Alanis Morissette raised the ire of some Ottawa residents this week when she pulled out of a major charity event due to illness and then posted Twitter photos from a beach location, but a spokesman says the "Ironic" singer really was sick.

The former host of Q alleges that the public broadcaster has defamed him and breached his trust.

BEIRUT (AP) — A captive British photojournalist has been used by the Islamic State group to take on the role of a war correspondent in the extremists' latest propaganda video. In the video, made public on Monday, John…

Aside from feeling a powerful urge to gouge your eyes out with a shredded Bud Light can while they talk, you wanna know the easiest way to tell if someone is a fucking idiot? Ask them to explain why they hold a certain opinion. An intelligent person ...

If you're the type of person who thinks Saturday Night Live's best years are behind it, you can stop reading now because nothing I can write will convince you otherwise. Yeah, I know, you grew up watching the most brilliant comedians of all ...

I've been involved in a discussion today about the behaviour of people, especially atheist in online debates (read: Twitter) and it has certainly given me food for thought.

Religions are assholes. They always have been. Even if you believe in God and you consider yourself a Christian or a Catholic or a Jew, and you’re reasonable, you can see this. The organizations are responsible for many atrocities and more deaths tha ...

Carlos Moreno says atheists, a sizable fraction of Americans, deserve representation in Congress.

According to a panel led by MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry, Islam had nothing to do with the beheading of an Oklahoma woman, John Sexton reported at Breitbart.com Monday.

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The American Humanist Association’s Don’t Say the Pledge campaign, which encourages a boycott of the Pledge of Allegiance until the “under God” wording is removed, has revealed a troubling phenomenon in American public schools, a common occurrence th ...

As someone raised in a Christian country, I learned that there was a historical Jesus. Now historical analysis finds no clear evidence that Jesus existed. If not, Christianity was fabricated, just like Mormonism and other religions. Why do people cho ...

It’s very important to me to be able to raise intelligent, literate, critical thinking kids and I’m always scouring the internet for resources to that end. This past weekend, while looking for some Neil deGrasse Tyson videos my son might like, I came ...

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You have to give Catholic school boards in Ontario props for being consistent. You know, in the same way that Wile E. Coyote is consistent, no matter how many times he falls off that cliff or runs headlong into a stone wall, he still gets up and trie ...

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A fired Oklahoma food processing plant employee who proselytized for Islam beheaded a co-worker and seriously injured another before the owner of the plant s...

Sam Harris -- author, outspoken atheist and neuroscientist -- has made several appearances on The Times' Op-Ed pages, most recently in an interview with Patt Morrison this week in which he reconciles his practice of "spirituality" ...

Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape.