Category: Announcement

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United Way, Employee Giving and Centre For inquiry Canada

December 29, 2014December 29, 2014 NED

Every year United Way agencies across the country operate annual fundraising campaigns with local events, publicity and partnerships with local employers. Did you know that you can direct your contribution to CFI Canada? The process is simple. When you receive a contribution request form, simply provide CFI Canada’s registered charitable number: CFIC’s Charitable Number: 83364 2614 RR0001 The United…

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Gifts in Kind at Centre For Inquiry Canada

December 29, 2014 NED

What are Gifts in Kind? Gifts-in-Kind are donations of property or assets. Often people are interested to know if a donation of a service qualifies as a gift in kind. Here is Canada Revenue Agencies answer to that question: Gifts in kind of a taxpayer include capital property, depreciable property, personal-use property including listed personal property…

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Planned Giving At Centre For Inquiry Canada

December 29, 2014 NED

What is Planned Giving? Planned giving is the process of including charitable giving as part of your personal financial plans. Typically planned giving includes a variety of tools such as wills, bequests, life insurance, annuities and even stocks or bonds. Planned giving is usually a method to make significantly larger gifts to a charity or…

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Are Organized Religions a Possible Public Health Hazard “Vector”? Apparently we have our job to do…

December 24, 2014March 3, 2015 info

During CFI Canada’s monitoring of public health concerns such as anti-vaccination proponents, we often encounter pseudo-scientific claims and fears from people who either ignore or don’t understand the science behind vaccination and immunization. However, we’ve lately also noticed an increase in the troubling incursion of religion in this area of public health and healthcare.

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Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom

December 23, 2014October 27, 2019 info 1 Comment

Centre For Inquiry Canada continues to develop forward-thinking relationships to provide support and assistance for Canadian and international secular humanists. On December 22, 2014, Kevin Smith (Chair of the Board of Directors) and Eric Adriaans (National Executive Director) invited Eric Thomas (President of Humanist Canada) to participate in CFI Canada’s second meeting with Ambassador Andrew Bennett of Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom (ORF).

CFI Canada and Humanist Canada (HC) share many concerns regarding the welfare and human rights of atheists, humanists and secular humanists. Eric Thomas, of HC commented: “it was evident that collective and concerted effort towards the development of “human dignity” on the international stage is a shared objective. The Humanist Canada focus on an inclusive perspective as part of its educational mandate is well served by participating with the Office of Religious Freedom led by Ambassador Bennett. We are committed to the development of new venues as active partners. The Humanist Canada Board and its national membership sincerely appreciate the opportunity to participate.

CFIC had previously met with Ambassador Bennett in the Spring of 2013 to discuss the mandate of the ORF and CFIC’s position that atheists and non-believers must be provided the same protections as religious minorities when facing persecution by religious governmental regimes. Since that meeting, CFIC has been pleased to observe Ambassador Bennett’s support of CFI’s work to support Raif Badawi at the United Nations Human Rights Council (CFI Transnational’s Michael DeDora advocacy work of June 2014) as well as his comments on the subject of freedom from religion:

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