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'Show the love': Bayside Mission needs help providing hot meals

'Show the love': Bayside Mission needs help providing hot meals

Salvation Army Barrie Bayside Mission Centre's goal for February is to have 15,000 meals sponsored by businesses and organizations
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GARDENING: Winter doesn't mean time off

GARDENING: Winter doesn't mean time off

You can start propagating some stem cuttings, and planting slow-germinating seeds this month
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Coldest Night of the Year looks to raise $80K for youth in need

Coldest Night of the Year looks to raise $80K for youth in need

'Housing, especially affordable housing, is still an issue for anyone who is a paycheque away from becoming homeless,' says Lucy Gowers
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COLUMN: Fertility once propelled growth in population

COLUMN: Fertility once propelled growth in population

'Be it your story, your parents' story or your grandparents' story, all these stories document our incredible mosaic,' says history columnist
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Good morning, Barrie!

Good morning, Barrie!

Here's a look at the current local weather and gas prices
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John Tory resigns as Toronto mayor over affair with staff member

John Tory resigns as Toronto mayor over affair with staff member

TORONTO — John Tory, who served two scandal-free terms as mayor of Toronto and had just been re-elected for a third, announced Friday he was resigning from the job due to an "inappropriate relationship" he had with a former member of his staff.
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Judge who released man later charged in cop's death weighed Indigenous background

Judge who released man later charged in cop's death weighed Indigenous background

OPP Const. Greg Pierzchala, a Barrie native, was killed in an ambush near Hagersville, Ont., in late December
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Oro-Medonte rolls up its sleeves in fight with cannabis farms

Oro-Medonte rolls up its sleeves in fight with cannabis farms

Mayor Greenlaw says township hopes to strike balance between residents and cannabis production/processing facility operators
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Monument for their ancestors: Sisters glad history being told

Monument for their ancestors: Sisters glad history being told

Work is underway to put up a plaque at Negro Creek Road to set in stone the history of the Black community that was once there
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Name change for two Barrie ridings supported in federal report

Name change for two Barrie ridings supported in federal report

Federal commission says Barrie-Innisfil should be renamed Barrie South-Innisfil, while Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte becomes Barrie North-Springwater-Oro-Medonte
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