The BC Humanist Association brought secular, evidence-based priorities directly into the legislature's 2027 budget consultation. While Members of the Legislative Assembly on the Finance Committee stopped short of adopting them, the final report cited BCHA's arguments on climate policy, property taxation and private-school funding, helping build the case for future policy change.

Humanist Canada and the British Columbia Humanist Association (BCHA) are welcoming a new policy from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) that ensures spiritual reflections at public ceremonies uphold principles of religious neutrality.

The Lord's Prayer will no longer be said at the opening of Tobique Valley, New Brunswick, council meetings, following legal challenges from the BC Humanist Association (BCHA) and concerns raised by local residents.

The BC Humanist Association is threatening legal action over the District of Tobique Valley's decision to continue to recite the Lord's Prayer at every council meeting. The practice was challenged by local residents for violating constitutional prohibitions on government-sponsored religious practices. District staff instead asked residents to ‘sit out’ during the prayer.

The BC Humanist Association (BCHA) is calling on Justice Minister Sean Fraser to reject the recommendation of the federal Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD), which, on June 17, 2026, recommended that the government "indefinitely exclude" persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental disorder from eligibility for medical assistance in dying (MAID). This recommendation is a violation of the Charter rights affirmed in Carter v Canada, an act of discrimination against Canadians with mental illness, and a failure to honour the individualized assessment process the law already requires.

In its factum filed with the Supreme Court of Canada today, the BC Humanist Association (BCHA) asks whether Canadians surrender their privacy rights whenever they set foot inside a church, synagogue or mosque.

The BC Humanist Association is calling on the government to use BC Budget 2027 to end religious property tax exemptions, phase out private school funding and reinvest in climate solutions.

Humanist Groups Condemn Religious Obstruction of Healthcare; Call for Protection of MAID Rights

The British Columbia Humanist Association (BCHA), Humanist Canada, and Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) are calling on the federal government to uphold the state’s duty of religious neutrality in response to renewed efforts by the Catholic Church to influence medical assistance in dying (MAID) policy.

As New Brunswick residents prepare for the upcoming municipal elections on May 11, a new report from the BC Humanist Association (BCHA) is putting religious neutrality at the center of the democratic debate. The study, titled Godless Serenity: Unconstitutional prayers in New Brunswick municipal council meetings, reveals that a decade after the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark Saguenay ruling, several New Brunswick local governments are still opening meetings with religious rituals or "stealth prayers" designed to circumvent the law.

In its brief to the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the BC Humanist Association is calling on Senators and Members of Parliament to end the categorical exclusion of people with mental disorders from MAID eligibility.