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SUMMARY:CFI Calgary January Skeptics in The Pub
DESCRIPTION:Skeptics in the Pub Calgary has been running monthly since 2008! This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month. Join us for drinks\, discussion\, and debate about all science and skeptical topics. \nAt the Pig and Duke pub we have the group of raised tables to the left when you enter the pub. There is also free parking up top in an attached parkade.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cfi-calgary-january-skeptics-in-the-pub/
LOCATION:Pig and Duke\, 1312 12th Ave. S.W.\, Calgary\, Alberta\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Calgary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150113T210000
DTSTAMP:20150103T201855Z
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SUMMARY:Okanagan - After the dinosaurs: Extraordinary rates of erosion and how they created the Canadian landscape
DESCRIPTION:  \nCFI Okanagan is collaborating with the Okanagan Jewish Community Centre for this event. \nThis presentation marks a departure from Dr Robert Young’s usual work in that it addresses processes and time\nspans much larger than his Ice Age studies. It is important because it addresses the mechanisms and timing of processes responsible for leaving Canada the way we see it today. The journey is surprising and the inferences enormous\, and of interest to anyone who wishes to understand how this part of the natural world acts. \nDr Young became attracted to an academic life after being bitten by a bug called “Earth Surface Processes”. Having completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of Alberta\, and a Ph.D. at the University of Calgary\, he has ended up at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Throughout his academic career\, Dr. Young has worked on a number interesting projects\, collaborating with Ice Age Palaeontologists. \nThis event is free.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/okanagan-after-the-dinosaurs-extraordinary-rates-of-erosion-and-how-they-created-the-canadian-landscape/
LOCATION:Okanagan Jewish Community Centre\, 102 Snowsell St.\, Kelowna\, British Columbia\, V1V 2E8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150117T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150117T210000
DTSTAMP:20150112T203623Z
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SUMMARY:Okanagan - Dinner with Eric Adriaans
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us for dinner at 5:30pm and/or an informal presentation by CFI Canada’s National Executive Director\, Eric Adriaans at 7pm. He will be telling us about what’s been going on with CFI Canada. \nIn the upstairs room at the Bunkhouse Restaurant\, 2777 KLO Rd\, East Kelowna. \nhttp://bunkhousebarandgrill.com/ \nIt would be much appreciated if you could RSVP so I can make sure there’s enough space. Thanks!
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/okanagan-dinner-with-eric-adriaans/
LOCATION:The Bunkhouse\, 2777 KLO Rd\, Kelowna\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150120T210000
DTSTAMP:20150114T145554Z
CREATED:20150105T043534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150114T145554Z
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SUMMARY:CFI Calgary Movie Night "Silence of The Labs" + Special Guest
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe CBC documentary “Silence of the Labs” investigates the changing landscape of public funding for scientific research and its relationship to public policy. Scientists across the country are expressing growing alarm that federal cutbacks to research programs monitoring areas that range from climate change and ocean habitats to public health will deprive Canadians of crucial information. This is a must see documentary that raises important issues about public-interest science and the state of our democracy. \nIn the past five years the federal government has dismissed more than 2\,000 scientists\, and hundreds of programs and world-renowned research facilities have lost their funding. Programs that monitored things such as smoke stack emissions\, food inspections\, oil spills\, water quality and climate change have been drastically cut or shut down. \nFollowing the documentary we will be joined by Dr. Randy Tyson\, a Canadian Scientist who will enlighten us with his experiences with the federal government’s cutbacks to Canadian Science programs.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cfi-calgary-movie-night-silence-of-the-labs-special-guest/
LOCATION:Ten Nightclub\, 1140 10ave SW\, Calgary\, AB\, T2R-1M4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Calgary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150122T210000
DTSTAMP:20150107T201431Z
CREATED:20150107T201430Z
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SUMMARY:Okanagan - CFI Okanagan Volunteers' Meeting
DESCRIPTION:If you already volunteer for CFI Okanagan\, or you are interested in doing so\, please come out to our next volunteers’ meeting. \nPlease contact Zena Ryder if you haven’t attended before and would like to come. I can let you know the address.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/okanagan-cfi-okanagan-volunteers-meeting/
LOCATION:ON
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150124T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150124T213000
DTSTAMP:20150112T204425Z
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SUMMARY:Okanagan -  Pot-Luck Social and Extreme Woo-Woo Contest
