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Raindrops dotted the bronze shoulders of a young boy frozen in mid-stride, one hand clutching a schoolbook, the other a baseball, as townsfolk pressed close beneath umbrellas and bunting. Port Coquitlam’s heart beat a little louder on this particular afternoon—the day Terry Fox came home, again. The plaza outside the community centre stretched wide, echoing […]

Rubber and metal twisted into silence at Midland’s busiest intersection as sirens split the late afternoon air. On Highway 93, between Hugel Avenue and Yonge Street, chaos gave way to the measured choreography of emergency lights and the steady hands of first responders. Two vehicles collided Saturday afternoon, sending both drivers to hospital and thrusting

At 4:00 a.m., when most of Barrie was tucked in for the night, the city’s quiet broke under the wail of sirens and the roar of engines. What started as a routine police response soon spiralled into a scene more familiar to television crime dramas than a sleepy Ontario neighbourhood. Officers were summoned to a

Just two weeks from now, Barrie’s public transit system will mark a turning point as the new Allandale Transit Terminal opens its doors, quietly ending decades of history at the downtown Maple Avenue terminal. The City of Barrie will unveil its $30 million Allandale hub on September 21, a move set to send ripples through

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

Red heels scuffed the pavement along Barrie’s waterfront as a determined crowd pressed forward, not for style points, but for survival. Each step echoed a promise: no one in this city walks alone. Saturday’s Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event drew a diverse crowd to the city’s shoreline. Men, women, and children laced up

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

Outside the farmers’ market, the crowd gathered in a semicircle, phones half-raised, drawn not by spectacle but by the presence of an alpaca whose gentle eyes seemed to reflect back the small-town heart of Oro-Medonte. Monty arrived on the scene almost by accident, though nothing about his ascent to local fame felt accidental. When the