issue 213
Immortality

This issue includes:

• O Death, Where is Thy Sting? by James E. Alcock; 
• The Power of “We” in the Time of COVID-19 by Katharine Brown; 
• Truth and Illusion: A Theme in the Plays of Ibsen by Gwyneth Evans; 
• Immortality: Could it be a Dangerous Illusion by Trudy Govier; 
• Illusions of Engagement: Less May Well Be More by Janet Keeping; 
• … and other illusions

issue 212
Facing Difficult Facts

This issue includes:

• Quo Vadis? by Sophie Dulesh;
• Religious Neutrality is Not Enough by David Rand;
• The Law and Injustice by Alan Danesh;
• Jersey City Shooting and the Rise of Anti-Semitism by David Rubin;
• Reflections Left: An Examination of the Evolution of a Political Movement by Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson;
• … and more

issue 211
Science & Pseudoscience

This issue includes:

• Surely You’re Joking, William Paley by Nicholas Griffin;
• The Need to Believe by James E. Alcock;
• Environmental Sensitivities by Arthur Leznoff;
• Of Loose Wires, Green Goblins and Other Matters by Ian Johnston;
• Regulating Alternative Medicine by Timothy Caulfield;
• … and more

issue 210
Facing Difficult Facts

This issue includes:

• The Affordable Housing Crisis by Barry Mayhew;
• The Pernicious Principles of Bjorn Lomborg by Lorna Salzman;
• Where are the Feminists? by Dale Branscombe;
• Preventing Anti-Muslim Violence by David Rand;
• Reformation of Islam is Long Overdue by Sophie Dulesh;
• … and more

issue 209
Conscience, Justice & the Law

This issue includes:

• A Troubling Case: The International Trial of a Ugandan Soldier by Trudy Govier;
• The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn by Gwyneth Evans;
• Civil Disobedience by Janet Keeping;
• Cannabis Amnesty by Kathy Kenzora;
• … and more

issue 208
De-platforming: The Death of Free Speech

This issue includes:

• The Free Speech Crisis on Campus by Bradley Campbell;
• The Stigmatization of Men by Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson;
• Rationality at Risk by John Ibberson;
• Review of Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0 by Sophie Dulesh;
• In memoriam: Vera Freud and Andy Mulcahy;
• … and more

issue 207
Freedom of Speech … and its discontents

This issue includes:

• Speaking Truth to Power by Gwyneth Evans;
• Experience as property? by Trudy Govier;
• John Stuart Mill and campus free-speech debates by Clifford Orwin;
• … and more

issue 206
Diversity, globalization, social justice… Do we know where we’re going?

This issue includes:

• Social JusticeWarriors’ War Against the Enlightenment by Lorna Salzman;
• “White Privilege” is Newspeak by C.A. Wordsworth;
• On Evil… by Plato Mamo;
• Western Civilization, Part 3: Western Civilization in Modernity by Sophie Dulesh;
• … and more

issue 205
Emma Darwin: A profound influence on her husband, Charles, by Robert Weyant

This issue includes:

• Belief in the Face of Contrary Evidence by James Alcock;
• Belief and Reason in our Courts by Gary Bauslaugh;
• Free to Offend? by Trudy Govier;
• Lucretius and the Nature of Things by Ian Johnson;
• … and more

issue 204
Antifa : Anti-fascists or neo-fascists?

This issue includes:

• The Antifa Movement in Germany by Alfred de Zayas;
• Antifa and Erinnerungen by James Bacque;
• … and more

issue 203
Neurons Gone Wild

From feral neurons to rogue agents, ‘tuplas’ and exorcisms by Kevin Simler

This issue includes:

• Against Faux-Feminists Who Deny the Rights of Muslim Women and Jews by Phyllis Chesler;
• When Metaphysical Beliefs Trump Human Compassion by Gary Bauslaugh;
• In the Name of Salvation by Jockie Loomer-Kruger;
• What is the Meaning of Human Life? by Guido O. Perez MD;
• Michael Schulman reviews Daniel Dennett’s “From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds” ;
• … and more

issue 202
Is the Left consuming itself?

