Rick Harp
@rickharp.bsky.social
🌎 Winnipeg-based journo + podcaster 🎙️ APTN News Brief https://podfollow.com/aptn-news-brief 🎙️ MEDIA INDIGENA https://podfollow.com/mediaindigena 🤝 Co-convenor, Indigenous climate journalism forum: "Beyond Fires & Floods" https://mediaindigena.com/BFF
Immigrant women in the U.S. face higher risks when it comes to maternal healthcare—especially amid the current immigration crackdown. In Madison, Wisconsin, a cooperative of immigrant doulas is working to change that.
Meet the Immigrant Doulas Feeding Their Wisconsin Communities
At Roots4Change, a group of immigrant women supports expecting mothers with fresh food from local farms. Many share the same experiences.
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‘We've never seen [such] fuel dryness’: B.C. officials struggle to get wildfires under control Hear more on APTN News Brief:
APTN News Brief: "Explosive and extremely dangerous": B.C. fire official says dry conditions unprecedented
Our lead story: as the out of control Bradley Creek wildfire rips through an area near Vernon, B.C.—destroying some 230 homes, including thirty Okanagan Indian Band residences—a provincial offi...
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I've read most of the books on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's proposed reading list and plan to read the rest. These are excellent recommendations. In fact, @gilduran.com (author of The Nerd Reich) will be a guest on Movement Memos soon.
Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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Hungary's Paks nuclear plant is close to complete shutdown due to low water levels on the Danube The river just hit the lowest level in more than a century, amid an ongoing European drought and heatwave
“People said we were using an unacceptable amount of power, and with these upgraded facilities that require so much more of it, we’ve shown that we took those criticisms to heart,” said Sam Altman
Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity
SAN FRANCISCO—Hailing rapid developments in the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Tuesday that technological advancements were now allowing data...
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A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
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People get on me about being a tech skeptic. I do often take the worst possible outlook view of what's coming next for tech companies and that's because I worked in tech. I spent a lot of time with VCs and founders. I know the game. And we're not part of it.
Regional wildfire updates from British Columbia's North Okanagan and from northwestern Ontario. Hear more on APTN News Brief:
APTN News Brief: "We cannot safely bring people home": Okanagan band flees raging Bradley Creek fire
Our lead stories: regional wildfire updates from British Columbia's North Okanagan and from northwestern Ontario, areas whose First Nations populations are among those forced to evacuate.
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Last month, 153 readers of The Alberta Worker sent in over $2000 to help support independent labour journalism. You can help, too. albertaworker.ca/support
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Was happy to discover that Sgt. Sundae offers a sugar-free, maple walnut flavour ice cream 🍦 a great option for my diabetic, sweet-toothed mother 😋
The federal government using scabs. The Carney government seems to be committed to undermining labour rights www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Bank of Canada governor defends use of replacement workers during strike | CBC News
The head of the Bank of Canada is defending the central bank's use of replacement workers during a strike involving security officers.
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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Chiefs of Ontario back calls for a public inquiry into the provincial response to recent wildfires but the Ford government will only commit to a review. Hear more on APTN News Brief:
APTN News Brief: As calls for public inquiry into wildfire response mount, Ontario gov't promises review only
Our lead story: the Chiefs of Ontario back calls for a public inquiry into the provincial response to recent wildfires—necessitating the evacuation of several First Nations—but the Ford governm...
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An honor to be on @democracynow.org this morning with force-of-nature Amy Goodman to discuss my new book "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn." www.democracynow.org/2026/8/3/dav...
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation, about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, chronicling the life and activism of the legendary histori...
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Q&A: Does the world need 'carbon-capture and storage' to reach net-zero? Described by IPCC as "critical", it has repeatedly fallen short Today, it captures just 0.2% of global CO2 from fossil fuels Great piece by my @carbonbrief.org colleague @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/...
Cuba's national electric grid collapses, plunging island into darkness reut.rs/4fKWwgK
Cuba's national electric grid collapses, plunging island into darkness
Cuba's national electricity grid collapsed late on Sunday, the state-owned national electric utility said, plunging the island of about 10 million people into darkness as blackouts are becoming ever more frequent.
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In 2021, Premier Doug Ford was personally presented with 20 recommendations to improve emergency management in northern Ontario. The auditor general later offered another 30. Little progress was made before the deadliest wildfire season on record. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-igno...
First Nations gave Doug Ford a wildfire plan. Ontario ignored it | The Narwhal
Indigenous leaders and the auditor general gave Ontario several emergency management recommendations over the years. Little progress was made
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“This is a dream that could truly change the world. Friends, the era of empty rhetoric on the environment is over. We’re taking real action that will produce real, tangible results.” — Stephen Harper, 2007 @meyer.bsky.social on 19 years of carbon capture promises: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-c...
Canada’s carbon capture chronicle | The Narwhal
To catalogue Canadian leaders’ promises on carbon capture, I had to go through national archives. The story is one of big dreams, with little results
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New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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"If 70-year-old Lutheran church ladies can be in the streets challenging ICE, then certainly corporate media can get it together to deconstruct these novel legal theories that are being used to criminalize dissent." fair.org/home/what-wa...
‘What Was Criminalized Here Is Dissent, Not Terrorism’ CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland
"It’s up to us to connect with our neighbors, and build something collective that together, on scale, will change the world."
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I wrote about the #Prairieland case for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social. It's even worse than you think. fair.org/slider/prair... #FirstAmendment
Prairieland Was a Test, and Corporate Media Failed
“Thirty-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech,” an Intercept headline (6/26/26) shouted days after a federal court sentenced eight anti-ICE protesters to a combined...
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What the Cyclospora Outbreak Says About the Food Safety System
What the Cyclospora Outbreak Says About the Food Safety System
The U.S. is facing a food-borne illness outbreak, and food safety experts say Trump cuts have made it harder to respond.
civileats.com
Car-blindness is real! Psychologists or sociologists should study this. Giant two-ton boxes flying all around us, piloted by people who have been rendered psychopaths, regularly injuring & killing our neighbors, and many/most people just ... don't register it. It's just background noise.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4d agoI was talking to my neighbor when a group of cyclists came by at maybe 25 mph. “That’s so dangerous,” she exclaimed. In the meantime, quite a few drivers came by at 40 mph, and she’s completely unfazed. 🤦🏻♂️
Bright and early at YYZ! WestJet flight attendants are out on the picket line fighting for the fair contract they deserve!
lately james carville looks like they made a movie where the grim reaper wants to be a human boy so he starts dressing like this and taking up skateboarding etc
Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.
In happier news, it turns out that blueberries grown beneath solar panels turn out sweeter! 🫐 (via @billmckibben.bsky.social)
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.
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