Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson Greetings, fellow humanists, As President of The New Enlightenment Project (NEP), it is my privilege to present this report to you, reflecting on a year of meaningful progress in our mission to promote reason, science, and compassion as guiding principles in the pursuit of knowledge. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to all […]
*This interview is a contribution to an upcoming text on global indigeneity and international humanism from In-Sight Publishing.* David “Maheengun” Cook, an atheist and humanist from the Mississaugas of the Anishinaabe people, shares his life journey navigating Indigenous identity, secularism, and cultural heritage. Raised near Rice Lake, Ontario, he learned traditional teachings—like oral history, plant […]
The New Enlightenment Project: A Canadian Humanist Initiative Abstract Although enmity between Arab and Jew did not begin with the United Nations 1947 proposal for the partition of Palestine, the history of the region since has been one of intermittent warfare followed by periods of uneasy peace. The Jews, who established the state of Israel […]
Dr. Lawrence Krauss, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author, was born in New York City and raised in Toronto, Canada. He earned his undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1982. He held academic positions at Harvard, Yale, and Case Western Reserve University, […]
Jerry Coyne, Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins have independently resigned from the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Their letters of resignation can be found here: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/12/29/steve-pinker-resigns-from-the-freedom-of-religion-foundation/. The resignations came after FFRF retroactively caved to Woke creed and cancelled a rebuttal by biologist Jerry Coyne to an earlier article, “What is a Woman.” Coyne’s article was reproduced […]
This article traces the contribution of New Age foodism and “alternative” medicine to a political movement that devalues science, reason and all things “Western”. It’s unlikely that anyone consciously combined the disparate pieces of antagonistic philosophies into a new proto-religion that was then marketed. I argue that this new proto-religion, sometimes referred to as Wokism, […]
In this article originally published in the British journal, Humanistically Speaking, the Edan Tasca of the Centre for Inquiry Canada and I examine the phenomenon of Wokism, which can be understood as a secular religion or as a mind virus that has infected humanist as well as many other organizations. We argue that, to achieve […]
In this interview the New Enlightenment Project’s Director of Advocacy Scott Douglas Jacobsen interviews Humanist Chaplain Marty Shoemaker about the need for chaplains in humanism. Dr. Martin “Marty” Shoemaker is a trained clinical psychologist and, currently, a Humanist Chaplain at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Multifaith Centre) and Vancouver General Hospital (August, 2014-Present). Previously, he worked as a […]
Consistent with our mission and vision statement adopted at our June 2023 annual general meeting, The New Enlightenment Project has continued to promote reason, science, and compassion in guiding the pursuit of knowledge, the practice of governance, and the pursuit of individual goals. Our mission and vision was encapsulated in the following poster presented to […]
A collaboration between Metis counselling psychologist, Dr. Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson, and European-Canadian independent journalist, Scott Douglas Jacobsen. The purpose of this text is the provision of a public resource focused on presenting a social scientific account of issues in society and the aspects of counseling psychology capable of handling them.” — Scott Jacobsen VANCOUVER, BRITISH […]