Free Thinking Contributors
Will Breen works as an exploration geologist, but has had many other job titles and interests that all share a common theme of methodical and systematic inquiry: pilot, medical technician, first aid instructor, & volunteer firefighter. During his university career, he attracted equal parts praise and criticism for frequently offering unflinching fact-based opinions on issues facing the student body. A lifelong atheist, he looks forward to the day when the phrase “sovereign nation under God” is removed from the Canadian Constitution, and everyone uses Occam’s Razor. Will lives in northern Saskatchewan, …Will Breen works as an exploration geologist, but has had many other job titles and interests that all share a common theme of methodical and systematic inquiry: pilot, medical technician, first aid instructor, & volunteer firefighter. During his university career, he attracted equal parts praise and criticism for frequently offering unflinching fact-based opinions on issues facing the student body. A lifelong atheist, he looks forward to the day when the phrase “sovereign nation under God” is removed from the Canadian Constitution, and everyone uses Occam’s Razor. Will lives in northern Saskatchewan, with his wife and 2 spoiled rotten greyhounds.
St. Catharines
Grant LaFleche is an award winning journalist and boxer working in St. Catharines Ontario. For the last 10 years he has been a full time daily newspaper reporter for working on true crime, politics and health care issues. He's been nominated for 13 Ontario newspaper awards and one National Newspaper Award. He is also a regular columnist for the paper. Grant's column, the Grant Rant, advocates respect for evidence, skepticism and secular values in the face of irrationality. Grant is an active blogger as the author of the Atheist Handbook and …Grant LaFleche is an award winning journalist and boxer working in St.
Catharines Ontario. For the last 10 years he has been a full time daily newspaper reporter for
working on true crime, politics and health
care issues. He's been nominated for 13 Ontario newspaper awards and
one National Newspaper Award. He is also a regular columnist for the
paper. Grant's column, the Grant Rant, advocates respect for evidence,
skepticism and secular values in the face of irrationality. Grant is
an active blogger as the author of the Atheist Handbook and a graphic
novelist. His first story, The Confessional, was published 803 Studios
in the United States. His upcoming graphic novel, By the Blade, will
be published by Markosia comics in the UK later this year.
Toronto, Ontario
Pam Walls grew up in a large, Catholic household in Calgary, Alberta. She went through the Catholic school system and tried very hard to believe in God during her adolescence. There wasn't one specific catalyst for her eventual rejection of religion, but rather a gradual letting-go of faith. She graduated from the International Relations program at the University of Calgary and has traveled to Ghana as a student and India as a volunteer. She is now the Executive Director of the Centre for Inquiry Ontario in Toronto.Pam Walls grew up in a large, Catholic household in Calgary, Alberta. She went through the Catholic school system and tried very hard to believe in God during her adolescence. There wasn't one specific catalyst for her eventual rejection of religion, but rather a gradual letting-go of faith. She graduated from the International Relations program at the University of Calgary and has traveled to Ghana as a student and India as a volunteer. She is now the Executive Director of the Centre for Inquiry Ontario in Toronto.
Guest Contributors
Vancouver, British Columbia
Ethan Clow, born and raised in the Vancouver area, is best known in the skeptical community as Ethan “the Freethinking Historian” co-host of Radio Freethinker, a skeptical podcast and radio show on CiTR in Vancouver. He is also a regular blogger for Skeptic North. Ethan graduated with a B.A. in History from UBC in the fall of 2009 and has an active role with skeptical movements in Vancouver and British Columbia. He was an executive member of the UBC Freethinkers, a campus club that promotes skepticism and critical thinking. …Ethan Clow, born and raised in the Vancouver area, is best known in the skeptical community as Ethan “the Freethinking Historian” co-host of Radio Freethinker, a skeptical podcast and radio show on CiTR in Vancouver. He is also a regular blogger for Skeptic North.
Ethan graduated with a B.A. in History from UBC in the fall of 2009 and has an active role with skeptical movements in Vancouver and British Columbia. He was an executive member of the UBC Freethinkers, a campus club that promotes skepticism and critical thinking. He still maintains a close relationship with the UBC Freethinkers and helps plan events and organizes skeptical activism as best he can. He is currently the Executive Director of CFI Vancouver.
Burlington, Ontario
Michael attended York University in Toronto, Canada specializing in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Working on moral psychology at both the Schulich School of Business and Harvard University with Marc Hauser. Since joining Centre for Inquiry he has appeared in public debates, print, radio and television defending reason science and secularism.Michael attended York University in Toronto, Canada specializing in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Working on moral psychology at both the Schulich School of Business and Harvard University with Marc Hauser. Since joining Centre for Inquiry he has appeared in public debates, print, radio and television defending reason science and secularism.
Montreal, Quebec
I was born Alexandre Bernard Rivard in Montreal, Quebec, where I currently reside. I was born to a French-Canadian bilingual speaking father, who helped shaped my beliefs in politics and helped me realize that my French-Canadian culture is incredibly important and to be proud and always remember where I come from. My mother, an East-coast raised Anglophone was essential in my Atheistic development as well as in my pride for the Canadian Armed Forces, in which my grandfather spent numerous years. I am currently a first year student at Dawson College …I was born Alexandre Bernard Rivard in Montreal, Quebec, where I currently reside. I was born to a French-Canadian bilingual speaking father, who helped shaped my beliefs in politics and helped me realize that my French-Canadian culture is incredibly important and to be proud and always remember where I come from. My mother, an East-coast raised Anglophone was essential in my Atheistic development as well as in my pride for the Canadian Armed Forces, in which my grandfather spent numerous years. I am currently a first year student at Dawson College (a CEGEP, one of Quebec's post-secondary pre-university institutions) with aspirations to go to law school, and eventually enter the political game. I hope to present a youthful opinion that will largely focus on skepticism in general and my musings about politics, both Canadian and American.
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