Discussion 2024: The Importance of Humanism in Understanding the Legalized Dehumanization of Indigenous People in Canada
With Christina Ninham and Maureen Bulbrook Postponed Indigenous lawyers Christina Ninham and Maureen Bulbrook are all too familiar with the pervasive social, political, and legal challenges faced by Indigenous Canadians.For this conversation, Christina and Maureen will sit down with Humanist…
Discussion 2024: An Indigenous Roundtable
With Christina Ninham and Maureen Bulbrook
As lawyers and Indigenous women, Maureen Bulbrook and Christina Ninham have both witnessed and experienced the unjust treatment of Indigenous Canadians.
Discussion 2024: Divorce: Humanist Style
With Alex Howard
Working as both a humanist officiant and divorce mediator, Alex Howard has cultivated a unique and well-rounded perspective on relationships. You may recognize her as one of the co-hosts of Dirty Laundry: The Divorce Podcast, where she gets down to the nitty of gritty of divorce.
Discussion 2024: Anti-Science is the New Religion
With Dr. Jackie Nemni Dr. Jackie Nemni , a graduate of McGill and McMaster University, practiced respirology and sleep medicine for thirty years, including many years in the ICU. Most recently, and before retirement, she worked at a COVID assessment…
Discussion 2024: Authentic Speaking, Writing, and Inter-Cultural Communications
With Rita Shelton Deverell, CM, EdD
Dr. Deverell has worked in the Canadian arts and cultural industries and academe: as a theatre artist, television broadcaster/senior executive, independent producer, journalism educator, and author.
Discussion 2024: Putting A Number on How Much Religion Costs in Canada
This online roundtable discussion about the cost of religion in Canada - quantified by original research conducted by the Centre for Inquiry Canada. Bettianne Hedges of Humanist Canada will be hosting Leslie Rosenblood from CFIC alongside Teale Phelps Bondaroff and Ian Bushfield of the BC Humanist Association, who will discuss the many ways Canada still tangibly privileges religion and its institutions over similar non-theistic organizations.
Discussion 2024: Are the Religious Healthier?
With Dr. David Speed
Religion and spirituality are consistently associated with beneficial effects. Religious attendance, prayer, and religiosity have been found to predict better health and wellness.
Discussion 2024: HIV in 2024: What is the State of the Epidemic Today?
With Alison Symington
It has been forty years since the discovery of HIV—the virus responsible for AIDS. With effective testing and treatment now available, HIV has faded from the public consciousness, but it remains a serious and complex issue.
Discussion 2024: Interfaith Family – Marriage and Parenting with Mutual Respect
Falling in love with the right person is easy, what comes next isn’t always. For anyone who has ever wondered how relationships can work between the faithful and faithless, you won’t want to miss this peek behind the curtain. Steve Ghikadis, a Secular Humanist, has been married to Cindy, a Christian, for almost a decade, and, like most couples, they agree on all the big things.
Discussion 2023: Digging into the Humanist Ethics of Natural Burial
Are there any important ethical issues when dealing with our body’s remains? Can humanist principles shed any light on how to best deal with this question? Fellow humanist and long-time natural burial advocate Bob Hope, and Sue Greer, Executive Director of the Natural Burial Association, will take us through the facts and dispel the myths of natural burial. If you are interested in an end-of-life option for the care of your body that is both natural and less harmful than conventional burial and cremation, this webinar is for you.
Discussion 2023: The Ottawa Abortion Doula Collective: Challenging Stigma and Providing Support
Moderated by Alex Howard.
THIS DISCUSSION WAS HOSTED LIVE ON OCTOBER 29, 3023.
The Ottawa Abortion Doula Collective was founded by a small group of volunteers in 2019 to help fill gaps related to abortion access in the Ottawa area.