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The clocks in Barrie’s schools ticked past the expected release of EQAO scores, but the numbers that shape so many conversations in Ontario education never arrived. Instead, uncertainty settled in like a late-autumn fog, leaving students, parents, and teachers searching for answers. Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) results have long served as the province’s […]
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Darkness crept in when the Rotary Club of Barrie discovered key holiday items missing from their donation drive, but hope returned just as swiftly as the stolen goods themselves. Early December brought an unwelcome surprise to the Rotary Club of Barrie. Essential holiday donations, intended for the city’s most vulnerable, vanished from storage overnight. Spirits
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Sirens echoed along Yonge Street as Barrie’s evening calm shattered—a driver hospitalized, another vanished, and a city left grappling with questions that cut to the bone of community trust. On a busy stretch of Yonge Street, the ordinary rhythm of traffic was interrupted by an event that has become all too familiar for residents: a
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No one ever accused Barrie of lacking festival spirit, but as Kempenfest approaches its next season, the city’s enthusiasm is matched only by unease over its financial footing. Kempenfest, a fixture on Barrie’s waterfront since the mid-1970s, has evolved from a modest arts gathering into an economic and cultural powerhouse. For decades, the festival has
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Under strings of twinkling lights, the Innisfil farmers’ market makes its holiday return, transforming the ordinary into a cheerful celebration of local flavour and festive spirit. The holiday edition of the Innisfil farmers’ market has re-emerged, offering residents and visitors a chance to savour the season and connect with the people behind their favourite goods.
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Political ambitions rarely unfold as neatly as a campaign poster promises, and at Barrie city hall, speculation is running high about mayor Alex Nuttall’s next move as the 2026 municipal election draws closer. Nuttall, who claimed the mayor’s seat four years ago, has so far kept his plans as tightly guarded as a budget draft
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Streetlights flickered on Mill Street just before sunrise, illuminating the quiet only briefly before chaos took its place—a masked figure, a flash of steel, and a local gas station staffer staring down the cold edge of a knife. In the early hours, the routine hum of Angus was pierced by a brazen act at a
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Steel beams catch the afternoon sun on Bayview Drive, where Barrie’s bold gamble on a new YMCA has begun to take shape—a $70 million wager on the city’s future, and a signal that community means more than words. At the heart of this ambitious project is a notion both simple and profound: that a city’s
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Flashing lights painted the facades of Dunlop Street East late into the evening, an unsettling backdrop to the questions now echoing through Barrie’s downtown core. Police responded to reports of a stabbing on Dunlop Street East, a stretch familiar to most Barrie residents. The incident, which unfolded in the heart of the city, quickly drew
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A stray shaft of sunlight warms the old dog’s fur as he dozes by the window, unaware that help is on the way—not from a clinic, but from a van parked quietly outside his Barrie home. Mobile veterinary care is reshaping how families in Barrie and Huntsville address their pets’ final days. The arrival of
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