The National Human Rights Commission of Korea has accused Korean Air Lines of sex discrimination because the airline refuses to hire male flight attendants. The company forthrightly admits that it won’t even entertain applications from men who want to be flight attendants.
Korean Air told the commission to shove off respectfully declined to comply.
Korean Air [...]

When you come across a bunch of people calling themselves “human rights carolers”, you can bet they’re not spreading Christmas cheer.
Thirty human rights carolers braved the cold and ice today to serenade Manhattan’s holiday shoppers with a call, for the second year, to boycott the jewelry store and companies of Israeli settlement-builder and diamond mogul [...]

The latest Fraser Institute report on corporate welfare in Canada arrives at a very appropriate time. The allegedly “Conservative” federal government is about to throw away $4 billion on propping up failing car companies and their unionised workers. Newfoundland and Labrador should also take note: Danny Williams has embarked on an arguably illegal [...]

Danny Williams’ grandstanding is contagious, apparently. Clem Tremblay, Mayor of Dalhousie, New Brunswick, wants his provincial government to seize a paper mill belonging to AbitibiBowater.
The New Brunswick government should follow the lead of Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams by expropriating the property of AbitibiBowater’s Dalhousie paper mill, according to the town’s mayor.
Dalhousie’s economy [...]

We haven’t heard much from Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams lately, but he’s in the news today.   It’s good to hear that he’s still his usual arrogant self.  Check out today’s CBC headlines:

AbitibiBowater may take legal action over N.L. expropriation of assets
‘We wish you well’: Williams to AbitibiBowater

The provincial government passed legislation authorising theft [...]

Among the casualties of the global economic slowdown and the attendant oil crash is the theory of peak oil, which stated that the world was about to run out of oil altogether and that its price would therefore continue to rise into the stratosphere. Reality bites again.
The Financial Post’s Terence Corcoran reports.
As it turns [...]

Last week, the BC “human rights” tribunal found that companies involved in building Vancouver’s Skytrain had discriminated against Latin American workers and ordered payment of compensation. After slogging through the 177-page decision, the Vancouver Sun’s Ian Mulgrew smells a rat.
The Latin American workers were paid the same wage scale as Canadian workers on the [...]

It’s the end of an era as the vehicle voted worst car of the millennium has gone out of production.
The Yugo, the car everyone — or almost everyone — loved to hate, is no more.
The last one has rolled of the production line at the Zastava factory in the Serbian town of Kragujevac.
Since it first [...]

Home Depot today announced that its third-quarter profit was down 31% over the year before.
Home Depot Inc reported a 31% drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday as consumers put off big-ticket projects amid a deepening economic crisis.
But Home Depot’s fortunes are sure to improve beginning this week.
Home Depot set to open 60,000-square-foot store in New [...]

The man who financed distribution of the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change has been charged with insider trading. If anyone knows about insider stuff, he does.
As anyone who follows the National Basketball Association knows, Mark Cuban, the Internet entrepreneur turned owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has never shied from a fight. But now [...]

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