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Boujemaa Razgui handmade ney flutes destroyed by US customs thugs

If you ever have one of those days where you think things in Canada are getting bad, there’s always the US to show us what bad really looks like. US Customs officers at JFK airport in New York...

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It is safer to travel with guns than flutes in the US

I didn’t want to include this in the post on what happened to Boujemaa Razgui because I thought it would distract from the tragedy. However, I just had to share this. While perusing the comments on the...

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Entering the public domain in Canada in 2014

I just (re)started this blog, and the first two posts have been downers. So – third time being a charm – to brighten things up, I’m bringing some good news. Fillette au piano, by Jacques Villon (1912)...

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Being a more assertive atheist

Jeffrey Tayler had a nice editorial in Salon on Saturday about 15 ways atheists can be more assertive. There’s nothing actually new in it, and it’s really just reaffirmation for atheist readers, but...

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There is a buffoon on The Lang and O’Leary Exchange, and it ain’t Lang

I have a generally low opinion of most major news media. They’ve devolved to be more about “entertainment” than “news” or – one could only dream – “journalism”. CBC News is not one of the worst, but...

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On the depths an asshole can go to

So I just posted about the idiotic comments made by CBC News “commentator” Kevin O’Leary, and the viral fallout that’s lead to a petition for him to be fired, when – last night – there’s a segment on...

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Canadian Atheist is back!

It’s true! Canadian Atheist is back online and already flush with new posts. Canadian Atheist Unfortunately, the old blog content is not available, though that may just be a temporary problem. Also, if...

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Racism, gender essentialism, transphobia, and anti-science attitudes are...

I didn’t watch the Olympics. Part of it is simply that I’m not much of a sports fan, and even less of a fan of the kind of hyper-commercialized, industrialized sports that the Olympics represent. The...

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On Canadian TV: On a show about different faiths getting along, atheism is...

You may remember that show that CBC aired a few years ago called Little Mosque on the Prairie. It caused a big stir when it was first announced, and remained a moderate hit for its first year or two,...

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On Canadian Atheist: Do Jehovah’s Witnesses think their religion is embarassing?

My sister got stopped by a Jehovah’s Witness the other day, and handed the usual magazines, but what struck me about her story was that the proselytizer was so coy about giving away what she was – to...

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Pushing Jesus

I wrote a post for Canadian Atheist the other day about Jehovah’s Witnesses handing out literature, that focused on the fact that they seem to be hiding their true intentions at first approach. The...

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Vaguely rude place names in Canada

I’m a big fan of things that are informative and a big fan of things that are hilariously inappropriate, and the intersection of those sets always brightens my day. So I had to share with you the work...

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IS/ISIS/ISIL, social media, and censorship – there is a solution

Shortly after the news broke about the murder of a journalist for money, and the existence of a video showing the beheading, major social media platforms flew into a panic. Their inevitable...

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The myth of the Christmas Truce

You’ve almost certainly heard some variant of the story. In the first December after the outbreak of World War Ⅰ in 1914, in the midst of the bloody and wearing trench warfare that became the defining...

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On Canadian Atheist: The Canadian English-language news media has betrayed...

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, news media has been predictably flooded with details of what happened, and why. What’s been noticeably missing from virtually all English-speaking media,...

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Entering the public domain in Canada in 2015

There’s been a lot in the news recently that’s depressing, to say the least. I’ve kept up with covering it, but I really need a break to blog about something a little more positive. So, here’s 2015’s...

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I make public domain ebooks

It occurs to me that I’ve never mentioned this here, but I make public domain ebooks. I take public domain texts, mark them up using modern, semantic technologies, package them as EPUB ebooks, then...

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On Canadian Atheist: Angus Reid survey on religious identity, beliefs, and...

The Angus Reid Institute conducted a fairly comprehensive survey, commissioned by Reginald Bibby, of religious identification, beliefs, and attitudes in Canada. Much of the results won’t be surprising...

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How right-wing bigots are ruining science fiction

I’m a huge science fiction fan – science fiction, please, hold the fantasy – and have been for as long as I can remember. One of the biggest events of the year for me is the Hugo Awards; for me,...

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On Canadian Atheist: What do Canadians think about publishing images of...

Shortly after the murders of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, the Angus Reid Institute conducted a survey to see how Canadians felt about the balance between freedom of expression and religious...

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Scott Vrooman for Senate

Following Canadian news can be a challenge and a half. Mainstream sources are easy to find, but about as reliable as a gauze condom. Alternative sources are a chore. Sometimes it takes a comedian to...

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The CBC’s shitty year

2015 hasn’t been a good year for our national broadcaster. High-profile scandals among some of its biggest celebrities, and mounting frustration over its unbalanced journalistic practices have soured...

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