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Roderick Benns grew up in Lindsay's east ward. In the 1990s he won a first-place national newspaper award through the Canadian Community of Newspapers Association in the category 'Reporter Initiative.' He has interviewed former Prime Ministers of Canada, Cabinet Ministers, Senators, and Mayors across Canada and had written op-eds for the country's major newspapers. Roderick is also the author of several books, including one on Basic Income. A father of two, he returned to his hometown in 2017 to start The Lindsay Advocate magazine and has since grown Fireside Publishing House into a multimedia enterprise.
