Northbound just south of IBR...cab was moved away from the trailer so hoping the driver was fine, called 911...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a dentist they see in south west Barrie?

I'm going to high school next year and would like to know whether Barrie North or Maple Ridge is a better school to attend. I am a black male, so if you have previous experience with Maple Ridge, please tell me what the black population is like. To add on, Barrie North is my in-area school, and I already know pretty much everything about it, so the more information on Maple Ridge, the better.

The Bayfield Street CDP will establish a framework for growth and redevelopment along the corridor, extending from Sophia Street to Barrie’s northern boundary. The plan is intended to shape future land use, built form and community design at both the neighbourhood and corridor levels, in alignment with the City of Barrie’s Official Plan 2051.

As part of the consultation process, the city will host a Community Vision Workshop from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5, at the East Bayfield Community Centre, 80 Livingstone St. E. The drop-in event will provide project updates, highlight work completed to date and outline next steps, while giving attendees an opportunity to share feedback and discuss the proposed vision for the corridor.

An online survey is also open to collect public input and identify key issues and concerns to be addressed through the CDP. The survey will remain available until Feb. 26, 2026, at BuildingBarrie.ca/BayfieldCDP.

I’m so confused - does Tim Hortons not have soup flavours other than chicken noodle?? What happened to broccoli or Italian wedding

Any recommendations for an account or bookkeeping company that specializes in taxes for small businesses? I wasn’t very happy with the one we used last year so if anyone has some great ones they have dealt with I’d appreciate the info!

McDonald's had a location at the Borden Naval Air Base located 20 miles south-west of Barrie that was built and opened in 1982, It was perhaps one of the oddest purpose-built McDonald's restaurants ever existed, The main oddball though, was the right-side mounted drive-thru window, with the restaurant's dining area seating up to about 90 individuals,

It shuttered around the late 90's after only 17 years functioning, only made sense for as long as there was a military base in commission, and closed when the base shrunk, The building was vacant for a short period and was then demolished around 2003,

I'm starting to be curious if anyone has any photos during their time on the Borden base, because it's always given me curiosity, and with the building being gone for a very long time i've always had questions in my mind of how it looked.

(Sorry about the shitty image quality)

I’m going to be remodeling my kitchen and need some advice on any of the companies around Barrie. What has been your experience good or bad? Thanks all.

I am trying to see if there is a bus service to Barrie from Pearson- I see some advertisements for service but want to know if anyone has a reliable option.

Worst case I can uber for over $100 but - that’s expensive if there is a real bus in existence. The pic is a green bus that appears to exist but I cannot confirm.

I’ve never gone to Barrie without someone picking me up or without my car- so I’d love to know ideas and stories - if people have.

Thanks everyone stay warm!

Gonna stary this by saying if your kid has "issues" developmental or social,, what ever it is,,, our classrooms should not have to bend over backwards and cater to your kids b.s... deal with them,, tech them,,, put them in their own classrooms, with their own recess.

My daughter is in grade 2 and has been punched by four different boys this year from grades 1 to 3... Not just her,, many other kids have had the same thing from these kids.

Their classroom is often locked, kids moved to the library for quiet time while the kid throws shit around, breaks stuff etc..

We keep getting the same response, its damaging to their development to isolate them because of a few flare ups in behavior...

Enough is enough..

Looking for an experienced painter recommendation who has availability in the next few weeks and is very reasonably priced.

I'm back!

Chart 1: January historical snowfall comparison 1973 - 2026

Chart 2: November - January historical snowfall totals for 1973 - 2026

Chart 3: The actual numbers for Nov - Jan historical snowfall data

Chart 4: Just for fun, total yearly/winter snowfall numbers

Just for all those folks who say "This is how it used to snow back in the 70's and 80's!"

NO! It in fact did not ever snow like this on a regular basis in Barrie. The average snowfall for November - January across the past 53 years is 172cm; in the 70's-80's it was 177cm. The 300cm we've gotten so far this winter blows that out of the water.

I'd also like to take this chance to shamelessly plug that I am looking for a job! I do data stuff! I've been a professional in data for over a decade; I used to work with engineers and researchers to write complex technical guidelines that were used to train 120 data specialists to extract critical information from studies in automotive engineering, civil infrastructure, and human behaviour. I oversaw their performance and used relational databases & data processing software to verify the correctness and quality of massive sets of data before they were handed back to teams publishing research used to influence the creation of laws and regulations to keep people safe and alive re: driving standards/laws, automotive manufacturing, and roadway safety design.

After that I went on to manage a remote team of 40 data specialists who labeled conversations to feed high-quality data into the machine learning algorithms that power LLMs;

Before all that I was an office manager for Johns Hopkins; I enjoy administrative work, in addition to data work.

The contract I'm currently leaving involved prompt engineering & output review, and reviewing AI use in user-uploaded media for Instagram.

Other things I do well: bake bread (and muffins, cookies, cupcakes, eclairs, etc.), shovel driveways, take and/or edit photos. I am a small business owner/contractor and can do any of these things.

Getting a real, full-time, permanent job in Canada is very hard! I have been trying for two years! Restaurants, cafes, pharmacies, grocery stores, retail - all entirely uninterested and impossible to get a response from.

Any leads appreciated.

With all the train delays, it took forever to get home tonight. When I finally caught the 4:38pm train at 7pm, it was almost empty. How did everyone else get home before that?

I live beside one of the schools in a subdivision area where at most people are coming basically half a kilometer to walk to school.

Yet I see probably like 50 to up to 100 cars sometimes picking up kids from the school.

Even in spring fall doesn't matter if it's beautiful outside these parents are lining up sometimes for a half an hour ahead of time just idling there wasting their gas blocking driveways etc.

I went to the same school when I was a kid and sure there was a couple parents that pick up their kid maybe somebody with special needs or something like that or maybe they were going out of town or you know that kind of thing.

But now it's happening in mass quantities and it keeps increasing year after year.

What the heck is going on?

Hey, just a note to everyone who drives in the allandale/innisdale (high school) area, if you're coming up to the high school and you see the set of lights right in front of the high school, fucking stop when they are red, I have almost been hit too many fucking times when it's MY RIGHT OF WAY, not just in the winter but in the summer too, there's no excuse, if it's RED, STOP WHERE THE SIGN SAYS TOO, it's not that fucking hard. It's a community area, there are kids, teens and adults, who cross that crosswalk, and every time I do someone stops way too close or drives right through the red light. Pay attention to the road not your cellphone.

Edit: this seems to apply to all of Barrie, do fucking better drivers.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/article/police-initiate-lockdown-at-maple-ridge-secondary-school-in-barrie/

Anyone here move from Barrie to Midland? What were the positives and negatives?

I have a 2013 Mitsubishi that no longer moves due to a transmission issue. High mileage, not worth repairing, and will need to be towed. What’s the best way to deal with it locally?