Category: Secularism

2023 Fierté Capitale Pride Parade — Ottawa

September 29, 2023October 29, 2023 Critical Links

Centre for Inquiry Canada (Ottawa branch) and Humanist Ottawa march in the Fierté Capitale Pride Parade.

Ontario Petition for One Public School System Updates

September 28, 2023October 1, 2023 Critical Links 1 Comment

CFIC has been working with other secular organizations to promote a petition to end the public funding of separate Catholic school boards. We have been able to extend the deadline for submissions. If you can possibly obtain more signatures, please do. We have received some questions about the petition and are happy to provide some…

Announcement, Cost of Religion, Human Rights, Secularism, Secularism in Schools

Religion: Freedom “Of” or Freedom “From”

September 27, 2023December 3, 2023 Critical Links 3 Comments

By Howard A. Doughty “Pas de liberté pour les ennemis de la liberté.” – Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (1767-1794). If the true test of free speech is the defence of hateful speech (legally abandoned due to the 1985 criminalizing of “hate speech”), what is the standard for freedom of religion? How can people committed…