Thank You Thursday Centre for Inquiry Canada relies on you; our members, our donors, our volunteers and our readers, to help us achieve our mission. We know 2020 was a challenging year for most of you. Thank you for being with us this year. GivingTuesday Recap We celebrated Giving Tuesday for the entire month of December. We’re thrilled and grateful to all donors for helping us to exceed our Giving Tuesday target. With your help, CFIC will make a difference for the future of Canada and Canadians. About CFIC Our goal as an educational charity is to build a better Canada. That means a Canada in which citizens have the capacity to think critically about important matters, in which science is used to solve our big challenges and which the national agenda is free from religious influence. We want to ensure that the Canada our children inherit from us is better than the one we inherited from our parents. CFIC has a broad objective of building community with three key core areas of focus. Scientific Skepticism We value the scientific process. We reject pseudoscience. We have come so far in understanding the world through the natural sciences, and yet we are bombarded with unfounded claims, untruths and nonsense from the modern equivalent of the snake oil salesman. Critical Thinking We value critical thinking as the search for what is true, as opposed to what we might want to be true, or what someone might want us to think is true. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. We believe these basic concepts of critical thinking should be taught to schoolchildren. Canada would be better prepared for the future if we equipped our children with the ability to think critically. Secularism We value the right of every Canadian to be religious, or not. We promote the principle that Canada is a secular country, where government should neither fund nor promote any religion. The Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) is a registered education charity with branches in several parts of the country. We are a volunteer organization, wholly dependent on the generosity of our members and contributors.
