Cobourg police are seeking the public's help in identifying this person, believed to be linked to several vehicle theft incidents in Cobourg over the weekends of October 22 to 24 and November 5 to 8. (Police-supplied photo)
Cobourg police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect linked to multiple vehicle thefts in Cobourg in October and November.
Police received a total of six reports of theft from vehicles around Cobourg over the weekends of October 22 to 24 and November 5 to 8. In all cases, a vehicle window was smashed and personal property was taken from the vehicles.
In addition to these reports, police received multiple reports of theft from unlocked vehicles over the same time period.
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Most recently, police responded to a call from a resident on Munson Street who reported their car window was smashed and a wallet stolen from the vehicle overnight on Saturday (November 6).
Thefts took place on October 22 on Westwood Crescent, October 23 on Fairbanks Road, October 24 on Sutherland Crescent, November 5 on Fraser Crescent, November 6 on Daintry Crescent, and November 7 on Munson Crescent.
Police have obtained home surveillance video footage and are releasing images of a person believed to be linked to several of the incidents.
VIDEO: Vehicle theft suspect (October 24 on Sutherland Crescent in Cobourg)
Anyone who recognizes the suspect, or anyone with video surveillance or dash cam footage of the areas of the incidents, is asked to contact Criminal Investigation Branch Detective Sgt. Linney at 905-372-6821 ext. 2229.
If you prefer to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or visit stopcrimehere.ca.
Things Between Bread, a food truck located in the parking lot of Olympus Burger in downtown Port Hope, is the brainchild of Eric Ashley-Harris, Rikki Mckenzie, and Shayne Traviss. Things Between Bread offers fresh made-to-order sandwiches using locally sourced ingredients. (Photo: April Potter / kawarthaNOW)
Located on the south side of Port Hope’s Olympus Burger, an exciting new sandwich shop called Things Between Bread has popped up.
Co-owner Shayne Traviss is a multi-talented entrepreneur and author who had relocated to Port Hope from Whitby with his spouse Timm David prior to the pandemic. The couple brought their business Timm David Shampoo Company with them, and had been open for a few months before shutting down to abide by provincial lockdown rules.
During this time Shayne met Rikki Mckenzie and Eric Ashley-Harris, and their idea to open a sandwich shop was born.
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“We became good friends, our own little Covid pod,” recalls Shayne. “We got to know each other well. Eric has always wanted to open a European deli and Rikki has always wanted to own his own business. We decided to do something together and started discussing ideas.”
While there are lots of restaurants in Port Hope offering hot meals, the trio realized there aren’t many lunch spots in the area outside of the big franchises. The next step was to find a location — not an easy task with very few commercial vacancies in downtown Port Hope during the summer.
To get things started, Shayne approached his friend, Olympus Burger owner Giorgos Kallonakis, and asked him if he knew of any available spaces to lease. Giorgos had purchased a food truck and, since he didn’t have any plans to use it until the following year, he offered to rent it to the trio.
Olympus Burger owner Giorgos Kallonakis (left) offered to rent his unused food truck to Rikki Mckenzie, Shayne Traviss, and Eric Ashley-Harris (not pictured) for their new food venture. (Photo: April Potter / kawarthaNOW)
“When Giorgos said I could use his food truck, the three of us decided to move forward,” Shayne says. “It’s given us an opportunity to create something incredible and sustainable for ourselves, while offering something of value to our community. We were supposed to open in August, but we’re glad we opened late and missed some of the hotter days. Our next challenge will be what to do with the cold weather coming, so we are still looking for a winter location.”
Having Shayne, Rikki, and Eric rent his food truck has also benefited Giorgos, since the trio had to navigate the challenges of health, safety, and fire requirements, which are more difficult to meet inside of a small space like a food truck.
“It was nice to have someone else going through all of the steps to get the truck up and running with me,” Giorgos says. “Before the guys could open, we had a few small things to do to make it fully operational for their needs. Fortunately, it wasn’t anything major. It’s been great having them here and it’s generated some excitement for this corner of the property.”
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To create seating for the food truck diners, Giorgos upcycled old pallets to build a unique outdoor dining area.
“It was something I saw in Greece,” Giorgos explains. “A friend opened a little cafe by the ocean and upcycling is a bit of a trend right now. Back in June and July we were closed, and I wanted to make some enhancements to the under-utilized side of my property. We added a mural and seating to uplift the south-facing side of the restaurant.”