This issue includes:

• Social Justice – the new totalitarianism? Editorial by Madeline Weld;
• The Climate Justice Movement Splits from Environmentalists by Lorna Salzman;
• The Regressive Left and Dialectics by Sophie Dulesh;
• Radical Islam in Europe and the Siren Song of Multiculturalism by Robert H. Barrigar;
• … and more

issue 201
I DO : believe it’s time for Humanist weddings in Northern Ireland

This issue includes:

• Workplace Mobbing;
• The Screwtape Sutras;
• Racism: Real and Imagined;
• … and more

issue 200
Civilization : Its Creators and Its Destroyers

This issue includes:

• Canada’s Surprising Role in the Fight Against Slavery;
• Cradle of Western Civilization;
• … and more

issue 199
Terry George discusses his upcoming Armenian genocide film The Promise with Christopher DiCarlo

This issue includes:

• The Quiet Tragedy of Orilla;
• In Search of a Secular Hospice;
• A Magical Place;
• Libya’s Bloody Bedlam Enabled by Canadian “Humanitarians”;
• George Williamson reviews Daniel Dennett’s Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind;

issue 198
Malthus’ 201-year-old Inconvenient Truth

This issue includes:

• Religious Naturalism;
• The Supremes Shall Set Us Free;
• Cross-Cultural Minefields;
• Critical Thinking in a Deeply Religious Society;
• On Faith;

issue 197
Love & Marriage

This issue includes:

• Educated for Murder;
• The Role of Educators in Desacrilizing Ideas;
• The Death of a Giant;
• The Long Apprenticeship;
• Things That Go Beep in the Night;
• A Tribute to Andy Mulcahy On the Occasion of his 94th Birthday;

issue 196
John Jofsess helped 8 people die, including poet Al Purdy

This issue includes:

• Why are we still criminalizing compassion in Canada?;
• A Farewell Note;
• The Consensual Death of Al Purdy;

issue 195
Blasphemy Laws: Violence and Victimization in the 21st Century

This issue includes:

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• Writing about science, reason and Humanism made Avijit Roy and Rafida Ahmed victims of a dogmatic ideology;
• How the Grinch Stole Peace;
• On the Importance of Culture;
• The Toxic Elephant;
• Blasphemy Laws: An Abomination that Continues to Plague Humanity;
• The Migrant Crisis;
• A review of Headscarves and Hymens;

issue 194
The Impossible Plight of John Calvin

This issue includes:

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• “Israeli Kindness Changed my Life,” says Hamas Escapee;
• John Calvin visits Ottawa;
• Mercy and Canadian Law: The Prohibition of Assisted Suicide;
• Founts, Frauds and Forgeries of Religion;
• Insanity and Christianity in the Nineteenth Century;
• The Golden Rule;
• Who’s Actually Being “Gross and Racist”?
• A review of the film “Ex Machina”;

issue 193
Speaking of Humanism

This issue includes: Notable Canadians and their thoughts on Humanism

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• Bruce McCullough, The Flickering Flame;
• Christopher DiCarlo, Guest Editor;
• Abe Morgentaler: On Being Henry’s Son;
• Jan Narveson: Humanism and Democracy;
• Ralph Benmurgui: I Married a Humanist;

issue 192
Critical Thinking and the Big Problems

This issue includes:

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• Critical Thinking in High Schools;
• Gaza’s Agony;
• Reflections on the State of Israel;
• Slow Violence Fast-Forwarded: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change;
• Finding Our Way Back to the Garden;

issue 191
How Hard Could It be to Get a Bus Ad? Richard Thain’s fight to get the message out

This issue includes:

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• The Saguenay Prayer Case;
• Goodbye & Good Luck!;
• The Supreme Court Deliberates Assisted Suicide;
• Terrorism or Mental Illness;
• Sex Workers’ Rights;

issue 190
Globalization Meets Limits to Growth

This issue includes:

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• Earth’s “Wisest” Species Heads for the Cliff (Again);
• Israel or Islam: Which is the Real Roadblock to Peace in the Middle East?;
• Imagine No Religion 4;
• Humanism: A Viable Road into the Future;
• God’s Wrath?;

issue 189
Is it Already Too Late for Humanity to Stop its Collapse

This issue includes:

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• The Most Endangered Species;
• Genopolitics and the Future of Secular Humanism;
• The Land of Cain;
• Eric Thomas Reviews Two Books by Roméo Dallaire;
• On Puritanism;
• The Demise of the Arab Narrative;

issue 188
Native Spirituality

This issue includes:

