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Steven Pinker in Toronto
On October 24, Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker will be the guest of honour at the Toronto Reference Library (TPL), Bram & Bluma Appel Salon where he will discuss his...
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An Evening with Steven Pinker at the Toronto Reference Library (TPL), Bram...
Steven Pinker and Mark Medley During Audience Q&A Last night Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage...
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Good Without God: Winter Clothing (Etc) Drive
Source: is.gd/ArubA6 In a couple of weeks, volunteers from the Centre For Inquiry Okanagan branch will be busy collecting donations of winter clothing, food and other items and delivering them to Inn...
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“God’s Politics?”
The second Chesterton Debate is entitled “God’s Politics? A Debate on Religion’s Role in Political Life.” The series website’s “About” section maintains The Chesterton Debate Series, inspired by the...
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February 12: International Darwin Day
http://darwinday.org/about/ Charles Darwin was born on on 12 February 1809. Let’s celebrate Darwin Day by taking the International Darwin Day website’s suggestions for a fitting way to celebrate the...
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Saint Patrick’s Day
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with an animated band of shamrocks fiddling and dancing. Time magazine tells us what many of us already know: The holiday, also known as the Feast of...
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Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?
Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? is the title of Timothy Caulfield’s latest book. Penguin: is.gd/3nlZKR So who is Timothy Caulfield? Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law...
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The Non-Conference 2015: A message from Spencer Lucas, Founder and Organizer
I launched The Non-Conference in November of 2014 with the rather bold intention that it would become an annual highlight in the atheist event calendar. With the success of the inaugural conference...
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World’s 1st & Only Gay Object: The Gay Sweater
Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 8, is International Day of Pink. Laureen Harper will be wearing pink tomorrow to show [her] support for Canadian teens across our country who have been bullied, beaten up...
View ArticleDr. Christopher Di Carlo on The Zoomer
When a producer at The Zoomer contacted CFI Canada about participating in a show taping co-hosted by Conrad Black and Libby Znaimer, the answer had to be “yes”. How could we not !? Now, we have some...
View ArticleTEDx Stanley Park: Physician-assisted Dying
On May 23rd there will be a unique opportunity to hear BC Civil Liberties Association’s Grace Pastine speak about the Carter v. Canada case. The folks over at BCCLA sent me an email which I’m passing...
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Save the Date: Jerry Coyne in Toronto
CFI Canada Toronto Branch eagerly awaits Jerry Coyne’s appearance in Toronto. On Wednesday, June 10th at 7:30 pm, Coyne will present on his new book, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are...
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Meet Reva Landau
The publication of Reva Landay’s book Privileged Status: Public Funding – The Surprising History of Ontario Catholic Separate Schools, was announced on this site on April 16, and Renton Patterson’s...
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Coming Soon – Jerry Coyne @CFI Toronto
CFI Canada Toronto Branch welcomes JERRY COYNE University of Chicago evolutionary geneticist on Wednesday, June 10th at 7:30 pm at the OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St W to present his new book Tickets...
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Victoria Day 2015
http://is.gd/azBYdS While Victoria Day is celebrated on the last Monday before May 25 in honour of Queen Victoria’s birthday, it is a very Canadian holiday: Victoria Day is also commonly referred to as...
View ArticleBigfoot Lives!
On Thursday, May 14th, the Toronto Branch of Centre for Inquiry Canada welcomed Jarret Ruminski to present “Bigfoot Lives!…Sort of: Why Sasquatch Persists in the Information Age.” NicolSD was in...
View Article“Light My Fire”
Ever since I received the June 5 reminder about the “the opportunity to hear Jerry Coyne discuss his new book Faith vs. FACT: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible,” the song “Light My Fire” has...
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Jerry Coyne in Toronto – Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are...
Yesterday evening, I attended, Jerry Coyne’s talk, Faith Vs Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Auditorium in Toronto. This...
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A Doodle and a Guide for Father’s Day
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Father’s Day: As well, today, Ian Bushfield retweeted a tweet from the Young Humanists of the British Humanist Association: Parent/Humanist? Download our new...
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Chevalier de la Barre Day
Today most Canadians will be observing Canada Day. But July 1st is the anniversary of a tragic story in freethought history. Chevalier de la Barre Day is mostly observed by French freethinkers, but I...
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Happy Canada Day 2015
Google marks Canada Day 2015 with a Doodle The National Post has a fun quiz: Just in time for Canada Day, Historica Canada (the group that puts out Heritage Minutes) has released the results of a...
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On This Day . . .
Early this morning, EDT, Norm Kelly, City of Toronto Councillor, sent out this tweet: On this day in 1976, the House of Commons passed Bill C-84 which abolished the death penalty in Canada. The last...
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Happy Holiday Monday
Cartoon by Steve Nease The Canadian August long weekend is celebrated under different names all over the country: It’s called Regatta Day in Newfoundland, Saskatchewan Day in SK, British Columbia Day...
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Vancouver Pride 2015
@JeffInVanBC : http://is.gd/2Y1eqV The 37th annual Pride Parade, which took place yesterday, was particularly significant because organizers asked groups and politicians participating in the event to...
