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)

To send a message to the Board of Directors, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 

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)