Seymour Streets

Just after 11 a.m. on a quiet Friday in Innisfil, the sound of metal meeting metal broke the ordinary cadence at Line 7 and Yonge Street. Within moments, a seemingly routine traffic mishap turned into a mystery now gripping a community. Police say the sequence began when the driver of a silver Ram pickup truck […]

To the parent gripping the steering wheel outside Sandhills Public School, the click of a speed enforcement camera is more than a nuisance—it’s a warning, a line drawn across the asphalt by Waterloo Region’s new approach to school zone safety. Since February, 17 automated cameras have quietly chronicled the habits of Waterloo Region’s drivers, turning

Smoke curled above the fenced-off site where Barrie’s history of hardship met fresh uncertainty, as emergency crews tackled an early morning blaze that left more questions than answers. Shortly before dawn on September 4, a fire erupted at the former encampment stretching along John, Victoria, and Anne streets in Barrie. Firefighters arrived in force—three trucks

Tuesday morning, a hush fell abruptly over downtown Barrie as the familiar bustle of the public library was replaced by the unlikely sight of a swift evacuation. A gas leak, invisible yet urgent, forced the closure of one of the city’s busiest community spaces and sent ripples through the heart of the neighbourhood. Shortly after

The discovery of two men’s remains in separate Ontario locations triggered an investigation that would expose the dark undercurrents in Barrie’s encampment community. What began with concern for two missing men quickly escalated. In February, the family of William (Blake) Robinson, 45, reported him missing. When David Cheesequay, 41, vanished in July, alarm spread among

On an ordinary Wednesday, the County of Simcoe quietly set something extraordinary in motion: a resident ambassador program, fuelled by Ontario government funding, now promises to reshape life inside the region’s senior villages. The County secured $24,410 from the Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility, courtesy of the province’s Seniors Community Grant. The grant, designed to

Fewer things unsettle a neighbourhood like discovering its lifeline to the outside world has been ransacked. In Barrie’s southwest, a string of overnight thefts from community mailboxes has rattled nerves and left residents questioning the security of their most basic communication. On August 26, 2025, Barrie police began investigating reports of multiple mailboxes damaged and