The mural was painted by Toronto-based artist Sadar (Blaze Wiradharm) who specializes in large-scale graffiti art projects. His work can be found on Instagram @blazeworks.
Olympus Burger owner Giorgos Kallonakis had hired Toronto-based graffiti artist Sadar (Blaze Wiradharm) to paint a mural on the south-facing side of the restaurant, adding some ambience for the Things Between Bread location. (Photo: April Potter / kawarthaNOW)
Shayne credits the success so far of Things Between Bread to a very supportive community, as well as Eric’s attention to detail, Rikki’s rapport with customers, and his own marketing chops.
“We’ve all had a hand in our branding and menu design,” Shayne says. “We developed our menu items together and each contributed a favourite sandwich.”
Shayne says that they’ve chosen partners like Spade and Spoon for their pickles and spreads because they are a local Northumberland business.
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“We wanted to add chips to our menu, so we’ve gone with Ray Woodey’s Craft Chippery out of Waterloo, Ontario,” adds Shayne. “We didn’t want to sell Miss Vickie’s made by Pepsi — we wanted to sell something made here in Ontario in smaller batches.”
Things Between Bread also sells Number E Sparkling Teas (made in Prince Edward County) and hot coffee brewed at Port Hope’s Happenstance Coffee Pub. A pop-up donut maker supplies them with sourdough donuts on the weekend and they feature baked goods from other local vendors on weekends as well.
“Supporting local has always been important to me,” says Shayne. “I want to get as many fresh local ingredients as we need, but it will become difficult to find local produce as winter sets in.”
The Things Between Bread menu features some unique sandwiches made with locally sourced ingredients, including The Chicken with Curry Mayo, with sliced bartlett pear, arugula, and Spade & Spoon pear ginger jam on Happenstance quinoa sourdough bread. (Photo: April Potter / kawarthaNOW)
Standard menu options include a handful of unique sandwiches. The Chicken with Curry Mayo, Shayne’s menu contribution, includes sliced bartlett pear, arugula, and Spade & Spoon pear ginger jam on Happenstance quinoa sourdough bread.
Eric’s choice is the capocollo sandwich, which features fresh tomato, arugula, white balsamic vinegar, and olive oil on Happenstance rosemary, cracked pepper, and maldon salt sourdough bread.
Rikki favours the tuna with honey crisp apple, celery, lemon, and basil on Happenstance quinoa sourdough bread.
“The tuna sandwich — it’s like my childhood, it’s so good,” Rikki says.
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In addition to weekly features, their menu also includes an avocado with boursin sandwich and a Montreal smoked meat sandwich with meat directly from Montreal, cut to order.
Every time Eric finishes making a sandwich, he says it brings him a little bit of joy to admire its final presentation before wrapping it to go.
“I think the fuel or lifeblood that powers what we do is heart and personality,” Eric explains. “When I prepare a sandwich it’s not just a process, it’s attention to small details — how a tomato is sliced adds character. We’ve designed a simple, fresh menu that isn’t complex, but has a degree of complexity without being over the top. It’s about letting the food speak for itself and pairing natural flavours well.”
In addition to weekly features, the Things Between Bread menu also includes a Montreal smoked meat sandwich with meat directly from Montreal, cut to order. (Photo: April Potter / kawarthaNOW)
Shayne believes nurturing the strengths you have leads to success, purpose, and a joyful life.
“When you own your own business, you check your ego and do whatever the business needs,” he says. “You adapt when you need to. When parameters change, I come up with a new plan. We are multifaceted human beings who can do all of the things we want to do and not be defined by any one of them. This is my life, these are the things that I do. I love it and I enjoy it. For me it’s not about making money, it’s about making a difference and a quality product while enjoying myself.”
Rikki moved to Canada with his family at age 13, and Shayne jokes that his British accent charms every food truck guest greeted at their counter.
“It’s weird doing it for yourself, but it’s a good weird,” Rikki says. “I’ve been in the service industry for a long time and it’s a huge difference when it’s your own business — and it’s also a lot more fun.”
To create seating for Things Between Bread diners, Olympus Burger owner Giorgos Kallonakis upcycled old pallets to build a unique outdoor dining area. (Photo: April Potter / kawarthaNOW)
Ultimately, Shayne, Rikki, and Eric want to open an old-fashioned boutique market store full of locally sourced food, where you can also get a fresh made-to-order sandwich.
