You're truly able to visualize what it was like. It must have been terrifying.
Posts by 🇨🇦 Bernice Hillier 🇨🇦
A gunman killed a Canadian woman and wounded four other people — including a second Canadian — at the Teotihuacan pyramids outside Mexico City on Monday before killing himself, authorities said, jolting one of the country's most visited tourist sites.
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Tune in to CBC Radio’s Newfoundland Morning today around 7:45 a.m. Newfoundland time to hear from playwright Marquita Walsh and Millie Walsh, mother of Samantha Walsh, as they speak to me about this play.
More and more babies are being born exposed to substances in Newfoundland and Labrador — and one pediatrician says drugs are only part of the problem in a system that doesn’t have enough support in place to help these families. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The BBC has examined trade volume data on several financial markets and matched them to some of the president's most significant market-moving statements. www.bbc.com/news/article...
A study published last month in the journal Nature Climate Change looked at permafrost slumps across the Arctic using satellite imagery and found that … in high-Arctic sites, where the growing season is shorter, vegetation took more than 30 years to recover. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. has forcibly seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz that tried to pass naval blockade. www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...
Ontario is looking to sell the $28.9 million private jet that was recently purchased for Premier Doug Ford's use "as quickly as possible." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
"Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become weaknesses — weaknesses that we must correct,” said Canadian PM Mark Carney in a video posted to YouTube on Sunday morning. #cdnpoli
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President of Finland Alexander Stubb: "For a small country like myself, information is power. So if I have a piece of information, I'll send it to Mark [Carney]. If Mark has a piece of information, he might inform me. Sometimes we have group chats with close allies."
From the article: President Trump “has made risky pronouncements without input from his national security team—including his post about plans to destroy the Iranian civilization.” #uspoli
The duelling blockades in the Strait of Hormuz lurched into uncharted waters on Saturday as the United States pressed ahead with its campaign to choke off Iranian ports and Iran reversed an initial move to reopen the waterway. www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...
I am very much an emotional hoarder. Things have value to me far beyond what anyone else would understand.
Marine traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained effectively at a standstill on Friday. Around 20 vessels began sailing toward the strait in the evening but soon halted, with some turning back. News agencies are reporting today that Iran has closed the strait again. www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...
Feeling (a bit) inspired after reading this article today. Is anyone else’s closet in desperate need of declutterring? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/b...
Video played in Supreme Court in NL showed Dean Penney saying his estranged wife’s death was an accident, before explaining how he hid Jennifer Hillier-Penney's body. Penney has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer said they’re working to prove the confession was unreliable. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
CBC News has learned Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited 100 of the world's biggest investors to a summit in Toronto this September. The conference aims to pitch organizations that control trillions of dollars in capital on investing in Canada. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
"I felt, throughout this operation, quite honestly, that at the end of this, I hoped that there was a different outcome," testified Vic, an undercover RCMP officer tasked with becoming Dean Penney's best friend. #MurderTrial #JenniferHillierPenney www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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People say they can’t afford to prioritize buying local meat and vegetables. But we can’t afford not to. CSA and similar programs help to provide a stable income.
Judge and jury in Supreme Court in Corner Brook heard today from the primary operator in a covert RCMP operation to get Dean Penney to confess to any involvement he may have had in Jennifer Hillier-Penney's death.
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RCMP would not say if they responded to any calls of domestic disturbance, or any other calls recently to either of the residences involved in the deadly events in Grand Falls-Windsor. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Come to Newfoundland!! Work with a fabulous team of hardworking people (including me! lol). There’s a radio producer job in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. cbcrc.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CBC_Radio-Ca...
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals have secured a majority government in Canada with wins in two out of three byelections, CBC News projects. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals have secured a majority government with a win in University-Rosedale, CBC News projects. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
An under-appreciated benefit of borrowing a library book? You can’t just allow it to languish in your TBR pile forever. The clock is ticking on that loan…. I don’t know about you but I find this highly motivating. (Return a half-read book that I was really enjoying? Never!) 😂
How you talk about marginalized people matters. Period.
If you can't be bothered to learn to not use slurs, you're expressing a disregard for those identities, and as a public servant, pretty clearly communicating what does and does not matter in your worldview.
The cover of the book, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator,” by Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa
Fifth book of 2026 was, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator,” by Maria Ressa
This book gets 5⭐️
“Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without all three, we have no shared reality, and democracy as we know it—and all meaningful human endeavors—are dead.”