Simple Plan do not only help people with their songs, but for 6 years now they have helped various organizations and thousands of people by establishing the Simple Plan Foudation, which helps to raise funds to support charitable organisations who’s goal is to help mainly troubled young people.

In the February issue of the Alternative Press magazine, (thanks SPB for the scan) you can find a whole article written by Chuck Comeau himself about the Simple Plan Foundation and what exactly it means to the members of Simple Plan, how it’s been established and what it has achieved in the past 6 years. I definitely recommend reading it. You can find the whole article here.

If you’re hockey fans, here is some exciting Simple Plan-related news for you!

As you all know, the guys from Simple Plan are huge ice-hockey fans – some of them play it just for fun, some of them even a bit more “professionally” (such as Chuck on celebrity hockey matches), so it was just a matter of time since the guys would try to connect their name with something hockey related again.

Simple Plan now joined their forces with Pro Hockey Life and Sher-Wood Hockey and together they created a hockey stick with a Simple Plan design.

From February 9th, this hockey stick will be available for purchase online and also in the PHL megastores, while all the raised money from it will go straight to the Simple Plan Foundation.

During their upcoming Canadian tour, the guys from Simple Plan will be stopping by three PHL megastores for special autograph sessions. Check out the dates and times below:

CALGARY: February 13 at 5:30pm at Pro Hockey Life CrossIron Mills Megastore

TORONTO: February 18 at 1:00pm at Pro Hockey Life Vaughan Mills Megastore

Chuck also confirmed to us that this is not the secret project Simple Plan have been talking about lately.

The Canadian Sainte-Justine hospital hosted their 6th annual beneficial triathlon today. According to the server Branchez Vous more than 80 teams attended the event, competing in skating, running and skiing in the Masionneueve Park in Montreal, Canada from 1pm. The latests news say that the event raised $526 637 – and all the raised money will go to support the Sainte-Justine hospital.

Many local personalities attended the event – some of them participating in the triathlon, some as observers only. One of the personalities who came to support this cause was no-one other than our own Sebastien Lefebvre from Simple Plan as the band has been supporting this hospital through their Simple Plan Foundation for many years now.

The whole event was hosted by the actress Julie Du Page, who took a picture with Sebastien earlier today and you can check out it’s full version in SimplePlan.cz’s gallery.

A few days ago I’ve posted a couple of pictures from Seb’s a Chuck’s visit of one of the hospitals in Montreal, which both of them visited on December 23rd in order to bring some holiday cheer to the kids who had to stay there during Christmas. Simple Plan Foundation now released a few more beaufitul pictures from these visits and you can check them out in the gallery.

And speaing of making kids smile, as you know thanks to our yesterday’s report, today after noon, Chuck Comeau visited the Canadian International School of Hong Kong, where he was warmly greeted by local students, to whom he spoke in the school’s forum and even singed tons of autographs. Here are first pictures from Chuck’s visit of this school:

One day before Christmas Eve, that is on December 23rd 2011, Chuck and Sebastien went to three different hospitals in Montreal, Canada to spread a little Christmas joy to its patients: to play basketball with them, to play music instruments and mostly to talk and be with the children. The guys visited Maison Le Phare, St Justine Hospital and Montreal Children’s Hospital – all three institutions are fully supported by Simple Plan Foundation. Chuck commented on this visit by the following series of tweets:

“We had an amazing day visiting and hanging out with kids at St-Justine Hospital, Montreal Children’s Hospital and Maison Le Phare. The kids we met today are so inspiring. So strong and courageous. It’s an eye-opening experience every time. It teaches you to appreciate life. A huge thank you to all of them, their families, the nurses, doctors and volunteers who devote their lives to helping these sick children. With Christmas just around the corner, I hope we all take a second to realize how blessed and lucky we are to have good health and be alive.”

Let’s stop at Maison Le Phare for a while. This center contributes to the wellbeing of children whose lives are threatened by illnesses that require complex treatment. One of the types of therapy used in this institute is the so-called music therapy that Simple Plan and their foundation has been supporting for many years. Today, Maison Le Phare posted a couple of pictures from Chuck’s and Sebastien’s visit which you can now check out also in our gallery.

If you’re a fan of classical music or even if you’re not, these videos are something you definitely cannot miss! As I have announced earlier, yesterday the Canadian TV station Tele-Quebec aired a 120-minutes-long recording of Simple Plan’s show with the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra (OSM), which took place during this year’s Simple Plan Foundation benefit event.

This very unusual collaboration of the classical and pop-rock music is deifnitely worth watching. And according to the producers of this program, the whole concert should be available on DVD very soon!

Below, you can check out selected videos from this recording – the performances of What If, Summer Paradise and This Song Saved My Life. More videos in this beautiful quality can be found here.