CFI Canada Board of Directors, Advisory Fellows & National Executive Council
CFI Canada Board of Directors:
Richard Thain (Ottawa)
Kevin Smith (Toronto)
Lorne Trottier (Montreal)
Pat O’Brien (Vancouver)
Ronald Lindsay
Tom Flynn
CFI Canada Advisory Fellows:
Henry Morgentaler, MD, Canadian Abortion-rights Pioneer
Chris diCarlo, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
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
Robert Tarzwell, Clinical Instructor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, and Emergency Psychiatrist, St. Paul’s Hospital
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
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:
Justin Trottier, National Executive Director and Chair of the National Executive Council
Derek Pert, CFI Ontario Executive Director
Jamie Williams, CFI Vancouver Executive Director
Nate Phelps, CFI Calgary Executive Director
Brahim Abdenbi, CFI Montreal Executive Director
Seanna Watson, CFI Ottawa Chair
Loren Price, CFI Okanagan Chair
Kendra Getty, CFI Saskatchewan Chair
Jesse Brydle, CFI Halifax Chair
Michael Kruse & Iain Martel, Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism Co-Chair
Charles Sule, Social and Community Services Committee Chair
Kevin Kindred, Legal Advisory Committee Chair
Renee Stephen, Web Development Committee Chair
Blair Renaud, Multimedia Committee Chair