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Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 4-Feb-2017 to 10-Feb-2017.
Tag Archives: immigration
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch brings up an ideological purity test for refugees
With a legacy characterized by Canada’s worst human rights record in the modern era, utter disdain for the environment, the proroguing of Parliament (twice), and the muzzling of scientists, I think all progressive-minded Canadians are quite happy to see the back of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Surely whoever we have to look forward to… Read more »
Atheist Bloggers Support CFI Project
Atheist Sean McGuire and I were pleased to co-sign a Centre for Inquiry (Canada) fundraising email: Fellow Freethinkers If you’re like many people who care about secularism and the free-thought movement, you read blogs from around the world. You may even have read Canadian Atheist or My Secret Atheist Blog. If so, you know that… Read more »
Immigration Victory Is Not a Miracle
The headlines for human interest stories are often hyperbolic or indicate supernatural intervention. The headline1 in the paper edition of the Peterborough Examiner, “Miracle Unites Couple,” is no exception. It looked as though he wouldn’t be allowed to leave his home country of Bangladesh and get to Canada in time for the birth of his first… Read more »