Tania’s Autumnal Reading List!
I’m usually taken aback when I have conversations similar to the one I had yesterday afternoon. It was my day off, and I went out for lunch by myself. It […]
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When and why do people become atheists? New study uncovers important predictors
The less that parents “walk the walk” about religious beliefs, the more likely their children are to walk away. In 2009, Joseph Henrich, a professor in the Psychology and Economics […]
Religion
written by John Waddington Why do we have religions? They are everywhere. In the present we are down to a few big ones, but it wasn’t always that way. It seems […]
Why so many people practice ‘denialism’
Source: CBC Radio – ‘The Sunday Edition’, August 17, 2018 Climate change is on a lot of people’s minds during this summer of extreme heat and lethal wildfires across the Northern […]
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written by John Waddington For over one hundred years, evolution of organic creatures has been accepted as a fact. That over millions of years life has developed and improved from simple […]
Supreme Court Rejects Trinity Western University’s Law School
These articles and links are from the BC Humanist Association’s website. So let’s dig into the background first. This case centred on whether the Law Society of BC has […]
Cape Breton Pharmacy Pulls Homeopathic Products from Shelves
Author: Yvonne LeBlanc-Smith · CBC News · Posted: Jun 05, 2018 3:43 PM “If you are not comfortable selling something, you have to make some sort of a stand on it,” says pharmacist. A drug […]
Reading List for Summertime (or anytime…)
written by Tania Kuehn A few days ago, I was at work and mentioned to a co-worker that I’d had a somewhat frustrating morning due to a few incidents that […]
If I Had a Child…
written by Tania Kuehn It’s been a year of babies, here in my little world. A couple weeks ago, a friend called and we chatted briefly, as we do a […]
Woman dies after undergoing bee acupuncture treatment
A woman in Spain died after undergoing a supposedly routine “bee acupuncture” treatment and then suffering an allergic reaction that put her in a coma. Read more at this link: […]