Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
Leslie Rosenblood The Canadian Commission for Democratic Expression (CCDE) is a project of the Public Policy Forum, which seeks to “study and publish advice on how to prevent and mitigate the negative effects of illegal and other forms of harmful online content on democracy in Canada while encouraging robust democratic debate and dialogue.” Seven Canadian…
Scott Douglas Jacobsen If you want to murder someone with an illegitimate excuse, then a decent manner in which to do so is the excuse of the State, as such, whether secular-authoritarian or theocratic. Navid Afkari was executed. Afkari was a wrestler accused of murder who had “international appeals for him to be spared.” In…
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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