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Chad Pelley

Chad Pelley

Chad Pelley is an author, songwriter, and journalist who wrote for publications like the Globe & Mail and The Telegraph-Journal before founding The Overcast. Now he spends 25 hours a day keeping up with his email, and has no time to be his former self.

    News November 29, 2018 December 8, 2018

    Why This MUN Professor Was Given 1.42 Million Dollars from the Federal Government

    3D printing has become the biggest modern innovator of the medical industry worldwide, and it’s happening right here in NL

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    Mary Brown's
    Food & Drink November 20, 2018 November 18, 2018

    The Truly Surprising Story of Mary Brown’s

    Did you know Mary Brown was a real woman, from Virginia?

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    Baccalieu Trail Brewing Flight
    Food & Drink November 19, 2018 November 23, 2018

    Baccalieu Trail Brewing Offering Beers That Cheers Local History

    Two best friends from Glovertown have brought our provincial Craft Brewery Count up to one dozen.

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    Food & Drink November 13, 2018 November 13, 2018

    Cheers Again, Fogo: A Delicious Beer Crafted to Honour Fogo is Back on the Shelves

    The recipe includes 3 ingredients foraged in fogo: partridgeberries, birch bark, and sea salt. The malts made to brew the beer were smoked with myrrh collected from Newfoundland pine, spruce, and fir.

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    QV Brewery Jeremy Charles
    Food & Drink November 8, 2018 November 7, 2018

    Jeremy Charles & QV Brewery Partner Up For Bogs and Barrens Beer Series

    “The goal is for our collaborator and our head brewer to create beer that would only be made in Newfoundland.”

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    News November 6, 2018 November 5, 2018

    Too Good to Be True: The Local Fake News Story That Was Cited by US Intelligence

    Snopes managed to track the potential origins of the fake news story back to a cartoon from 1931.

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    Marion
    The Arts October 26, 2018 October 28, 2018

    First Listen: “Ilia” Off Marion, By Jenina MacGillivray

    MacGillivray will launch Marion November 3rd at The Ship.

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    Female Entrepreneur
    News October 24, 2018 October 28, 2018

    Our Entrepreneurs Are Going Boom as Our Economy Is Going Bust

    The number of female entrepreneurs in NL has tripled in 10 years.

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    Newfoundland cuisine
    Food & Drink October 22, 2018 October 22, 2018

    5 Things You Didn’t Know about Traditional Newfoundland Cuisine

    What we call cod tongues are actually a gelatinous bit of flesh from the fish’s throat

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    Toutons
    Food & Drink October 15, 2018 October 14, 2018

    “World’s First Food Atlas” Has 8 NL Dishes in It

    New Website Connects Travelers to Local Eats Worldwide

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    Food & Drink October 12, 2018 October 12, 2018

    Happy World Egg Day: Here Are 5 Fun Facts about Eggs You Maybe Didn’t Know

    The difference between brown and white, how to poach one properly, and more.

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    News October 9, 2018 October 9, 2018

    Halloween’s Big Highlight: Pumpkin Fest 2018

    The peppers used in the pepper eating contest are 100 times hotter than jalapenos.

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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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