BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) - ECPv6.18.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Toronto
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20120311T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20121104T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20130310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20131103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20140309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20141102T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130907T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130907T160000
DTSTAMP:20130902T204835Z
CREATED:20130628T181352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130902T204835Z
UID:1060-1378557000-1378569600@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:Fall Potluck! (CFI Okanagan)
DESCRIPTION:We have a beautiful\, central\, park-like yard for this event. It is a private residence\, so we will send you a message with the location if you are attending. \nWhat you need to bring: \nSeating – chairs/blankets/both\nPotluck contribution – including serving utensil!\n**Dishes – in the desire to be green\, and reduce cleanup time at the host’s home we are requesting that you bring your own flatwear/dishes/glasses. Sonya will have some plastic ones on site that she will bring home and wash. Not nearly enough for everyone\, but they will be there if you can’t bring your own. \nIf you’re on Facebook\, please go here to say what you’re going to bring: \nhttp://www.facebook.com/events/615032298536779/ \nIf you’re not on Facebook\, please contact Zena (zryder@cficanada.ca) about what you can bring. Thanks!
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/fall_potluck/
LOCATION:ON
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130913T220000
DTSTAMP:20130802T045233Z
CREATED:20130802T045233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130802T045233Z
UID:1709-1379098800-1379109600@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:Sons of Perdition\, film screening.
DESCRIPTION:In the desert of Utah hides Colorado City\, the oldest polygamist compound in the United States. Here men have plural wives and raise their children by the strict code of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint religion (FLDS). \nAfter his rise to power\, the prophet Warren Jeffs began a systematic effort to cleanse his flock. He banned schooling\, books\, recreations\, and excommunicated prominent men\, marrying their women to other men. Hundreds of teenage boys were exiled to the streets\, giving up their families and salvation. \nSons of Perdition follows three boys after they leave Colorado City.  With limited educations and rarely a stable address\, the obstacles are enormous.  All the boys have big dreams—starting with the hope of attending high school—but what they want most is contact with their families. For one teen in the film\, this means numerous attempts to help his fourteen-year-old sister escape before an arranged marriage. \nWith unprecedented access\, Sons of Perdition takes audiences on a three-year-journey into the lives of these remarkable teens\, providing the inside analysis to make this intimate portrait a big story—a timely\, critical look at faith\, family and religious exile in mainstream America. \n 
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/sons-of-perdition-film-screening/
LOCATION:Centre humaniste du Québec\, 1225 Boul. Saint-Joseph\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2J 1L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Montreal
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://centreforinquiry.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SonsOfPerdition-e1375419039806.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130913T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130913T230000
DTSTAMP:20130913T204526Z
CREATED:20130913T204526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130913T204526Z
UID:1999-1379106000-1379113200@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:Equinox Celebration and Year End Fundraising Campaign Public Kick-Off Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a package of special events in celebration of the fall equinox (or make up your own pretext for a freethought extravaganza) and help us raise funds for our programs! CFI apologies for the short notice on these activities\, but only recently have we been granted access to some of these incredible guests\, and we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make these exciting programs available to you. \nA special equinox reception will take place from 9:00 – 11:00 PM \nPrices below are for individual events\, which may be purchased separately.\nThe value of all events is $100. \nCFI is offering all events in our Equinox Package:\n$75 General\n$60 Members\n$50 New and Renewing Members (please visit www.cficanada.ca/support to purchase your membership before buying at this rate) \nThe Equinox Package will come with a tax receipt for $50.\nUnfortunately no tax receipt is available for individual events. \nBuy tickets: cfiequinoxcelebration.eventbrite.com \n\n  \nWhen: Friday September 27th\, 9pm \nWhere: Croft Chapter House\, University College (UC 183)\, 15 King’s College Circle\, University of Toronto \nHow Much: $20 \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/equinox-celebration-and-year-end-fundraising-campaign-public-kick-off-reception/
LOCATION:Croft Chapter House\, University College (UC 183)\, University College\, 15 King's College Circle\, University of Toronto\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFIC Toronto,Social Gathering,Toronto
ORGANIZER;CN="CFI Toronto":MAILTO:ontario@cficanada.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130921T190000
DTSTAMP:20130912T220223Z
CREATED:20130815T182832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130912T220223Z
UID:1828-1379782800-1379790000@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:Cafe Skeptique
DESCRIPTION:This is a group for drinks\, food and informal discussion around all things skeptical: UFOs\, ghosts\, cryptozoology\, alternative medicine\, new age and new thought and pseudoscience. \nThis month’s topic: \nTo be announced \nWhen: Saturday September 21st\, 7pm \nWhere: Free Times Cafe\, 320 College St (just west of Spadina) \nHow Much: $5 recommended Donation
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cafe-skeptique/
LOCATION:Free Times Cafe\, 320 College St\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFIC Toronto,Discussion
ORGANIZER;CN="CFI Toronto":MAILTO:ontario@cficanada.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130926T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130926T210000
DTSTAMP:20130829T200811Z
CREATED:20130829T200811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130829T200811Z
UID:1963-1380222000-1380229200@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:The Revisionaries in Vernon (CFI Okanagan)
DESCRIPTION:Documentary about how creationists on the Texas state school board try to force their religious beliefs into school text books.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/the-revisionaries-in-vernon-cfi-okanagan/
