This site - Inspired by Muhammed - designed to educate the public on how islam is supposedly for social justice, environmentalism, etc, unfortunately fails to address any of the current harms being committed by Islamists, nor suggest any remedies so that muslims in the modern world might do a better job of practicing what this [...]

It was nice for a change to present before a mostly friendly audience last night when I addressed the Niagara Secular Humanists in St. Catharines on the topic “Secular Advocacy in Canada: From Grassroots Organizing to Professional Nonprofit.”  The alternative subtitle I almost used was “When, Where, Why, What, and How” since my goal was [...]

I’ve kindly been invited by the Niagara Secular Humanists to give a talk on a topic of my choosing.  What a decision!  There’s so much to cover, that I’m going to try to cover it all.
Titled “Secular Advocacy in Canada:  What, Why, Where When, How”, I intend to open by addressing, somewhat out of traditional [...]

My recent contribution to the National Post can be found here:  Justin Trottier: Fixing non-believers, live on TV.
For some reason, no matter how short I try to make these (my limit is 500 words) I find that my conclusion is either removed or severely edited.  This was the original conclusion I had submitted:
Perhaps the locations [...]

The National Post has kindly run my third contribution to their Holy Post blog, which they’ve rather aptly (I hope) named “Atheist teens lead the way.”  The source for this submission was the obvious inconsistency within the research of sociologist Reginald Bibby whose tiring complaints that the downfall of religion in Canada would bring on anarchy due to his [...]

Last week the Canadian Secular Alliance released a press release congratulating the Girl Guides of Canada on the possibility that they were “going godless.”  This is in any case the sort of phrasing the media uses to refer to the organization going secular and finally welcoming with equality those being raised with no religious faith.  [...]

I’m out the door for a weekend of skiing, so this will have to be relatively short.  I’ll be in Halifax, Nova Scotia, next Tuesday and Wednesday.  The details are the following.
On Tuesday I’ll be speaking at a press conference on free speech at noon.  I don’t quite recall the location but I’ll pass that [...]

I was really thrilled to author a full editorial in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday which they titled:
Kicked off the bus: While it’s unfortunate that Ottawa won’t run our atheist bus ads, at least people are talking about important issues of ethics and faith
It was a great opportunity to defend the integrity of this campaign, highlight [...]

I wish I had more time to post entries as we receive ongoing press in the Canadian Atheist Bus Campaign.  Here are a few highlights from today.  It started, appropriately enough, with an odd phone call.  I was asked
Are you the atheist?
To which after some hesitation over exactly how to approach an answer, I simply [...]