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Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times points out the obvious: Demanding that our trading partners implement Western labour standards will ensure that many of the world’s poorest of the poor will be prevented from improving their living conditions. Before Barack Obama and his team act on their talk about “labor standards,” I’d like to [...]

Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, so she seemed a good choice to investigate Darfur for the UN Human Rights Council. Apparently Ms Williams has more integrity than the morally bankrupt UNHRC bargained for. She resisted efforts to water down her [...]

South African blogger Justin Hartman looks at his country’s leaders condemning Israel for attacking Gaza and sees hypocrisy. I am extremely upset with the ANC and SACP who have outright condemned the attacks by Israel. They’ve setup meetings with Israeli ministers to try and get them to stop and just yesterday former Congress of South [...]

Columnist Chris Agbiti of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, looks at African leaders’ jubilant reaction to Barack Obama’s election victory and sees hypocrisy. If one may ask, what business do African countries, together with their stinking leaders, have in rejoicing over Obama’s victory at the U.S. poll when we know in our hearts of hearts that we [...]

Last April, Marc Lebuis of the excellent Quebec blog Point de Bascule filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against Montreal Muslim imam Abou Hammaad Sulaiman Dameus Al-Hayiti. Imam al-Hayiti had written a book, published in Canada and available for download here (in French), containing nasty slurs against many groups in Canadian society, [...]

A new study published in the Journal of Law and Economics has found that corruption is strongly correlated with federal disaster relief funding. Study finds link between political corruption and FEMA money Where natural disasters strike, political corruption is soon to follow, say the authors of a study in the Journal of Law and Economics. [...]

Isn’t the purpose of a regional health authority to provide health services?  Nova Scotia’s Capital Health District seems to have trouble with that concept. Capital district health authority administrators said Tuesday they’re planning to cope with a projected $7-million budget deficit by authorizing, among other things, lighter schedules for operating rooms, less discretionary spending, reductions [...]

The Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition is not only a bald-faced power grab by the losers of the October election, it is also a colossally stupid idea doomed to failure.  As historian Michael Bliss points out, it will be inherently unstable and dangerous.  He hopes that Governor-General Michaëlle Jean will not “allow herself to be complicit” in the [...]

William Katz, writing for the American think tank Hudson Institute, argues that multiculturalism has become, in effect, an ideology of the left. For one thing, Westerners are expected—indeed, constantly hectored—to “understand” other cultures, but other cultures are not encouraged to understand ours. Multicultural ideology is anti-intellectual, amoral, and runs counter to the very idea of [...]

Travesty alert! The egregious Jennifer Lynch, head of the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission, has somehow managed to wangle an invitation to lay a wreath at tomorrow’s National Remembrance Day Ceremony.  Is this supposed to make the agency appear patriotic and freedom-loving?  If so, it’s not going to work. Ms Lynch appears set to pull off [...]

Illinois congressional representative Jan Schakowsky has urged children to wheedle their grandparents to vote for Sen Barack Obama. The one thing most grandparents have in common is that they have the most wonderful grandchildren in the world – so clever, so handsome, so pretty, ever so precious. Even if you are still unsure of your [...]

Cartoon by Chuck Asay, Colorado Springs Gazette

An editorial in St Louis Jewish Light points out that Christian leaders have been silent while Christians in India and Iraq are killed, dispossessed, and driven into refugee camps or exile. This stands in stark contrast to frequent public statements regarding certain other purported injustices elsewhere in the world. Even more perplexing is the seeming [...]

Robert Menard, co-founder of Reporters Without Borders, says Western democracies and the International Olympic Committee did nothing to help Chinese dissidents because of cowardice and hypocrisy. “Have you seen a single [Chinese] dissident be freed ? On the contrary, a number of people were arrested before the Olympic Games to prevent them from meeting journalists. [...]

The bullies and cowards at the BC Human Rights Tribunal have rejected the complaint against Maclean’s magazine over the excerpt from Mark Steyn’s book America Alone. The panel has concluded that the complaints are not justified because the complainants have not established that the Article is likely to expose them to hatred or contempt on [...]