Another Wed. evening really well spent….. Hope those of you who couldn’t come, join us when possible. The topic was broad and almost comical, the meaning of life. The conversation travelled from the future of AI, to the realities of aging, to climate change and the effect of religion, the…

Bob Hope leads us in understanding what Natural Burial is and compares it with Humanist values. For the last 7 years, Bob has been promoting the idea of having Natural Burial available at Owen Sound’s Green Wood Cemetery. It could be that we are getting close to succeeding!

Thank you Michael Craig for your research and ongoing information during the discussion. Settlers have caused hundreds of years of disruption- including genocide. It is no surprise that many Indigenous groups experience family breakdown, addictions, violence, high rates of suicide, early school dropout, poor health, poverty and more. More recently,…

Some of the areas that we covered were: The importance of ‘symbols’- the cross, stars, turbans, hijabs, etc. Our symbols appear to be very important to us. How we exemplify our individuality is often exemplified by our choices in clothing and symbols (religious or otherwise). Forbidding outward expression of religious…

Some of the important topics we covered: Bots, what are they and how to we recognize them? (Automated responses to key words) We have reached a point where we no longer trust what we read and see in the media. Social media creates ‘silos. We receive what they know we…

Psychotherapist/ Addiction counsellor Josh Richardson, approaches the subject as a “substance use disorder ‘and he rejects the long held view of addiction as being a moral failing, or lack of will power. To assure ‘harm reduction’, (i.e.: fewer deaths and permanent disability), we must approach the person, and the subject,…