Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
By Sandra Dunham Every day I read something new about COVID-19. Some of it is clearly “snake-oil,” but some sounds very legitimate, and a host of other information seems to fall somewhere in the middle. Should I wear a mask? Wash my groceries? Will the virus hang around in the air for days? Or merely…
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June 2020 News and Events
By Mark DeWolf A glaring omission in the flood of news reports and opinion pieces concerning the spread and deadliness of the COVID-19 virus is a probing examination of how religion plays into the current worldwide crisis. When such an important topic is nowhere discussed, one cannot help but wonder if such a discussion would…
By Doug Skeggs I happened to be in our back garden this past Sunday morning and heard bells ringing from one of the churches across the Muskrat River. It got me thinking about my neighbours and others in our community who typically attend church services every Sunday, and wondering how they’re doing. Attending church is…
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By Leslie Rosenblood Secularism has several definitions, and confusion can result if people do not have a common understanding of how it is being used. CFIC supports political secularism, defined as government neutrality in matters of religion; that is, the state should neither support nor suppress religious expression. Quebec’s Bill 21, regrettably generally referred to as its…
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