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    Barrie restaurants, bars brace for most significant alcohol tax jump in 40 years

    Canada's restaurant industry is bracing for the biggest jump in the country's alcohol excise duty in more than 40 years, spurring warnings the tax hike could force some bars and restaurants out of business.

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    One of 7 men charged in Elnaz Hajtamiri case to be released from custody

    One of the seven men charged in connection with the alleged frying pan assault and attempted abduction of Ontario woman Elnaz Hajtamiri weeks before her disappearance will be released from custody.

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    Barrie man at the centre of violent arrest sentenced for unrelated charges

    Skyler Kent, the man violently arrested in downtown Barrie in 2021, pleaded guilty to multiple unrelated charges and one for threatening the arresting officer and was sentenced Friday.

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    Mortgage brokers encouraged by renewed interest in home buying and renewals

    Mortgage brokers in Simcoe County are encouraged by the return of buyers to the market and renewals amid concerns of future defaults this year.

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World

  • Pentagon spokesman U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder departs after speaking during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Friday, March 24, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    Iran-backed fighters on alert in east Syria after U.S. strikes

    Iran-backed fighters were on alert in eastern Syria on Saturday, a day after U.S. forces launched retaliatory airstrikes on sites in the war-torn country, opposition activists said. The airstrikes came after a suspected Iran-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans on Thursday.

  • New York Police Department officers of the emergency service unit arrive at the courthouse after powder in an envelope meant for the district attorney's office was found, Friday, March 24, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

    Powder, threat sent to Manhattan DA investigating Trump

    Dana Hyde, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, participates in the Ghana Compact signing ceremony during the US Africa Leaders Summit at the State Department in Washington on Aug. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

    Jet pitched wildly, killing 1, amid cockpit warnings: NTSB

  • Sheriff deputies block a road in the town of Bailey, Colo., where authorities found an abandoned car that belonged to the suspect in a shooting of two administrators at a Denver high school, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

    Teachers press school safety in wake of Denver shooting

    In this file photo, a man crosses a rain-slick street in downtown Kansas City, Mo., as a thunderstorm passed through the area, Jan. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    Mississippi tornadoes kill 23, injure dozens overnight

Canada

  • Asylum seekers try to beat the deadline to cross the border at Roxham Road from New York into Canada Friday March 24, 2023 in Champlain, NY.. The irregular border crossing will be closed permanently tonight at midnight.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

    Asylum seeker deal between U.S. and Canada won't stop drama at border, advocates say

    The new asylum seeker agreement between Canada and the United States will not deter migrants from trying to cross into Canada outside official ports of entry, Quebec immigration advocacy groups say.

  • U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the Canadian Parliament on March 24, 2023, in Ottawa, Canada. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

    As it happened: U.S. President Joe Biden's trip to Canada

    Short-term rental company Airbnb says it will pull listings that don't have a proper permit from the Quebec government after a fire last week in an Old Montreal building used for illegal rentals. Firefighters enter the building as they continue the search for victims Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at the scene of last week’s fire that left one person dead and six people missing in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

    Airbnb to pull listings that don't have proper permits in Quebec

  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said his children no longer use TikTok since the social media app was banned from government-issued devices. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/Michael Dwyer)

    Trudeau says his kids 'no longer access' TikTok after Canadian government ban

    Global travel site Big 7 Travel ranked the most remote and beautiful places in the world, and only one Canadians location—Ivvavik national park—is among them. (Daniel Case/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

    Canada’s Ivvavik National Park among most remote and beautiful places in the world: Big 7 Travel

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Garden flowers and a visitor
By bryce hawkins on June 30, 2014

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