was involved in the University of Toronto Marxist Institute. Goldstick is currently a member of the Council of Canadians and is active in peace, anti-war, and Palestinian solidarity movements. He is a member of Not In Our Name, an anti-Zionist group and has participated each week since the mid 2000s in a picket of Chapters Indigo bookstore on Bay Street. He is a supporter of the Canadian Peace Alliance and presented on "Sovereignty and Global Peace" at the 2010 Canadian Peace Research Association. Advocacy of Atheism Goldstick has been involved in debates across Canada on the existence of God. He has publicly debated writers such as Micheal R. Butler, attempting to refute Butler's Transcendental argument for God. Goldstick maintains that an omnipotent God must be able to accomplish anything, even if it entails a contradiction—genocide, famine, etc. On this account, the Christian God cannot be omnipotent and benevolent, for a benevolent, omnipotent God would have prevented the introduction of suffering into the world. He is a faculty advisor of the U of T Secular Alliance and a founding member of the Humanist Association of Toronto Communist Party of Canada Goldstick is a long-time member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada and a former member of its Executive, working closely with Miguel Figueroa and Elizabeth Rowley. He has been a frequent candidate at the federal and provincial level for the CPC. Goldstick is the founding editor of the Communist Party's theoretical journal The Spark. His recent editorials have addressed the state and nationalization, the economic crisis, and democracy. Federal electoral record As writes, Goldstick has frequently stood for office as the communist candidate in the parliamentary elections for the Rosedale district, which has approximately 100 communist voters. Although never been elected, "Red Danny" is still remembered for his sense of humor, satire and wit during public all-candidates meetings—sometimes even getting the strongest applause from audiences by the end of debates. 1974 Canadian federal election, Rosedale, 136 votes (winner: Donald Stovel Macdonald, Liberal) by-election 1978, Rosedale, 120 votes (winner: David Crombie, Progressive Conservative) 1979 Canadian federal election, Rosedale, 80 votes (winner: David Crombie, Progressive Conservative) 1980 Canadian federal election, Rosedale, 85 votes (winner: David Crombie, Progressive Conservative) 1988 Canadian federal election, Etobicoke Centre, 81 votes (winner: Michael Wilson, Progressive Conservative) 1993 Canadian federal election, York South—Weston, 119 votes (winner: John Nunziata, Liberal) (note: Goldstick ran as an independent