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Chad Bennett

Chad Bennett

Chad Bennett is a writer who lives in Downtown St.John's

    Archives, Latest Posts: January 11, 2018 February 15, 2018

    Newfoundlandia: The Ice Wall Of 1862

    Game of Thrones has Castle Black, we have Twillingate, and by 1862 we both had epic ice-walls.

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    Archives, Miscellany December 13, 2017 February 15, 2018

    Newfoundlandia: Men in Black Hit Bell Island After an Unexplained Explosion

    The year is 1978, the number one song is “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees, and the incident in question is fodder for one of NL’s most popular unexplained mysteries and conspiracy theories.

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    Archives, Latest Posts:, News December 7, 2017 February 15, 2018

    The True Consequences Of Rising Electrical Rates

    “What we need is more customers, not higher prices … once the price of power crosses the line of what we are willing to pay, there is no going back, there will be a withdrawal from the public grid which will last 20 years or more.”

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    Archives, News October 30, 2017 February 15, 2018

    Who’s Going to Pay for This New Federally Mandated $200 Million Sewage Treatment Facility?

    The Federal government is on its way to inspect your crap, and the clock is ticking.

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    Archives, Latest Posts:, News August 31, 2017 February 15, 2018

    Urban Sprawl is Compromising Our Sources of Fresh Water: Do We Need a Rain Festival?

    Metro St. John’s has three sources of fresh water. They are Windsor Lake, Bay Bulls Big Pond, and Petty Harbour Long Pond. You have…

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    Archives, Latest Posts:, News August 18, 2017 February 15, 2018

    Paying Off Provincial Debt is Now Our Second Greatest Expense

    There is a place for credit in modern economics, and that place is for emergency use only.

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    Archives, Latest Posts:, Miscellany July 27, 2017 February 15, 2018

    The #1 Reason To Care For Bannerman Park

    How did Bannerman gain such a prominent role in the life of Town? We need to go back before the park’s formation to the year 1846.

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    Archives, Latest Posts:, News July 12, 2017 February 15, 2018

    How Have We Arrived at Reality Needing to Be Defended?

    With everyone inhabiting their own personal bubble, why should we bother defending reality?

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    Archives, Latest Posts:, News June 27, 2017 February 15, 2018

    We’re Not Milking Our Milk Industry in Newfoundland

    The mind goes precisely the way a road shouldn’t, in fits and breaks. During the groggy moments of morning I began to wonder about…

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    Archives, Latest Posts:, News April 20, 2017 February 15, 2018

    Stab a Fever, Starve a Library

    “The leg came off quickly and cleanly and the melon baller scooped that watering eye out with no trouble at all. I howled in victory, before promptly passing out.”

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    The Overcast is a multi-award-winning media body in St. John’s, NL.

    Best known for its monthly print magazine, its website, TheOvercast.ca, also posts 1-2 articles a day, hoststhe St. John’s Eats dinning and review directory, and administers the $12,500 Albedo Grant to help entrepreneurs get their big idea off the ground, as well as Newfoundland’s richest award for a local album of the year: The Borealis Music Prize.

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