March Media Madness: A Summary of Extraordinary Press Visibility for CFI this month
March 29, 2010
Fellow Freethinkers,
Greetings to new recipients. This is a special announcement from the CENTRE FOR INQUIRY CANADA, the country's premiere venue for humanists, skeptics, and freethinkers. Please scroll to the bottom for Ontario event clarification details.
March Media Madness - A Plea for Membership & Donations
The Centre for Inquiry and our affiliates scored major and regular media hits this month. If you aren't yet a member or a donor, please read through this email and consider how your membership and/or donation would solidify your support for our important and successful organization, and how much more we could accomplish with your generous help. Donations receive a charity receipt. Go here for more information and to join or donate.
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TODAY!! Michael Payton, CFI spokesperson, will appear on the Rex Murphy CBC Radio show today, Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 4pm EST to discuss free speech on campus and the Ann Coulter controversy. Check the CFI Canada facebook fan page for updates
1. Kevin Smith, CFI Canada Board member, is now contributing regularly to:
a.
The Ottawa Citizen's
Faith & Ethics blog and Ask the Religion Expert section, offering a balancing secular perspective to issues of the day.
b.
The Miracle Channel
in Lethbridge, Alberta, on the Religious Perspective Segment
2. CFI Canada's new Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism announces its presence through 2 editorials published on the National Post 's Full Comment section:
Justin Trottier: Time to Call Time on Homeopathy
Posted March 7, 2010
Justin Trottier and Michael Payton: If it talks like a quack
. Posted March 19, 2010
3. Justin Trottier appeared on the Michael Coren Show Faith Matters panel on CTS TV on March 4, 2010 and on March 25, 2010. We don't have access to that footage yet, but we have up his appearance on February 12, 2010 . Topics included the muslim veil, Adam Giambroni and abortion.
4. CFI was represented on the John Downs Show on 640AM radio in a discussion of Glenn Beck's condemnation of churches that are big into social and economic justice. Aired March 12, 2010. Listen Now
5. Justin Trottier continues to publish in the
National Post (Holy Post)
regularly.
Last posting:
Wheels on the atheist bus still goin' round
. Posted Feb 27, 2010
6. Western Standard publishes editorial Ann Coulter gets exactly what she wanted in Canada on March 26, 2010
Calgary
CFI Calgary's talk by Nate Phelps, son of notorious Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, covered on AM770 Rob Breakenridge Show Calgary Radio and CJSW University of Calgary Radio
Saskatoon
Mayor's Prayer Breakfast: Our affiliated group the Saskatoon Freethinkers was featured in Global Saskatoon on Saturday, March 13, 2010 regarding the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast
Canadian Secular Alliance and National Anthem
Our allies the Canadian Secular Alliance over the last month were featured in the following media on the issue of secularizing the National Anthem:
Feds keep hands off anthem, SunMedia
Ottawa Sun
Edmonton Sun
Brockville Recorder and Times
St. Catharines Standard
Daily Observer (Upper Ottawa Valley)
Brantford Expositor
Chatham Daily News
Belleville Intelligencer
Lethbridge Herald published an editorial:
Anthem issue fittingly a non-issue
International
Tom Flynn, Editor of Free Inquiry magazine at CFI headquarters, is now a member of the On Faith Panel for the Washington Post. First contribution:
The end for tax-funded religious service agencies?