DEI must DIE
Paul Nathanson Submitted: 24 January 2024 Last night, I watched Nazi Town, U.S.A,[1] a documentary on the rise of American Nazi movements during the 1930s, notably the German-American Bund of Fritz Kuhn and the America…
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Reflections on the death of Richard Bilkszto
I think there is much humanists can learn from the death of Richard Bilkszto. My tribute to him was published in this month’s issue of Humanistically Speaking, a humanist magazine published in the United Kingdom…
Humanists International 2023: An Exciting Congress
By Pierre St-Amant, AHQ delegate to the conference. Humanists International (HI) is a non-governmental organization representing humanists, atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers from all over the world. It promotes humanist principles and defends humanists who are victims of…
Sixty Years an Activist: A socialist lawyer who still values science, reason and compassion
Carey Linde has been a practicing lawyer and a socialist activist for more than 50 years. The Vancouver, B.C. lawyer pioneered the concept of shared parenting between divorced parents in Canada and, more recently, has…
President’s report to the 2023 Annual General Meeting
The New Enlightenment Project was created to protect and expand humanist values, rational inquiry, and evidence-based decision-making in the face of challenges from people who believe truth is revealed or socially constructed by ideologies. We…
New Research into Aboriginal Land Acknowledgements
The New Enlightenment Project has begun participatory research into aboriginal land acknowledgements in Canada. The research will consist of a series of podcasts reviewing the practice in different communities across Canada. The first podcast in…
Is Humanism Compatible with Indigeneity?
by Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson Abstract: Calls to respect “indigenous ways of knowing” have led to a questioning of the compatibility of such knowledge with Enlightenment humanism which is characterized as “European.” This article compares and…
Enlightenment Humanism projected to advance in 2023-24
Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson, President New Enlightenment Project Published in Humanist Heritage Canada, Feb. 25/23 In an October 2021 interview I told Eric Adriaans of Humanist Freedoms that our newly created organization aimed to 1) provide…
Keith Goulet Interview – From a northern trap line to the provincial cabinet – lessons learned
At age 73 Metis-Cree elder Keith Goulet obtained a doctorate in history from the University of Regina with the thesis Land and Colonization: A Nehinew (Cree) Perspective. This capped a career as a teacher, Cree…
Keith Goulet Interview Part 2 – Cree language, culture and humanism
What can the Cree language system tell us about indigenous world views? In this, the second of two sessions with historian, linguist and politician with Metis-Cree elder Keith Goulet, we explore the traditional Cree family…