The Legion Of Reason

For January 27, 2018.... Christmas came late for me (or really, really early), as we learn that Justin Trudeau has unexpectedly replaced Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould with David Lametti. Quack Tracks A judge has ruled that the Stephans will not have their legal fees paid for by the Province of Alberta. The Regressive Left Files Comedian Zach Poitras has been denied a spot to perform at the Université du Québec à Montréal. The reason? He's white and has dreadlocks. The event, the Snowflake Comedy Club, could not have been named more appropriately. Catholic Watch A representative of Alberta's Catholic school system says “The courts have told us that we have to be Catholic or there’s no reason for us to exist.” Guess what? There's no reason for you to exist. A Catholic priest in Calgary's NE quadrant, Malcolm Joe D’Souza, has been charged with sexual assault. I'd chalk this up to a one-off, but over a 26-year span he had been moved between a number of parishes in southern Alberta. Sound familiar? And, ye

On our plate for this episode…. Eye on Islam While on vacation with her family in Kuwait, 18-year old Rahaf al-Qunun escaped in a bid to seek asylum in Australia. Detained by Thai authorities at the request of the Barbaric State, social media put pressure on Thai immigration officials to rescind their original decision to repatriate her into the clutches of her patriarchal family. Now she’s on her way to Canada, and that makes me very proud of this great nation. In an era where social media is all too often used to punish those who do not meet ideological purity tests, this is a win. Pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations has forced Amazon to remove certain products including door and bath mats they deemed offensive as they were imprinted with Islamic calligraphy, references to the Prophet Muhammad and Quranic scripture. I’d be more conciliatory to this had CAIR kept its big mouth shut and not said some very disturbing things. Married women in the Barbaric State of KSA rejoice! You can get th

In this episode: The big new is that Canada no longer has a blasphemy law on its books. Bill C-51 passed in the Senate 49-17, with 26 abstentions, and has received Royal Assent. Catholic Watch Local priest and vicar of Catholic education Jerome Lavigne claims the rainbow flag flown at city hall earlier this year is the work of none other than Satan. We learn, despite the gag order on the trial, that Cardinal Pell has been convicted on charges of sexual abuse of minors and plans to appeal the verdict. At the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse in Britain, Cardinal Vincent Nichols professes shock that a vicar ordered a predatory priest be warned of an impending arrest to flee justice. Is he serious? Two nuns working at a California school embezzled half a million dollars and go on a Las Vegas gambling spree. One can just picture them stuffing g-strings at Chippendales. Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman is feeling the heat of public outcry over Covenant Health’s de facto veto over patients’ right to acc

In Quack Track… David Stephan wants the province of Alberta to dish out $4M for his pending re-trial on charges of failing to provide the necessaries of life for his young son Ezekiel. In Eye on Islam… Actress Rania Youssef has been accused of ‘inciting debauchery’ for her dress at the Cairo Film Festival, the […]

Brian Dalton, known in our circles as “Mr. Deity”, joins us for an interview, and has graciously agreed to help us out with a few stories that have crossed our radar. In American Theocracy Today… Aspiring missionary John Chau picks the wrong place to evangelize. But don’t worry, his evangelical group has forgiven the tribe […]

In ‘Catholic Watch’… Britain’s Supreme Court rules that refusing to put LGBT-supportive messages on cakes is not discriminatory. Ireland votes on repealing its blasphemy law this past Friday. We’ll tell you the results. Doreen Nowicki, an elderly woman with ALS and a patient under the care of Catholic-run Covenant Health, was forced to be moved […]

In Catholic Watch…. They should have named the hurricane about to hit the shores of Virginia ‘Francis’ in honor of the Catholic Church’s destructive power. How long has the predatory priest problem gone on, and only now Francis is convening a meeting of bishops to discuss what to do moving forward? But he continually shows […]

