Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
By Leslie Rosenblood In the July 2019 edition of Critical Links , we told you about Byron Wood, an atheist nurse and alcoholic. He wanted to attend a rehabilitation program that was non-theistic in nature. His union did not provide one, and when he did not complete the Alcoholics Anonymous program because he refused to turn his…
By Leslie Rosenblood All Canadian charities must declare their primary purpose when they register with the Canada Revenue Agency; approximately 40 percent of Canadian charities exist for the “advancement of religion.” The Church of Atheism of Central Canada applied for charitable status under the “advancement of religion” category. Its request was denied by the CRA,…
By Seanna Watson Polio eradication: Two down, one to go. Let’s start with some good news. A wild poliovirus strain has now been declared eradicated. Poliovirus Type 3 was officially declared eradicated by the WHO in October of 2019, four years after the eradication of Type 2. Only Type 1 still remains in the wild. (Read more here .) Unvaccinated…
By Sandra Dunham CFIC member and retired accountant John Manuel took the raw data provided in CFIC’s first report on the cost of religion in Canada, and concluded that our numbers understated the tax savings for donations to charities whose self-declared primary purpose is “Advancement of Religion.” Mr. Manuel and I reviewed the numbers and determined that the…
Are there more possible a) pieces of Western-style music (in standard notation), b) books written in English, c) genomes for living things on Earth, or d) games of chess (FIDE)? Show your work! (And beware the type-token distinction!)