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Elbows up 🇨🇦 💪 Canadian & Irish novelist of character-driven fiction from horror to sci-fi to contemp. Film school grad. Ottawa dweller. Humanist. Pro-human rights, pro-democracy, pro-science 😷 INFJ www.caramartin.ca | www.ckkellymartin.com
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Lead with your hook: the unique twist, premise, or promise that makes your story different from every other book on the shelf. If you can’t explain what makes your book special in one or two sentences, it might be time to sharpen that pitch. #WritingTips #AmQuerying #PitchPerfect #WritingCommunity

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the Uber CEO tells Trump his company supports the MAGA reconciliation bill (that will strip millions of healthcare and food support)

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WATCH: “Here’s the big scary LA protest — look: you don’t see the cops or the National guard here… are there any fires or chemical smoke? Wonder why that is.” The people are peaceful. Law enforcement is doing the escalating. Intentionally. This has always been Trump’s plan.

submitted 22 hours ago • 60 comments

Happy Birthday, Michael J. Fox! Absolute legend. www.thatericalper.com/2025/06/09/6...

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We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich

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Stay safe out there, LA folks

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Newsom addresses Trump directly: "Where's your decency, Mr President? Stop ... it's immoral. You're creating the conditions that you claim you're solving."

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

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The federal government is sowing chaos so they have an excuse to escalate. That is not the way any civilized country behaves." ~ Gavin Newsom www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"Climate scientists have predicted an eventual blurring of 'fire season' into year-round burning for decades, but few imagined it would arrive so soon in our northern forests."

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Air quality in Ottawa is 180 AQI now. In practical terms what does this unhealthy designation mean? When the Air Quality Index ranges from 151-200, the air quality is unhealthy for ALL. See details below & note “Unhealthy” pollution levels require a mask even indoors. www.iqair.com/ca/newsroom/...

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Not actually good news for Canada as habitat and wildlife will be catastrophically impacted and human health will suffer. phys.org/news/2025-06...

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“As smoke levels increase, health risks increase. Limit time outdoors." Ottawa’s air quality was rated “10-Very High Risk” at 1 p.m...and will be “10-High Risk” through the day and “6-High Risk” tonight. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

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If you've got wildfire smoke in your area, protect your lungs by staying indoors and running purifiers if you have them. If you absolutely need to spend time outside mask up in an N95 or better. www.dailyclimate.org/toxic-metals...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Fitting for today’s cat fight.

submitted 4 days ago • 373 comments

Suffering from that wildfire smoke in Ottawa now. Asthma and allergies are acting up. Using my inhaler and I have two air purifiers running in my apartment. Ottawans, please limit time outdoors or use N95 masks or better if you can't. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

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"The new amendment reverses a change made by then-prime minister Stephen Harper which prohibited Canadians born abroad from passing citizenship to their children born outside Canada." www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

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Crazy thing that happens when you let thousands of cases of a disease with a 1/1000 case fatality occur: eventually kids do indeed die Thoughts and prayers are nice, but doing your job is nicer news.ontario.ca/en/statement...

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Human rights groups have 'grave concerns' about soccer matches hosted in the U.S. www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...

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Virus can hide in brain and cause debilitating neurological condition 7 to 11 years later www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #Alberta #Measles

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

It’s time for the Minto Park Sale again! The annual yard sale for people without yards, a tradition started by the great Diane Holmes. Come by Minto Park on Saturday, June 7, for lots of great finds, music by The Ottawa Music Industry Coalition and a BBQ supporting The Door Youth Centre.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Canadians need to take this very seriously. "As soon as the AQHI hits 5 or higher, people should consider limiting time outdoors or wearing an N95 mask and, once inside, take steps to rid themselves of contaminants..." globalnews.ca/news/1121338...

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I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

submitted 6 days ago • 3361 comments