Archive for the Media Category

Coffey Confrontation At Hotel Saskatchewan

Posted in Media, news, Regina, science, Skeptic on May 1, 2013 by saskskeptic

Regina’s Prairie Dog Magazine has this article by Paul Dechene about claimed psychic Chip Coffey confronting Regina’s CFI “educators” while they were handing out information about psychics outside his show.

Chip Coffey sure doesn’t like me. He isn’t a big fan of the Centre For Inquiry Regina either. Found this out when I showed up before his show at the Hotel Saskatchewan last night to take some pics of the CFI crew. They were handing out fliers with information about the  methods psychics use in their shows, and I thought a blog post on their action might make a nice coda to our Chip Coffey coverage.

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The Dark Side Of Coffey: An Interview With Mentalist Mark Edward

Posted in Media, news, Regina, Skeptic with tags , on May 1, 2013 by saskskeptic

Regina’s Prairie Dog has an article by Paul Dechene. It is an interview with mentalist and magician Mark Edward about psychic and media personality Chip Coffey.

Last year, Edward was ejected from a Chip Coffey show in Los Angeles for giving out cold reading tip sheets.

He refers to Coffey as a “grief vampire.”

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Planet S Takes Down Chip Coffey

Posted in Media, news, Saskatoon, science, Skeptic on April 20, 2013 by saskskeptic

Planet S has this wonderful take down of claimed psychic and TV personality Chip Coffey:

Which is too bad, because I was curious to find out if his psychic powers would have revealed that I’m a completely duplicitous bastard. Maybe his spirit guides would’ve warned him that I already had an interview in the can with Mark Edward, a professional mentalist and magician.

For the full article go here

Robert Sawyer Reading and Book Signing

Posted in Event, Media, news, Saskatoon on March 17, 2013 by saskskeptic

Robert Sawyer, award-winning Science Fiction author, will be in Saskatoon to promote his new book Red Planet Blues.  He will be at McNalley Robinson Wednesday Mar. 27 at 7:00pm in the travel alcove. For more information see the McNalley Robinson website or on Facebook.

Saskatoon Launch of Red Planet Blues (Penguin Group Canada)

Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such “revelatory and thought-provoking” novels as Triggers and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Identity Theft” and his Aurora Award-winning short story “Biding Time,” and set on a lawless Mars in a future where everything is cheap, and life is even cheaper…

Robert J. Sawyer was born in Ottawa and lives in Mississauga with his wife, poet Carolyn Clink. He has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel, as well as the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for mystery fiction. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name.

Bertrand Russell:‘Why I Am Not a Christian’

Posted in Atheist, Media on February 17, 2013 by saskskeptic

Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield: Space Jam

Posted in Media, news, science on February 12, 2013 by saskskeptic

Last week Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield from orbit joined Ed Robertson and the rest of the Barenaked Ladies to sing a Space Jam. Check out the video.

The original CBC page is here.

2013 Saskatchewan Darwin Day Recognition

Posted in Media, news, Regina, Saskatoon, science on February 3, 2013 by saskskeptic

The Honourable Russ Marchuk, Minister of Education has designated February 12 as “Darwin Day” in Saskatchewan.

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The text reads:

I, Russ Marchuk, Minister of Education in the Province of Saskatchewan in exercise of the powers conferred upon-me, do hereby designate the day of February 12, 2013 to be: “Darwin Day” in Saskatchewan. And I request the citizens of the Province of Saskatchewan to recognize this day.

CFI Saskatoon: July Film Screening Meet up

Posted in Atheist, Event, Media, Saskatoon on June 30, 2012 by saskskeptic
The next CFI Saskatoon meetup is:
Sunday, July 15, 2012
11:30 AM
Venice House
906 Central Avenue
Saskatoon, SK S7N 2G8

For July’s regular Meet up, we are going to relax a bit and screen a film.  We have a bit of a choice between the following films, so take the poll associated with this Meet up and state your preference.

Faith School Menace? The number of faith schools in Britain is rising. Around 7,000 publicly-funded schools – one in three – now has a religious affiliation. As the coalition government paves the way for more faith-based education by promoting ‘free schools’, the renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins says enough is enough.

For the Bible Tells Me So is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Daniel G. Karslake about homosexuality and its perceived conflict with religion, as well as various interpretations of what the Bible says about same-sex sexuality.

Experiencing Hubble: Free Video Lecture on the Hubble Space Telescope

Posted in lecture, Media, news, science on February 2, 2012 by saskskeptic

The Great Courses company has a free lecture on the Hubble Space Telescope.  Go here to see the lecture.

I have mixed feeling about “The Great Courses”.  I like the lectures they have to offer but I am really tired of their constant emails and catalogs they send out.  Get on their mailing list at your mailboxes peril.

Sad, Empty Places? Marketing ‘Ghost Towns’ in Saskatchewan

Posted in Media, news, Regina, Saskatoon on January 22, 2012 by saskskeptic

ActiveHistory.ca has an article about hunting Saskatchewan Ghost Towns:

A new and fashionable trend in tourism is invading rural regions of western Canada. SUV crossovers, front windows obscured by maps and cameras, are driving down gravel backroads, sweeping around correction line curves and screeching to a stop when a wide-eyed fox creeps across to its den in the culvert.

Are lazy Sunday drives, once the mainstay of 1950s nuclear families, making a comeback? Are the drivers frantically trying to find the way to an uncle’s farm they haven’t seen since childhood?

No. The latest tourism destination is the proverbial ‘empty’ Saskatchewan landscape itself. Or, more specifically, the landscape of places that used to exist, but are no longer there.

Welcome to the latest tourism craze: hunting for ghost towns.

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