Everyone who objects to publicly-funded Catholic schools will agree with Joshua Ostroff’s arguments against them in the Huffington Post Canada article “It’s Time To Excommunicate Public Catholic Schools”: The kids are back in class and the new year is upon us. In light of the shocking honesty from Catholic school trustees in Edmonton and Toronto… Read more »
There are two meanings for the word ignorant: 1. Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated and the informal 2. Discourteous or rude Many of the people commenting on the Ottawa Citizen article, “Anti-separate School Ad Campaign Rejected” are ignorant in both senses of the word. The commenters who are ignorant of the… Read more »
By Chrystalla Themistocleous, Founder & President My Ontario Atheist Network The idea behind My Ontario Atheist Network started a couple of years ago. I had just moved back to Toronto from Cyprus, and was looking to become active in my local atheist community. Finding atheists in Cyprus, a tiny country with approximately 98% religiosity, was… Read more »
As defined in Wikipedia, “Apatheism, also known as pragmatic atheism or practical atheism, is acting with apathy, disregard, or lack of interest towards belief or disbelief in a deity.” In Chris Silvers’ academic work on atheism, this falls under the non-theist type, which is one of six sub-types that he describes. Contrary to the popular cultural… Read more »
OneSchoolSystem.org is pleased to announce: Ontario children win recognition of right to opt-out of religious courses and programs in publicly funded Catholic high schools. April 7, 2014 For immediate release. (Ottawa, Ontario) – The directors of OneSchoolSystem.org were pleased to learn this weekend that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recognized the right of… Read more »