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SUMMARY:Public Forum Meeting
DESCRIPTION:CFI Vancouver is pleased to present a Public Forum Meeting. Do you have questions about CFI? Do you want to volunteer or get involved? What sorts of activism do you want CFI Vancouver to focus on? What kinds of Events would you like to see? These questions and more will be discussed at our Public Forum Meeting. \nIn order to involve our members\, our supporters and the public who come to our events\, we want these meetings to be a chance for people to ask us questions\, suggest strategies and get involved in events. The meeting will be chaired by three representatives from CFI Vancouver and they will take questions from the audience on important topics relating to CFI. \nThis is an opportunity to make your voice heard\, and let us know where you’d like us to director resources to help make Vancouver a more skeptical and humanist friendly city. \nWe will be meeting at the back room of the Tipper Restaurant. From 7pm to 8pm will be dinner and socializing and from 8pm to 9pm will be discussion by our CFI reps. \nAs the Tipper is generously giving us use of the back room for free\, please consider coming and buying food and/or drinks. \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/public-forum-meeting/
LOCATION:The Tipper Restaurant\, 2066 Kingsway\, Vancouver \, BC \, V5N 2T3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Vancouver
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130519T120000
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SUMMARY:Montreal Freethinkers Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Hello fellow freethinkers. This month we were going to be reading be reading Nonbeliever Nation by David Niose. However\, I tried to pick it up at Chapters and Indigo and its out of stock at the moment. I did however order the book and found out it won’t be delivered until around the 10th of May. That does not leave very much time for reading so I am going to postpone this book for the following Month of June. This month just for a little fun\, we will read “The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster”. This book is a satirical look at religion. Recently we have been dealing with some pretty serious topics including psychology\, Scientology\, leaving religion etc. I think this book will inspire some funny conversation and make an easy read for this month. It will give us a chance to have a little more fun this month. \n  \n \nCAN I GET A “RAMEN” FROM THE CONGREGATION?! \nBehold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM)\, today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson\, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM’s devout followers\, a.k.a. Pastafarians? Some say it’s the assuring touch from the FSM’s “noodly appendage.” Then there are those who love the worship service\, which is conducted in pirate talk and attended by congregants in dashing buccaneer garb. Still others are drawn to the Church’s flimsy moral standards\, religious holidays every Friday\, or the fact that Pastafarian heaven is way cooler: Does your heaven have a Stripper Factory and a Beer Volcano? Intelligent Design has finally met its match–and it has nothing to do with apes or the Olive Garden of Eden. \nWithin these pages\, Bobby Henderson outlines the true facts– dispelling such malicious myths as evolution (“only a theory”)\, science (“only a lot of theories”)\, and whether we’re really descended from apes (fact: Humans share 95 percent of their DNA with chimpanzees\, but they share 99.9 percent with pirates!) \nFor a trailer for this book copy and paste these links in your address bar. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVP31rKdDAY \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk8EANdpAj0 \n  \nCome Join your local CFI Montreal Freethinkers at Café Commensal ( Metro station Berri-UQaM)\, where a book title will be selected for each one of us to read\, and then engage in discussions and debates afterward. \nFeel free to contact Andrew Cody if you have any questions or suggestions. We will be meeting every third Sunday of the month. If you’re not a CFI member yet\, please consider joining us today! Click on http://cficanada.ca/support
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/montreal-freethinkers-book-club/
LOCATION:Commensal Café\, 1720 Rue Saint-Denis\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Montreal
ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew Cody":MAILTO:seeandrewplay@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130518T130000
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SUMMARY:Café Inquiry: Why Nuclear Power?
DESCRIPTION:Café Inquiry is a monthly casual discussion group run by CFI Vancouver. Come along and enjoy afternoon tea and stimulating discussion with fellow freethinkers on a variety of topics. \n\nIn order to be economical and useful\, a power plant must produce more energy than it costs to build and run it. This concept is known as Energy-returned-on-energy-invested\, or EROI. Careful consideration of this concept in conjunction with a rigorous skeptical eye on the numbers produced (see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544213000492) seems to rule out certain popular approaches to energy production. Nuclear energy on the other hand excels from an EROI perspective but remains unpopular for a variety of other reasons. \nOur May Café will be moderated by Lars Martin. Lars is a physicist in the process of finishing up his PhD in Nuclear Astrophysics at TRIUMF. He is not directly involved in nuclear energy but generally in favour. He has voted for the Green Party before. \nCafé Inquiry is free but donations are requested to keep the program running. \n \n 
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cafe-inquiry-why-nuclear-power/
LOCATION:Room 1520\, SFU Harbour Centre\, 555 W Hastings St\, Vancouver \, BC \, V6B 4N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Vancouver
ORGANIZER;CN="CFI Vancouver ":MAILTO:vancouver@cficanada.ca
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SUMMARY:Skeptics in the Pub
DESCRIPTION:Montreal Skeptics in the Pub is a casual social event for local science enthusiasts who value critical thinking and skepticism. Join us for conversation\, drinks\, and food in a friendly atmosphere. We meet on the second Saturday of every month at the Ye Olde Orchard Irish Pub @
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/skeptics-in-the-pub/
LOCATION:Ye Olde Orchard Irish Pub\, 1189 De la Montagne\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Montreal
