Rick Harp

Mark Carney is ‘flooding the zone’—but movements are fighting back ⋆ The Breach Organizers unpack Carney’s agenda of rapid-fire austerity, militarism and fossil fuel extraction

Carney fans find themselves on the wrong side of all of this.

"Organizers unpack Carney’s agenda of rapid-fire austerity, militarism and fossil fuel extraction"

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The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? - Washingtonian If recent events have not compelled you to cancel your Washington Post subscription, then you might have been in for sticker shock at the dawn of your latest billing cycle. Many readers have been…

Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.

They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.

That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.

Opinion: Now is not the time for more pipelines

My piece in today's @winnipegfreepress.com - the shills for fossil fuels are using the war to argue for more pipelines. Nonsense. We should be headed in the opposite direction as fast as possible: more #renewables, more decarbonization, more energy security.
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Louisiana bets big on ‘blue ammonia.’ Communities along Cancer Alley brace for the cost. Carbon capture hasn’t delivered major climate benefits — and the plants would still emit thousands of tons of pollution.

Louisiana is racing to become a hub for “blue ammonia,” sold as a climate solution. But in Cancer Alley — already one of the most polluted regions in the U.S. — permit documents show the projects would still release thousands of tons of air pollution each year, raising alarms for nearby communities.

APTN News Brief: Hotel next to hospital fires employee who berated family of teen recovering from surgery Our lead story: hotel chain Canad Inns fires employee caught on video barging into the room of a First Nations family, berating them as their teenager lay in bed recovering from leg surgery at a ne...

Hotel chain Canad Inns fires employee caught on video barging into the room of a First Nations family while federal government apologizes for a paperwork mishap.

Hear more on APTN News Brief:

Young Canadian men more likely to say gender equality has gone ‘far enough’ - National | Globalnews.ca The Ipsos results were part of a 29-country survey done with the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London that was released last week.

Ipsos data found 57 per cent of young males surveyed think Canada has done enough in giving women equal rights to men, compared to 40 per cent of Canadians overall.

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Overly credulous interview by CBC Edmonton w/ lead author of AB government ‘study’ absolving itself of harm to supervised consumption site users after the govt closed it.

Easy suggestion for media: CoRE isn’t just ‘funded by the government,’ it IS the government. 1/
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Henrietta Lacks’ estate settles third lawsuit with a pharmaceutical company The Lacks family has settled its third case against a pharmaceutical company it says profited from cells taken from Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent — this one with Viatris.

Estate of Henrietta Lacks settles third suit against drug companies over use of cells

In this week's Better Offline monologue, @edzitron.com talks about the end of tech’s hypergrowth era, generative AI’s failure as a business model, and why we need to stop looking to the past to prove that the future will work out.

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Mark Carney is ‘flooding the zone’—but movements are fighting back ⋆ The Breach Organizers unpack Carney’s agenda of rapid-fire austerity, militarism and fossil fuel extraction

In his first year, Mark Carney unleashed a tsunami of pro-corporate policies and legislation.

At last week's Broadbent Institute summit, Syed Hussan, @atiyactions.bsky.social, @janellelapointe.bsky.social, Nathan Prier, & Rachel Small discussed how movements are fighting back.

‘The fact of a body is that it’s always changing, the fact of time is that it’s always passing, the fact of life us that we will lose everything we love. We can’t keep anything, not even our own faces. We are fluid and mutable, porous and intermeshed, a network of breathing bodies engaged in an

Pete Hegseth attacks media for not being positive enough about US attacks on Iran US defense head is eager to frame operation as a success – and slam journalists for not portraying it in a positive light * Has the pro-Maga media turned on the Pentagon over Iran? * Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Pete Hegseth on Friday again claimed the US military campaign against Iran has been an unprecedented success, using a Pentagon press conference to accuse journalists of downplaying Washington’s supposed gains on the battlefield. Speaking alongside the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, the US defense secretary claimed Iran had been left without a functioning air force, navy or missile defense network after 13 days of strikes, and said the combined US-Israeli air campaign had hit more than 15,000 targets since the war began. Continue reading...

Pete Hegseth attacks media for not being positive enough about US attacks on Iran

Ford government changing law to keep all premier, minister records secret | Globalnews.ca A new law set to be tabled by Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Stephen Crawford will exempt all public records from ministers.

NEW: The Ford government is planning to change transparency laws in Ontario to stop the release of any messages involving ministers and staff, a retroactive move which could also keep the premier’s cellphone records permanently secret. #Onpoli
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Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests Government’s proposed changes follow its loss of court battle over call logs for Ford’s personal cellphone

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... ‘The proposed changes follow the government’s loss of a court battle, initially launched by Global News, over the call logs for Premier Doug Ford’s personal cellphone, which he uses for government business.’

Pentagon Pete Bans Photographers From His Wild War Rant The defense secretary blocked photographers after complaining about “unflattering” photos.

The defense secretary blocked photographers after complaining about “unflattering” photos.

Doug Ford uses his private cellphone to conduct public business to skirt Freedom of Information rules. He said turning those phone records over would breach his privacy. The court said, oops, that only made his phone records subject to FOI. So now he’s trying to change the FOI rules instead.

it's quite surreal how we've completely normalized the fact that a good 70% of our business, political, and tech press exists exclusively to blow smoke up the ass of the wealthy, creating elaborate mythologies for otherwise unremarkable people

Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota Some Minneapolis residents who took to the streets to document U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids believe federal authorities used drones to record and intimidate them. Despite laws govern...

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Officer having anxiety attack took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

Well if the playoff hopes didn't crash on Tuesday, they sure as hell did tonight I'd say. #nhljets

Winnipeg falls to #NYR 6-3 at home. Back to back losses leave the #NHLJets six points behind San Jose for the second wild card spot, with the Kraken also in action.

The Jets are not offering a whole lot of reasons to believe.

BREAKING: The Senate has passed the biggest housing affordability bill in 30 years, and it includes a ban on investors buying single-family homes.

The bill passed 89-10.

Media & police commonly report that “speed wasn’t a factor in a crash.” What they mean is the driver wasn’t technically breaking the speed limit, or at least not too much.

But speed is ALWAYS a factor, in how much distance is needed to stop, how well crash victims can be seen, and whether they die.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Here’s my (frighteningly vulnerable!!) follow up on my reporting that exposed a white nationalist active club.

On the professional and personal costs of this work:

Information commissioner 'disappointed' by lack of federal ambition on access reform OTTAWA – The federal information watchdog says she’s surprised that government proposals for updating the Access to Information Act avoid “the most pressing issue” dogging the system — unacceptable delays in answering requests.

OTTAWA – The federal information watchdog says she’s surprised that government proposals for updating the Access to Information Act avoid “the most pressing issue” dogging the system — unacceptable delays in answering requests.

Manitoba outpacing other provinces in measles cases Sharp rise in infections hindering efforts to quell outbreak and earn back elimination status

Manitoba is now outpacing every other province in measles cases, prolonging an outbreak that has persisted in Canada for roughly a year and a half. The province recorded 198 cases last month alone, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com