Left At The Valley

Teacher Scott Susin and school trustee Tracey Loffler, along with some of the Left at the Valley usual suspects, join us to discuss the future of British Columbia's public education. Spoiler alert: it is pretty bleak. Can having great educators make up for having poor budgets over a sustained period of time? We get so engrossed in our conversation that most of the other segments get forgotten for today....

 

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Join Kevin,Karen, Mark and Nancy as we mark our 1 year anniversary with blogtalk radio. We interview Christopher DiCarlo, Canadian author of "How to be a really good pain in the ass" and introduce a new segment: Know your Fallacy with Liam Johnson

we have another brilliant moment, things that make you go hmmm and another refermation report from Chilliwack

heres to another year

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Christopher's book

http://www.amazon.com/How-Become-Really-Good-Pain/dp/1616143975/ref=la_B004SRPKXI_1_1/181-7683996-5381231?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427848042&sr=1-1

Join Kevin & Karen, Liam and Nancy as they explore the top 10 signs you don't understand evolution (and you're probably a creationist).Why is it that evolution creates such fear amongst the religious? We have a riveting discussion on the subject

also..

Nancy takes us into a hilarious grapefruit incident in This Day in History

more instalment of Another Brilliant Moment brought to you by Religion

by popular request, more Adventures of Father Vern

Our corespondant from Chilliwack sends us another Reformation Report

For more info on the reports visit https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC2YVI8hcNWZ6CN4cmn39YPg

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Join Kevin, Karen and Nancyas we take a look into what does activism really acheive. Do online petitions work? Are politicians listening? What tips can we rely on for better results?

More stories with Another brilliant moment brought to you by religion...

Another fun time with The adventures of Father Vern

We interview Neil who is trying to rally signatures to unseat MLA Mark Dalton (Mission-Maple-Ridge)

and much more

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I know, I know, you were promissed that Kevin wouldn't be there and we had an all female cast for this one, but through no fault of their own, some of our pannel couldn't join, soooo....

Join Kevin & Karen as we pay tribute to Women of Science, who are all too often forgotten by mainstream and often faced difficult chalenges living in a man's world but through sheer love of science, made history.

Nancy joins us for This day in history segment with a story on a groundhog biting a mayor,

We have the Another brilliant moment..., and the Top 10 other women of science you should know

Karen offers us a Spotlight on Mme Marie Curie

And we interview Rachel Nanon Brown, a paleoantropologist working in Texas on Mammoths, formely science host on Dogma Debate with David Smalley and now chairs the science segment on Atheists on air podcast.

don't miss it

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Kevin and Karen are once again joined by Liam and this time we explore Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) and its effects on the BC economy. We are joined by Damien Gillisof the Common Sense Canadianonline publication, and explore what is really behind this push by the government to transform BC into an oil & gas provider.

Nancy gives us a great story where a ghost is used as a witness

Mark gives us a list of his favorite books (fiction)

We get another refermation report with interview of a NDP candidate

And the JWs are concerned with higher education?

join us

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Kevin and Karen are joined this week by Mark & Nancy, who have now becomed permanent fixtures of the show. We interviewed Wanda Morris of the Dying with dignity Canada, to explain to us where the situation is in relation with end of life care in Canada. We explore the myths and truths surrounding assisted death.

http://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/

Nancy delivers her "this day in History" segment

Mark gives us a list of his recommended books for freethinkers and

we have another Reformation report out of Chilliwack

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After the events of Jan 7th in Paris, we felt compelled to tell the story and hear from a Muslim and an ex-Muslim.

Joining us will be our friend Ahmed, and Jim (pseudonym) to give us both sides of the Muslim response to these tragic event as well as our friends from local group Natural Selection: Robyn & Vern

Kevin is flying solo for the first episode of the new year and starts off with a BANG! when no other than Aron Ra is his guest. Easilly the hardest working man in Atheism and the biker nightmare of creationists everywhere, Aron Ra elaborates on the creationist menace across our world.

Kevin gives his list of the top-13 stories you had to follow as a freethinker in 2014

We have our first corespondance report from Allister

Mark gives us a list of secular charities, tis the season after all and Nancy takes us through this day in history to find out about Topsy the elephant.

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Join Kevin & Karen as they interview Kate & Moonstorm, two Wiccan practicioners and we explore the origins

of Christmas, which are of course more Pagan in style than Christian. What does it mean to believe in Wicca?

Does atheism and Wicca have much in common? Do Wiccans also face much discrimination in a Christian world?

This episode will put a spell on you

Also, the strange story of a believer who left her dead husband in a room, hoping for his ressurection

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