The BC Humanist Association supports a science-based approach to public policy and we are generally skeptical of unproven ‘alternative medicines’ such as homeopathy. We are concerned by anti-science rhetoric surrounding debates over climate change, electromagnetic radiation (for example, Wi-Fi, Smart Meters, and cell phones), and genetically-modified foods. Recent reductions in funding to science, muzzling of public scientists, and the promotion of non-evidence based treatments threaten our society's ability to make informed decisions on the best available evidence.
We have signed Evidence for Democracy's Science Pledge and the Declaration of the Voices-Voix Declaration Coalition defending advocacy and dissent in Canada.
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· December 21, 2022
At its December 13, 2022 meeting, the Board of Directors of the BC Humanist Association endorsed the BC Climate Emergency Campaign's 10 Actions to Confront the Climate Emergency.
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· May 24, 2022
The BC Humanist Association is lending its support to a private members bill that aims to end the criminal justice approach to the toxic drug and overdose crisis. Bill C-216, introduced by Courtenay-Alberni Member of Parliament Gord Johns, would decriminalize simple possession of drugs, allow for the expungement of criminal...
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· April 01, 2022
Reviewing the predictions made one year ago today in the gaia shattering report, Separation of Religion and Government in Retrograde, the spiritual researchers of the BC Humanist Association have concluded that they achieved a 98.2% accuracy with their astrological prognostications. This unrivaled success puts all other forms of divination to shame...
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· April 26, 2021
At its April 19, 2021 meeting, the Board of Directors of the BC Humanist Association adopted a motion joining calls for greater data transparency from governments and decision makers to provide for greater accountability in their response to COVID-19.
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· April 01, 2021
Building on its research-driven advocacy around religious prayers in the legislature and municipal councils across British Columbia, the BC Humanist Association is asking today why our provincial politicians have thus far limited their spiritual considerations to more traditional approaches to understanding the universe. In its new report, Separation of Religion...
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· August 27, 2020
The BC Humanist Association is calling for the scrapping of a proposal to create a "Regulatory College of Complementary and Alternative Health and Care Professionals" by a committee tasked with modernizing BC's provincial health professions regulatory framework. The new regulatory college is being proposed to amalgamate existing colleges for chiropractors, naturopaths, acupuncturists...
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· January 09, 2020
The BC Humanist Association is calling on the government to end the recognition of chiropractors, naturopaths, acupuncturists and Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners as part of planned reforms to the regulation of health professionals. An all-party committee is considering changes to the Health Professions Act. The review follows a previous inquiry...
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· February 28, 2019
Religion and ignorance should no longer be acceptable excuses to not vaccinate children, according to the BC Humanist Association as Vancouver is in the midst of a measles outbreak. The provincial government is in the process of establishing an immunization registry that parents will have to record their children's vaccination...
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· January 14, 2019
By Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo Since the announcement that I won the Nobel Prize in physics for chirped pulse amplification, or CPA, there has been a lot of attention on its practical applications. It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist,...
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· April 26, 2018
The BC Humanist Association is welcoming legislation introduced by the Government of British Columbia today to regulate the sale and consumption of recreational cannabis but is expressing concerns at how some regulations may rely on pseudoscientific tests which put the civil liberties of British Columbians at risk. The BC Government...
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