Recent events have given the weed killer glyphosate a rough ride. The WHO’s International Agency for Cancer Research reclassified it as a “probable carcinogen” in 2015. Last month a California state court awarded $289 million to Dewayne Johnson who claimed his terminal case of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was caused by the herbicde. This past week a […]

Topics for this episode include: In Catholic Watch…. We address the elephant in the room, the recent Pennsylvania grand jury report on sexual abuse by predatory priests and their subsequent cover up by bishops. The report identified 301 predatory priests, and that’s just one diocese. The report is chilling in its descriptions of the worst […]

Topics for this episode include: In The American Theocracy Today…. If you needed any more evidence that the US is a theocracy, look no further than Jeff Sessions’ announcement of the creation of a ‘religious liberty task force’ which which will ensure the religious have the freedom to impose their religion on everyone by crushing […]

Skeptic extraordinaire Susan Gerbic joins us to talk about her work in skepticism and how she came to be a skeptic.

We delve into a variety of topics, including the success of Australia’s program to get parents to vaccinate their children; the Vatican is making guidelines for selling churches, while the Church of England seeks the protection of the Crown to prevent such ownership changes (while simultaneously building new ones); a woman in Tehran is sentenced […]

Michael Rectenwald (Twitter: @antipcnyuprof), professor of f Global Liberal Studies at New York University, joins us to talk about his experiences with the regressive left and in the broader context of the American university system. His book titled "Springtime for Snowflakes: "Social Justice" and Its Postmodern Parentage" will become available later this month.

ur gay correspondent Shane joins Christine, Twyla and me, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson, to discuss the recent BLM-esque extortion tactic of holding Edmonton Pride hostage till no one in uniform - not EMS, not military nor police - can take part in the festivities. More news in the Regressive Left Files.... Lindsay Shepherd is suing Wilfred Laurier University over continued harassment by university staff. The lawsuit includes her inquisitors - professors Nathan Rambukkana and Herbert Pimlott, as well as diversity officer Adria Joel. And in Catholic Watch... Bishops in Australia plan to disobey a new law which will require priests who learn of abuse in the confessional to report such crimes. The new openly-atheist Prime Minister of Spain is doing evil things such as considering the removal of religious symbols from public institutions, and the Prime Minister of Ireland will require any health care provider receiving public funds, including Catholic hospitals, will be required to provide abortion se

For episode 233, June 10, 2018…. BC couple lose custody of their child after claiming that Jesus spoke through their lawyer. Their lawyer refused to comment. Because it’s a stuffed lion. And stuffed lions can’t talk. An Australian naturopath receives a 14-month sentence for advising a breast-feeding mother to stop medicating her infant’s eczema and […]

Well Tim Minchin, Cardinal Pell did indeed “Come Home”. He will be on trial for – wait for it! – sexually abusing a minor; News on the Laurier/Lindsay Shepherd debacle, as a draft on free expression was released last week; Duke U students emboldened by their victory of receiving no punishment (and hence no harmful […]

On the agenda for this episode: a naturopoath gave a homeopathic rabid dog saliva preparation to a four-year-old for “behavioral problems”; another prominent atheist stands accused of sexual misconduct, and you guessed it – Buzzfeed creating news again; Pope Francis lies to a child about his atheist father being in heaven, and says he made […]

Alec Sweet, Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Claremont Independent, joins us to discuss recent additions to science and mathematics classes decrying colonialism at Pomona College, and the American college system at large.

It’s April 1st, and how could Easter be on a more appropriate day? Okay, maybe Halloween would be slightly more appropriate for zombies. In today’s episode…. A mother tries to prove the existence of god to her children by letting Jesus take the wheel. In Catholic Watch, Pope Francis refuses to apologize to victims of […]

Lawrence Krauss has responded to the allegations made in the Buzzfeed article and ASU has placed him on paid leave while they investigate. Regardless of the veracity of the allegations, that Buzzfeed article was atrocious. A BC school district shows us how not to fight racism. The hijabless woman who stood on a power junction […]