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At 12:45 a.m., the pulse of Bayfield Street was interrupted by a shuddering collision beneath the Highway 400 overpass, setting off a chain of events that would freeze traffic and fray nerves for hours. The stillness of early Saturday morning in Barrie fractured when a motorbike and a truck collided at the city’s busy north

On a Monday afternoon in Barrie, the sound of screeching tyres and a shattering collision on Tiffin Street shattered the routine, sending a ripple of adrenaline through everyone in earshot. Within heartbeats, a scene that could have spiralled into anonymous chaos became something else entirely: a public lesson in the power of witness intervention during

The grainy hum of a security camera doesn’t usually make headlines, but in New Tecumseth, it became the unlikely witness to a story that unfolded not once, but twice in the space of three days. Two thefts, one familiar suspect, and a local liquor store left asking hard questions about its vulnerability—these are the elements

Seven point one million dollars—that’s the shortfall staring down Orillia’s Catholic school board, and the pressure is more than just numbers on a page. This isn’t the first time Canada’s education sector has faced belt-tightening, but the current deficit has driven Orillia’s Catholic trustees to a crossroads. The board now finds itself intentionally running a