Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 10-Jun-2017 to 16-Jun-2017.
Tag Archives: fraud
Alberta settles with Christian homeschooling fraudsters
The dust-up between Alberta Education and the Trinity Christian School Association has been settled, but it’s hard to get enthused about how.
John Oliver Deliciously Excoriates Televangelists
John Oliver spends 20 glorious minutes excoriating televangelists in his latest Last Week Tonight segment. I expected him to highlight the obvious lavish lifestyles of televangelists and Oliver did so wonderfully by showing clips of the likes of Robert Tilton, Creflo Dollar (the guy who started a fund for a 65 … Continue reading
Former Staff Sue Florida Spa that Treated First Nations Girls with Cancer
Remember the Aboriginal girls suffering from leukaemia whose parents ceased their chemotherapy treatment to instead pursue alternative treatments at the Hippocrates Health Institute (HHI) in Florida (see posts here and here)? Two former HHI employees claim they were fired because they documented that they were being asked to do illegal things … Continue reading
Why Doesn’t Canada Use Its “Pretending to Practice Witchcraft” Charge More Often?
A Quebec man, who goes by the name Professor Alfoseny, was arrested in April, 2014 and charged with fraud for saying he was a: Great clairvoyant medium, solves your problems, return of the beloved, luck, gambling, protection, etc. Guaranteed results and then taking money for said services. It seems that … Continue reading
Kitchener, ON Couple Uses “Faith-based Approach” to Bilk People of Money in Ponzi Scheme
I don’t intend to make this post about “nah nah nah nah nah your religion did a bad thing” but I must admit that I get a feeling of schadenfreude when I read stories like the one reported by CBC concerning a kitchener couple who used Christianity to bilk people … Continue reading