LOCATION:Vernon Public Library\, 2800 30th Ave\, Vernon\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://centreforinquiry.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1717-e1377806581870.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130927T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130927T170000
DTSTAMP:20130913T203714Z
CREATED:20130913T201848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130913T203714Z
UID:1993-1380294000-1380301200@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:Science education and storytelling: A Conversation with Sean Carroll
DESCRIPTION:Sean Carroll is an evolutionary biologist and a leading figure in evolutionary development (evo devo)\, focusing on research into genes and their role in evolution and diversity. He is passionate for science communication and education\, and authored Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species\, The Making of the Fittest and Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo. \nIn this talk Professor Carroll discusses the role of storytelling in communicating scientific exploration and discoveries\, and how they have effected our understanding of ourselves and our relationship to the natural world. \n  \nWhen: Friday September 27th\, 3pm \nWhere: University College (UC 179)\, 15 King’s College Circle\, University of Toronto \nHow Much: $20 \nCoffee\, tea and light snacks to be provided \nBuy tickets: cfiequinoxcelebration.eventbrite.com
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/science-education-and-storytelling-a-conversation-with-sean-carroll/
LOCATION:Croft Chapter House\, University College (UC 183)\, University College\, 15 King's College Circle\, University of Toronto\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFIC Toronto,Toronto
ORGANIZER;CN="CFI Toronto":MAILTO:ontario@cficanada.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130927T210000
DTSTAMP:20130913T203355Z
CREATED:20130913T195125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130913T203355Z
UID:1990-1380308400-1380315600@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:Lecture Series - A Secret Part of Our Legal Tradition Humanism\, Social Justice\, and the Power of Juries Featuring Gary Bauslaugh\, Author
DESCRIPTION:Canadians know that the jurors at a trial decide the defendant’s guilt or innocence according to the law of the land. What they don’t know is how far that right actually goes\,\nand what the real power of juries is. \nSometimes people — even jurors — wonder if a law or a judgment in a particular case is a just one. When the law seems wrong\, we are told there is only one solution: change the law. \nIn fact\, though\, in our legal system there is another remedy: When jurors decide that to question the fairness of applying the law in the case they are deciding may lead to a manifestly unfair and unjust result\, they have the right not to apply that law. However\, in Canada it is illegal and completely forbidden for a trial lawyer\, or even a judge to tell jurors they have this right to nullify the law. \nIn the Canadian justice system\, jurors can hand down a verdict of not guilty even if the facts pointing to guilt are clear\, even if the accused doesn’t deny the facts\, even if the judge tells the jurors to find the accused guilty. This centuries-old safeguard\, which goes along with the principle of jury independence\, has protected people’s rights and freedoms and helped sweep away laws that ordinary citizens think are outdated and unjust. \nThis power of juries is known to the legal community — but is largely unknown by the general public — until now. Gary Bauslaugh\, author of Robert Latimer\, A Story of Justice and Mercy (Lorimer\, 2010)\, learned the specifics of this matter as a result of his research around the Robert Latimer case. In his new book\, written for non-expert readers and citizens who have been summoned for jury duty\, he tells the story of jury nullification from Quaker leader William Penn to the modern-day acquittal of Henry Morgentaler\, who was charged with conducting abortions. Bauslaugh then lays out the arguments that some people make against jury independence and nullification\, and makes his own argument in favour of these safeguards. He offers suggestions for jurors who may find themselves in a situation where their consciences are at odds with the law. \n  \n  \nWhen: Friday September 27th\, 7pm \nWhere: University College (UC 179)\, 15 King’s College Circle\, University of Toronto \nHow Much: $10\n \nBuy tickets: cfiequinoxcelebration.eventbrite.com
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/lecture-series-humanism-social-justice-and-the-power-of-juries-with-gary-bauslaugh/
LOCATION:University College (UC 179)\, University College\, 15 King's College Circle\, University of Toronto\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFIC Toronto,Lecture,Toronto
ORGANIZER;CN="CFI Toronto":MAILTO:ontario@cficanada.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130929T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130929T140000
DTSTAMP:20131011T064022Z
CREATED:20130626T071620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131011T064022Z
UID:1026-1380454200-1380463200@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:John Rawls's Theory of Justice (Saskatoon)
DESCRIPTION:John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice was one of the most important and controversial books in philosophy of the second half of the Twentieth Century. \n \n \nFor this month’s meet up\, we are hosting a talk / discussion on Rawls’s theory\, given to us by Will Buschert\, of the UofS Philosophy and Political Science departments. \nRawls’s theory of justice revolves around the adaptation of two fundamental principles of justice which would\, in turn\, guarantee a just and morally acceptable society. The first principle guarantees the right of each person to have the most extensive basic liberty compatible with the liberty of others. The second principle states that social and economic positions are to be (a) to everyone’s advantage and (b) open to all. \nA key problem for Rawls is to show how such principles would be universally adopted\, and here the work borders on general ethical issues. He introduces a theoretical “veil of ignorance” in which all the “players” in the social game would be placed in a situation which is called the “original position.” Having only a general knowledge about the facts of “life and society\,” each player is to make a “rationally prudential choice” concerning the kind of social institution they would enter into contract with. By denying the players any specific information about themselves it forces them to adopt a generalized point of view that bears a strong resemblance to the moral point of view. “Moral conclusions can be reached without abandoning the prudential standpoint and positing a moral outlook merely by pursuing one’s own prudential reasoning under certain procedural bargaining and knowledge constraints.”
