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Rick Harp

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🎙️ Host, APTN News Brief podcast https://podfollow.com/aptn-news-brief 🎙️ Host/producer, MEDIA INDIGENA podcast https://podfollow.com/mediaindigena

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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 11d

VANCOUVER! Whatcha doing Fri Oct 24? Come see our free public panel, "Beyond Fire & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes," part of a larger invitational gathering of climate-related storytellers, hosted in MOA Great Hall at UBC!

sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...

pictographic for "Beyond fires and floods: Indigenous narratives in an era of extremes," a free public panel featuring veteran journos Tanya Talaga, Mark Trahant, Judy Kochon and Paul Seeseequasis, moderated by me! October 24th, 6:30 PM, Museum of Anthropology, UBC.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 11h

Go Pope!

“At times, pseudo-scientific data are invoked to support the claim that a free market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty.”

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor (4 October 2025)

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV TO ALL CHRISTIANS ON LOVE FOR THE POOR [ Multimedia ] _____________________

www.vatican.va

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

How microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds.

“The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do.”

Microplastics like those from car tires. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more microplastics shed.

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 3d

With grocery giants ripping off Canadians, it’s time for a bold alternative: public grocery stores.

Food analyst Aaron Vansintjan explains how a publicly-run grocery option could solve the crisis of skyrocketing food costs.

youtu.be/RPuEhQl8Cxo

Why Canada needs public grocery stores

YouTube video by The Breach

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 13h

The way everyone in a position of power in the government and at Canada Post refuses to entertain any of the proven methods that have saved other post offices and made them profitable is pathological.

How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?

Would you go to Canada Post for your mortgage? Why advocates think postal banking could be a lifeline for the Crown corp.

Amidst the labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, a debate concerning the future of post offices across the country has once again taken the stage: Should Canada ...

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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 18h

Spatch cock for the win! 😛

A picture of a spatchcocked turkey in the oven, which is a turkey that's had its backbone removed with a set of super sharp kitchen shears. It is then laid flat butterfly style. It cooks in a super quick amount of time, and some say more evenly. Once you get over the grisliness of cutting through crackling bone, it's actually pretty cool.

Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 1d

Appreciate the reminder: just got both jabs at vaccine clinic by River & Osborne Shoppers Drug Mart. Walk-in, 10 mins wait tops 💉💉

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Kyle Minogue 🔬☀️ @kyleminogue.bsky.social · 2d

Getting that booster for winter in Winnipeg retunes your body's antibodies against today’s COVID variants.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The COVID boosters available at Winnipeg pharmacies now, cuts ER visits, hospitalizations, and deaths.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Entertainment Weekly @ew.com · 18d

Meghan McCain slammed Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter, Violet Affleck, over her UN speech: 'This is why people hate nepo babies,' the daughter of Sen. John McCain said.

Meghan McCain slams nepo babies over Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner's daughter's UN speech

Meghan McCain slammed Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter, Violet Affleck, over her UN speech: 'This is why people hate nepo babies,' the daughter of Sen. John McCain said.

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant is an overused descriptor but it applies to this CBC The Fifth Estate investigative documentary into an ignored data breach at Interior Health in B.C. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_X...

How fraudsters are stealing from Canadian health-care workers | Full episode | the fifth estate

YouTube video by the fifth estate

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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 1d

Quite liking first chapters so far of “Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds," by @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social 🤐

Picture of the front cover of the book "Don't Talk About Politics:
How to Change 21st-Century Minds" by Sarah Stein Lubrano, seen here along with other books related to research for Indigenous climate narrative conference I'm co-convening

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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 1d

"If the economics don’t work, doing it at massive scale doesn’t make the economics work any better — it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis." futurism.com/future-society/...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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rabble.ca @rabble.ca · 1d

Nick Seebruch sits down with @royinori.bsky.social, co-founder of @cjjpmedia.bsky.social, to discuss why many journalists in Canada remain hesitant to cover #Palestine.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 2d

TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY, Vancouver!! 😃

UBC SPPGA @sppga.ubc.ca · 6d

Join us on Oct 24 at @moaubc.bsky.social, as journalists, experts and storytellers explore the ways Indigenous narratives work to engage with what climate change means on Indigenous terms.

Read more here: https://f.mtr.cool/teoofwhzrs

@mediaindigena.bsky.social

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone trying to figure out where to start when it comes to getting involved with organizing and activism, this zine is a helpful tool! It aims to be, as our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social writes, "the beginning of a bridge between information and action."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in?

Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.

Check it out:

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

an important update re: convo on the convergence of interest between fossil capital as such and state managers (especially but not exclusively of petrostates) that @bostonreview.bsky.social hosted. if we can't break that then that might be the ballgame

www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 2d

“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”

ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.

Read the full essay👇

Merging to Survive

As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.

www.break-down.org

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 3d

Hey @wnba.com: pay them what you owe them!

We’re proud of our unions’ solidarity with the WNBPA as they fight for their fair share and a strong new contract ✊

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together

For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

www.theguardian.com

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 3d

“None of us want to be out on a picket line. We’re prepared to fight, but nobody’s happy to be here.” #canlab

Picket Lines and the Fight for the Future of Canada Post | The Tyee

As workers strike once again, the dispute raises big questions about public services.

thetyee.ca

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