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SUMMARY:Okanagan - Documentary screening: We Were Children
DESCRIPTION:  \nScreening of the 2012 documentary\, We Were Children\, about the residential school system in Canada. \nIn collaboration with Interdisciplinary Studies at Okanagan College. \nThis event is free. Room B112. \n“In this feature film\, the profound impact of the Canadian government’s residential school system is conveyed through the eyes of two children who were forced to face hardships beyond their years. As young children\, Lyna and Glen were taken from their homes and placed in church-run boarding schools\, where they suffered years of physical\, sexual and emotional abuse\, the effects of which persist in their adult lives. We Were Children gives voice to a national tragedy and demonstrates the incredible resilience of the human spirit.” \nhttp://www.nfb.ca/film/we_were_children/trailer/we_were_children_trailer \nWe are pleased to announce that we have lined up a great panel to answer your questions after the screening of this documentary. Alma Marten\, who is a survivor of the residential schools will be joining us\, along with William Cohen\, professor of Indigenous Studies at Okanagan College\, and Anthony Isaac\, Aboriginal Access and Services Coordinator at Okanagan College.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/okanagan-documentary-screening-we-were-children/
LOCATION:Okanagan College\, 1000 KLO Rd\, Kelowna\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:CFI Calgary 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-skeptics-in-the-pub-2/
LOCATION:Pig and Duke\, 1312 12th Ave. S.W.\, Calgary\, Alberta\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Calgary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150308T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150308T170000
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SUMMARY:Timothy Caulfield “When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash”
DESCRIPTION:Tickets: http://cfiyyc-caulfield.eventbrite.ca \nTimothy Caulfield is one of “Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People 2014.” Timothy Caulfield’s explosive new book “Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash” challenges pseudoscientific and sometimes dangerous advice from celebrities. Canadian author\, professor and health policy expert Timothy Caulfield spent a year not only extensively researching and talking to a myriad of experts\, but also trying some celebrity-recommended health\, diet and beauty routines. He will recount his personal experiences and present the scientific evidence\, or lack of evidence for these programs. \nCaulfield and his new book are making a difference with headlines such as “How Science tells us to Ignore Celebrity Endorsements” New Scientist\, and “Caulfield Offers Straight-Forward\, Science-Based Advice for Health and Wellness” MetroNews Canada.  He is also in high demand for media interviews. Recent Canadian interviews can be found in the Ottawa Citizen\, Edmonton Journal\, Huffington Post\, CBC Radio’s The Current\, QR77’s Kingkade and Breakenridge and many more. \nTickets: http://cfiyyc-caulfield.eventbrite.ca \nAbout Timothy Caulfield: Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. He has been the Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta since 1993. Over the past several years he has been involved in a variety of interdisciplinary research endeavours that have allowed him to publish over 300 articles and book chapters. He is a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation and the Principal Investigator for a number of large interdisciplinary projects that explore the ethical\, legal and health policy issues associated with a range of topics\, including stem cell research\, genetics\, patient safety\, the prevention of chronic disease\, obesity policy\, the commercialization of research\, complementary and alternative medicine and access to health care. Professor Caulfield is and has been involved with a number of national and international policy and research ethics committees\, including: Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee; Genome Canada’s Science Advisory Committee; the Ethics and Public Policy Committee for International Society for Stem Cell Research; and the Federal Panel on Research Ethics. He has won numerous academic awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He writes frequently for the popular press on a range of health and science policy issues and is the author of The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health\, Fitness and Happiness (Penguin 2012) and Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash (Penguin 2015). \nTickets: http://cfiyyc-caulfield.eventbrite.ca
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/timothy-caulfield-when-celebrity-culture-and-science-clash/
LOCATION:University of Calgary Science Theatres\, 527 Campus Place\, Calgary\, ab\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Calgary
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SUMMARY:Skeptical Readers Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Held in one of the 2 meeting rooms at the South End Library on Regent St.  Any and everyone is invited.  Informal discussion among friends of current affairs\, politics\, religion\, pseudo-medicine\, etc.  Bring a book (or not) and feel free to borrow others. \nFind us on Facebook at Centre for Inquiry / Sudbury CFI and like join to get the latest news and updates.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/skeptical-readers-discussion/
