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…
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…
Following the traditions of his family, Gregory Biniowsky was a political socially conscious activist prior to immigrating to Cuba in 1991. He studied law, history and philosophy at the University of Havana before becoming a…
In 1993 the Humanist Association of Canada established an on-line discussion forum that was open to all humanists. That forum endured until late 2021. Read about the circumstances surrounding its cancellation: Requiem for a Discussion…
“In the end, there is but one race: the human race. Letus unite rather than divide. Let us build rather than destroy.Let us integrate rather than segregate.” – Robertson and Tasca, Free Inquiry, June/July 2022…
Even as a young teenager, Dr. Steven Pinker (@sapinker) prized rationality as a virtue, and considered himself an anarchist. He changed that belief, however, when evidence indicated that anarchy was not a path to human…
Dr. Frances Widdowson was finally fired from her job as a tenured professor despite challenging prevailing narratives with a series of books including Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The deception behind indigenous cultural preservation; Native studies…
In this “disputations”, Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson and Frances Widdowson discuss the mapping of the self, “woke-ism”, indigenous education, mobbing and the unmarked graves. Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson is a psychologist who has been involved in life…
Shahdin Farsai, a refugee from Iran, became a Canadian lawyer in 2016. In 2021, she submitted an article to the BC legal magazine The Advocate suggesting that BC Supreme Court directives advising lawyers to provide…
Paul Nathanson has a Ph.D. in religious studies and has co-authored, with Katherine Young, Spreading misandry: The teaching of contempt for men in popular culture (2001); Legalizing misandry: From public shame to systemic discrimination against…