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Interview with Carey Linde
Carey Linde, a Vancouver social activist and B.C Lawyer has represented parents who believe their children should not begin sex transition until they are older and better capable of making s [...]
Hamas 2023 Strategy+Anti-Semitism
On October 7, 2023, Hamas' terrorists invaded Israel, murdered 1200 civilians, took 240 hostages and then cowardly melted away among Gazans, making civilian human shields for themselves and [...]
Why be Moral?
Perhaps religion has over-emphasized the notion of innate sinfulness and aggressive competition as the essence of human nature. Social scientists suggest that we also have certain drives [...]
Western Civilization in Modernity
"The last 300 years are often depicted as an age of growing secularism, in which religions have increasingly lost their importance. If we are talking about theist religions, this [...]
Humanism and Democracy
Democracy is extremely popular but the idea has it’s problems, and everyone, especially those who aspire to Humanism, needs to be aware of those. [...]
Blodwen Piercy: The Passing of an Outstanding Canadian Humanist
Blodwen Piercy will be especially missed by colleagues fortunate to have worked with her over the years in Canadian Humanist Publications (publisher of Humanist Perspectives Magazine), Human [...]
Sortition in Canada: A New Dawn for Democracy?
Sortition, the practice of selecting political officials through a lottery system rather than by election, traces its roots back to ancient Athens, the cradle of democracy. It was designed t [...]
World System Crisis and the Future of Democracy
Democracy began to emerge as an ideal of human relationships and social conduct that can be embodied within various political structures, but which ultimately transcends all such structures. [...]
The Value of Studying Philosophy
The usual complaint levelled against philosophy is that its concerns are remote from everyday experience. But as I grappled with the big questions raised by the philosophers of the past, I b [...]
EDITORIAL: THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
Simply put, elections encourage and reward lying. We have a system that does select out not the best people but, in some cases at least, the worst – the most effective liars. We do not want [...]
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