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• Christoslovakia: A Thought Experiment;
• Human Nature;
• Louise Martin reviews the BBC TV series “Call the Midwife”;
• 75 Years of Atom Splitting;
• Me and My Microbiome;

issue 187
I Did It My Way: Humanizing assisited suicide laws

This issue includes:

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• Death Without Hysteria;
• Quebec’s Secular Charter;
• The Devil’s Advocate;
• Letter to Edward Snowdon;
• Educating for a Secular Humanist Canada;
• The Hidden Hand of Terror;
• Donald Hatch reviews Freethinkers by Susasn Jacoby;

issue 186
Rethinking the Cult of Multiculturalism

This issue includes:

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• When Critical Thinking Gets Under Our Skin;
• A Tribute to Henry Morgentaler;
• Henry Morgentaler: The Man, the Hero, and His Legacy;
• Atheophobia Hysteria?;
• Seeking an Ecological Rescue: 14 Do We Need a Spiritual Awakening – or a Scientific Understanding?;
• Darkness in Academia: The Shadow of Stalin;
• Evolution of Islam;
• Canadian Perspective on 34 the US Financial Crisis;

issue 185
Free Will?

This issue includes:

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• Nuclear Power in Canada;
• A Canadian Perspective on the US Financial Crisis (Part 1 of 2);
• The Trouble With Humanists;
• Deep Future and Flight Behaviour;
• A Poet’s Voice: Monty Reid;
• Photography by Zoe Wiseman;

issue 184
A Critique of Canada’s Banking System

This issue includes:

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• Clair Culhane’s Life of Activism;
• Islamophobia? A Few More Thoughts;
• Jon Legg reviews The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars by Michael Mann;
• A Poet’s Voice: Steve Ormond;

issue 183
Dumbing Down the CBC News

This issue includes:

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• The Islamic Tipping Point;
• A Poet’s Voice: Henry Beissel;
• God’s Psychiatrist;

issue 182
The Challenges of Bringing the Truth

This issue includes:

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• Sex and Secularism;
• Justice on Trial;
• Man of Law on Right to Die;
• When everybody got religion;
• Why are Believers willfully ignorant about Atheists?;

issue 181
Why Does Religion Always Get a Free Ride in an Armoured Car?

This issue includes:

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• Andy Mulcahy Found Humanism on the Battlefield as a World War II Veteran;
• The Gospel According to Zimmy: A Poem in Ten Cantos;
• Understanding Harper’s Evangelical Mission;
• A Poet’s Voice: Walter Bauer;
• A Mother’s Story;

issue 180
Occupy This

This issue includes:

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• Stephen Harper and the Caging of Canada;
• How the US Private For-profit Prison System Works: The booming business of American slavery;
• Christopher Hitchens: An Intellectual With the Instincts of a Street Brawler;
• Dutch Government Abandons Multiculturalism;
• Secularist Crusade Frees Three Municipalities From the Lord’s Prayer
• A Poet’s Voice: Dave Margoshes;

issue 179
OCCUPIED

This issue includes:

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• Peace Makers;
• Occupy Canada: Media Pundits vs Reality;
• Local Implications of Corporate Media Concentration;
• Legal Euthanasia Is Necessary But Not Enough;
• A Poet’s Voice: Thomas R. Verny;
• Humanitarian Bombing?
• BC’s Gas Fracking Industry Expands;
• Worlds Within Worlds;

issue 178
Feeding the RAGING MONSTER

This issue includes:

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• Fair Sharing Instead of Rampant Greed;
• Who Will Dare Address Separate School Funding?
• Palestine Becomes the Modern State of Israel;
• A Poet’s Voice: Peggy Fletcher;
• From Faith to Facts;
• Unfertile Ground: Religious Mutations in the Scientific Community;
• The Perverse Rewards of Society;
• Betrayal of Faith and Trust: A Review of Just Business by Don MacAlpine;
• COMIC: God’s Re-election Campaign;

issue 177
The Rise of Neoconservatism in Canada

This issue includes:

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• From Myth to Science: The Role of Ancient Materialism in the Rise of Science;
• The Mongrel;
• Dr. Knight Would Have Smiled;
• A Poet’s Voice: John B. Lee;

issue 176
All Things Weird and Wonderful

This issue includes:

• A Poet’s Voice: Theresa Wolfwood;
• Reflections on Mortality;
• Tyranny of the Minority;
• Islam or Secular Humanism;
• The Canadian Council of Chief Executives:Northern Oligarchy;
• Mouammar Kadha’fi and the Harper Brand;

issue 175
How to make EARTHWURST

This issue includes:

