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Rick Harp
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Journalist, broadcaster, podcaster, etc. 📻 “Knowledge is never innocent or neutral.” Aileen Moreton-Robinson

🎙️ Host, APTN News Brief https://podfollow.com/aptn-news-brief

🎙️ Host/producer, MEDIA INDIGENA https://podfollow.com/mediaindigena
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UPDATE: We just surpassed 35,000 views for our 2-part #IdleNoMore docuseries, a movement with great resonance for today's era of renewed extractivism, infrastructure and even greater state surveillance of Indigenous resistance
Well, would ya look at that: the two-part APTN News doc that I co-created with @anishinaboy.bsky.social on the late 2012 emergence of #IdleNoMore just passed 30,000 views on YouTube!

▶️ WATCH youtu.be/VHgGbW6exB4?...
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The AFB is a plain language, action oriented budget geared to build community for each of us. Would that the current federal budget be as good as the Alternative Federal Budget!! @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli #Budget2025 rabble.ca/columnists/c...
Carney’s budget pales in comparison to the Alternative Federal Budget
The Alternative Federal Budget offers a more hopeful and sustainable alternative to what Mark Carney's Liberals offered earlier this month.
rabble.ca
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet.

He directly cites today's MOU:
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Memorandum of understanding regarding a proposed pipeline from Alberta sparks concerns from both British Columbia and First Nations.

Hear more on APTN News Brief:
APTN News Brief: November 27, 2025—Talk of proposed tar sands pipeline to BC criticized by some First Nations
Our lead story: an anticipated federal/Alberta memorandum of understanding regarding a proposed pipeline from the tar sands to the west coast sparks concerns from both British Columbia and First Na...
pod.fo
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:

They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The MOU states a new “bitumen pipeline to Asian markets” is a priority for Canada, and that if a new pipeline is ultimately approved under the Building Canada Act, the federal government will exempt it from the oil tanker moratorium.
BREAKING: Alberta gets its way in deal with Ottawa
A newly signed memorandum of understanding gives Alberta almost its entire list of demands, from the removal of regulations to the fast-tracking of a pipeline.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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As a new pipeline to the coast rears its head, towns in the path of the last one — Trans Mountain — are facing a major loss of tax revenue from the pipeline.
BC towns fight pipeline tax break that would gut municipal budgets
After years of lobbying the provincial government, major pipeline companies, including Enbridge, Trans Mountain and FortisBC, convinced BC Assessment to change how it determines the value of pipelines...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”

www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
The AI hype-machine: Canada’s ill-advised ‘national sprint’ on artificial intelligence
Cynthia Khoo, Jeff Doctor and Hadrian Mertons-Kirkwood discuss the dangers of Canada’s accelerated approach to artificial intelligence.
rabble.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Mark Carney's supposed enthusiasm for climate policy has been in the back seat—or maybe the trunk—since he stepped into the prime minister's office. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social #climatecrisis #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Is Carney’s climate credibility crumbling? - CCPA
The following is a re-print of the October 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and climate change. Click here to subscribe to Shift Sto...
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Capitalism can create trillionaires but it can't provide safe drinking water to billions of people. My column for Counterfire this week.
www.counterfire.org/article/the-...
The global threat of water scarcity
It is not just climate change, but the privatised systems through which water is accessed that is denying water to billions of people in the world, reports John Clarke In 2013, the CEO of Nestle, P...
www.counterfire.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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“Stevenson..would like to see a “critical evaluation” of the major institutions in Canada that have supported non-Indigenous scholars, writers and thought leaders who have claimed Indigenous identities.

She wonders why their stories have been "so compelling and convincing" to these institutions..”
Indigenous scholars say Thomas King case 'shockingly similar' to others falsely claiming ancestry | CBC News
After another respected name in Indigenous arts and culture was  revealed to not have Indigenous ancestry , some scholars say it’s time to examine the Canadian institutions that have helped these peop...
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?

This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars https://theonion.com/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrusted-w-1819574734/
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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We've discussed pretendians ad nauseam on the podcast, with each new exposé much like the last. That said, as we heard from @kimtallbear.bsky.social
in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt. 1
Podcast Episode · MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs · 2024-03-24 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert – she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/dani...
Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert – she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one - Alberta Politics
Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert, she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one, with sketchy details to follow.  Then, just like that, Alberta’s premier could call an ...
albertapolitics.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Society of Professional Journalists: Photographers say they were targeted by St. Paul police minnesotareformer.com/briefs/socie...
Society of Professional Journalists: Photographers say they were targeted by St. Paul police • Minnesota Reformer
Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance; he was released and i recovering.
minnesotareformer.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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NEW: Ontario’s transparency watchdog has been forced to “intervene” after the solicitor general’s office repeatedly ignored orders to release information.

It’s part of a trend which has also raised questions about political interference. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154356...
Ontario watchdog ‘intervening’ after solicitor general ignores transparency orders | Globalnews.ca
There have been several instances in recent years where the IPC has told the solicitor general's office to release information, only for the government to ignore the decree.
globalnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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“This year it’s measles and syphilis, next year it could be polio and whooping cough."

This morning, unionized frontline workers warned that provincial cuts are plunging Ontario's public health into a state of crisis.
Funding Cuts Plunging Public Health in Ontario into Crisis, Experts Warn
Frontline public health workers are sounding the alarm about the state of sexually transmitted infections, waterborne illnesses and measles…
www.thegrindmag.ca
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Not the New York Times op-ed by Bret Stephens pushing for regime change!
War in Venezuela, Brought to You By the Same People Who Lied Us Into Iraq
Washington is making big claims to make the case for U.S. intervention. We’ve heard all these arguments before.
theintercept.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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As B.C.‘s climate changes and wildfires increase, Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist wants to see the practice of prescribed burning expanded in the Interior.

An on-the-ground feature first shared by our friends at @indiginews.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/cultural-bur...
Cultural burning is ‘a better way’: Secwépemc firekeeper | The Narwhal
As B.C. wildfires worsen, leading Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning ‘needs to be multiplied hundreds of times’
thenarwhal.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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i’m literally getting pr emails about data centers on the moon. please let this bubble burst already 🙏
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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"The [Dakota Tipi and Canupawakpa First Nations' 11 lawsuits seek] unspecified damages and ownership over the [southwestern MB] basin, claiming they’ve received no compensation or consultation over oil fields in the region that generated an estimated $1.3 billion last year." #MBpoli
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM