Clik here to view.
Alberta Parents Vote to Keep Prayer in School
There has been an on-going debate in Alberta about the Lord’s Prayer and I wrote about it some time ago. Recently, parents in Busby, Alberta voted to keep the Christian prayer in the public classroom....
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Canadian Masquerade”
Marco DeRossi, member of the Board of Directors for Atheist Freethinkers/Libres penseurs athées, exercised his right to vote in the 2015 federal election wearing the costume featured in the photo...
View Article“A Humanist Reflection on #Elxn42”
Ian Bushfield, Executive Director for the BC Humanist Association, has listed his expectations from Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberal government: “From what he promised during the campaign, there...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“They Were Atheists”!
Hemant Mehta sends the following message to the Bangladeshi State Minister for Home Affairs, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who claims that the “Attacks on Avijit’s Publishers Are Isolated Incidents”: What...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Stop showing off, Canada. You’re embarrassing us.”
Update: Mélanie Joly, Canada’s new Minister of Canadian Heritage, is one of the 16 cabinet ministers who skipped “So Help Me God.” ————– “Stop showing off, Canada. You’re embarrassing us,” are the...
View ArticleThat “Non Religious Kids are More Altruistic” Study
I’ve received emails and read many a tweet and Facebook post from gleeful atheists about this study. I can’t really blame them for their excitement, for we are continually confronted with assertions...
View Article“Declaration for a Secular Public Service”
I am a working member of Atheist Freethinkers/Libres penseurs athées. Yesterday, I was notified that the “Declaration for a Secular Public Service” is now official policy of AFT. It has also been...
View ArticleFighting God/Promoting Secularism
David Silverman’s book, Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World was released today. Amazon describes Silverman as one of the most recognizable faces of atheism. . . . a walking,...
View ArticleThe Sumerian Heresy
I’m not pleased. Enki would not be pleased. The foul Icelanders have besmirched the honour of Sumer. Followers purport to be worshipping ancient Sumerian gods, but the group’s raison d’être seems to...
View ArticleUnacceptable Nonsense
If a man standing on a street corner were stopping people to tell them what Baby Jesus wants, most people would either ignore him or have sympathy for him because the man appears to be incapable of...
View Article“It’s Time To Excommunicate Public Catholic Schools”
Everyone who objects to publicly-funded Catholic schools will agree with Joshua Ostroff’s arguments against them in the Huffington Post Canada article “It’s Time To Excommunicate Public Catholic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleRecommended Reading
Today, BC Humanist tweeted a link to a blog post by Robert McMann: “Fighting For Secular Schools in Small Town Saskatchewan“: My story has to do with the prayer in public schools conversations,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Catholic Schools: Debate? What Debate?
An article on CanLII Connects.org says On April 4, 2014, the Ontario Divisional Court ruled in Erazo et al. v. Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board that, pursuant to the Education Act, certain...
View ArticleSeparation of Church & State in Canada II
Diana MacPherson’s May 2014 post “Separation of Church & State in Canada” continues to be a popular Canadian Atheist post, so it’s time to add to the discussion with an example of a blatant breach...
View ArticleIntroducing MuktoMona
Canadian Atheist is proud to introduce MuktoMona, a Bengali/English blog founded by Avijit Roy (1971 – 2015) in 2001, edited by number of volunteers, among them Raihan Abir, a Bangladeshi atheist...
View ArticlePetition Against Religious Symbols
The following RPL Petition Against Religious Symbols Worn by Canadian Cabinet Ministers is available on Petitions24.com: Petition of the Rassemblement pour la laïcité (Alliance for Secularism) against...
View Article“Hate Quebec, Hate Secularism”
Full disclosure: As David Rand says, I am David’s “friend and colleague” and a member of Atheist Freethinkers. However, if I thought David’s points about the way Canadian Atheist and the rest of Canada...
View ArticleGood News
Everyone who agrees that publicly funding Catholic separate schools in Ontario is discriminatory and fiscally irresponsible will tell you that this Globe and Mail headline is good news: “Student Files...
View ArticleBad News
Richard Dawkins has had a stroke on the eve of his tour of Australia and New Zealand. …Richard suffered a minor stroke, however he is expected in time to make a full or near full recovery,” the...
View Article