[URBAN NOTE] One more Scientology post
Feb. 12th, 2008 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldSunday's anti-Scientology protest got no small amount of attention. Not only did local blogospheric giants blogTO ("Toronto's Got a Hard-on for L Ron at Protest Against the Church of Scientology") and Torontoist ("Scientology's Legion of Doom") carry pieces, but CBC's national English-language Sunday evening news carried video of the protest and its roots about four or five pieces in.
One piece of information that surprised me was the information at the end of the piece that, according to a 2001 Statistics Canada report, only 1525 people claimed to practice Scientology in 2001, 875 men and 650 women. (Insert snarky note on the male-biased demographics of readers of science fiction here.) I'm not entirely unsurprised by this, since I've seen the same people administering stress tests on Yonge Street for the past few years, but this leaves open an interesting question: How does the Church of Scientology in Canada get enough funding to finance a multistory headquarters in the center of downtown Toronto?
One piece of information that surprised me was the information at the end of the piece that, according to a 2001 Statistics Canada report, only 1525 people claimed to practice Scientology in 2001, 875 men and 650 women. (Insert snarky note on the male-biased demographics of readers of science fiction here.) I'm not entirely unsurprised by this, since I've seen the same people administering stress tests on Yonge Street for the past few years, but this leaves open an interesting question: How does the Church of Scientology in Canada get enough funding to finance a multistory headquarters in the center of downtown Toronto?
