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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John Robson: How ‘Rule of the Expert’ Is Displacing Genuine Self-Government in Canada

From sea to shining C-minus, the authorities do not trust Canadians, and we trust them not to. Nova Scotia banned walking in the woods lest we dunces set the place ablaze with incandescent hiking boots, while Vancouver banned teaching your own kid to swim in city pools. Welcome to government of the expert, by the expert, for the expert.

It’s a dangerous convergence of bog-standard public-sector arrogance with a general modern attitude of Machbarkeit, the notion that anything developed through trial-and-error, human or even evolutionary, can be done better by experts using abstract logic and linear algebra. Hence, meat from factories, or the bizarre recent item saying “Scientists Create ‘Living’ Material That Sucks Carbon Dioxide From The Air.”

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Dental nurse receives £25,000 payout after co-worker ‘repeatedly’ rolled his eyes at her

Rolling your eyes at a work colleague could amount to bullying and a breach of employment laws, a tribunal has ruled.

A dental nurse has been awarded £25,000 for constructive dismissal after a fellow worker made the gesture whenever she spoke to her.

The panel found that Maureen Howieson was subjected to ‘rude, isolating, bullying and belittling’ behaviour by Jisna Iqbal, which amounted to multiple breaches of her contract.

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The Myth of the Racist, Transphobic Toddlers

Are British schools experiencing an epidemic of racism? Are classrooms filled with little budding neo-Nazis? Are four-year-olds unleashing a regime of bigoted terror upon their non-white classmates?

Not quite. Although, this is what the statistics would have you believe. According to official figures, the number of children being sent home from school for racism has more than doubled in the last three years. In 2021, there were 7,400 suspensions for racist behaviour. In 2024, there were over 15,000. Nearly 2,500 of those cases took place within primary schools, where children are no older than 11. Some reports even involve pupils from reception, where children are aged just four or five.

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Despite boycott, Canadians poured record $50B into US securities at height of trade war

Canadians might be boycotting American products over the trade war and avoiding travel to the US — but their investment portfolios are snapping up red, white and blue stocks at an “unprecedented rate.”

They poured an eye-popping $50 billion into US securities at the height of the 2025 trade war — the most since at least 1990.

“Canadian investors have opted to load up on US financial assets since President Trump was sworn in,” Warren Lovely, managing director of National Bank Financial in Toronto, wrote in a recent report, noting the pace has been “unprecedented.”

h/t Mauser

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Post Media Is Down

UPDATE: The frontpages for the NatPo and Toronto Sun load but clicking a story link will result in a timeout.

Post Media owners of the NatPo , The Sun Chain, Ottawa Citizen etc are all down and have been for several hours now. If not a technical glitch that’s gotta be one hell of an attack.

This is what you get after a site fails to load.

What this means is the link you click in a post will not load if it a Post Media story.

Thanks for your patience.

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