Rick Harp

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.

Spatch cock for the win! 😛

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

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.

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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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

"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/...

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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)

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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."

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

TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY, Vancouver!! 😃

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."

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

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:

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...

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

“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👇

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

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 ✊

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.

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

Blacklisting reporters is not an effective way to prevent reporters from reporting.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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I am so grateful. Generosity like this keeps The Alberta Worker going.

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An Interview With the Portland Chicken Rachel Saslow

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

From a new post of mind, explaining the role I am taking in News Creator Corps. It's a startup that offers training to creators who want to bring new skills into their work. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news... Journalism-adjacent creators, you might say.

APTN News Brief: October 9, 2025—Appeal case begins in effort to undo Kebaowek First Nation’s halt on nuclear waste site Our lead story: as proceedings begin at the Federal Court of Appeal, some 50 supporters gather outside to back Kebaowek First Nation’s efforts to keep blocking proposed radioactive waste disposal...

Supporters gather outside the Federal Court in Ottawa to back Kebaowek’s efforts to block a proposed radioactive waste disposal site at Chalk River, Ont.

Hear more on APTN News Brief:

Endangered Quebec fish at risk from Port of Montreal expansion | The Narwhal A planned expansion of the Port of Montreal in Contrecoeur, one of Mark Carney’s priority projects, threatens the endangered copper redhorse

Plans to expand the Port of Montreal threaten an endangered fish found only in Quebec. Advocates for the copper redhorse fear the project — now on Mark Carney's major projects list — will deal a critical blow to a species already on life support. thenarwhal.ca/copper-redho...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

The rapid growth of data centers has fueled global concerns over the fire risk inherent to these often hastily constructed facilities — and the question of who pays the cost. futurism.com/future-socie...

Manitoba legislature approves fines for former premier and cabinet ministers WINNIPEG — Former Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson and two of her cabinet ministers were fined Tuesday for violating the province's conflict of interest law in pushing for a mining project.

Updated: www.thereminder.ca/provincial-n... #mbpoli