The Secret Power of Juries – an excerpt on Morgentaler
BC Humanist Association honorary member Gary Bauslaugh provides the following excerpt from his upcoming book “The Secret Power of Juries.” Bauslaugh will be speaking in the fall on “Humanism, social...
View ArticleA Humanist Memorial
While our Officiant Program has mostly been on hold due to our inability to perform legal marriages, we are still able to perform other ceremonies for the non-religious. As an example, last weekend I...
View ArticleMemories of Morgentaler
A story from Jill Harrington, one of our members of the late Dr. Henry Morgentaler. In 1974, I was seventeen years old, and had a brief fling with a 7 foot tall throwback to the Neanderthals. By the...
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Remembering Kirsten Stromgren
Glenn Hardie lets us know that another long-time member of the BC Humanist community has died. It is with regret that I report the death of Kirsten Stromgren. She and her husband Borge were active...
View ArticleRethinking the TWU Law School issue
In January, it came to our attention that Trinity Western University, a private evangelical university in Langley, was applying to have an accredited law school. The Canadian Council of Law Deans...
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Humanists in the Pride Parade 2013
It was another sunny afternoon for our fourth annual march in the Vancouver Pride Parade. This year we had our largest contingent yet, with 35 marchers who came from Chilliwack to Whistler to the...
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Humanists at Car Free Day
Gord Leslie, Vice-President of the BC Humanist Association, gives the following report on the BCHA at Car Free Day 2015 on Commercial Drive in Vancouver: I was there before the 9:00 AM road closure, so...
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Humanists in the 2015 Pride Parade
For the sixth consecutive year, the BC Humanist Association marched in support of Vancouver’s LGBTQ2+ community. This year, we were one of the many organizations to sign a pledge calling for federal...
View ArticlePoems for an atheist’s funeral
Kirsten Brawn, one of our Board members, wrote the following poems for a friend’s funeral and wanted to share them. Let us know if you have your own humanist-inspired art that you’d like to share....
View ArticleIf the United Church expels its atheist minister, should her congregation...
Gretta Vosper, the atheist and Humanist minister of a small United Church of Canada congregation in Ontario, is facing expulsion from her church for heresy. You can read the full story in the National...
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