Author: Critical Links
Don’t Like Public Funding of Religious Schools? It’s Time to Get Noisy!
Thanks to all of our members who printed, signed, and returned petitions opposing the public funding of Catholic school boards in Ontario. This petition will be presented in February. We would also like to make some noise about this issue in February. Humanist groups and others in Ontario who are interested in this issue are…
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Prayers Research: The Saguenay Project
Leslie Rosenblood The BC Humanist Association is looking for volunteers to help with their Saguenay Project. For the past several years, the BCHA has been investigating unconstitutional prayers in municipal council meetings across the country (see the Do cities listen to the Supreme Court? episode of Podcast for Inquiry). This work has helped ensure that municipalities adhere…
Liberate Canada From What, Tucker?
Russell Pangborn We are warned by Vinay Menon that Tucker Carlson is in Canada this week and the haters are paying $300 to hear him trash our country and leader. This person who knowingly spouted lies about a stolen election to support a party that tried many times to skuttle Obamacare in the U.S. wants…
The Cultural Defence: Mitigating Factor or Something Else?
Howard Doughty “Invoking a cultural defence has become a popular but controversial legal strategy… It is used to mitigate punishment, create exemptions from policies, and increase the size of damage awards… Although it may be defended as a matter of principle, if this defense has any chance of being formally adopted, policies must be established…
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