Canada and China – what should be our future relationship?

The Humanist Cafe Discussion ForumFree* And Open To All!  Wednesday, November 5, 2025 – 7:00-8:30 pmCook Street Activity Center 380 Cook St. (Cook St. Village), VictoriaLimited free parking and free street parking(There are 12 free parking spaces behind the building directly across from The Center, which can be accessed from a driveway off of Oscar … Read more

Defending Canada’s Democracy: A Strategic Framework

VSHA Speaker SeriesFree* And Open To All!  Wednesday, October 15, 2025 – 7:00-8:30 pmCook Street Activity Center380 Cook St. (Cook St. Village), Victoria Free ParkingPlease Use The Side EntranceCoffee/Tea nearby at The Mocha House – BYO! Speaker: Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon Topic: Defending Canada’s Democracy: A Strategic Framework Description: The problems facing Canada—and weakening our democracy—are so varied … Read more

A Watershed Moment: How a community came together to protect their drinking water, and the lessons learned

VSHA Speaker SeriesFree* And Open To All! Wednesday, June 4, 2025 – 7:00-8:30 pmCook Street Activity Center380 Cook St. (Cook St. Village), VictoriaFree ParkingPlease Use The Side EntranceCoffee/Tea nearby at The Mocha House – BYO! Speaker: Sonia Furstenau A Watershed Moment: How a community came together to protect their drinking water, and the lessons learned About … Read more

Dallas Cliffs and Dying Trees: Sue Big Oil and Victoria’s climate costs

VSHA Speaker Series Free** And Open To All! Wednesday, March 19, 2025 – 7:00-8:30 pmCook Street Activity Center380 Cook St. (Cook St. Village), VictoriaFree ParkingPlease Use The Side EntranceCoffee/Tea nearby at The Mocha House – BYO!  Dallas Cliffs and Dying Trees: Sue Big Oil and Victoria’s climate costs Speaker: Andrew Gage The climate costs driving up the … Read more

Co-designing the future we need: A conversation with Gene Miller and Trevor Hancock

VSHA Humanist Talk , 7:00 PM February 19, 2025 Cook Street Activity Center380 Cook St. (Cook St. Village), VictoriaFree Parking and street parking Co-designing the future we need: A conversation with Gene Miller and Trevor Hancock We live in the midst of a polycrisis, a confluence of multiple crises spanning the ecological, social,economic, political and … Read more

Climate Change prediction through climate modelling – how it works

Dr Nathan Gillett, Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria Wednesday, November 13, 2024 – 7:00-8:30 pmCook Street Activity Center380 Cook St. (Cook St. Village), VictoriaFree ParkingPlease Use The Side Entrance Free** And Open To All!  Dr. Gillett will describe how climate change predictions arise using detection and attribution analysis, including effects on temperature, … Read more

VSHA Talks Wednesday, October. 23

The Victoria Secular Humanist Association Speaker Series Presents“Biodiversity, Species at Risk and Their Habitat in British Columbia: Time to Act and Enact” Speaker: Yves Mayrand* Wednesday, October 23 2024 – 7:00-8:30 pmCook Street Activity Center380 Cook St. (Cook St. Village), VictoriaFree ParkingPlease Use The Side EntranceFree** And Open To All!  This presentation will summarize the … Read more

How to Win on Climate Change

VSHA Speaker Series Free** And Open To All!  H0W TO WIN ON CLIMATE CHANGE(and how we are already winning) Mitchell BeerAbstract:  It’s easy enough to fall into a pit of despair over the climate emergency. Especially because, if you read the news or conduct a five-minute Google search, there’s more than enough evidence to tell us that … Read more