Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen If you want to murder someone with an illegitimate excuse, then a decent manner in which to do so is the excuse of the State, as such, whether secular-authoritarian or theocratic. Navid Afkari was executed. Afkari was a wrestler accused of murder who had “international appeals for him to be spared.” In…
Leslie Rosenblood On November 2, the Quebec Superior Court began hearing arguments for and against the constitutionality of Bill 21, which (among other things) forbids the wearing of religious symbols for many civil servants in the province. (See here for a brief history of the legal challenge of the bill to date, and here for CFIC’s official stance…
Sandra Dunham In my home, the dialogue about COVID-19 and the rapidly increasing case numbers follows the narrative of “Why can’t people just do the right thing? Don’t people realize that their behaviour is making this worse?” And yet, when carefully examined, our own behaviour is, at times, less than stellar. So, why, when the…
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Saida Hameed, Zara Key, Susanna McIntyre, Christine Shellska, Ali Rizvi, Harris Sultan, Apostate Prophet, Seth Andrews, Leo Igwe are only some of the speakers on this year’s panel. Protecting Blasphemers II is CFIC’s second annual panel discussion highlighting the most recent blasphemy cases of the year. We aim to discover the areas where the global secular…
The calendar year 2020 was a perfect example of the truth being stranger than fiction. Yet, in spite of a global pandemic, the likes of which none of us has experienced before, there was a plethora of fake news, scams, and hoaxes that were circulated to create fear and generate profit for the unscrupulous. The…