The BC Humanist Association is renewing its call for legislatures to end the practice of opening each day's sitting with prayers following a new poll that found a majority of Canadians would prefer a moment of silent reflection or nothing.

On June 30, 2024, as rainbows and drag queens marched down Yonge Street with the Toronto Pride Parade, a trio of evangelical churches in Greater Toronto hosted the leader of the opposition and local Conservative Party candidates for campaign-style rallies at their church services.

Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between Church and State" and the Canadian "duty of religious neutrality" have long delineated political and ecclesiastical matters. However, another wall has long existed between charities (including churches) and the state. Today, we're examining whether those religious rallies have breached that wall.

In its brief to the House of Commons Finance Committee's Pre-Budget 2025 consultation, the BC Humanist Association (BCHA) today called on the government to end charitable status for anti-abortion organizations, remove the privileged status of religion in charity law and repeal the clergy residence deduction.

British Columbians go to the polls on October 19, 2024, to elect our next provincial government. As an organization that seeks to promote secular and progressive values, we're gearing up to ensure the candidates vying for your votes hear the voices and concerns of Humanists.

While we have several core issues to ask candidates about, we wanted feedback from our members about their priorities and what they want to see us ask. Our survey ran over two weeks and was sent to our entire membership list. Nearly 20% of our members responded. We asked two open-ended questions to get unfiltered feedback.

British Columbia's privacy laws and the Charter's protection of religious freedom are both fundamentally based on principles of consent and freedom from coercion, we argued in our submissions to the BC Court of Appeal yesterday.

The BC Humanist Association (BCHA) is declaring the end of municipal prayers in British Columbia (BC) following a commitment from the City of Parksville that there will not be prayers in the City's next inaugural council meeting.

Churches and all other non-profit organizations in Terrace will soon have to pay some property taxes under changes approved by Council on June 10.

The BC Humanist Association (BCHA) supports the legal action taken by Dr Jyothi Jayaraman and the family of Samantha O’Neill against Providence Health Care and the Province of British Columbia. The lawsuit challenges health authority and provincial policies prohibiting medical assistance in dying (MAID) within the facilities, violating patients’ Charter rights.

The BC Humanist Association (BCHA) has called upon the Senate committee to expedite the passage of Bill S-251. This bill would repeal a section of the Criminal Code that permits corporal punishment of children.

The City of Vancouver has said that prayers at its most recent inauguration ceremony were "a breach of the duty of religious neutrality." A lawyer for the City made the concession in response to the threat of legal action from the BC Humanist Association (BCHA).