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome bring in the New Year with CFI. \nBring your family — including kids! — and friends\, a food dish (appie\, main dish or dessert) to pass along. Let’s share in creating community and have fun with skeptical humour. \n5:30pm Appies\, 6:15 Dinner\, 7:15 Contest Starts \nTo learn more about the contest go to:\nhttp://centreforinquiry.ca/extreme-woo-woo-contest/ \nAre you in the know of the most extreme woo-woo? Do you know of a real life irrational and extreme belief system with bona fide followers?\nWell we want to know about it!\nAre you prepared to win over the skeptical judges and the curious audience with your choice of the most extreme woo-woo out there? Can you present it\, sing it or act it?\nAre you up to the challenge?\nEnter your body and fill the hall up with your spirit\, challenge the others and perhaps you will win Kelowna’s first ever Extreme Woo-woo Contest. Prizes for 1st\, 2nd and 3rd place. \nPresentations can be done solo or as a group skit (parents and children welcome to present) \nNo alcohol allowed.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/okanagan-pot-luck-social-and-extreme-woo-woo-contest/
LOCATION:Parkinson Activity Centre\, 1700 Parkinson Way\, Kelowna\, British Columbia\, V1Y 4P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan,Social Gathering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150126T210000
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SUMMARY:CFIC - Science & Philosophy Book Club - "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion" by Sam Harris
DESCRIPTION:This group is hosted by CFI Canada members Christine Gagnon and Vlad Bunea at our National Headquarters\, 55 Eglinton Ave E.\, Suite 307\, Buzzer Code 49\, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Suggested donation is $5. There is an after-event at a location near the office. \nThe goal is to provide a friendly\, free-thinking environment in which to discuss books that inspire rewarding conversation on subjects related to science and philosophy. \n \nFor the millions of Americans who say they want spirituality without religion\, Sam Harris says his new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. \nFrom multiple New York Times bestselling author\, neuroscientist\, and “New Atheist” Sam Harris\, Waking Up is for the 30 percent of Americans who follow no religion\, but who suspect that Jesus\, Buddha\, Lao Tzu\, Rumi\, and the other saints and sages of history could not have all been epileptics\, schizophrenics\, or frauds. Throughout the book\, Harris argues that there are important “truths” to be found in the experiences of such contemplatives—and\, therefore\, that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow. \n Waking Up is part seeker’s memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way\, and no author other than Sam Harris—a scientist\, philosopher\, and famous skeptic—could write it.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cfi-science-philosophy-book-club-waking-up-a-guide-to-spirituality-without-religion-by-sam-harris/
LOCATION:ON
CATEGORIES:CFIC Toronto
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150127T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150127T190000
DTSTAMP:20150121T022324Z
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SUMMARY:CFIC T.O. - Silence of the Labs: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Centre for Inquiry Canada – Toronto branch is co-hosting an event with the U of T School of Public Policy. There will be a screening of the CBC Fifth Estate documentary called “Silence of the Labs” followed by a panel discussion.\n\n \n\n\n \nThis documentary highlights the ongoing challenges facing scientists and researchers as a result of federal budget cuts\, presented by Evidence for Democracy. In the past five years\, hundreds of Canadian scientists have been forced to discontinue their work as a result of lack of funding. The result is less informed policy making and potentially severe issues overlooked or misunderstood.\n\n \nThe event is free but you will need to go to Eventbrite by clicking “Register Now” below to select your ticket quantity\, print and bring your  registration to the event entrance:\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\nLocation\nCG-160\nCanadiana Gallery\n14 Queen’s Park Crescent West\, Toronto \n\n\nThe film presentation will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with: \n\nProf. Steve Easterbrook\, Department of Computer Science\, U of T\nProf. Richard Peltier\, Department of Physics\, U of T\nProf. Margrit Eichler\, OISE and Executive Director of Scientists for the Right to Know\n\nAgenda \n5:30 pm: Opening remarks\n5:35 – 6:20 pm:   Presentation of the film\n6:20 – 7:00 pm:  Panel discussion and Q&A \nEvidence for Democracy (E4D) is a national\, non-partisan\, and non-for profit organization that advocates for the transparent use of science and evidence in public policy and government decision-making.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cfic-toronto-silence-of-the-labs-documentary-screening-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Canadian Gallery\, Room CG-160\, 14 Queen’s Park Crescent West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFIC Toronto
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150129T180000
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SUMMARY:Okanagan - Vernon Skeptics and Humanists
DESCRIPTION:  \nGather with skeptical\, humanist friends and family in Vernon. Kids welcome. Apparently there’s even 1/2 price pizza!
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/okanagan-vernon-skeptics-and-humanists/
LOCATION:Monashee’s Bar and Grill\, 2911 30th St.\, Vernon\, British Columbia\, V1B 5C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan,Social Gathering
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