Humanist Ottawa

Join Humanist Ottawa Board Director Richard Thain and Board President Robert Hamilton as they discuss government-sponsored religious discrimination by funding a Catholic separate school system in Ontario — which gives exclusive, preferential treatment to one religious group — as a violation of the global human right of freedom of religion or belief, an international embarrassment, a financial disaster and a moral disgrace. The Ontario government can and should pass legislation that stops public funding of a second, non-public school system.

Ontario MPP Jessica Bell (NDP University-Rosedale) has agreed to present a petition at Queen’s Park, calling for the elimination of public funding for the Catholic School systems. The signature of Ontario residents will help to ensure that this petition is presented in the provincial legislature and will attract media attention and raise public awareness. This is another step in the eventual, inevitable withdrawal of discriminatory public funding for a school system that privileges a single religion over all other beliefs including non-belief.

We need your assistance in circulating physical copies of the downloadable petition and returning them to:

Petitions: Centre for Inquiry Canada
PO Box 83045, Ottawa RPO Bank Walkley,
Ontario K1V 1A3

Help us to get signatures by sharing the petition on social media, through your website, in person at any events you attend, and by requesting that your family and friends sign and share it.

Meet friendly skeptics, atheists, humanists and freethinkers for Skeptics in the Pub. If you’re tired of listening to people make unlikely claims or outlandish theories, come out and meet new friends instead.

Co-hosted by Humanist Ottawa and the Centre for Inquiry Canada, we meet regularly on the first Tuesday of each month. It’s an informal, warm and fun atmosphere. Join the free-wheeling conversation and bring a friend.

FOR ALL RETURNING SKEPTICS: That’s right, bring a friend! Had fun? Learned something? Supported a cause? Please consider becoming a member of Humanist Ottawa. Memberships and donations help cover the cost of maintaining our growing community.