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/monthly-meetup-saskatoon/
LOCATION:Venice House\, Sutherland\, 906 Central Avenue\, side room\, Saskatoon\, Saskatchewan\, S7N 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Saskatoon
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130930T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130930T120000
DTSTAMP:20130913T203306Z
CREATED:20130913T203119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130913T203306Z
UID:1995-1380535200-1380542400@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:Fundraising Event: Brunch\, Interview and Q & A with Dr. Jill Tarter
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Event: Brunch\, Interview and Q & A with Dr. Jill Tarter\, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Icon and the inspiration behind Carl Sagan’s protagonist in Contact \nThe event will consist of a catered brunch reception\, featuring an interview with Dr. Jill Tarter conducted by Justin Trottier\, CFI Spokesperson and Host of The Star Spot\, an astronomy podcast and radio show. Following the interview Dr. Tarter will be available for Q & A and conversation. \nAstronomer Jill Tarter is the holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI. She is one of the few researchers to have devoted her career to hunting for signs of sentient beings\, and there are few aspects of this field that have not been affected by her work. \nJill was the lead for Project Phoenix\, a decade-long SETI scrutiny of about 750 nearby star systems\, using telescopes in Australia\, West Virginia and Puerto Rico. While no clearly extraterrestrial signal was found\, this was the most comprehensive targeted search for artificially generated cosmic signals ever undertaken. Now Jill heads up the Institute’s efforts to build and operate the Allen Telescope Array\, a massive new instrument that will eventually comprise 350 antennas\, each 6 meters in diameter. This telescope will be able to enormously increase the speed\, and the spectral search range\, of the Institute’s hunt for signals. A subset of the full array will begin operations in the Fall of 2007. \nIndeed\, being as much of an icon of SETI as Jill is\, perhaps it is not surprising that the Jodie Foster character in the movie “Contact” is largely based on this real-life researcher. \n\n  \nWhen: Friday September 27th\, 3pm \nWhere: Hart House\, 7 Hart House Circle\, Debates Room (second floor)\, University of Toronto \nHow Much: $50 \nBuy tickets: cfiequinoxcelebration.eventbrite.com
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/fundraising-event-brunch-interview-and-q-a-with-dr-jill-tarter/
LOCATION:Hart House\, 7 Hart House Circle\, Debates Room (second floor)\, University of Toronto\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFIC Toronto,Discussion
ORGANIZER;CN="CFI Toronto":MAILTO:ontario@cficanada.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130930T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130930T210000
DTSTAMP:20141209T035706Z
CREATED:20130913T205152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141209T035706Z
UID:2002-1380567600-1380574800@centreforinquiry.ca
SUMMARY:The Science and Philosophy Book Club - Reinventing the sacred : a new view of science\, reason and religion by Stuart A. Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:This group is dedicated to providing a friendly\, free-thinking environment in which to discuss books that inspire rewarding conversation on subjects related to science and philosophy. \nConsider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke\, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand\, but arose on its own in the changing biosphere?In this bold and fresh look at science and religion\, complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman argues that the qualities of divinity that we revere—creativity\, meaning\, purposeful action—are properties of the universe that can be investigated methodically. He offers stunning evidence for this idea in an abundance of fields\, from cell biology to the philosophy of mind\, and uses it to find common ground between belief systems often at odds with one another.A daring and ambitious argument for a new understanding of natural divinity\, ‘Reinventing the Sacred’ challenges readers both scientifically and philosophically. \n 
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/the-science-and-philosophy-book-club-reinventing-the-sacred-a-new-view-of-science-reason-and-religion-by-stuart-a-kauffman/
LOCATION:ON
CATEGORIES:Book Club,CFIC Toronto,Toronto
ORGANIZER;CN="CFI Toronto":MAILTO:ontario@cficanada.ca
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR