The achievements of rock ‘n’ roll heavyweights, The Trews, are many and mighty, highlighted by multiple radio hits, drawn from seven critically acclaimed studio albums plus several EPs, a pair of live records, and a retrospective.
Comprised of lead vocalist/guitarist Colin MacDonald, lead guitarist John-Angus MacDonald, bassist Jack Syperek, drummer Theo McKibbon, and keyboardist Jeff Heisholt, The Trews have been one of Canada’s most successful rock bands of the past decade, earning 19 Top 10 Rock radio singles (including two #1’s) and multiple Gold and Platinum certified albums.
The band has also received multiple East Coast Music Awards, a CIMA Road Gold Award, an Independent Music Award (US) in 2009 for Best Rock / Metal Song, and numerous JUNO Award nominations. The Trews have played thousands of shows worldwide, on their own as well as supporting the Rolling Stones, KISS, Robert Plant, Guns ‘n Roses, Aerosmith, Weezer, Mumford and Sons, Bruce Springsteen, Switchfoot and more.
The Trews introduced their magnetic and massive sound on their 2003 full-length debut album, House Of Ill Fame. Drawing on rock, pop, punk, and metal, the band took over Canadian Radio with “Not Ready to Go.” Twenty years and a Canadian Platinum certification later, the songs still pack their original punch.
This platform enhances transparency and accessibility of critical data related to the ELCC sector across Simcoe County. It offers data on licensed child care, EarlyON/ON y va child and family programs, child care expansion through the Canada Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program, and early childhood development through the Early Development Instrument (EDI). By aggregating and presenting these data in a user-friendly format, the County aims to address evolving community needs, streamline planning efforts, and deepen understanding of ELCC services.
Key Features
Licensed child care system section provides data on operating capacity and vacancies, allowing users to analyze data by centre type, auspice, and municipality.
EarlyON/ON y va child and family centres information includes data on the number of children served from 2022 to the present, including both head office and satellite programs.
CWELCC Directed Growth section highlights the expansion of child care spaces across Simcoe County and its member municipalities, illustrating growth patterns in both licensed centre-based and home-based care.
Early Development Instrument (EDI) offers insights into early childhood developmental milestones based on the last two cycles of data collection.
This tool offers a valuable perspective on the growth and demand for early learning and child care services in Simcoe County.
About open.simcoe.ca In October 2023, the County introduced open.simcoe.ca, an online data portal that helps the County of Simcoe and its partners build up our communities and inform strategies that support social services by tracking real-time data and other trends across the region. This new tool adds to the offerings available on this site, which already includes homelessness and shelter data, affordable housing data, and a census tool.
The Children Services Power BI Dashboard is the latest in a series of resources available to the public, municipalities, and businesses, as part of the County’s new data portal, open.simcoe.ca.
About the County of Simcoe The County of Simcoe is composed of sixteen member municipalities and provides crucial public services to County residents in addition to providing paramedic and social services to the separated cities of Barrie and Orillia. Visit our website at simcoe.ca.
Horst retired with 13 World Cup event wins, with his final win coming on home soil in Thunder Bay, ON.
He consistently ranked among the top three in the world throughout his career, raising the profile of ski jumping in Canada. He was the first, and remains the singular ski jumping athlete inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.
Horst Bulau was awarded the Order of Sport and inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.
(MIDLAND, ON) Two individuals are facing charges, one for weapons and one for impaired driving, as a result of a driving complaint received from a member of the public in Midland last evening.
On December 10, 2024 at about 6:30 p.m., members of the Southern Georgian Bay detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police(OPP) received a report of a vehicle crossing the centre line and driving erratically. A description and licence plate of the suspect vehicle was provided and officers began searching the area where it was last seen. Officers located the vehicle in a shopping centre parking lot on Highway 12 in the Town of Midland.
