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Author: CuriosityCat

April 4, 2020 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Part 2 of All Extracts from Silent Lips about a virus in New York City – just for you!

Part 2 of All 43 extracts from my novel Silent Lips, which deals with a deadlly virus that leads to New York City being quarantined (available as an eBook for ONLY 99 CENTS!) For Part 1 (posts 1 to 32) check the earlier post.Click here for Part 1. Post 33

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January 1, 2020 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Prince William launches earth-saving climate action international prize!

You go, William! “The Duke of Cambridge has announced “the most prestigious environmental prize in history” in a bid to galvanise a decade of action to repair the planet. The Earthshot Prize aims to encourage and inspire people across the world to find innovative new solutions to one of the

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October 12, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: NDP LEADER EMASCULATES HIS PARTY BEFORE THE OCTOBER 21 ELECTION

  With just over a week to go before the (Read more…) NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has made a rookie mistake and reduced his party to the tail trying to wag the Liberal-dog. Singh has ruled out his party supporting the Conservative Party under any circumstances. Because the Conservatives will

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August 10, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Writers, how to test if your title for your novel is a really really good one

It’s very easy to do.Just go to Lulu Titlescorer (click here) and you can get some useful input on your choices. Here’s some of that Lulu offers: Put your title to the test Want to know if you’ve got a killer title for your novel? Now, for the first time

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April 22, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Psst! Look this way, PM Trudeau: Hope is nigh

Trudeau’s policy of fighting climate change is under fire in the provinces: In contrast, former federal Conservative cabinet minister James Moore said that the onus is on Trudeau to go back to the drawing board and come up with a way to fight climate change that isn’t a tax, or

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April 21, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Miracle at Notre Dame cathedral

Miraculously, the Pieta statue in Notre Dame cathedral seems to have survived intact, even though debris from the burnt roof fell very close to it, as the photograph shows. The Pieta statue is beautiful; we gazed in awe at it during our research inside Notre Dame before I wrote The

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April 21, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Notre Dame Cathedral tragedy

A tragedy unfolded in the heart of Paris, as the ancient Notre Dame cathedral burned fiercely. When researching my novel The Euros: Notre Dame Point Zero we visited the cathedral several times, exploring every nook and cranny that we could. One striking thing is the amount of wood in the

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March 15, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Proposal for a Canadian-based GaiaHope Eco-Prize and Eco-Lottery

Do you think our city and other governments have climate change policies that really really really enthuse citizens?  Do you think that our governments would be glad to have at least one policy to combat global warming that does indeed entice thousands of ordinary (Read more…) to take active steps

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March 14, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Rule of law crisis lurches onewards like a drunken sailor

With PM Justin Trudeau’s hamfisted responses now equalled and even topped by the so-called Justice Committee: • Andrew Coyne, National Post, on Twitter: Holy freaking hell. I thought the Libs would try to shut things down, but I didn’t think they’d do so quite so crudely and obviously.”• Susan Delacourt,

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March 12, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Canada’s Rule of Law Crisis chickens are coming home to roost

And Canadians are moving towards a belief that PM Trudeau should resign for his part in pressuring the former attorney general, as this poll shows: Overall, 46% of Canadians want Trudeau to either resign immediately (30%) or resign after the election (16%), meaning nearly half the country wants to see

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March 7, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Canada’s PM Trudeau has learned nothing from the rule of law crisis

After devastating testimony from his former attorney general, Justin Trudeau stood before the cameras and said the same thing his former senior advisor had said: We done nuthing wrong; no crisis for the rule of law in Canada; move along now, nothing to see here … And there you go.

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March 6, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Canada’s rule of law crisis: Telling truth to Power

Here is the nub of the problem facing PM Trudeau and his advisors: his claim of huge job losses for SNC if it is convicted of criminal misdoings is based on wild estimates, not founded on fact, and nonsense. Here is one view of it: The government that likes to

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March 6, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Canada’s rule of law crisis and why Jobs Jobs Jobs is illegal defence

Tristin Hopper Finally, someone has put their finger on the crux of the matter in the rule of law crisis: that the reason chosen by the Trudeau government for pressuring the former attorney general is illegal. Thanks to Tristin Hopper in the National Post article: “When 9,000 people’s jobs are

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March 5, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Rule of Law crisis in Canada of Trudeau’s making

Justin Trudeau’s father would be horrified by the mess that his son has caused. A basic principle of our legal system is under threat by the prime minister and his top officers: “Butts and fellow PMO advisor Katie Telford told Wilson-Raybould’s staff that she should have her decision reviewed by

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January 15, 2019 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: THE SOLUTION TO THE BREXIT PROBLEM

Having suffered an overwhelming defeat in Parliament today, PM May faces the stark choice of tabling a revised Brexit agreement what is approved by the majority of UK MPs. Despite the fact that a solution seems almost impossible to most observers, there IS one that could be successfully tabled on

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October 10, 2018 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: FPTP makes Canadians second class citizens

Voters in the province of British Columbia are faced with a dilemma:  Does morality require them to vote for political reform because they owe their family, friends and neighbours a duty to take care of them? This dilemma arises because each voter in BC will within days receive a postal

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October 9, 2018 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: A vote for FPTP is a vote for legalized theft

Voters in BC are being given the chance to vote for a dramatic change in the way in which their representatives in the provincial government are chosen, as this article shows: David Eby said the referendum would be conducted by mail-in ballot, with the campaign to begin July 1 and

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October 8, 2018 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: How to Frame the electoral reform referendum in BC, Canada

Mark Mitchell has a post in Facebook in which he writes: Apparently, those of us who support ProRep are wrong to use facts and logic in our argument, when the opposition is using emotion and lies. Any suggestions as to how to change this? Good (Read more…) and a valid

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August 20, 2018 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Is the Trudeau government unconstitutional?

Canada demanded that Saudi Arabia release persons jailed there and a storm erupted, with Saudia Arabia cutting off most interactions with Canada. It would be very ironic if the current Trudeau government was determined by our Supreme Court to be unconstitutional, as I believe it is, would it not? Justin

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August 1, 2018 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: How to nail the NAFTA sunset clause sticking point

Mexico is showing realism with its latest move towards recognizing that the American administration wanted a different trade agreement, based on fair trade (and not just free trade), and that puts an end to the flight to the bottom of the wage scale. Mexico is prepared to commit to conditions

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