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Canada’s National Immunization Poster Contest Winners!
The 9th Canadian Immunization Conference is being held right now in Quebec City.
The goals of this conference include reviewing new vaccinology science, developing immunization strategies for the country and “increase opportunities for networking, partnership and collaboration in the immunization field.”
They also have a poster contest for Grade 6 students across the country. I think this is a great way to teach kids the value of immunization and that vaccines are truly one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time, saving literally millions of lives.
Here are a couple of my favourites…
You can see the rest of the awesome posters here.
“There’s Probably No God. Now Stop Worrying and Enjoy Your Life.”
That’s what was postered on the side of buses in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal last year. And they are planning to do it again.
The Centre for Inquiry (CFI) is launching a campaign which would see similar ads on the sides of buses in Toronto starting in January, pending final approval from the Toronto Transit Commission. This year’s campaign is “Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence”, and compares the belief in God and Allah to the belief in Bigfoot and Tarot reading.

Photo From Centre for Inquiry
The campaign’s website says:
Why is belief in Big Foot dismissed as delusional while belief in Allah and Christ is respected and revered? All of these claims are equally extraordinary and demand critical examination
Assuming they get approval to run the ads in Toronto, the CFI hopes to move the campaign into other major Canadian cities.
I’d love it if everyone saw the ads and know the point of the campaign is to emphasize not the kind of knee-jerk debunking to anything suspicious but that we’re interested in a genuine debate, a conversation about so-called extraordinary claims. We’re not here to mock people who believe in these claims