Officers approached the vehicle and noticed that the driver was interacting with an driver of another vehicle, parked next to each other. Officers spoke with individual in the vehicle suspected of driving erratically. It was learned that the driver was wanted on an warrant therefore they were placed under arrest. During the arrest procedure, it was noticed that the driver was displaying signs of impairment and drug paraphernalia was located inside the vehicle. They were also arrested for impaired operation and were transported to detachment for a Drug Recognition Evaluation.
While speaking with the the driver of the first vehicle, officers’ attention was drawn to the driver in the adjacent vehicle. Officers observed open cannabis packaging in clear view and smelled the odour of fresh cannabis. The driver was identified and was also wanted on a warrant therefore they were placed under arrest. During a search of the vehicle, police located an axe, a baton and a quantity of ammunition within reach of the driver. During a further search of the vehicle, a modified shotgun was located and seized.
As a result of this investigation, Bailey CROSSMAN, 25 years of Dunchurch, ON, faces the following charges contrary to the Criminal Code and Cannabis Control Act:
Possession of Prohibited or Restricted Firearm with Ammunition
Possession of an Unauthorized Firearm
Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose
Occupant of Motor Vehicle Knowing there was a Firearm
Have Care or Control of a Motor Vehicle with Cannabis in Open Original Packaging
Have Care or Control of a Motor Vehicle with Cannabis Readily Available
The accused was held for a bail hearing before the Ontario Court of Justice on December 11, 2024.
Also facing the following charge contrary to the Criminal Code is, Breeze JANTZI, 29 years of Mactier, ON:
Operation While Impaired by Drug
The accused party was released to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice on January 2, 2025. When charged with impaired driving, the driver’s licence of the accused is suspended for 90 days and the vehicle they were operating is impounded 7 days.
If you have any information about crime in our community, please contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit your information online at www.crimestopperssdm.com. Crime Stoppers does not subscribe to call display, and you will remain anonymous. You will not testify in court and your information may lead to a cash reward of up to $2,000.
The Town of The Blue Mountains would like to advise the public of an emergency temporary water outage. The Water Department is repairing the watermain on Tyrol Avenue. Properties in Swiss Meadows will temporarily be without water or will experience low water pressure today – Wednesday, December 11, 2024 – during the repairs. It is anticipated that the repairs will be completed today.
Imagine knowing the world is choked with plastic pollution and getting overwrought because you can’t figure out how to drink liquid with a cardboard or reusable straw, or no straw at all!
Plastic is polluting land, water and air, killing birds and aquatic life and causing human health problems. We create about 52 million tonnes of plastic pollution every year (not including what’s recycled or sent to landfills and incinerators). Total production is about 460 million tonnes annually. If we continue at current rates, that will triple by 2050 and outweigh all the fish in the sea.
Because plastic is a fossil fuel byproduct, researchers also estimate that by 2050, the plastics industry will consume 20 per cent of total oil production and 15 per cent of the world’s annual carbon budget.
It’s so ubiquitous that microplastics are now in breast milk and human tissues, including brains, hearts and testicles. Plastic particles have been found in the remotest parts of the planet, and from ocean depths to mountaintops. Massive plastic waste patches swirl in ocean gyres. We’re plasticizing the biosphere and ourselves.
About 40 per cent of all plastic produced is disposable, single-use. If you don’t think plastic straws, cutlery and bags are a problem (a small but easily resolvable one), remember these items are rarely recycled and end up in the environment — in waterways, the ocean, land and air. Plastic never biodegrades; it just keeps breaking down into smaller particles. It can then enter everything from marine life to people’s bodies. Recycling is only a small part of the solution; it’s also critical to drastically reduce plastic production and use.
It’s why, after two years of talks, the international community met last month in Busan, South Korea, for what were supposed to be the fifth and final negotiations on an “international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.”
Thanks to the 220 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists (outnumbering national and scientific delegations) and governments of oil-producing nations including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia who attended, the talks failed. References to Indigenous and human rights were scrubbed from the final draft text and fossil fuel industry lobbyists blocked attempts to limit production.
