· Links elsewhere, Stuff You'll Like · 18 Comments · October 1st, 2009

New Blog: Filled with Skeptical Canadian Goodness

As the Skepchick that resides in Oh Canada, it gives me great pleasure and happiness to introduce a new skeptic blog based up here in the Great North.

I present to you: Skeptic North  http://www.skepticnorth.com/

I can only imagine great things to come from this blog. I mean, there’s a whole list of awesome people contributing, for crying out loud. The list includes some (but not all, so if I didn’t include you, I’m sorry! The love is there, promise):

Steve Thoms: ( of Some Canadian Skeptic)
Scott Gavura (of Science-Based Pharmacy)
Kimbo Jones  (of Skeptigirl)
Desiree Schell (of Skeptically Speaking)
Jonathan Abrams (of Ottawa Skeptics)

Today is the kick-off to the website, so why don’t you click the link, take a gander and show them some love? Because as wonderful as Canada is, we sorely need a more involved skeptical community. And this website is going to make that happen!

It gets my seal of approval!

Jill Seal of Approval

About the author

Jillus

I live in Canada. Sometimes its cold. I draw...a lot. A scary amount. Odds are, I've probably drawn you in a Star Trek uniform. Likes: films, video games, skeptical activism, SGU, drawing bat pictures to scare Maria with, being a hermit, learning, cooking/baking (the tastiest science), and dorking around with my pals. Dislikes: Rude people. Bears.

18 Comments

  1. Peregrine

    10.01.2009

    Woot.

  2. Kaylia_Marie

    10.01.2009

    Woot indeed!

    I pimped it out on my blog as well… because.. how could I not?

  3. Elyse

    10.01.2009

    I need to do something to get a Jill Seal of Approval!

    Congratulations Canada!

  4. ChaoSkeptic

    10.01.2009

    Cool. I’m already following two of those people on Twitter.

    Also, cute pic Jill.

  5. Necrosynth

    10.01.2009

    oh yeah! eh?

  6. Andrew Nixon

    10.01.2009

    Nice to know there’s plenty of skeptics for if I ever fulfil my dream of moving to Canada…

  7. Some Canadian Skeptic

    10.01.2009

    Thanks Jill, and all the Skepchicks / Skepchick commenters for your support over the last few years, and thanks for this post!

    Just a reminder: we’re going to have a guest-blogger feature from time-to-time, so any Canadian skeptics reading this (I can think of a few off the top of my head) who wants in, should contact me and I’ll fill you in.

  8. jedischooldropout

    10.01.2009

    Thanks Jill!

    Let’s keep the True North strong and… er – skeptical.

  9. madfishmonger

    10.01.2009

    I’m very happy to see a Canadian-based skeptic community.

  10. Kimbo Jones

    10.01.2009

    @madfishmonger: We were here, but we were busy being all demure and polite. :)

  11. Peregrine

    10.01.2009

    And waiting in line for a double-double.

  12. Garrison22

    10.01.2009

    More power too ya! Any country that gave us John Candy, Wayne Gretzky and Rush (the band, not the man), just to name a few, deserves its own skeptic blog.

    I am a big fan the Great White North. Rock on, eh.

  13. SicPreFix

    10.01.2009

    Very glad to see it. Interested in seeing how well represented Vancouver is.

    @Some Canadian Skeptic: A wee note of constructive criticism from a former web designer: Could the font and layout be widened up and/or expanded and/or content reduced a bit for ease of viewing and navigation? Sorry to say, but it’s awfully visually busy and tight. I have quite a lot of trouble navigating the page (and actually seeing stuff) because there is so much there, squished so tightly together, in a really tight and squishy font and scrolled so far down.

    Nonetheless and that aside, it’s great to see it up and running, and I’m sure things will get tweaked as time passes.

    Best of luck. It’s on my Dailies Favourites section: I will be a regular visitor.

  14. carr2d2

    10.01.2009

    jill, you crack me up, in the adorable way :D i wants the jill seal of approval.

    also, yay canada blog, eh. or something.

  15. Jill

    10.01.2009

    @carr2d2: You always have my seal of approval, baby.

  16. jedischooldropout

    10.01.2009

    @ sicprefix

    I’m pleasantly surprised at how represented Vancouver is. Six of the fourteen listed regular contributors are from Vancouver, and then there’s Daniel Loxton across the Strait of Georgia.
    Add the Alberta bloggers and the standard Canadian cliches of representation (IE. Ontario-weighted.) are blown to smithereens. And there are more waiting in the wings….
    Not sure why that is, but there it is. With all due respect to our Ontario contributors – including the editor-in-chief, Steve – it’s a refreshing shift from my perspective.
    It’s also one which is bound to shift as skepticism becomes more balanced to the polulation distribution. We see the same thing below the 49th (Yeah yeah Torontonians, you’re parallel to ‘Frisco, I know – it’s a figure of speech.) with disproportionate skeptical communities in Georgia and Colorado.
    Anyhow, it’s not a competition.

  17. Andrew Nixon

    10.01.2009

    @Garrison22: But they also gave the world Jim Carrey – I guess that’s one person they don’t mind having everyone think is American…

  18. jedischooldropout

    10.01.2009

    Wouldn’t you give Jim Carrey away if you could?

    It’s kinda like the end of a game of Old Maid. Everyone knows YOU have the queen, so no one is willing to take cards from you.

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