CFI Canada Board of Directors, Advisory Fellows & National Executive Council
CFI Canada Board of Directors:
Kevin Smith (Toronto) - President and Chair
Gary Fitzgibbon (Toronto) - Treasurer, Vice President, and Vice Chair
Pat O’Brien (Vancouver) - Secretary
William Cranor (Toronto)
Behzad Elahi (Toronto)
Zak Fiddes (Toronto)
Lorne Trottier (Montreal)
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CFI Canada Advisory Fellows
Henry Morgentaler, MD, Canadian Abortion-rights Pioneer
Mario Bunge, Frothingham Professor of Logics and Metaphysics, McGill University
Kai Nielsen, adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Concordia University
Rodrique Tremblay, Emeritus professor of Economics, Université de Montréal, former Minister of Industry and Trade, Government of Quebec
Brian Alters, Tomlinson Chair in Science Education, Director, Evolution Education Research Centre, McGill University
Amanda Peet, Professor of Physics, University of Toronto
Laurence Moran, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Jeffrey Rosenthal, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto
Dan Falk, Science author and journalist
Clifford W. Beninger, Chemical Ecologist, Science editor, author, peer-reviewer and independent consultant.
Claire Trottier, Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University
Marc-Andre Lachance, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario (speciality in yeast ecology and evolution)
DJ Grothe, President, James Randi Educational Foundation
Patrick Walden, Research Scientist, TRIUMF Cyclotron Laboratory
Schreiber Pereira, M.Sc. Candidate, Department of Molecular Genetics
Grant LaFleche, Author and Journalist, the St. Catharines Standard
Gary Bauslaugh, Author and Editor
Dorothy Hays, retired social worker and teacher and a former township councillor
Sarah Kavassalis, University of Toronto Physics Grad Student, Blogger
James Alcock, Professor of Psychology, York University
Jeff Orchard, Associate Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
David A. Eberth, Senior Research Scientist (Paleontology and Geology), Royal Tyrrell Museum, Alberta
Marc MacKenzie, Senior Medical Physicist and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Oncology, University of Alberta
Ronald de Sousa, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto
Blythe Nilson, Associate Professor of Biology, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Gad Saad, Professor of Marketing and Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption
Ethan Clow, Host of Radio Freethinker and Former Centre for Inquiry Vancouver Executive Director
James Robert Brown, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Joe Schwarcz, Director, Office for Science and Society, McGill University
Ariel Fenster, Department of Chemstry, McGill Unversity
Simon Kiss, Assistant Professor, Journalism/Leadership, Wilfrid Laurier University
Louise Mailloux, Professor of Philosophy, College du Vieux Montreal
Chris diCarlo, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
CFI Canada National Executive Council
The National Executive Council manages the day to day operations of CFI and consists of paid Executive Directors and volunteer leaders:
Michael Payton, Interim National Executive Director
Justin Trottier, National Communications Director
Jaimy Warner, CFI Ontario Executive Director
Brahim Abdenbi, CFI Montreal Executive Director
Nate Phelps, CFI Calgary Executive Director
David Gordon, CFI Vancouver Executive Director
Seanna Watson, CFI Ottawa Chair
Loren Price, CFI Okanagan Chair
Kendra Getty, CFI Saskatchewan Chair
Jesse Brydle, CFI Nova Scotia Chair
Howard Gibbins, CFI Edmonton Chair
Iain Martel, Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism Chair
Charles Sule, Social and Community Services Committee Chair
Blair Renaud, Multimedia Committee Chair
We have a number of Committee Chair vacancies. If you wish to reach the Legal Advisory Committee, Web Development Committee or Fundraising and Advancement Committee, please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)