Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
Leslie Rosenblood On November 2, the Quebec Superior Court began hearing arguments for and against the constitutionality of Bill 21, which (among other things) forbids the wearing of religious symbols for many civil servants in the province. (See here for a brief history of the legal challenge of the bill to date, and here for CFIC’s official stance…
Doug Thomas Canada’s refugee policies discriminate against atheist refugee claimants. That policy includes a Less Complex Claims (LCC) category that applies to refugee claimants from certain religions, and from certain countries. It allows them to gain refugee status without a hearing, or with a shortened hearing, but atheists are excluded. Secular Connexion Séculière (SCS) is…
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By Sandra Dunham Recently, the Sarnia Observer printed an article from Cardus, a faith-based think tank, describing the “overall totally beneficial effect of religion on the lives of everyday Canadians,” not just the religious. For those reading only the headlines, and not noting the self-serving nature of the think tank, it appears that religion is good for the economy….
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By Sandra Dunham & Seanna Watson It has been said about the people of France that they are “not religious, and the religion they are not is Catholic.” In Canada, the same description can be applied to the Quebecois of French heritage. As we have seen in recent history, “secularism” in English Canada often has a different…
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By John Varghese “Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” — Jalaluddin Rumi I feel I have been an atheist my entire life even when I was a practicing Christian. Oxymoronic though this statement sounds, it seems a perfectly natural state of being to me!…