# neutrality (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover neutrality. Page: Feed: --- ## [Humanists drive debate in BC Budget report](http://www.bchumanist.ca/bc_budget_2027_report) _2026-08-17 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ The BC Humanist Association brought secular, evidence-based priorities directly into the legislature's 2027 budget consultation. While Members of the Legislative Assembly on the Finance Committee stopped short of adopting them, the final report cited BCHA's arguments on climate policy, property taxation and private-school funding, helping build the case for future policy change. ## [Humanist groups applaud modernization of Armed Forces ceremony policy](http://www.bchumanist.ca/caf_spiritual_reflections) _2026-07-31 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ Humanist Canada and the British Columbia Humanist Association (BCHA) are welcoming a new policy from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) that ensures spiritual reflections at public ceremonies uphold principles of religious neutrality. ## [Tobique Valley "to no longer recite the Lord's Prayer" at council meetings](http://www.bchumanist.ca/tobique_valley_lords_prayer_ends) _2026-07-20 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ The Lord's Prayer will no longer be said at the opening of Tobique Valley, New Brunswick, council meetings, following legal challenges from the BC Humanist Association (BCHA) and concerns raised by local residents. ## [Lord's Prayer challenged in New Brunswick town council](http://www.bchumanist.ca/tobique_valley_nb_lords_prayer) _2026-06-24 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ The BC Humanist Association is threatening legal action over the District of Tobique Valley's decision to continue to recite the Lord's Prayer at every council meeting. The practice was challenged by local residents for violating constitutional prohibitions on government-sponsored religious practices. District staff instead asked residents to ‘sit out’ during the prayer. ## [Reject the discrimination of Canadians suffering from mental disorders](http://www.bchumanist.ca/maid_amad_reply) _2026-06-22 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ The BC Humanist Association (BCHA) is calling on Justice Minister Sean Fraser to reject the recommendation of the federal Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD), which, on June 17, 2026, recommended that the government "indefinitely exclude" persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental disorder from eligibility for medical assistance in dying (MAID). This… ## [Defending the privacy rights of apostates at the Supreme Court of Canada](http://www.bchumanist.ca/scc_vabuolas_factum) _2026-06-22 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ In its factum filed with the Supreme Court of Canada today, the BC Humanist Association (BCHA) asks whether Canadians surrender their privacy rights whenever they set foot inside a church, synagogue or mosque. ## [Humanist priorities in BC Budget 2027](http://www.bchumanist.ca/humanist_priorities_in_bc_budget_2027) _2026-06-18 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ The BC Humanist Association is calling on the government to use BC Budget 2027 to end religious property tax exemptions, phase out private school funding and reinvest in climate solutions. ## [Joint statement on religious healthcare obstruction](http://www.bchumanist.ca/humanist_groups_condemn_religious_obstruction_of_healthcare) _2026-05-12 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ Humanist Groups Condemn Religious Obstruction of Healthcare; Call for Protection of MAID Rights The British Columbia Humanist Association (BCHA), Humanist Canada, and Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) are calling on the federal government to uphold the state’s duty of religious neutrality in response to renewed efforts by the Catholic Church to influence medical assistance in dying (MAID) policy. ## [New Brunswick municipalities warned to keep inaugural meetings secular](http://www.bchumanist.ca/new_brunswick_municipalities_warned_to_keep_inaugural_meetings_secular) _2026-05-11 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ As New Brunswick residents prepare for the upcoming municipal elections on May 11, a new report from the BC Humanist Association (BCHA) is putting religious neutrality at the center of the democratic debate. The study, titled Godless Serenity: Unconstitutional prayers in New Brunswick municipal council meetings , reveals that a decade after the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark Saguenay ruling,… ## [Protecting Autonomy and Secularism in Access to MAID](http://www.bchumanist.ca/joint_committe_brief_md_sumc) _2026-05-06 · Ian Bushfield · News - British Columbia Humanist Association_ In its brief to the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, the BC Humanist Association is calling on Senators and Members of Parliament to end the categorical exclusion of people with mental disorders from MAID eligibility. ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7eIyf6xT1Hsc) _2026-05-06 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [Read with Caution: Canadian Association of Broadcaster’s New Broadcasting in Canada 2025 Report Engages in Familiar Pattern of Threat Inflation](https://dwmw.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/read-with-caution-canadian-association-of-broadcasters-new-broadcasting-in-canada-engages-in-familiar-pattern-of-threat-inflation/) _2026-02-25 · Dwayne Winseck's Media Blog · Mediamorphis_ Yesterday a new report was put out by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) and the consultancy firm CAB hired to do the report, Communications Management Inc (CMI): Broadcasting in Canada 2025. https://www.cab-acr.ca/resources/broadcasting-in-canada-2025/ Here’s my quick analysis of the CMI/CAB report. TLDR: Some of the report’s points about the systemic transformation of broadcasting in… ## [Making Unicode things fast](https://clipperhouse.com/go-unicode/) _2025-10-12 · clipperhouse.com_ By “Unicode things” I mean programs that process UTF-8. The basic logic of such programs is typically: ## [Allocations are a dependency](https://clipperhouse.com/allocations-dependency/) _2025-09-10 · clipperhouse.com_ I like to reduce or eliminate allocations in my projects , which use garbage-collected languages (Go and C#). Like you, I want efficiency – both in CPU cycles and memory. ## [YAGNI for distributed rate limiters](https://clipperhouse.com/yagni-distributed-rate-limiter/) _2025-08-28 · clipperhouse.com_ So, I am working on this rate limiter . It’s in-process and in-memory. I look at other fine rate limiters, and many offer the ability to store the state in a shared system, such as Redis. Should I offer that? ## [So, you’re inspecting strings on the hot path](https://clipperhouse.com/inspecting-strings-hot-path/) _2025-07-28 · clipperhouse.com_ A follow-up to So, you’re splitting strings on the hot path I have enjoyed optimizing my Go library for splitting (tokenizing) words according to the Unicode standard. ## [Designing a composable rate limiter](https://clipperhouse.com/composable-rate-limiter/) _2025-07-20 · clipperhouse.com_ Having used rate limiters a few times, I’ve observed that they must be thoughtfully designed. In particular, they are typically comprised of several policies which we wish to stack on one another. It can get messy. ## [Bill Ackman's Analysis of Harvard](https://harry-lewis.blogspot.com/2024/10/bill-ackmans-analysis-of-harvard.html) _2024-10-03 · Harry Lewis · Bits and Pieces_ The indefatigable Bill Ackman has quantified Harvard in a slide deck done in the style of a corporate takeover analysis. I am particularly pleased by slides 24ff---the first time, as far as I can recall, that anyone has noticed or attached any significance to the change in Harvard College's Mission Statement. I wrote the first version he cites, with editorial help from Jeremy Knowles and Neil…