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SUMMARY:CFI Public Forum Meeting
DESCRIPTION:CFI Vancouver is proud to host a public forum on CFI activities. This is an opportunity to socialize with CFI volunteers and suggest ideas for events\, activism\, and policy. The meeting will be chaired by local CFI volunteers and will take questions and discuss plans with members\, the public and other volunteers. \n \nJoin us at the Tipper Restaurant at 7pm for dinner and socializing until 8pm when we will start the forum. \nThe Tipper generously gives us the back room for free so please consider buying dinner or drinks to help support their business.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cfi-public-forum-meeting/
LOCATION:The Tipper Restaurant\, 2066 Kingsway\, Vancouver \, BC \, V5N 2T3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Vancouver
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SUMMARY:Café Inquiry
DESCRIPTION:Café Inquiry is a monthly casual discussion group run by CFI Vancouver. Come along and enjoy afternoon tea and stimulating discussion with fellow freethinkers on a variety of topics. \n \nCafé Inquiry is free but donations are requested to keep the program running. \nWe’ll be in Room 1520 the Barrick Gold Lecture Room.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cafe-inquiry/
LOCATION:Room 1520\, SFU Harbour Centre\, 555 W Hastings St\, Vancouver \, BC \, V6B 4N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Vancouver
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SUMMARY:CFI Freethinker’s Book Club: The Believing Brain
DESCRIPTION:CFI Vancouver’s Book Club meets every second Saturday of the month at The Grind Coffee Shop on Main Street at King Edward. Most of the books we discuss are available through the Vancouver Public Libraries – http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/\, can be found for sale at Chapters or online at Amazon.ca \n \n \nApril’s book is: ‘The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths’ by Michael Shermer \n— \nFrom Amazon.ca: \nSynthesizing thirty years of research\, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put\, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain\, Shermer argues\, is a belief engine. Using sensory data that flow in through the senses\, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns\, and then infuses those patterns with meaning\, forming beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs\, accelerating the process of reinforcing them\, and round and round the process goes in a positive-feedback loop.\nIn The Believing Brain\, Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates\, from politics\, economics\, and religion to conspiracy theories\, the supernatural\, and the paranormal. And ultimately\, he demonstrates why science is the best tool ever devised to determine whether or not our beliefs match reality. \n— \nThe book is available from the Vancouver Public Library; as well as from online sellers such as Amazon.ca and Chapters.indigo.ca . Please make sure to read the book before the meeting! \nPlease bring your ideas for future books to the next meeting\, or email them to us. \nCFI Vancouver’s Book Club meets every second Saturday of the month at The Grind Coffee Shop on Main Street at King Edward. \nAdmission is free\, however please consider becoming a member of CFI and/or making a donation to help keep this and other programs running. \nEvent Links \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cfi-freethinkers-book-club-the-believing-brain/
LOCATION:The Grind Coffee Shop\, 4124 Main St\, Vancouver \, BC \, V5V3P7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Vancouver
ORGANIZER;CN="CFI Vancouver ":MAILTO:vancouver@cficanada.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130324T173000
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SUMMARY:Debate: Be it Resolved Government Funding for Ontario Roman Catholic Schools be Abolished
DESCRIPTION:Debate: Be it Resolved Government Funding for Ontario Roman Catholic Schools be Abolished \n\nSpeakers: Justin Trottier (Centre for Inquiry Toronto\, Secularist) vs Patrick Dunne (Professor\, King’s University College) \nSponsor: The Humanist Association of London and Area & The Society of Atheists and Agnostics at Western.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/debate-be-it-resolved-government-funding-for-ontario-roman-catholic-schools-be-abolished/
LOCATION:Western University\, Labatt Health Sciences Building\, Room 40\, 1151 Richmond St\, London\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Debate,Toronto
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130312T080000
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SUMMARY:Science\, Society & Beverages Book Club: "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar"
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Brown will present Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes\, by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. Available at amazon.ca in dead-tree\, Kindle and audio formats.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/science-society-beverages-book-club-plato-and-a-platypus-walk-into-a-bar/
LOCATION:Burgers on Main\, 343 Somerset St. West\, Ottawa\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Pandemic disease - should we be worried?
DESCRIPTION:The signs on the buses proclaim:  “There’s probably no God\, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”  So now that we don’t have to worry about eternal perdition as the wages of our sinful lives\, we can turn our energies to exploring (and hopefully addressing) more mundane threats. \n \nTo this end\, epidemiologist Alex Demarsh will present a history of pandemics and future risk\, a talk that was originally scheduled for the Sunday morning session at the Eschaton 2012 conference last December. \nThe talk will gauge current pandemic risk by examining historic events\, trends\, and drivers\, and examining which of these determinants of risk have changed\, are currently changing\, or are likely to change in the near future. \nThe cost of the event is $2 for members of CFI\, and $5 for non-members (for more information about becoming a member of CFI go to cfiottawa.com/join). \nThe talk will be followed by refreshments and time for informal discussion.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/pandemic-disease-should-we-be-worried/
LOCATION:Meeting Room\, 464 Metcalfe St\, Ottawa\, ON\, Canada
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