The Crisis of Democracy in India With Milan Pandya Educator and Researcher Sunday, May 23, 2021 3:00 pm EST The current state of democracy in India is abysmal. As India’s status slips from ‘free country’ to ‘partly free’ according to Freedom…
This World First: Dispatches on Global Secular Progress With Marc Schaus Researcher and Author If you were to rank every major religious faith group around the world by size, it might surprise you to learn that the nonreligious and unaffiliated…
Whatever Happened to Saguenay? Municipal Prayer in Canada after Mouvement laïque québécois v. Saguenay With Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff Sunday, March 21, 2021 3:00 pm EST In 2018, the British Columbia Humanist Association was notified that a number of municipalities…
Black History: Achievement, Purpose, Progress Ancient Africa to 2021 With Kathleen Johnson Join us for a conversation about Black history: from Africa to the Trans Atlantic and Arabic Slave Trades, to the Civil Rights Movement up to today, from the…
A One School System in Ontario With Alvin Tedjo and Leonard Baak The Ontario government currently funds four overlapping school systems: English public, English Catholic, French public, and French Catholic. In Quebec, Manitoba, Newfoundland, and Labrador, religiously segregated school systems…
Understanding Science as a Process: Why Science is not all about Results With Dr. Christopher DiCarlo, Dr. Guilherme Guzzo, and Gabriel Dall’Alba To quote Lee McIntyre in The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience, “We live in…
Artificial Womb Technology With Srishti Hukku, research fellow and reproductive health consultant Recent scientific developments have brought forward a number of ethical debates about the risks associated with traditional pregnancy, who has the right to reproduce and how technologies should…
Strategies in Reproductive Health Activism With Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff, researcher and community organizer The rise of far-right governments in many jurisdictions across the globe risks undoing years of steady progress on reproductive rights, and there is much work to…
Female Genital Mutilation: Religion, Culture, and Human Rights With Farzana Doctor, writer and activist According to the World Health Organization, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has no health benefits, and harms girls and women in many ways. FGM involves removing and…
Understanding Aboriginal Self From A Humanist Lens With Dr. Lloyd Robertson, University of Regina Humanism presupposes the existence of a self capable of exercising individual volition. Such a self is fluid and evolving because as our understandings of reality change,…
Anti-Black Racism in Canada: Causes, Impacts and Remedies Racism in Canada has many different faces. To improve equity and justice for all in Canada, we first must understand racism from differing perspectives, and find safe spaces to inquire and understand.…
A Universal Basic Income? With Dr. Evelyn L. Forget University of Manitoba Technological change and recurrent crises are creating a new reality in which automation is replacing human labour, employment is increasingly insecure, and much socially valuable work goes unrewarded.…