Rikki and Shayne are also launching second new venture in Port Hope. Sip Mix Social will feature local pop-up events and cocktail service, drawing on Rikki’s background as a bartender and Shayne’s marketing savvy. They’ve already scheduled their first event, a holiday celebration featuring live jazz and a DJ on December 11 at The Port Event Space in downtown Port Hope. You can follow @sipmixsocial on Instagram for updates.
“I always say there is a trio for success,” says Shayne, who has decades of experience working in business development, marketing, and promotions. “First, have a good name and second, a good product. When you’ve got those two, word of mouth will come in as the third element — and creating a buzz is something I’m an expert at.”
Things Between Bread sources ingredients from Northumberland County businesses, such as pickles and spreads from Spade and Spoon (pictured) and bread and coffee from Happenstance Coffee Pub, as well as other southern Ontario businesses including Number E Sparkling Teas in Prince Edward County and Ray Woodey’s Craft Chippery in Waterloo. (Photo: April Potter / kawarthaNOW)
When it comes to competition, Shayne says there is always room for more businesses if they are being true to themselves and create a high-quality product while doing what they love to serve the public.
“We’re right next to a hugely successful restaurant that has perfected what they do best,” Shayne points out. “If we perfect what we do, people will want to try our food. Authenticity is key.”
Shayne believes his partnership with Rikki and Eric is an important ingredient of the recipe for Things Between Bread’s success.
“We’re all a little eccentric, but I think it’s the perfect partnership and we’re the perfect trio,” he says. “We each have uniquely different skills, but together it happens to be all of the skills that we need to do this well. It’s like how you need more than just the bread to make a great sandwich — you need the right things between the bread. We’re the right things between bread.”
Things Between Bread is located at 55 Mill Street South in Port Hope, in the Olympus Burger parking lot. You can follow them on Instagram and Facebook.
Federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole announced the official opposition's shadow cabinet for the 44th Parliament of Canada on November 9, 2021. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of Facebook video)
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole announced the official opposition’s shadow cabinet for the 44th Parliament of Canada on Tuesday (November 9), and all four MPs in the greater Kawarthas region are represented.
The new shadow cabinet replaces the previous one for the 43rd Parliament, which O’Toole formed in September 2020 after the Conservative leadership election.
First-time Peterborough-Kawartha MP Michelle Ferreri has been named shadow minister for tourism, with returning Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale retaining his role as shadow minister for Indigenous services.
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First-time Hastings-Lennox and Addington MP Shelby Kramp-Neuman becomes the shadow minister for seniors, and returning Northumberland-Peterborough South MP Philip Lawrence moves from his previous role as shadow minister for national revenue to become shadow minister for the Federal Economic Development Agency for southern Ontario.
The corresponding ministers in the Liberal government are Edmonton Centre MP Randy Boissonnault (minister of tourism and associate minister of finance), Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Patty Hajdu (minister of Indigenous services), Brampton West MP Kamal Khera (minister of seniors), and Markham-Stouffville MP Helena Jaczek (minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for southern Ontario).
Members of the shadow cabinet, usually referred to as opposition critics, are tasked with holding the government to account and for developing the opposition party’s policy positions in their respective portfolios.
57-year-old Michael Scheib. (Police-supplied photo)
Peterborough police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating missing 57-year-old Michael Scheib.
Scheib was reported as last being in the Ashburnham Drive and Highway 115 area around 6 p.m. on Monday (November 8).
Police and Scheib’s family are concerned for his well-being.
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Scheib is described as an Indigenous male, 5’7” and 200lbs with shoulder-length brown/gray hair and a thick grey beard.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Peterborough Police Service at 705-876-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or online at stopcrimehere.ca.
Jose Miguel Hernandez is the second of six Nogojiwanong-Peterborough artists who are each participating in a five-week residency in Trent Radio's innovative "Your Radio is Their Stage" project, where artists receive mentorship, equipment, training, and support to reimagine their art as a work for broadcast radio. (Photo courtesy of Jose Miguel Hernandez)
For Jose Miguel Hernandez, becoming an artist wasn’t a choice but a calling. While growing up in Venezuela, Hernandez practised art as a hobby and took art classes. But it wasn’t until one day during his last year of university that Hernandez felt a calling to collect his old art supplies and paint something.
kawarthaNOW has published profiles of each of the participating artists in Trent Radio’s “Your Radio Is Their Stage”. You can also read about textile artist Melanie McCall, artist JoEllen Brydon, artist Gillian Turnham, and community artist John Marris.
