Tag Archives: BC Legislature

Ask Dr. P.B. 3 – History and History-Making: Public Prayers & Land Acknowledgements

by | May 27, 2021

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff has been a community organizer for more than 15 years. He has been active in Saanich municipal politics. He earned a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and two BAs from the University of Calgary in Political Science and International Relations, respectively. He is… Read more »

Ask Dr. P.B. 2 – Public Prayers: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Decolonization

by | May 26, 2021

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff has been a community organizer for more than 15 years. He has been active in Saanich municipal politics. He earned a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and two BAs from the University of Calgary in Political Science and International Relations, respectively. He is… Read more »

Updates on the British Columbia Humanist Association Closing Off 2019

by | December 12, 2019

— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Ian Bushfield, M.Sc., is the Executive Director of the British Columbia Humanist Association (BCHA). Here we discuss exciting updates for the BCHA in 2019 following in the line of some of the other update-interviews with the BCHA Executive Director. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It has been some number of months since the… Read more »

Press Release: Atheists Release Report Highlighting the Discriminatory Practice of Prayer in the BC Legislature

by | September 17, 2019

By British Columbia Humanist Association (Vancouver, BC) — Today, BC Humanist Association (BCHA) released a groundbreaking report entitled “House of Prayer: An Analysis of Prayers in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, 2003-2019.” The report details the discriminatory and exclusionary nature of prayer in the BC Legislature, and is part of a broader effort by… Read more »