Elizabeth Whitten

A year after a major comic book distributor went bankrupt, N.L. shops are still reeling | CBC News Comic book shops and a publisher in St. John's are still grappling with the repercussions more than a year after a major distributor declared bankruptcy.

Spoke with @elwhitten.bsky.social for a story on how the Diamond Comics Distributors bankruptcy has affected comic shops and publishers in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and Mark Carney

I think this is what you call foreign interference, and it goes well beyond running an ad featuring a Ronald Reagan speech.

Great to see Joseph Hewitt's comics in the Newfoundland and Labrador Public Library system! I encourage people to pick up The Voles of the Dusk (which I interviewed Joseph about in my book Off Panel: A History of NL Comix)

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments.

I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite.

Would love to gather any and all other names.

Safety first! Just a quick snap inside a MUN lab for a story I'm working on... 🧊💥

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We're back this week with SUBMERSED and Matthew Gavin Frank! Let's all dive in to the human need to go below depths on Thursday at 7 ET!

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“you didn’t give me the peace prize so now i’m just taking whatever i want”

Took this shot while walking around Beffroi de l'Hôtel de Ville d'Arras in Arras on a past trip. Hoping to go back soon!

Polio, Bubonic Plague, Smallpox compete to see who can re-establish themselves in Canada next MEDICINE HAT, AB - With the announcement that Canada has officially lost its measles elimination status, a new social media phenomenon has established where individuals have been taking sides on which...

Polio, Bubonic Plague, Smallpox compete to see who can re-establish themselves in Canada next

I get such a great list of book recommendations, things I wouldn't necessarily come across otherwise! And an amazing community

Naturally, I had to share it with people at work 🪩🐌

Yay! And where else am I going to learn (and be mildly horrified) about disco snail parasites?

Love being a part of the Peculiar Book Club! 🔬🎙️🦑

From lemonade with a hit of espresso to zesty soups, new Canadians are having a tasty impact on this bakery | CBC News Rocket Bakery co-owner Kelly Mansell says a lot of her staff are new Canadians who have a lot to share from their previous homes, including some delicious additions to the menu.

This was published a few days ago, but here it is for the bluesky folks: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... I chatted about the tasty impact new Canadians are having on this local shop 🍲

For the last century, this N.L. courtroom clock has gone tick-tock | CBC News For more than a century, one clock has been keeping time in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador. Clockmaker Chris Hamelmann, who repaired it a few years ago, says it’s a well-made instrumen...

Ever since I got an impromptu demo of the clock winding a few months back, I have wanted to do a story on it and now it's out! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 🕰️

A vintage sepia-toned lithograph illustration titled "SCENE OF THE HARBOUR GRACE TRAGEDY. OCCURRED ON DECEMBER 27TH, 1883." The image shows a snowy winter landscape with a long line of people in dark 19th-century clothing, likely Orangemen, marching in formation along a railway track. Two parallel rows face each other across the tracks, with some holding flags, including a red one. In the foreground, a few individuals stand apart near the tracks, possibly officials or observers. Snow-covered hills with rocky outcrops rise in the background, along with sparse bare trees and distant buildings. Telegraph poles and wires run along the left side. The overall scene is dramatic and somber under a hazy sky.

On Dec. 26, 1883 in Harbour Grace in Newfoundland, hundreds of Protestants and Catholics began to fight each other in the street.
Four people were killed and the incident led to the fall of the island's government.
This is the story of the Harbour Grace Affray.

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He lives in Belgium, but wants to be Bell Island’s newest resident | CBC News Steve Douglas has owned the British grenadier Bookshop and Salient Tours in Ypres, Belgium since 2008, but is looking to sell and move to Newfoundland and Labrador.

While walking down Menin Street in Ypres, Belgium this fall I saw a sign in a window that said "Canada is not for sale, but this shop is" - and had to go meet the owner. That's how I found out Steve Douglas' connection to Newfoundland and Labrador
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Writing a book takes a lot of research, at least for me, here's a snap from my trip to Library and Archives in Ottawa a few years ago. So many nuggets of information about WWI gas masks!

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I have some neat documents instructing soldiers on how to care for their live saving hypo helmets. I got them a while back from my appointment at Library and Archives Canada... now where to put it in the manuscript? #amwriting

Here's my little guy Toby, quite exhausted after hosting brunch today 🥂

Thanks so much for chatting with me about this QEII focused holiday tradition!

Hey! Look who got a little article by the CBC (It's me)!

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Putting together a To Do list for tweaks to the Cluny Macpherson gas mask manuscript and it is getting smaller! #amwriting

Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.

Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

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I have gone from 150,000 words plus to 131,000 - progress! #amwriting

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... just ripped out the whole Charles Karnopp scandal story from the Macpherson bio... #amwriting

Now to do it with the rest of the manuscript... 😞

So... it took a few hours (and cursing at all the time and effort I'd put in to research) but I've cut it down to 11,369 words ✨