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After two years of scrapped Capital Pride Parades, the 2022 parade made a record-breaking comeback on a sunny, hot, August, Ottawa afternoon. It took over 90 minutes for the 185 colourful floats and 7,500 participants to pass by. Humanist Canada took the lead, organizing a joint, collaborative parade entry with CFI Canada, Ontario Humanist Society,…
Details February 12th, 2020 marked 211 years since the birth of Charles Darwin. CFIC Ottawa celebrated (the next day) with a get-together including a talk on fossils by Carleton University PhD student Dana Korneisel. Dana gave us an animated informative talk on her research into the possibility of fossilized blood. We started at 7pm…
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Author talk: Democracy, Deity, and Death Dr Qais Ghanem discussed his recent book, Democracy, Deity, and Death. The novel describes a series of discussions among 4 Arabs, with completely different religious backgrounds and beliefs, who meet regularly at a London café. The fictional participants include a young devout Muslim from…
Sunday, December 22, 2019 12pm come celebrate the holiday season, the first morning of the winter solstice, the end of Saturnalia, and the eve of both HumanLight and Festivus with free-thinkers, atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, those questioning their faith, and others who are no longer part of a religious community. This won’t be a traditional…
December 10 at the Fox and Feather we celebrated the end of blasphemy laws in Canada. On December 13, 2018, Canada’s blasphemy law was repealed, with the passage of Bill C-51. December 10 is also the 71st anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Kevin Brown gave us a brief talk about…
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