‘We are the troops’: Inside Chicago’s split communities as Trump vows to deploy National Guard

In the South Side of Chicago, few people seemed braced for President Donald Trump’s troops.

But many here would tell you about another battle – one for the souls of the young.

We drove through neighbourhoods notorious for their levels of violent crime. In one, Bronzeville, we went to the spot where seven people were shot and wounded in a drive-by attack last weekend.

It was a block from Chicago Police HQ. The casualties were among at least 58 people shot, eight fatally, across the city over the Labor Day holiday weekend.

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Portland: Iconic Meals on Wheels charity pulls out of nightmarish Democrat-run city

Meals on Wheels has stopped operating in downtown Portland as its frustrated bosses say they can’t keep staff safe in the crime-ridden city.

The charity said this week it is closing its two facilities in the city, with frustrated Meals on Wheels Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Washington telling reporters it was a ‘long time coming.’

Washington lamented a lack of action to curb crime as the reason for the decision, which brought the charity’s 20-year stay at its popular Elm Court location to a close.

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Chicago mayor to sign executive order directing city to resist Trump’s immigration raids

Lookin good for looting season

The mayor of Chicago is planning to sign an executive order on Saturday outlining how the city will attempt to resist Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, according to reports.

Brandon Johnson will set out guidance for the city’s agencies and law enforcement, CNN reported, “in the midst of escalating threats from the federal government”.

Last week, the White House requested that a US military base on the outskirts of Chicago be made available to assist with immigration operations, as the Trump administration plans a broader takeover of Democratic-run “sanctuary cities”.

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Are Progressives Headed Toward Demographic Oblivion?

Would anyone be surprised if they were? After all, progressives have spent decades championing abortion at all phases of pregnancy right up to birth — and sometimes immediately after. Over the last decade, they have taken up the Queer Movement’s transgender campaign and demanded pediatric sex-change therapies that leave adolescents neutered for life. Their climate-change agenda emphasizes the need for population reversal and rails over the insult to Gaia that human procreation creates. 

They’re not exactly kid-friendly, in other words. But don’t just rely on instincts and political posturing on this question, because actual data shows that progressives practice what they preach.  Financial Times analyst John Burn-Murdoch reviews the results of a study on declining birth rates in the developed world, including the US, and the impact of political ideology on procreation. While those rates are declining in all categories, they are collapsing among progressives.


This is the link to the FT piece by MurdochWhy progressives should care about falling birth rates

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Gavin Newsom: the chameleon who destroyed California

Gavin Newsom may be saddled with an awful record. But the California governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet – even a frontrunner in some polls – in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. How is this possible?

The simple answer is that Newsom might be the ultimate candidate for the attention-deficient generation. He is a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively – not according to facts, but to whatever best seems to fit the national mood. We witnessed this after last year’s presidential election, when he began ‘bro-washing’ his slick image with some cringe-worthy appearances on podcasts. One of these even included an embrace of gun ownership – a surprise to many of his supporters who had voted for him on the basis of his strong anti-gun record.

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Number of Torontonians experiencing homelessness rises dramatically: new survey finds more than 15,000 without housing

Toronto has seen a dramatic increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness, according to a new city survey that recorded more than 15,000 residents without housing.

The point-in-time review, called the street needs assessment, looks to capture the scope of homelessness across shelters, encampments, hotel programs, respites, health-care and correctional facilities.

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Progressive Delusions Are Fading Fast

The cultural turnaround has begun. And I’m happy to be part of it — unlike my former friends.

The biggest downside to being blocked by progressive former friends — like most in my old Hollywood circle — is I don’t get to observe their total breakdown as the liberal dreamworld crumbles around them. Yet every argument I made to them was exalted last Fourth of July, when President Trump and his gorgeous First Lady danced on the Truman Balcony as fireworks exploded over the incomparable Washington skyline. The couple were not only celebrating the 249th anniversary of the greatest country in the history of Earth but the best two weeks for any presidency in my lifetime. And though I couldn’t see or hear it, I could feel the wailing of my ex-mates all the way from the opposite coast.

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Canadians Are Leaving For Good In Record High Volumes

Canada’s temporary population boom may be over, but its long-term resident outflow is just beginning. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows emigration—the act of citizens or permanent residents permanently leaving—jumped higher in Q1 2025. Canadians left in the second-highest Q1 volume on record—a trend that’s only gained momentum since the pandemic.

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A day in London

This could also be Toronto

h/t Patti Jo

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London’s graffiti-riddled corpse is a warning of our apocalyptic future

It is a short walk from my door to one of London’s busiest arteries. The first two minutes of the walk are usually pleasant, especially in summer, when a luscious thatch of untrimmed leaves bow down from the road’s many trees. There is the occasional roar of an accelerating driver drunk on testosterone and the odd shouting voice, but mostly it’s people padding along with their dogs and neighbours chatting.

