We launched TheOvercast.ca in January of 2014, with a first print issue on Stands on January 28th, 2014. That doesn’t sound that long ago, until you start pouring over old issues.
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Read MoreTsunamis are meant to happen elsewhere. Out beyond the Atlantic pale and confined to the Pacific ring of fire. Strictly the preserve of myth, rumour, and distant voices. It always had been, until 1929.
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Just because you didn’t learn how to skate when you were a kid doesn’t mean you’re doomed to sit rinkside every winter for the rest of your life.
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Lichens for Colour? Lichens For Food? The Second Installment of Cheap And Healthy Hobbies For Winter Explains Why You Might Want to Know More About Them.
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A mushroom, a pine tree, and some reindeer pee. Not often the start of a great story, but what a mushroom this is.
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Three Things to do the Weekend is a varied sampling of what to be at this weekend
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Bulman wants the event to have all the cozy charm of those totally un-ironic, old-fashioned holiday specials but she’ll also be approaching the show with a stand up comic’s saucy sensibility. “I’ll be asking some far out questions,” she says.
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Three Things to do the weekend is a varied sampling of what to be at this weekend
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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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During the 1850s and ‘60s, mummering became associated with violence, often along religious lines. It came to a head in 1860 when Isaac Mercer was murdered, which led to a ban on mummering.
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Each year Amnesty International releases a small number of cases of individuals and communities around the globe who are enduring human rights abuses. The organization encourages people to write letters advocating for the subjects of the cases.
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