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Non-Conference: Focus on Blasphemy
Lawrence Krauss and I encourage you to attend Non-Con 2015. Ontario’s largest event for supporters of humanism, secularism, and atheism will take place in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada on August 22,...
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Book Lovers Day
Today is A day for those who love to read, Book Lovers Day encourages you to kick back and relax with a great book. From shaded spots under arching trees to being tucked up warm in bed, there’s no...
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River City Reasonfest Conference!
The Humanists, Atheists, & Agnostics of Manitoba (HAMM) would like to welcome you to the River City Reasonfest Conference September 19-20, 2015 in Winnipeg: Please join us for two days of...
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“Just ‘Press PLAY’ for Peterborough Pride”
Peterborough, Ontario is celebrating its 13th year of Peterborough Pride: Peterborough Pride Week is a cornerstone annual event for the community that helps everyone feel welcome in Peterborough....
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“Give Peace a Chance”
@OxfordWords reminds us today is International Day of Peace. In 2001, the General Assembly by unanimous vote adopted resolution 36/67, which established 21 September as an annual day of non-violence...
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“God: Fact or Fiction?”
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at, Canada invites you to attend an Interfaith Symposium on Saturday, November 21 in Lindsay, Ontario. The Symposium will include a 15-20 minute presentation by each speaker...
View ArticleArmin Navabi at Non-Con 2015
In a NicolSD/AtheismTV video, filmed at Non-Con 2015, Armin Navabi, founder of The Atheist Republic, tells us what it’s like to be an ex-Muslim in the Middle East.
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“‘Interfaith’ Symposium in Lindsay”
Pierre Thibault, a member of Atheist Freethinkers, attended the Interfaith Symposium that was held in Linsday, Ontario on November 21. Thibault has written a post on the event: On Saturday, November...
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Shift To Reason Conference
Saturday, 30 April 2016 Brainstorm Podcast’s Shift To Reason Conference is a really good reason to be in Regina at the end of April. As the organizers of “Saskatchewan’s first secular and skeptic...
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Society and Culture Lecture
Update: The dialogue between Larry Moran and Denis Alexander, “Is There a Conflict Between Science and Religion?” will be live streamed on YouTube at 7:00 PM ET, tomorrow, January 29. Wycliffe College...
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#GodDebate
On Wednesday, March 30, 2016, Shawn P. Conroy,* President, Central Ontario Humanists, and William Haughton, Co-ordinating Minister, Collier United Church, will debate the perennial question “Does God...
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Delusional Logic
I posted this chart from Something Surprising on January 28, 2012. The post disappeared when the site was attacked, so I’m posting it again: You may find the chart useful if you decide to watch...
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Announcing NONCON 2016
Get your tickets now; the Early Bird ticket price is available until April 22, 2016: EARLY BIRD Conference ticket includes: All Day Conference, buffet lunch and dinner, free parking, information and...
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International Blasphemy Day 2016
Tomorrow (30 Sept) is International Blasphemy Day. Just one of many “Jesus LOL” memes. In honour of the day, and to protest the fact that we still have a blasphemy law in Canada, I’d like to open the...
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Human Rights Day 2017
Today, 10 December, is Human Rights Day. But this year’s Human Rights Day is a little different. Normally, the United Nations gives each Human Rights Day a theme. 2014’s theme was: Every day is Human...
View Article“Is Christianity or Secular Humanism a better foundation for human rights?”
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen There was a recent conversation entitled “Is Christianity or Secular Humanism a better foundation for human rights?: A conversation Between a Christian and a Secular...
View ArticleIraqi Atheists Arrested for Atheism
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Al-Monitor reported on the arrests sent out for Iraqis charged with the crime of atheism. The charges come through the Dhi Qar province Garraf district judiciary. Atheism as...
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Unholy back for limited run
Unholy is coming back to Toronto for a short run in November, in a set of shows being filmed in front of a live audience for a TV special. Unholy Unholy is the award-winning play by Diane Flacks about...
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Dr. Leo Igwe on the Risks in Leaving Religion in Nigeria and an Upcoming...
Image Credit: Leo Igwe. By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Leo Igwe is the founder of the Nigerian Humanist Movement and former Western and Southern African representative of the International Humanist and...
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“Canada is a Christian country”
— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Vice News reported on a recent conservative and Christian event, not always easy to separate in the current sociopolitical context. This was in, of course, Ontario, and...
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Losing Our Religion exposes the changing landscape of religion in North America
This post is a guest post by the Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) Manitoba. Come out to the first ever Centre For Inquiry Canada (CFIC) Manitoba event. A screening of the documentary film, Losing Our...
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Not-Moot Zoot on Clergy Coming Oot
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Winnipeg Free Press commented on Zoot Pictures and its work on non-believers. Leslea Mair, who is a filmmaker based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, worked on a project through Zoot...
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Women of Color Beyond Belief Conference 2019
— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen *Attendance information at the bottom.* The Women of Color Beyond Belief Conference will be taking place from October 4 to 6, 2019, in Chicago at the Marriott Midway Hotel....
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Updates on Christchurch Shooting
— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen There has been an update on the trial of the mosque mass murderer and terrorist, Brenton Tarrant, charged with the murder of 51 people in Christchurch, in New Zealand. BBC...
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