Chicago is coming apart

The city’s very real progress is being squandered as crime spreads

There are two ways to think about Chicago. The depressing one is to follow the news. These days it’s pretty bad. In mid-May, two people were killed and seven wounded when a gunman fired into a crowd outside a McDonald’s restaurant on the Near North Side.

I know the McDonald’s well. I went to high school nearby, and my three children attended the elementary school across the street. Once scruffy, the area is now affluent. Overlooking the murder site is a seventy-five-story tower where condos sell for up to $6.1 million. The building’s developer described the shootings as “isolated to [that] location.”

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No motive except violence: The twin brothers who planned the Victoria bank shootout

Precisely one week after a quiet Victoria street exploded into a shootout with heavily armed bank robbers, Saanich Police Chief Constable Dean Duthie told a Tuesday press conference it was sheer chance that the city’s tactical squad just happened to be nearby.

“I don’t want to even think about what could have happened if they had not been there,” he said.

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Feds allow illegal immigration to flourish while the legal system fails

Canada has long had an immigration system that worked — one that we could be proud of — but right now, no one can say that. Like so many government services these days, the immigration system simply isn’t working like it should.

It’s deliberate. Anyone who belives in secure borders and the rule of law is painted as racist by Trudeau and his media sycophants.

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Under Biden, U.S. Pushed Further Back in Latin America

China has overtaken the United States in trade terms “in large swathes of Latin America,” according to a recent Reuters analysis of UN trade data from 2015-2021. Reuters added that “outside of Mexico, the top U.S. trade partner, China has overtaken the United States in Latin America and widened the gap last year.”

Although US President Joe Biden pledged to give Latin America higher priority, “current and former officials told Reuters that the United States had been slow to take concrete action and that China, a major buyer of grains and metals, simply offered more to the region in terms of trade and investment.”

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Brazilian model and sniper is killed by Russian missile strike while fighting alongside Ukrainian troops

A Brazilian model and sniper has been killed by a Russian missile strike in Ukraine just three weeks after she joined the fight against Putin’s forces.

Thalito do Valle, 39, took part in humanitarian missions around the world and had previously fought against ISIS in Iraq.

She was killed last week after a missile struck her bunker in Kharkiv, the north-eastern city which has been subjected to intense bombardment throughout the war.

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Hollywood Sours On Biden

President Joe Biden is reportedly losing the support of some of his most reliable cheerleaders — Hollywood celebrities who dutifully propagate White House talking points to their millions of social media followers.

In a recent White House call with dozens of celebrity Democratic backers, the mood was angry and despairing over the Biden administration’s inability to push its agenda forward, especially in light of the Supreme Court’s recent reversal of Roe v. Wade , according to a CNN report.

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EU lawmakers back gas, nuclear energy as sustainable

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to include natural gas and nuclear in the bloc’s list of sustainable activities.

The European Commission earlier this year made the controversial proposal as part of its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as “greenwashing.”

EU legislators rejected an objection to the proposal in a 328-278 vote.

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Highland Park shooter Robert Eugene Crimo reveals he planned a second shooting in Wisconsin

Highland Park shooter Bobby Crimo appeared in court on Wednesday morning to be charged with multiple counts of murder as prosecutors shared more details of his deadly rampage.

Crimo, 21, spoke softly to tell the court that he did not have a lawyer, and to ask for a public defender. He was dressed in all-black, wore his long dark hair draped over one eye and shifted on his feet as he appeared via Zoom from a room in the Lake County Jail.

He was denied bond by Judge Theodore S. Potkonjak, and will remain in custody until his next court date on July 25th.

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‘Brampton needs a leader’: Five councillors urge Mayor Patrick Brown not to seek another term

“Once again, our great city is in the national news for all the wrong reasons because of Patrick Brown,” read a scathing statement issued Wednesday morning by five city and regional councillors, claiming Brown’s disqualification in the CPC leadership race demonstrates a “clear and alarming” pattern of behaviour.

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Case against Canadian nurse who opposed transgenderism no longer includes term ‘medically inaccurate’

The nurse is still subject to a hearing for her comments which were deemed to be ‘discriminatory’ towards transgender individuals.

VANCOUVER, Canada (JCCF) – The Justice Centre has announced that the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) has dropped a charge against Amy Hamm, a Vancouver area nurse accused of making statements with “medically inaccurate information” while defending sex-based rights.

An investigation was launched by the BCCNM in November, 2020, in response to public complaints about Ms. Hamm’s ‘gender critical’ opinions and comments. This followed her involvement with an “I ♥ JK Rowling” billboard display in Vancouver, endorsing Ms. Rowling’s support for sex-based rights.

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Passengers come up empty in search for luggage at Pearson

Some frustrated passengers who arrived at Pearson International days ago have returned to the airport repeatedly to try to find their lost luggage — without success.

“I have absolutely no idea why a developed country like this cannot figure out luggage. For me, it’s just unacceptable. It’s a disaster,” said Daniel Baheta, of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who’s visiting family in Toronto for a month.

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And Africa will flood Europe

Addressing the “great taboo” of our time – the fact that sub-Saharan immigration to Europe is spiraling upwards out of control.

His name is Stephen Smith, he is a leftist but an all facts and no ideology scholar who inspired Emmanuel Macron. “We are facing an unprecedented migration phenomenon,” said Macron. A phenomenon that according to the French president is “described tremendously well” by Stephen Smith in his book Escape to Europe.

On the cover there is the dark night of the African continent and the illuminated one of the European Eldorado. The great “taboo” of our time, explained Smith to Le Figaro. A former analyst for the United Nations and the International Crisis Group, Smith was a correspondent from Africa for Libération and Le Monde – two left-wing newspapers – and now teaches in America at Duke University.

The title of Smith’s new article that appeared this week in Nouvelles de France is chilling: “What if Africa floods us?”. It is the greatest change in population, culture, religion, and society ever experienced in history.

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Stunned by UFOs, ‘exasperated’ fighter pilots get little help from Pentagon

UFO Korean War Incident

In April 2014, four naval aviators narrowly escaped disaster. Just as they entered highly controlled airspace for a training exercise, their two F/A-18F fighter jets nearly collided with an unidentified flying object (UFO). To the frustration of dozens of their fellow aviators, such a near-catastrophe was inevitable.

For months before and after the incident, aircrews flying in “exclusive use” training areas off the U.S. East Coast frequently observed unknown objects exhibiting highly anomalous flight characteristics. Despite the collision hazard posed by the UFOs, aviators lacked a formal mechanism to report the mysterious objects.

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