Follow-up talks are scheduled for 2025, but industry and its government supporters aren’t budging. Producing plastic is another massive fossil fuel industry profit-generator as the world transitions away from polluting, climate-altering oil, gas and coal.
Oil companies have long lied about the impacts of burning their fuels. They also lie about the plastic they produce. The treaty talks were no exception. This fossil fuel byproduct creates greenhouse gas emissions and pollution throughout its long life cycle.
“For decades, ExxonMobil has been deceiving the public to convince us that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and pollution crisis when they clearly knew this wasn’t possible,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said. “ExxonMobil lied to further its record-breaking profits at the expense of our planet and possibly jeopardizing our health.”
Plastic is convenient because it’s lightweight, durable, inexpensive, easily shaped and coloured and can be used to store many materials, from water to chemicals. But we’ve managed without it for most of human history. The most commonly used plastic products have only been around for about 75 years, and North American grocery stores didn’t start offering plastic bags until the late 1970s — and we now have better alternatives.
One study found circular economy principles could help resolve the issue by eliminating all problematic and unnecessary plastic items, innovating to ensure plastics are reusable, recyclable or compostable and circulating all plastic items to keep them in the economy and out of the environment.
Letting the fossil fuel industry control all aspects of our economies and lives for the sake of its obscene profits is suicidal. Plastic pollution is unnecessary and must be halted now.
We can all cut down on plastic use in our own lives, but real change must come from the top.
David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington.
(MIDLAND,ON)- Investigators from the Southern Georgian Bay OPP Detachment are seeking assistance from the public in their investigation of a break and enter with mischief to property likely in excess of $10,000.
The OPP Communication Centre received an initial complaint on November 22, 2024 12, from a staff member of the Mountainview Mall, Midland reporting an unlawful entry into the mall that occurred between 11:30 a.m. November 21, 2024 and 10:00 a.m. November 22, 2024. Persons unknown once inside emptied 15 fire extinguishers and spray painted a considerable amount of graffiti on the interior walls of the mall.
Mall security cameras captured images of the two unknown individuals and investigators are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying them. (See attached image)
Suspects are described as follows-
White female teenage years, wearing black sweat top, black flipflops with white socks, grey backpack, grey sweat pants, long dark hair with shades on top of her head.
White male, teenage years, wearing a black zipped up hooded sweat shirt, red track pants, black running shoes and no facial hair.
Anyone who may have information or surveillance footage about this property crime (OPP Incident # E241551868) is asked to contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122, [email protected] or by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or submit your anonymous information online at https://ontariocrimestoppers.ca/submit-a-tip/submit-a-tip. You can follow Crime Stoppers of Simcoe Dufferin Muskoka www.crimestopperssdm.com on X or Facebook. OPP
Homeowners and businesses should considering signing up for the CAMSafe program. Learn more about the CAMSafe program and to register security cameras please visit https://camsafe.ca/
Collingwood, ON [10 December, 2024] – On behalf of the Town of Collingwood, Mayor Yvonne Hamlin is pleased to announce the 2024 recipients of the Order of Collingwood.
Order of Collingwood
John Miller
Naomi Paterson
Murray Knowles
Hella Sandberg
The Town of Collingwood annually honours those who, through their exemplary volunteer efforts within the community, enrich the social, well-being, natural or cultural environment, or recreational character of the Town, by bestowing recipients with the prestigious award of the Order of Collingwood.
“I invite you all to join Council and me in honouring this year’s recipients at the upcoming Mayor’s Annual New Year’s Levee. This is a proud moment for our community as we celebrate the remarkable contributions of these dedicated volunteers,” says Mayor Yvonne Hamlin.
The official awards will be presented at the Mayor’s Annual New Year’s Levee, which will be held Sunday, January 12, 2025, at The Bear Estate (at Living Water Resort), 300 Balsam Street, in Collingwood. Doors open at 1:30 for a fun and interactive component. The ceremony will begin at 2:00 p.m. All are welcome to come and celebrate the new year and award recipients. Further event details will be released in the coming weeks.
