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For over 25 years, many mail carriers at the post office in Cornwall, Ontario, departed for their daily rounds with the words, “Merci Seigneur pour la belle journée”. (In English, “Thank you Lord for the beautiful day”.) Following a mysterious human rights complaint, however, Canada Post management banned the phrase and threatened to discipline carriers [...]

A Dutch court has ordered MP Geert Wilders to stand trial for his film Fitna that was harshly critical of Islam. One does not need to agree with everything said in the film to recognise that this is a chilling attack on freedom of speech completely contrary to Holland’s reputation as a progressive and liberal [...]

A Pakistani-born Christian minister hosted a radio show in Glasgow for six years, but was fired after an on-air religion discussion between a Muslim and a Christian.  The director of Awaz FM stated that Rev Mahboob Masih allowed the Christian speaker to make offensive remarks but failed to specify any allegedly offensive content. Rev Masih [...]

And the winner is the courageous Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire, who has been studying the politically charged area of family violence for decades. His published research shows that domestic violence is highest in lesbian relationships and that, in heterosexual relationships, women are equally as likely as men to initiate violence. Predictably, [...]

More politically correct absurdity in the UK. Last week, it emerged that hundreds of schools have forbidden teachers to mark with red ink for fear of upsetting children. Now this: A new £4.7million school has opened to controversy after banning the word ‘school’ from its title because it has ‘negative connotations’. Critics have slammed the [...]

Pigs fly in Holland. The biggest left-wing political party in the Netherlands, the Dutch Labour Party, has released a position paper calling for an end to the country’s failed model of “tolerance”.  Immigrants should be expected to integrate into Dutch society, and the government must be free to criticise cultural practices it finds repugnant. The [...]

This stupidity was reported from Australia less than a month ago and it’s already spread to (formerly Great) Britain. Hundreds of schools have barred teachers from marking in red in case it upsets the children. They are scrapping the traditional method of correcting work because they consider it ‘confrontational’ and ‘threatening’. Pupils increasingly find that [...]

Cartoon by the award-winning Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune

Today’s news brings two more examples of British officialdom presumptuously instructing citizens to avoid causing offence to non-Christians—even though there’s no evidence that anyone other than minor bureaucrats is offended. First up: Salvation Army bands have been threatened over rattling tins used for money collections. Members have been forbidden to shake their charity tins – [...]

Red ink is too “aggressive”.  It might offend the kids’ delicate sensibilities. Queensland’s Deputy Opposition Leader Mark McArdle told parliament today that teachers were being advised to reconsider their pen choice because it may offend children. […] “Given your 10-year-old Labor government presides over the lowest numeracy and literacy standards of any state in Australia, [...]

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 [...]

A provincial government in Australia wants to re-name a mountain that has an allegedly offensive name.  Some aboriginals, however, find the proposed new name equally as offensive. AN Aboriginal group plans to sue the Victorian Government for ignoring its heritage in the renaming of Mount Niggerhead, a mountain in the Alpine National Park. […] State [...]

So argues Katherine Sinnott, MEP (Member of the European Parliament), Ireland South, speaking in Rome last week. [A]s an MEP, I also work in an environment where we have two languages, and I don’t mean English and French. I mean the language of the culture of life and the language of the culture of death [...]

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. [...]