In the News:
Quebec Asks for Repeal of Religious Exception

Discours haineux: Simon Jolin-Barrette demande à Ottawa d’en finir avec l’exemption religieuse (Hate Propaganda: Simon Jolin-Barrette asks Ottawa to put ...

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France: Decriminalize Apology for Terrorism?

French Minister Denounces Push To Remove 'Apology For Terrorism' From Penal Code, Agence France Presse (AFP), Barron’s, 2024-11-25. France’s justice ...

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Yves Gingras Recipient of Science and Secularism Prize

Yves Gingras, Prix Science et laïcité 2024, Prix de la Laïcité, Comité laïcité république, 2024-11-07. As part of its annual ...

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Discrimination in Childcare Centres

Trente-six CPE sélectionnent selon l’ethnie ou la religion (Thirty-six childcare centres select according to ethnicity or religion), Francis Vailles, La ...

In the News:
International Competition #MockingGod

#MockingGod: Charlie Hebdo’s International competition, Charlie Hebdo, 2024-11-13. To those who are fed up with living in a society ruled ...

In the News:
Vaccination Exemptions on Religious Grounds

Des fonctionnaires exemptés de vaccination contre la COVID-19 grâce à... Dieu. Certains croyaient que les vaccins contenaient des cellules de ...

The Religious Exception for Hate Propaganda has Lasted Long Enough

The original French version of this article appeared in La Presse on 3rd December 2024 under the title Discours haineux et exception religieuse : Une ...

Decisive Action for Secular Schools

Nadia El-Mabrouk, President of Rassemblement pour la laïcité (RPL) Publication date: 2024-11-11 Date of publication in L’AUT’JOURNAL : 2024-11-08 Honorable Premier of Quebec, Allow us ...

2024-11-06: Book Launch Simulacre in Montréal

Book launch of Un simulacre de laïcité by David Rand (French-language version of Stillbirth)
at Le port de tête bookstore in Montreal, 6th November 2024 ...

2024-10-29: Book Launch Simulacre in Quebec City

Book launch of Un simulacre de laïcité by David Rand (French-language version of Stillbirth)
at Le Mot de tasse bookstore in Quebec City, 29th October ...

Appeal for Humanitarian Aid Lebanon

Georges Saad Publication Date: 2024-10-31 The Lebanese Philosophy of Law Association (Association libanaise de philosophie du droit or ALIPHID), which promotes secularism and democracy, and ...

Separation Between “Wokism” and State

Adopted at the Annual General Meeting of Atheist Freethinkers on 26th October 2024 Publication Date: 2024-10-28 In 2022, we, Atheist Freethinkers, adopted our Manifesto for ...

Blog 145: Tax Privileges of Religions

Pierre Marchand Publication Date: 2024-10-20 We recently learned in the Journal de Montréal that the city of Montreal had given a tax holiday to a ...

Blog 144: Indigenous Residential School Fanaticism as Performance Art

David Rand Publication Date: 2024-10-07 The indigenous residential school system (IRSS) in Canada has been in the forefront of the news recently, culminating in the ...

Blog 143: The Outrageous Declarations of Amira Elghawaby & Anas Hassouna

David Rand Publication Date: 2024-09-20 The outlandish Amira Elghawaby was appointed “Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia” by the government of Justin Trudeau in January ...

Letter from AAI to UN about Political Crisis in Bangladesh

Publication Date: 2024-08-31 The following letter is addressed to Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, concerning the ongoing UN/UN-led investigation into ...

2024-07-02: Lockean Pseudosecularism, Online Talk for AFL

Online Talk for Atheists for Liberty (AFL) Host: Thomas Sheedy Guest Speaker: David Rand Publication Date: 2024-07-05 Video of the Atheists for Liberty (AFL) event ...

2024-06-25: Prayers in Public Spaces, Letter from RPL to Minister Roberge

The original French version of this letter is available on the RPL website and on the LPA website. Montreal, 25th June 2024
Monsieur ...

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