Comments on: CFI Canada: Where are they now?

By: Mark Bee

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:12:12 +0000

I see Justin was a speaker at the CAE meeting at U of T the other day. A friend was live tweeting the “event” and it was exactly as sad and delusional as one might expect. Justin and Barbara Kay on the same stage…Glad I stayed home. The more significant downside to Justin’s continued role (in any capacity) with CFI is that his advocacy for crackpot groups damages the CFI brand and reduces its ability to draw members from a wide base.

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By: Eamon Knight

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:44:16 +0000

Men are one-third more likely to develop prostate cancer than women are to develop breast cancer, yet 50% more funding goes to women’s health over men’s

That’s a horribly written sentence, but assuming it means there’s more funding for breast vs. prostate cancer: perhaps it has something to do with the fact that breast cancer tends to be more aggressive, killing on a timescale of months to single-digit years from diagnosis, while prostate cancer kills on a timescale of years to decades (my understanding is that, in older men, the choice is often not to treat it, as you’ll probably die of heart disease first).

Rationally, funding should be triaged by risk.

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By: Katie

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:10:30 +0000

Ian and Rebekah – 😀 I take pride in my finely tuned girly-attack-and-gossip skills.

Veronica – for a lot of reasons, I will probably never post on Canadian Atheist again – at least until Zak shows use of the money that FAC gave to him (ie: the scholarship he said he’d give out…) but likely not even then. That’s just my biggest beef. And besides – the hubby and I ditched the event to go eat greasy fish n’ chips at the campus pub.

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By: Veronica Abbass

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:05:38 +0000

I get two or three email messages a week from CFI or Jaimy Warner the Toronto branch leader with info about what’s happening and sometimes I post the info on Canadian Atheist.

Katie,

I guess you are attending Faithless: Better Without God (How Dan Barker lost his faith in faith) tonight. I’d love to hear your thoughts/reaction. Are you still able to post on Canadian Atheist? If so, would you consider submitting a guest post?

Re: Justin

I’m not to happy to see that he still continues to advocate for men’s rights. I’m uncomfortable with the fact that CFI’s National Outreach Coordinator believes that men need to gain or regain rights. It will be difficult for CFI/Justin to reach out to women (pardon the pun) if Justin continues to be a men’s rights champion.

I wrote a CA post on the CTV’s National Affairs program on Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling supporting Quebec’s mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture course. Justin was a guest on the show representing the Canadian Secular Alliance. I wasn’t happy with the fact that Justin supports the teaching of religion in “a factual, comparative way.”

I also replied to one of Joe’s comments to the post to point out that Justin’s use and overuse of the word “I” and that Justin “does not mention CSA or CSA’s stand on the Ethics and Religious Culture course. It certainly sounds as if he is representing himself.”

http://canadianatheist.com/2012/02/20/no-skipping-religion-class/

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By: Rebekah

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:39:35 +0000

Oy, this again? Some things never change. Thanks for the post, Ian.

(and nice sleuthing, Katie!)

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By: Ian

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:39:10 +0000

Katie, you win the skeptic gossip investigative journalism award.

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By: Katie

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:32:27 +0000

oh, nope! his number is still there
http://equalitycanada.com/?page_id=99

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By: Katie

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:26:26 +0000

I had a pretty big laugh when I saw they Canadian Association for Equity. It’s since been changed – but at the time the picture at the top was the same one as Justin’s site. And while Justin didn’t list himself as being involved on the about page – the contact phone number was his. All the listings on volunteer Toronto had his number as well (the same one that is listed for all CFI things, so googling it will link that two, I’d imagine). It’s good that he’s obviously seen that it can be a detriment to CFI’s image (really I think it’s about his own self image, though…) but he’s not fooling anyone. That crappy podcast still is all about him…and as you’ve shown it’s so easy to link him to it.

I’m going to my first CFI event in almost a year tonight … and only because it’s on campus so it’s convenient to get there. It’ll be interesting to see Justin for the first time since I publicly and repeatedly shamed him online. …Maybe I’ll bring him a cupcake so he doesn’t spew venom at me.

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