LOCATION:South End Library\, Greater Sudbury\, 1991 Regent st\, Sudbury\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:CFI Calgary Pastafarian Spring Equinox Bash
DESCRIPTION:  \nTickets: http://cfi-pasta.eventbrite.ca \nThe Flying Spaghetti Monster first ascended into the Astral Plane and Omnificence at the Spring Equinox. Come celebrate this momentous event at La Vienna Italian Restaurant with a spectacular Pasta Dinner! The Flying Spaghetti Monster was not impressed with our Fall Equinox pasta\, so this celebration will only serve the best hand made pastas from a true Pastafarian approved restaurant. \nThis event is $30 with advance tickets and includes a choice of 4 pasta dishes (Spaghetti & Meatballs\, Tortellini Alfredo\, Lasagna\, or Veal Tortellini in tomato cream sauce) and one alcoholic beverage. (Beer\, wine\, highballs) \nEarly bird tickets are $25 and are available until Sunday March 15. Tickets at the door are $40 so buy your tickets early! \nTickets: http://cfi-pasta.eventbrite.ca \nThis event is a fundraiser for CFI Calgary. Centre for Inquiry Calgary is a 100% volunteer run\, non-profit group. Your CFI memberships and donations from events like this allow us to continue to offer reasonably priced social events\, speakers and debates\, outreach programs\, and to pursue important human rights and skeptical activities. \nCentre for Inquiry Canada is a volunteer-based\, Canadian registered educational charity with a mandate to promote the values of reason\, science and freedom of inquiry. CFI Canada is supported entirely by voluntary donations and works across the country on issues that matter most to people like you. \nTickets: http://cfi-pasta.eventbrite.ca \n 
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cfi-calgary-pastafarian-spring-equinox-bash/
LOCATION:La Vienna Italian Restaurant\, 802 16th Ave NW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Calgary
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SUMMARY:Okanagan - Kids for Inquiry: BC Wildlife Park
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin the KFI kids for a visit to the BC Wildlife Park. Families will visit the park independently\, meeting for lunch or a train ride\, depending on what the attendees would like to do. \nhttp://www.bczoo.org/
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/okanagan-kids-for-inquiry-bc-wildlife-park/
LOCATION:BC Wildlife Park\, 9077 Dallas Dr.\, Kamloops\, British Columbia\, V2C 6V1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan,Kids
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SUMMARY:Brunch Beyond Belief
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URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/brunch-beyond-belief-2/
LOCATION:Bridge Bistro\, 390 Elgin St\, Sudbury\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Okanagan - What We Are Really and the NeoDarwinian Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:  \nDinner at 5:30pm. Presentation starts at 7pm. \nLocal naturalist\, Jorma Jykkanen (BSc Zoology\, PDP)\, will be giving us a whirlwind tour from the science of the Big Bang\, through the origins of life\, and history of evolution to the present day. He recommends the following site for background on evolution: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ \nJorma says he began his naturalist life as a boy in grade 6 studying stuffed birds behind a glass case at Rockwood Schooll\, Winnipeg. He went on into falconry and later went to university to study nature. He is a UBC trained Zoologist having studied evolution\, comparative anatomy of the vertebrates and entomology under Dr. Scudder at UBC. He also obtained a PDP from SFU with a focus in Environmental Education. Since then\, he has had various consulting and occasional teaching jobs\, and also worked as a salmon hatchery manager for a while. He did considerable consulting on pesticide toxicology over the years and was the co-discoverer of suspected carcinogen 1\,4-dioxane in Monsanto’s glyphosate herbicide Vision. He retired in Kelowna and has been active with the Central Okanagan Naturalists as an executive.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/okanagan-what-we-are-really-and-the-neodarwinian-renaissance/
LOCATION:The Bunkhouse\, 2777 KLO Rd\, Kelowna\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:CFI Okanagan,Lecture,Social Gathering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150330T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150330T210000
DTSTAMP:20150304T041155Z
CREATED:20150102T034101Z
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SUMMARY:CFIC T.O. – Science & Philosophy Book Club – “Thinking\, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman
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 \nIn the highly anticipated Thinking\, Fast and Slow\, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast\, intuitive\, and emotional; System 2 is slower\, more deliberative\, and more logical. The author exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking\, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. \nThe impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies\, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future\, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home\, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions. \nEngaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think\, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking\, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.
URL:https://centreforinquiry.ca/event/cfic-science-philosophy-book-club-thinking-fast-and-slow-by-daniel-kahneman/
LOCATION:ON
CATEGORIES:CFIC Toronto
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