As he worked on his painting that day, he experienced for the first time a passion that would eventually lead him to where he is today: a full-time artist living in Nogojiwanong-Peterborough who will translate the story of his journey as an immigrant and an artist into sound during his artistic residency with Trent Radio’s “Your Radio is Their Stage” project.
Hernandez moved from Venezuela to Canada in 2014 to escape a difficult political and economic climate. According to Hernandez, he could not be gay freely in Venezuela and was looking to escape when family members in Canada offered him a place to stay until he got settled.
Jose Miguel Hernandez creates oil paintings, charcoal and pencil drawings, and mural design and paintings. He describes his oil painting style as “isolated realism”, focusing on simple images and feelings while leaving out extraneous details around the subject matter. (Photo courtesy Jose Miguel Hernandez)
“I worked in industrial design for three years after I graduated and then I came to Canada, and it was life changing,” explains Hernandez. “The freedom here to be whoever you want to be — that’s the biggest blessing.”
After he first arrived in Canada, Hernandez was unable to work while awaiting his work visa. During this period of significant transition, he turned to art to fill his time and to express his emotions.
“I was able to find myself,” Hernandez recalls. “My immigration process was super hard, so I dealt with my emotions through art, and that’s how I became who I am today as an artist.”
After receiving his work visa, Hernandez continued to practice his art while working at other jobs. But when the pandemic hit in March 2020, he lost all of his sources of income.
“I spent seven months without a job and not knowing what to do,” Hernandez says. “It felt like, ‘What am I doing with my life?'”
These circumstances finally pushed Hernandez to become a full-time working artist in September 2020. He is now a member of the board of directors for the Art School of Peterborough, where he also teaches.
Growing up in Venezuela, Jose Miguel Hernandez took seven years of art classes and worked in industrial design before immigrating to Canada in 2014. Now, in addition to his own artistic practice, Hernandez teaches art classes with the Art School of Peterborough. (Photo: Jose Miguel Hernandez)
As a visual artist, Hernandez is not married to one genre, creating oil paintings, charcoal and pencil drawings, and mural design and paintings.
Hernandez’s oil paintings are all informed by emotions and the events that changed his life and brought him to where he is today. He describes his style as “isolated realism”, focusing on simple images and feelings while leaving out extraneous details around the subject matter.
“You cannot label me as a landscape painter or a still-life painter,” Hernandez explains. “I paint things that strike an emotion and bring me to a moment, or something that left a fingerprint on me. So I have to deal with it and express what I went through. My paintings are really emotional and super personal.”
Hernandez also designs and paints murals and public installations for organizations in Peterborough and the surrounding area.
“Whether I do a painting, drawing, or a mural, my art is an extension of who I am, my sensitivity, and the way I see the world,” says Hernandez.
During his five-week residency with Trent Radio’s “Your Radio Is Their Stage” project, Hernandez is receiving mentorship, equipment, and training to support him in translating his virtual artistry into the medium of sound.
During his five-week residency with Trent Radio’s “Your Radio Is Their Stage” project, Jose Miguel Hernandez is receiving mentorship, equipment, and training to support him in translating his virtual artistry into the medium of sound. (Photo: Jose Miguel Hernandez)
This is his first time experimenting with audio, and Hernandez says he expects to continue using it after the residency is completed.
According to Hernandez, his idea for Trent Radio’s “Your Radio is Their Stage” project has evolved throughout the residency. Initially, he wanted to translate his paintings into sounds, expressing all of the emotions and messages in his work in an auditory way.
However, that original idea has now morphed into something else: he plans to use sound to tell the story of how he came to Canada and the struggles he has overcome.
Some of Jose Miguel Hernandez’s work, including these mini-paintings, was displayed in a joint exhibit with Victoria Wallace and Marcia Watt during the First Friday Peterborough art crawl on November 5, 2021. (kawarthaNOW screenshot from Jose Miguel Hernandez Instagram video)
“It’s merging into something a little bit more personal than just my work,” Hernandez says. “It’s going to be kind of interesting, somehow reflecting where I grew up and how I grew up, and what it meant to move to Canada, and why my paintings are how they are.”