But then the idyll ends. The road that leads up to the Tube station and the artery has a major bus stop, a rubbish collection point, a taxi rank, and a Deliveroo rider rank. This culminates in one of London’s most persistent homeless encampments, with tents, begging, traipsing, drug-taking, drinking and Tube loitering. The permanent residence for two cackling women is a stinking underpass. There are more stragglers and smells in the unavoidable (above ground) cement passage required to rejoin the pavement going north.

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Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech

The valedictorian at a west Ottawa high school says she’s been told not to come to school Monday after she made pro-Palestinian remarks during a speech at her commencement ceremony.

Elizabeth Yao largely focused on highlights from the past four years at Bell High School during her speech on Thursday, including a memorable waffle fundraiser and the days spent dozing off while reading Shakespeare.

Her comments on the war in Gaza came at the end, after a land acknowledgement.


Our brainwashed Valedictorian will no doubt rise to leadership in the Brave New Replacement Canada.

Canada’s schools resemble those under Stalin or Hitler.

They all indoctrinated children to venerate evil as virtue, lies as truth.

What is different is that the economic and ideological coercion of the teachers unions and colleges provided the muscle that allowed their Long March to succeed rather than the guns of revolution.

You would not be far off speculating that core subjects have been degraded into deep debates about how many transgender Palestinian children can dance on a fake residential school grave.

Parents and politicians with rare exception have said little as questioning teachers or schoolboards began to resemble a rendezvous with the Peoples Court.

Ideological capture of our institutions and mass immigration from incompatible cultures did this to our country.

 

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Protesters march through downtown Toronto to call out corporate landlords

Won’t someone think of the cockroaches?

A group of Toronto advocates marched alongside a giant fake cockroach during a protest Saturday as they called on the city to provide more affordable housing and spoke out against corporate landlord practices.

Several people held large cockroach props with speech bubbles containing the names of some major corporate landlords in the city as they marched toward those companies’ offices in the Financial District.


I empathize with the tenants but they will find no succor under a the combined Carney-Chow regimes.

The LPC’s Mass-immigration policy for profit scam has exhausted affordable housing and will continue unabated while the communist Chow will assist in maintaining the housing shortage to stay in power. Manufacturing poverty is her business because it’s her vote bloc.

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Is There Much Hope for Our Downtowns?

In the 1970s, many people said that suburbanization would spell the end of Canada’s downtowns.

But that didn’t happen. In cities big and small, business leaders rolled up their sleeves and went to work. “Downtown revitalization” was their rallying cry. The bright, upscale shopping mall was one of the big initiatives that kept Canadians commuting downtown through the 1980s and beyond.

But in 2025 there is a darker cloud hanging over Canada’s downtowns. It is so worrisome that the suburbanization threat of over 40 years ago looks rather tame.

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LA protests expose the new battle lines on immigration

California’s biggest city is no stranger to riots but the response to Trump’s migrant arrests shows civil disorder is now integral to urban politics — and both Democrats and Republicans are out to exploit that

Somewhere in Malibu, a mortician prepares Brian Wilson for his last performance. The California of the Beach Boys is long gone. The California of Silicon Valley is going — to Texas, where Elon Musk has moved Tesla’s headquarters; to Washington, where Big Tech is now fusing with Big Government; and down into a spiral of debt, dysfunction and disorder.

California used to be the world’s blue-sky future. Now it is America’s darkening present. The scenes from downtown Los Angeles are shocking but not surprising. If, as I did, you lived in a Democratic city in a Democratic state in the decade between the advent of the Occupy movement in 2011 and the apotheosis of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, you are accustomed to rioters burning cars and throwing stones, looters ransacking the Adidas and Apple stores, and police firing tear gas. This is how American politics now works.

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Are We in San Francisco?

Wednesday morning at the corner of Sacramento and Cherry. The three of us—me, the bus driver, and an elderly woman—peer into a parked bus with muted awe. Inside, an enormous man is shouting at a crumpled blanket. “Hey, HEY! Wake up! Get up!”

As it turns out, under the blanket lies a man wearing ripped clothing; he staggers to his feet at the third admonishment, limps out the door, and vomits. He has no idea where we are. “Are we in Sacramento?” he asks. “No,” says the enormous man, a Street Crisis Response Team “peer specialist” dispatched to respond to a report of an unresponsive adult male on the 33 bus. “We’re on Sacramento and Cherry. Presidio Heights. San Francisco. West Side.”

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