Tag Archives: Eric Adriaans

Interview with Eric Adriaans-Ex-National Executive Director of Center for Inquiry Canada

by | January 19, 2018

  By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Eric Adriaans is the former National Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry Canada (CFI Canada). Eric is also a charitable sector leader, student in Athabasca University’s post-baccalaureate diploma program in Legislative Drafting and Fanshawe College’s Logistics and Supply Chain management program, and writer. Adriaans is extremely interested in Parliamentary… Read more »

CFIC Update: Attacks on Bangladeshi Atheists and Secularists

by | November 1, 2015

In an urgent post on its website, Centre for Inquiry Canada informed its members and supporters that “CFIC Implores the Canadian Government To Help Tareq Rahim“: On October 31, 2015, religious fanatics in Bangladesh continued attacks on atheist and secularist bloggers. In the attack, Faisal Abedin Deepan, Avijit Roy’s publisher, was murdered while three bloggers… Read more »

Hands Across The Water

by | February 12, 2015

Well, not exactly hands across the water because John Hamill from Atheist Ireland flew across the water to Toronto and met with Eric Adriaans from Centre For Inquiry Canada to announce the charter of the new International Coalition Against Blasphemy Laws, and to discuss how both groups will work together as co-founders and partners in the… Read more »

The Campaign to Abolish Blasphemy Laws, Worldwide

by | January 30, 2015

Everything you need to know about “The Campaign to Abolish Blasphemy Laws, Worldwide” is available on one website: End Blasphemy Laws. The “About” section explains, The End Blasphemy Laws Campaign is run by the International Coalition Against Blasphemy Laws and brings together individual people (like you!) and organizations that share the same goal: campaigning to repeal “blasphemy”… Read more »

Reason for Change

by | July 26, 2014

Centre for Inquiry Canada is proud to take part in Reason for Change: Leadership Conference of the Center for Inquiry-Transnational: The event brings together student and community activists from across North America for four days packed with leadership training, workshops, networking, educational presentations, and more! The program begins on Thursday afternoon and wraps up Sunday… Read more »

The Case for “Male Entitlement”

by | June 25, 2014

By Jackson Doughart Eric Adriaans’s riposte to my “justification” of “men’s use of the sex trade” would be interesting if only it responded in good faith to what I’d actually written, if he attempted to understand what I actually think, or if I had ever actually set out to provide a defence for prostitution. As… Read more »