To learn more about Hernandez’s artist practices, visit his website at www.autorinoart.com, or follow him on Instagram @autorino88jm.
Hernandez’s completed work will be broadcast at the end of his residency, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 14th on Trent Radio at 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough, 287 on Cogeco Cable, and online at www.trentradio.ca.
Trent Radio’s “Your Radio Is Their Stage” artist residency project runs until March 2022, with Hernandez’s residency concluding on November 14.
Textile artist Melanie McCall was the first to complete her residency on October 17, with the remaining four artist residencies JoEllen Brydon (folkloric art and installation), Justin Million (poetry), Gillian Turnham (Islamic art), and John Marris (community arts). The re-imagined work of all six participating artists will also be broadcast next April.
“Your Radio Is Their Stage” is made possible by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the only organization mandated to support campus and community radio stations in Canada financially.
This story was created in partnership with Trent Radio, a producer-oriented broadcast facility that started as a Trent University student club in 1968. Sponsored and designed by students from Trent University, Trent Radio incorporated as a registered charity in 1978. Trent Radio currently holds a Community Broadcast License, and is a resource that is shared with the Nogojiwanong-Peterborough community.
A pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle early Monday evening (November 8) in Little Britain, around 14 kilometres southwest of Lindsay, has died in hospital.
At around 6:10 p.m. on Monday, Kawartha Lakes OPP and emergency services responded to a report of a vehicle colliding with a pedestrian on Little Britain Road.
The pedestrian was transported to a Toronto-area hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he later died.
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Police have identified the victim as 68-year-old Hugh Manley of Fenelon Township.
Little Britain Road was closed from Eldon Road to Valentia Road for several hours while police documented the scene.
Police are continuing to investigate the collision. Anyone who witnessed the collision or has dash cam footage is asked to contact the City of Kawartha Lakes OPP at 1-888-310-1122.
A 44-year-old motorcyclist is dead following a collision on Highway 7 just west of Lindsay late Monday afternoon (November 8).
Just after 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Kawartha Lakes OPP and emergency services responded to a collision between a motorcycle and an SUV on Highway 7 at Colborne Street.
The driver of the motorcycle was transported to hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
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Police have identified the victim as 44-year-old Aaron Finn of Oakwood.
Highway 7 was closed between Elm Tree Road and Kent Street for several hours while police documented the scene.
Police are continuing to investigate the incident. Anyone who witnessed the collision or has dash cam footage is asked to contact the City of Kawartha Lakes OPP at 1-888-310-1122.
Owen Stahn, Griffin Clark, and Kate Suhr performing original music by Beau Dixon and David Tough for 4th Line Theatre's 2019 production of Beau Dixon's "Bloom: A Rock 'n' Roll Fable" at the Winslow Farm in Millbrook. A cast recording of all eight of the production's original songs is now available, along with a short documentary film about the making of the cast recording. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
4th Line Theatre has released a digital cast recording, along with a “making of” short documentary, of the eight original songs from its 2019 hit production of Beau Dixon’s Bloom: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fable.
The songs, written by Dixon and David Tough, were performed during the sold-out production — one of the most successful shows ever at the Winslow Farm in Millbrook.
“We had so many people ask to hear more of the music,” explains Kim Blackwell, managing artistic director of 4th Line Theatre, in a media release. “Now we have fulfilled that request, with this recording of all of the songs from the show.”
Bloom: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fable followed the lives of two small-town best friends Neph Burstill and Eli Tanner (Owen Stahn and Griffin Clark) from Assumption, Ontario, who share a lifelong love affair with rock ‘n’ roll music and eventually form a band called The Spruce Street Ramblers with singer-songwriter Tess Wilson (Kate Suhr).
The cast and crew of “Bloom: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fable” during a standing ovation after the performance of “Bloom: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fable” at 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook on opening night on July 4, 2019. Director Kim Blackwell and playwright Beau Dixon are holding up bouquets of flowers they were gifted in recognition of the play’s success. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW.com)
“The recordings on this album are about a time and place in Canadian rock ‘n’ roll history,” says Dixon, who produced the album. “The songs also chronicle my own career as a touring musician and songwriter.”