• Bolivia’s Dissent Strips the Cancun Deal;
• Our Commons Future Is Already Here;
• Fake Populism;
• Your Money or Your Life;
• Stockwell, Better Days and Sounder Ways;
• Solidarity, the Ultimate Survival Kit;
• A Poet’s Voice: Bunny Iskov;

issue 174
My Camera Has a Conscience

This issue includes:

• The Golden Rule;
• COP15 in an Uneven World;
• An Alternative View of Retirement;
• Kids, Wealth, Religion, Love and Hate;
• A Poet’s Voice: Rod Farmer;

issue 173
Canada’s Dirty Little Secret: Getting Schooled in Ontario

This issue includes:

• Who’s a Hero Here?;
• My Epicurean Mom;
• The Poverty of Accomodationism;
• Canadians for Limits to Growth;
• World People’s Conference;
• A Poet’s Voice: Elka Enola;

issue 172
Thomas Carlyle: Transcendentalism and Beyond

This issue includes:

• Asimov’s Next Revolution;
• A Race of One’s Own;
• Darwin’s Conflict With His Wife and God;
• The Humanistic Value of Martial Arts;
• Another Voice for Non-believers;
• Why be Moral;
• A Poet’s Voice: Keith Garebian;

issue 171
Now these are brothers in arms

This issue includes:

• The Lynching of Louie Sam;
• With God on our Side;
• Which Green World? The Politics of Technology in the Sustainable Redevelopment of Benny Farm;
• The Grass Was never Greener: A Benny Farm Memoir;
• A Right to Die;
• Science as a Voice for Morality;
• A Poet’s Voice: Kim Goldberg;

issue 170
We Have to Stop Meeting Like This

This issue includes:

• Conkers;
• Act of God;
• Palestine — A Tortured and Elusive Homeland;
• A Poet’s Voice: John Barton;
• Human Rights Commissions in Canada: A Case of Counter-Intuitive Controversies;
• A Major Setback for Secularism in Quebec Schools;
• Dismantling the Temple;
• On the International Scene;

issue 169
Darwin: Between God and Nature

This issue includes:

• An Evolution of Evil;
• Darwin: Between God and Nature;
• Palestine — A Tortured and Elusive Homeland;
• A Poet’s Voice: John Smith;
• Zionism: The Real Problem in the Middle East;
• Performing Solidarity;
• The Psyche of Al-Qaeda;
• Beyond Despair: Through the Lens of Palestinian and Israeli Filmmakers;

issue 168
The Bus to Everywhere

This issue includes:

• The Elephant in Your Child’s Bed;
• The Protection of Canadian Sovereignty;
• The Bus to Everywhere;
• Symbolic Democracy;
• Beliefs for the 21st Century: A Humanist-Evolutionist Creed?;
• The Nazi Pope;
• Book Review: Understanding and Challenging the New World Order;
• A Poet’s Voice;
• Life, Culture and Religion;
• Does Secularism Imply Religious Neutrality?;
• In Praise of Rational Discourse;

issue 167
Rain Dances Won’t Save Us

This issue includes:

• The Obama Factor;
• Rain Dances Won’t Save us;
• The Idea of Progress and the First Nations;
• Canada’s Policy of Mass Immigration;
• A Poet’s Voice;
• Film Review: Telling the Truth about Torture;
• Book Review: Understanding and Challenging the New World Order;

issue 166
Militarism: What do we do about it?

This issue includes:

• Support our troops;
• Militarism in Canada and the World: What do we do about it?;
• What Progress for Afghan women?;
• The Political Economy of Afghanistan: Unthinkable thoughts and Unprintable words;
• How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives;
• War is an Atrocity;
• A Poet’s Voice;
• The Terror of True Belief;

issue 165
Pernicious Identities

This issue includes:

• Pernicious Identities;
• My Life as a Heretic;
• The Unacknowledged Scandal of Electoral Fraud;
• Imposing Identities;
• Toward a Human Identity;
• Seeking our Common Humanity;
• Truth, Illusion & Identity;
• Understanding Black Anger
• Say it with Balloons

When the Law is an Ass This issue includes:

