Ashley Rattée, a recent addition to KASHA’s Penticton group and the current host of KASHA’s Penticton Skeptics in the Pub, has just returned from attending the World Humanist Congress 2026. The Congress was held in Ottawa from August 7 to August 9, 2026. Below is Ashley’s summary of his experience at the Congress. My trip […]
The Unsettled Settler By Don Gayton I am working on a book manuscript, entitled Settler Stories. The book’s initial premise was this: Indigenous peoples around the world use story as a means to connect with their local nature and ecosystems, but we Settlers do not have equivalent stories. So I began an attempt to write some, […]
On Saturday August 17th in the wee hours of the morning, Richard our Skeptics in the Pub host for the past 10+ years, used his amazing mechanical skills to turn his favorite red G8 car into a rocket and explore the galaxy without us. Atoms to atoms, we don’t expect a report from Richard any […]
Name: JB (Bernie) Nordquist Birthplace: Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario (On the Port Arthur side when it was still the twin cities) What type of work have you done? I moved at an early age to a small town northeast of Thunder Bay called Beardmore and grew up there. I started work at an early age […]
From ‘Only Sky’ by Phil Zucherman, March 24, 2023 There have always been non-believers. But for the first time in recorded history, there are now numerous societies with a majority of people who don’t believe in God. According to an analysis of the best internationally-available data by Isabella Kasselstrand, Ryan T. Cragun, and me, published in our […]
On August 16, 1999, Alberta’s Learning Minister, Lyle Oberg, dissolved the Calgary Board of Education and appointed temporary trustees. The board had become so dysfunctional that it imploded. Some board members held such strong stances, bordering on extreme views, that they could not make it work. One of the members had interned at the Fraser […]
May 11, 2021 – May 16, 2021 KASHA is pleased to announce KASHA member Janice Selbie’s on-line conference on religious trauma. KASHA members can get a discount of $15 USD – use code MAIL15. See full details here: https://pheedloop.com/CORT/site/home/ WELCOME to the inaugural Conference on Religious Trauma. Our goals for CORT include educating therapists and […]
Lori Foster, the chair of the Greater Good Committee (GGC), talks with Ian Bushfield of BC humanist about possible volunteer or fundraising activities in which the KASHA members would like to participate. ————————————————————– Ian Bushfield, of BC Humanist, Interviews Lori Foster of the KASHA’s Greater Good Committee
Report from the Greater Good Committee – by Lori Foster Hi All: I hope everyone is doing well and coping in the current situation. The Greater Good Committee has been discussing, by email, ways that our members may be able to help even though we can’t volunteer as a group. If you have been able […]