The eight original songs, performed in their entirety, included in the cast recording are:
Flower Man (David Tough)
Groovy Day (Beau Dixon)
Your Love Will Carry Me (Beau Dixon)
The Otonabee Rambler (Beau Dixon)
Blue Jean Heather (Beau Dixon)
Watch Your Step (Beau Dixon / David Tough)
Hangin’ On (Beau Dixon / David Tough)
Royal Tavern (David Tough)
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The cast recording features several performers who appeared in the original production, including Griffin Clark, Justin Hiscox, Mark Hiscox, Jack Nicholsen, Sebastian Sage, Shelley Simester, Owen Stahn, and Kate Suhr, as well as Dixon and musicians Steáfán Hannigan, James McKenty, and Saskia Tomkins.
Musical direction was by Justin Hiscox and the songs were engineered and mixed by James McKenty, with additional engineering by Lil Thomas at The Sonic Temple in Halifax, Tim Foy at The Nelson Room in Toronto, and Steáfán Hannigan at Oisin Studio in Baltimore.
4th Line Theatre has also released a short documentary, directed and edited by Peterborough filmmaker Michael Hurcomb, about the making of the cast recording.
The 12-minute video features segments of the songs recorded in the Erica Cherney Theatre at Showplace Performance Centre, Gores Landing Community Hall, and James McKenty’s recording studio, along with highlights of the recording process.
VIDEO: The Making of the Cast Recording of “Bloom: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fable”
The cast recording project was funded through the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Resilient Communities Fund, the Government of Ontario’s Reconnect Festival and Event Program, and the Peterborough Arts Alive Fund administered by the Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough, with sponsorship from Exit Realty Liftlock and the Pyle Group Wealth Management, CIBC Wood Gundy.
Two men have drowned after their canoe capsized on Moose Lake in Haliburton County on Sunday morning (November 7).
Haliburton Highlands OPP responded to a report at around 10:27 a.m. on Sunday that a canoe had capsized. with three men going into the water.
While one of the men was able to swim safely to shore, the other two men did not.
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Police have since confirmed the two men’s deaths, but are not releasing their identities until next of kin have been notified.
Haliburton Highlands OPP are continuing to investigate the incident and are being assisted by the Underwater Search and Recovery Unit and Technical Collision Reconstruction investigators.
Investigators are asking anyone with information to call Haliburton OPP at 1-888-310-1122.
Peterborough native Greg Dempsey has won the nomination as Peterborough-Kawartha Liberal candidate in the next provincial election. (Photo courtesy of Greg Dempsey)
Greg Dempsey will be the Liberal candidate for Peterborough-Kawartha in the next provincial election, to be held no later than June 2, 2022.
Dempsey won the nomination after an online vote held Saturday (November 6), beating out his competitor Dane Bland.
“Greg is truly committed to improving life for those in Peterborough-Kawartha and brings a lifetime of experience advocating on behalf of Canadians to the table,” says Ontario Liberal Party leader Steven Del Duca in a media release. “By electing Greg Dempsey as their MPP, families in Peterborough-Kawartha will have a strong fighter on their side.”
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Dempsey, who was born and raised in Peterborough and graduated from Adam Scott CVI in 1999, holds a BA in economics and a BSc in computer science from Bishop’s University in Quebec, a law degree from the University of Victoria, a certificate in International Indigenous Studies from Columbia University in New York, and a cum laude LLM in International Human Rights Law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Since 2008, Dempsey served in the Canadian Foreign Service, representing Canada at the UN in New York, at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, and in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dempsey has also supported the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special advisor on LGBTQ2S+ issues.
He returned to Peterborough in 2019 to serve as communications director on former Peterborough-Kawartha MP Maryam Monsef’s 2019 re-election campaign. Since 2020, he has worked with former Minister Ralph Goodale on Canada’s response to the downing of flight PS752 in Iran.
Greg Dempsey speaking in the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber at the United Nations Conference Building in New York City. (Photo: Greg Dempsey / Twitter)
“From my roots in Peterborough, I’ve built a career bringing people together,” Dempsey says. “I’m committed to electing a better, more caring provincial government — one that will take decisive action on the climate crisis, support the under-resourced, partner with Indigenous peoples, and restore our relationship with healthcare and education workers.”
Dempsey will be vying against PC incumbent Dave Smith in the next provincial election. The Ontario NDP have not yet announced their nomination candidates for the Peterborough-Kawartha riding.
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