• Punishing Acts of Mercy: Robert Latimer & the Justice System;
• Crime & Punishment;
• the Significance of Juries;
• Lawlessness in Berlin & Brooklyn;
• Pressing for Remorse?;
• Authority & Civil Disobedience;
• Drugs, Drug Policy & Crime: 100 Years of Asinine Law…

Eco Humanism This issue includes:

• Dualism, Nature & Society: Finding Peace with What Is;
• Remembering an Eco-Humanist;
• Photo Essay by Montreal photographer Daniel Seguin;
• Subsidies & Deep-Sea Fish Depletion;
• Belief & Eco-Humanism…

Justice & Revenge This issue includes:

• Vengeance is Mine;
• Forgiveness: The Weak Get Even & The Great Get Over It;
• Getting Even? The Ethics & Politics of Revenge;
• Let’s Make Us Medicine of Our Great Revenge: Revenge as a Literary Motif;
• From Brooklyn to Iraq: Revenge in the Desert, Resolve in the Ring…

Minding the Media This issue includes:

• an Interview with Julia Sweeney;
• Exuberating Fantasticisms: Narratives of Destiny in Audition-Based TV Shows;
• Propaganda, Language & the Media;
• Movies in the Shadow of the Church;
• Media & the Shaping of Reality;
• Media Responsibility in a Democracy…

the War on Science & Reason This issue includes:

• an Interview with Michael Shermer;
• the SSHRC & Intelligent Design;
• Wars on Science? a historical perspective;
• Selective Skepticism, Manufactured Doubt & the Politics of Science;
• When Ignorance Masquerades as Science;
• Science & Self-Deception …

How Universities Are Failing Us This issue includes:

• What They Teach;
• How They Teach;
• Corporate Sponsorship;
• Postmodernism;
• and SSHRC continues to embarrass Canada …

the Psychology of Belief This issue includes:

• Respect, Belief and Disbelief;
• Even Scientists Make BIG Mistakes;
• Seeing is Believing is Seeing;
• an Imperfect Road Map to Reality;
• the Losing Battle with Islam …

What Humanists Care About This issue includes:

• Evolution;
• the Second Humanist Revolution: Eco-Humanism;
• Morality Without Religion;
• Special Report: Research Council endorses Intelligent Design …

Africa, the Cradle of Humanity This issue includes:

• the End of Racism? (We are All African);
• What can be done to help Africa?;
• Decolonizing the Images (with filmmaker Ousmane Sembene);
• the Concept of Ubuntu …

Living with Democracy This issue includes:

• One Nation Under Fraud;
• the Alien Princess;
• Living with Theocracy;
• Politicians and Trust …

Darwin & the Evangelicals This issue includes:

• Evolution & Education;
• Evangelism & Domestic Violence in the Highlands of Paupa New Guinea;
• Faith & Thinking;
• Our Hitler …

Medicine & the Informed Patient This issue includes:

• The Appeal of Alternative Medicine;
• The Partially Informed Patient;
• Screening and the Prevention of Disease;
• Alfred C Kinsey …

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issue 152
The Trial of Evelyn Martens This issue includes:

• The Trial of Evelyn Martens;
• Active and Passive Euthanasia;
• Dying and Supernatural Experience;
• The Famous, or Infamous Slippery Slope …

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issue 151
Science & Conscience This issue includes:

• Biotechnology, Ethics and the Future;
• Science and George Bush;
• What is Conscience;
• The Dark Lady of DNA …

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issue 150
Education & Critical Thinking This issue includes:

• an interview with Pat Duffy Hutcheon;
• Theory of Knowledge in Schools;
• the Competent Layperson;
• Children & War …

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issue 149
Popular Culture This issue includes:

• the Tradition & Techniques of Satire: the Case of Michael Moore, pt 1;
• Clutter;
• Appealing to the Natural;
• Dwarf Tossing …

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issue 148
Environmental Ethics This issue includes:

• Ecology & Humanism;
• a model for land conservation;
• Evolutions vs Creationism;
• Civilization in Crisis, pt 3 …

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issue 147
The Imagined World This issue includes:

• A Bard’s Curriculum;
• Myth & Fantasy: a Humanist Perspective;
• Hollywood & the End of History;
• Harry Potter and the Humanist …

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issue 146
Ends & Means This issue includes:

• Seeds: a dialogue on Gandhi’s account of means & ends;
• Gandhi’s Letters to Hitler, 1939, 1941;
• Iran’s Remarkable National Cinema;
• Tribute to Blodwen & Joe Piercy …