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Pierre Trudeau Is Canada’s #1 Hero
The Harper government commissioned a poll to name Canada’s greatest heroes and after 12000 people completed an online survey, Pierre Trudeau ended up at #1. Ouch, that must’ve stung a bit as Trudeau is...
View ArticleAlfred Russel Wallace On Dangerous Fruit
I’m slowly reading my way through The Malay Archipelago, by Charles Darwin’s contemporary and colleague Alfred Russel Wallace. I’ll probably have more to say later about this rather magnificent piece...
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Soviet Space Dogs Laika, Belka and Strelka
Today, I received my very own Russian commemorative stamp celebrating the soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet Union sent many dogs into sub-orbital and orbital space...
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Happy Birthday Henrietta Edwards
Today’s Google Doodle honours Henrietta Edwards by celebrating her 165th birthday. Google explains, This depiction of one of Canada’s greatest advocates for women was illustrated by guest artist, Kate...
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The War on Easter as waged by Whole Foods in Ottawa
I’m not a big fan of Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheque). It has, quite reasonably, been called a “Temple of Pseudoscience“, for its consistent peddling of all kinds of woo. They sell you everything...
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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...
View ArticleThe Myth Of Multiculturalism
Ian Bushfield, humanist and secularist, is between countries and between jobs, but it is obvious his thoughts are with Canada and the BC Humanist Association. In anticipation of returning to Vancouver...
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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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Religious human sacrifice may have created the 1%
In a strange case of synchronicity, two curiously related news stories have been making the rounds the last week. One is the story of the Panama Papers, a leak of 11.5 million documents – 2.6 terabytes...
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