International students find shelter from pandemic storm on Signal Hill
International students Mariana Esquivel Suarez and Saman Bazmi are riding out the pandemic at Memorial University s Signal Hill campus. But when it began, they faced a stark choice: should they stay or should they go?
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Mariana Esquivel Suarez and Saman Bazmi made the tough call to ride out the pandemic in St. John s
Posted: Apr 23, 2021 7:00 AM NT | Last Updated: April 23
Bazmi Saman and Mariana Esquivel Suarez are graduate students who live at Memorial University s Signal Hill campus.(Zach Goudie/CBC)
Mariana Esquivel Suarez and Saman Bazmi both came to Memorial University for an education. They never imagined they would find safe harbour from a raging global pandemic.
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Posted: Apr 20, 2021 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: April 20
Kyle White s before and after pictures show off his 150-pound weight loss. (Submitted by Kyle White)
Utter the word lockdown and you might conjure memories of the living room couch, endless scrolling through TikTok and ordering more takeout than you d care to admit.
Life during a pandemic started off the same way for Kyle White, a 28-year-old from Old Perlican, N.L.
But it took worldwide upheaval for White to turn his own life around. A little over a year ago, I stepped on the scale and I was around 430 pounds, White said from his home in Saskatoon, noting that most scales don t even go that high.
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image captionA man has been charged with Jellica and Bennylyn Burke s murders
A vigil has been held in Bristol for a mother and her two-year-old daughter whose bodies were found in a house in Dundee.
Bennylyn Burke and daughter Jellica were reported missing from their home in South Gloucestershire on 1 March.
Friends of Ms Burke and Jellica attended a vigil in their memory at Brandon Hill Park in Bristol on Saturday afternoon.
It took place on the grass below Cabot Tower, where they had previously met and enjoyed picnics together.
Candles and flowers were placed on a red blanket on the ground, along with pictures of Ms Burke and Jellica, a teddy bear and placards.