Rick Harp

A New Kind of Corner Store | Perspectives Journal A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.

A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.

InFocus: How Dan David transformed Indigenous journalism On this edition of APTN News InFocus, host Cierra Bettens honours the life and legacy of Dan David, the father of APTN. David, a Mohawk journalist, spent 45 years transforming how Indigenous storie...

From rebuilding newsrooms to co-launching what’s now APTN National News, Dan David’s impact is everywhere.

Hear from those who knew him best on the latest edition of APTN News InFocus:
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“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

UK joins European offshore windfarm plan to create world’s largest ‘clean energy reservoir’ Britain among 10 countries to build 100GW grid in North Sea linking countries through subsea cables

Multiple countries sign landmark deal to build giant wind farms in the North Sea "that directly connect to various countries through high-voltage subsea cables, under plans that are expected to provide 100 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power."

The US, meanwhile, is shutting down offshore wind.

Yuen: My parents thought we had made it. Now we carry papers. Living under ICE’s crackdown has changed how some Minnesotans of color, including U.S. citizens, move through the world.

"A document that once made me proud of all the places I’ve traveled is now a badge to prove I belong," writes columnist Laura Yuen. "It speaks volumes that a person like me is scared — somebody with so many privileges, including my perfect American English."

"Aren’t you scared, too?"

Crowd at a protest in Minneapolis, holding signs against ICE. People wear winter clothing with a visible sense of unity and determination.

Extreme cold didn’t stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

Everybody showed up. Read @sarahlazare.bsky.social's report.

inthesetimes.com/article/minn...

The Boomerang Comes Back How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.

APTN News Brief: Counterprotest thwarts residential school denial rally at UBC Our lead story: led by the 'OneBC' political party, a rally at the University of British Columbia in support of residential school denialism is confronted by a larger group of counterdemonstrators.

Led by the OneBC political party, a rally at the University of British Columbia in support of residential school denialism is confronted by a larger group.

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lol "Build Canada, funded by major Canadian tech and industry players... 'improve the governments' technical capabilities to accelerate AI adoption, strengthen defence capabilities, improve strategic procurement, negotiate optimal trade agreements and more'”
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...

Photograph of Susan Sontag.

“The times we live in are indeed alarming. It is a time of the most appalling escalation of violence — violence to the environment, both ‘nature’ and ‘culture’; violence to all living beings… It is also a time of triumphant mediocrity.”
“- Susan Sontag

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Let's also bring in the connection with tech giants: Google hosted a CBP app that used facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE The FAA has altered a no fly zone designation that was originally created for US military bases to apply to DHS units.

In our latest: The feds created a drone no fly zone to stop people from recording ICE.

The order appears to attempt to criminalize the use of drones to film Immigration and Customs Enforcement and DHS employees who are detaining people all over the country.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

Carney’s realism is just neoliberal fan fiction - Spring Carney’s address at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday was an extraordinary speech for a G7 leader. Carney openly admitted something socialists have long known: that international rules-based order w...

Carney’s realism is just neoliberal fan fiction
springmag.ca/carneys-real...

Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.

"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/​livingness & for liberation)."

@prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.

They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

First Nation says Hydro misuse of river diversion destroying sturgeon population

Manitoba Hydro doesn’t produce green energy, we in the south of the province benefit from the destruction of lives in the north of the province

Mark Carney Knows the Old World Is Dying. But His New World Isn’t Good Enough. The Canadian prime minister offered a radical analysis of the collapse of the liberal world order. His response to that collapse is unacceptably conservative.

Mark Carney's radical speech isn't matching up with his policies www.thenation.com/article/worl...

State police declared an unlawful assembly here on 26 st and said they will arrest everyone. In response the protesters moved closer. Riot vehicle is here

Watch how our #ChefsForGaza team is repurposing wooden pallets, used to deliver food and supplies to Gaza, into desks for students. We’re using what would ordinarily be considered waste to support the community.

Curious if/when this call will start to gain traction. Sports-related boycotts against South Africa apartheid regime seemed to carry a lot of force.

Federal agents fatally shot a man Saturday morning in south Minneapolis, setting off confrontations between protesters and agents at the scene.

It was the second fatal shooting involving federal agents who have swarmed Minnesota as part of a massive immigration enforcement operation.

Who’s lobbying the Manitoba government? | The Narwhal We dug deep into lobbying records in Manitoba, a province 'far behind’ when it comes to transparency

Lobbyists try to influence those in the halls of power. But who are they? And what are they trying to achieve? @jsrutgers.bsky.social dug deep in Manitoba to find out. thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-lob...

German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23.

📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

US-owned TikTok is a greater threat than Chinese-owned TikTok.

practically balmy compared to yesterday