Seymour Streets

Most crime stories don’t begin with a pensioner napping in a running car, but Barrie’s latest episode proved that assumptions have a way of being upended when least expected. On the evening of August 18, Barrie police officers answered a call that would quickly turn routine into remarkable. In a quiet Yonge Street parking lot, […]

On a summer afternoon meant for laughter and lake breezes, tragedy struck near Couture Beach, east of Windsor, leaving a community in mourning and raising urgent questions about water safety across Ontario. The serenity of Lake St. Clair fractured on Thursday when a single personal watercraft, carrying four teenage girls, collided in waters near the

On a humid August afternoon, Barrie’s streets bristled with tension as the story of two lost lives and a city’s search for justice unfolded in the shadow of an encampment at Anne, John and Victoria Streets. The city’s focus narrowed to Robert Ladouceur, a 52-year-old known locally as ‘Tattoo Rob’, as he faced a judge

An ordinary walk to school in Orillia now comes with a silent sentry. The city’s new automated speed cameras have begun to reshape familiar streets, promising safety for those who need it most—children, cyclists, and neighbours on foot. On August 13, 2025, Orillia activated three speed enforcement cameras in zones where the stakes are highest.

Before sunrise had fully painted the Barrie sky, a single vehicle lay overturned on the northbound lanes of Highway 400, its quiet wreckage halting more than just commuter traffic. In those early hours, tragedy rewrote the ordinary rhythm of a Wednesday morning, sending a ripple through the city’s heart. Police confirmed a 29-year-old Barrie man

The sound of a music classroom in Barrie fell silent this spring, not from a missed note, but from the shattering news that a teacher had been charged with serious criminal offences involving a student. The headlines travelled fast, but the questions it stirred for Ontario’s education system are deeper and more urgent than any

The morning calm over Georgian Bay was broken on August 8, when Ontario Provincial Police responded to a call that would later spark more questions than answers for a northern Ontario community. Shortly after 8 a.m., police were alerted to personal property discovered near the water’s edge, a detail as ordinary as it is ominous

Blue lights flashed in the early hours as Highway 11 northbound sat silent, its usual pulse of transport stilled by the aftermath of a crash no one saw coming. An Ontario Provincial Police cruiser, parked to protect an already fractured scene, became the next casualty. Shortly after 3 a.m. on August 10, an officer stationed

Steel teeth bit into the earth behind Barrie’s food bank Friday morning as a backhoe and a line of city vehicles rolled onto the Anne Street homeless encampment, turning a quiet stretch of John and Victoria into the city’s latest stage for uncertainty. The arrival of heavy machinery at the encampment marked a visible escalation