ted Dzogan
A Discussion About Food Security, Food Waste and New Solutions in Manitoba with Ted Dzogan

How a Manitoba community rescues surplus food to reduce waste and improve food access.

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A Discussion About Food Security, Food Waste and New Solutions in Manitoba with Ted Dzogan
Keith’s Conundrums: Logic Haacking
Keith’s Conundrums: Logic Haacking

In memory of Susan Haack.

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Keith’s Conundrums: Logic Haacking
Critical Links Retrospective: Astrology
Critical Links Retrospective: Astrology

Belief in astrology increases.

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Critical Links Retrospective: Astrology
Ensure Our Energy Policies Are Sufficiently Safe
Ensure Our Energy Policies Are Sufficiently Safe

Energy policy decisions should prioritize safety and be driven by data, evidence, and sound engineering principles.

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Ensure Our Energy Policies Are Sufficiently Safe
Why Humans Still Have Wisdom Teeth
Why Humans Still Have Wisdom Teeth

Can God’s “Intelligent Design” explain wisdom teeth (or cancer in children)?

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Why Humans Still Have Wisdom Teeth
Update on Omer
Update on Omer

Unrest in Nepal has settled, but still we wait

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Update on Omer
Select No Religion (2026)
Select No Religion (2026)

If you are not religious, select “no religion” on your 2021 census.

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Select No Religion (2026)
The God Effect: How Suggestion and Ritual Shape Religion and Medicine through Placebo Responses
The God Effect: How Suggestion and Ritual Shape Religion and Medicine through Placebo Responses

The God Effect reveals how the same placebo mechanisms power both medical healing and religious experience, and why belief often matters more than the treatment itself.

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The God Effect: How Suggestion and Ritual Shape Religion and Medicine through Placebo Responses
Critical Thinking QuickLinks – May 2026
Critical Thinking QuickLinks – May 2026

Haunted houses, UFOs, fake experts, AI

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Critical Thinking QuickLinks – May 2026
Science Quicklinks – May 2026
Science Quicklinks – May 2026

Space, weather, evolution, curing baldness

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Science Quicklinks – May 2026
Secularism QuickLinks – May 2026
Secularism QuickLinks – May 2026

Religion, morality, politics, and women

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Secularism QuickLinks – May 2026
May 2026 Dates of Interest
May 2026 Dates of Interest

Workers, families, peace, telecom, nature, and rockets.

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May 2026 Dates of Interest
May 2026 Critical Links
May 2026 Critical Links

May 2026 Critical Links

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May 2026 Critical Links
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Join a Great Team: Volunteer with CFIC
Where Secular Minds Meet: CFIC Discord
A Discussion About Food Security, Food Waste and New Solutions in Manitoba with Ted Dzogan
Keith’s Conundrums: Logic Haacking
Critical Links Retrospective: Astrology
Ensure Our Energy Policies Are Sufficiently Safe
Why Humans Still Have Wisdom Teeth
Update on Omer
Select No Religion (2026)
The God Effect: How Suggestion and Ritual Shape Religion and Medicine through Placebo Responses
Critical Thinking QuickLinks – May 2026
Science Quicklinks – May 2026
Secularism QuickLinks – May 2026
May 2026 Dates of Interest
May 2026 Critical Links
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Where Secular Minds Meet: CFIC Discord

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