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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: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
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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
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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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SUMMARY:CFI Vancouver Volunteer’s Meeting
DESCRIPTION:CFI Vancouver’s volunteers meet twice a month\, on the second and fourth Sundays of the month. These volunteer’s meetings are a great way to get involved in the local freethought and skeptic community. We get together to plan events\, discuss policy and organize skeptical activism. If you would like to volunteer with CFI Vancouver please RSVP to eclow at cficanada dot ca \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cfi-vancouver-volunteers-meeting/
LOCATION:CFI Vancouver Meeting Room\, 1383 Marinaside Crescent\, Vancouver \, BC\, V6Z 2W9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Life\, Liberty and the Right to Die
DESCRIPTION:CFI Vancouver is proud to present a lecture by Rebecca Coad: Life\, Liberty and the Right to Die. \nIn April of 2011\, the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) filed a lawsuit challenging section 241(b) of the Criminal Code\, which is an absolute prohibition on assisting someone to commit suicide. The BCCLA successfully argued that people who are grievously and irremediably ill should have a right to access medical assistance with dying based on sections 7 (the right to life\, liberty and security of the person) and 15 (equality) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In a landmark decision\, Justice Lynn Smith of the BC Supreme Court held that section 241(b) was overly broad\, grossly disproportionate and discriminatory\, and was therefore unconstitutional. \n \nThis discussion will provide an examination of Justice Smith’s decision in Carter v Canada (Attorney General)\, 2012 BCSC 886\, as well as its broader legal context. The focus of the discussion will be on the legal arguments made both in favour and in opposition to legalizing a limited form of assisted dying. Ultimately\, Justice Smith made two key findings which led her to find section 241(b) to be unconstitutional: (1) She held there is no ethical distinction between current palliative care practices and physician-assisted dying; and (2) She found that assisted dying can be successfully regulated so as to protect the vulnerable\, as demonstrated by Oregon’s death with dignity regime. Both of these findings will be explored. This discussion will also provide an overview of related issues\, such as the nature of rights protected by the Charter and some fundamentals of the Charter litigation process. \nRebecca Coad obtained a Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy and a Juris Doctorate from the University of British Columbia. She was first introduced to the legal issues surrounding choice in death as an intern for the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) in 2011. During her time with the BCCLA\, she researched Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and helped compile expert and witness affidavits for Carter v Canada (Attorney General)\, 2012 BCSC 886\, the BC Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the criminal prohibition against assisted dying. Rebecca is currently a research assistant for the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Law. Her research to date has primarily focused on the gendered effects of Canada’s tax laws\, especially with regard to the taxation of wealth. She will be working this summer on feminist issues within criminal law. For fun\, Rebecca enjoys cooking\, the theatre\, chess and Bhangra dancing. \nAdmission by donation (suggested donation of $5 to $10) \nMay 31\, at SFU Harbour Centre\, room 1700 at 7pm.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/life-liberty-and-the-right-to-die/
LOCATION:Room 1700\, SFU Harbour Centre\, 555 West Hastings Street\, Vancouver \, BC\, V6B 4N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Vancouver
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