Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
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I didn’t manage to get a July Conundrum in, and nobody had much to say about the June one. I press on with one that educational policy people should really think hard about. (HINT!) Predict the next value in this sequence: 0, 1, 1, 3, 2, 5, 3, 7, 4, … Now, imagine data from…
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Now showing at a theatre near you: Unplanned, based on the story of a former director of a Planned Parenthood who becomes converted from feminist pro-choice champion to zealous anti-choice advocate. Articles in Maclean’s and The Walrus review the movie here and here and CBC News discusses how a low-budget, poorly reviewed movie (which some have…
CFIC denounces Quebec’s so-called secularism law, Bill 21
Le Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) dénonce le projet de loi C21 sur la laïcité
I am a bald man with hair I am a man who is clearly not bald: I have lots of hair on my head. A man with no hair is clearly bald. This seems to be true by definition of “bald”. However, it seems also to be true that if our cue-ball like man had…