Share French paper La Presse has summed up my fear all along…. that the Canadian general public is making a right turn in social and political stance after 4 years of conservative leadership. In a La Presse column Monday, Alain Dubuc argued the Harper government’s stance on abortion funding is just another example of a [...]
Share Hmmmm…. who said our government doesn’t invest (and here) in university research? Yes, we do!… when the topic is not about the climate but religion! March 23, 2010 Canada Announces Four New Major Research Partnerships in Key Areas of Interest to Canadians OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 23, 2010) – Canada will have a leading [...]
Share Oooops, another slip of the tongue. Stephen Harper has been so good at keeping his team quiet on controversial issues during the election. But I guess Minister Goodyear just does not think ducking the question about evolution would have any implication on revealing the very heart of the Conservatives on science and religion. This [...]
Share About 500 people went to the streets of Hong Kong yesterday rallied against religious right groups for hijacking public opinion on contentious issues such as gay rights, reports the Apple Daily. The rally was organized through Facebook and online forums by two teenagers, Cheuk Yin Lee, 16, and Hei Fai Tsun, 18. Both are [...]
Share I will certainly be there to support the campaign should it come to Vancouver. This one just SPEAKS UP for me loud and clear! From CBC: It’s not yet clear if people in Metro Vancouver will soon get a look at a controversial ad campaign by atheists that challenges people to live without God. [...]
Share Kudos to the BC Human Rights Tribunal! There was one incident happened in my office a couple of years back that a new employee tried to preach rupture to colleagues. When he approached me, I straightforwardly told him not to talk God to me as I don’t appreciate the religion very much (I was [...]
Share Canadian Press reports that Canadians are getting more secular :)))) The study noted only one-third of adult Canadians attend religious services at least once a month. But the study, conducted in 2002, found more than one-half engage in religious activities on their own at least on a monthly basis. I was surprised to see [...]
Share “We have to move away from flat-earth theology and become more enlightened.” – Rev. David Findley-Price, Maple Ridge Vancouver Sun – An Anglican church has voted to begin offering same-sex blessings of gay marriages as soon as it’s given permission to do so by its diocese. Same-sex blessings have created a major schism within [...]
Share I know nothing about Scientology. I learnt about the term only because I heard that Tom Cruise was a follower. What I wanna say here, is, hey, it’s cool to see a major western power trying to ban a “religion” deemed “cult”. If Scientology was banned, wonder if guys like Cruise would start practicing/preaching [...]
Share I’m so sick of this kind of Tory conspiracy of making religion part of our day-to-day life. I came from a faith-based school in Hong Kong and I know all the evil behind such a system. Schools shouldn’t be infiltrated by any religion, which is basically making our world less tolerant. ——SES research: Generally, [...]
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