Courtesy Barrie360.com and Canadian Press By Kelly Geraldine Malone, March 14, 2025 Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told her G7 counterparts Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threats against Canada are not a joke as Trump continues to upend global trade. “I think many of my colleagues coming here thought that this issue was still a…
1) (Updated) Carney says his government starts in a moment of crisis in Canada-U.S. relations Courtesy Barrie360.com and Canadian Press By Sarah Ritchie and Catherine Morrison, March 14, 2025 Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister in a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Friday morning, along with a leaner Liberal cabinet that he said…
Innovators & Entrepreneurs Foundation We’re getting so close to relaunching officially, but I’m so excited that I decided to give you a sneak peek at an exciting development for IEF. On March 27th, we’re launching our new flagship IEF Scholarship Program, making high-impact entrepreneurial education accessible to under-represented founders across Canada. This program will be…
Would anyone like to be Nominated? Nominations close March 21, 2025 It’s your last chance to nominate a game-changing woman entrepreneur. There is just one week left to submit your nominations for the 2025 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards! This year, we continue to shine a spotlight on the women who have stepped up to the plate. Every game-changer has their big…
Courtesy Barrie360.com and Canadian Press By Nono Shen, March 12, 2025 Canadian and other researchers have confirmed Saturn as the solar system’s undisputed “moon king,” after discovering 128 more moons circling the ringed planet. The discovery by a team, including current and former University of British Columbia astronomers, brings Saturn’s total to 274, almost twice as…
Courtesy Barrie 360.com and Canadian Press By Hannah Alberga, March 12, 2025 While cervical cancer screening is a routine part of health care for Canadians, many fall through the cracks. Robby Mukonjero, a 63-year-old who moved to Canada from Kenya in 2023, had never been screened for cervical cancer until she took part in a HPV self-sampling…
[risk to children (ditches/pooling)/cars: hydroplaning with heavy rain forecasted on Sunday] Courtesy Barrie360.com and News Release By Barrie Police Service March 12, 2025 The cold weather of the past couple days will soon be replaced by a period of much milder and seasonal weather. With the increase in temperature, much of the snow that fell in January…
Courtesy Barrie360.com and The Associated Press By Todd Richmond, March 12, 2025 This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the broken mast from The Western Reserve, a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940 off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. (Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society via AP) Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime…
Courtesy Barrie360.com and Canadian Press By Tara Deschamps, March 10, 2025 Retail and insolvency experts expect Hudson’s Bay will close some of its stores as it restructures through creditor protection. While the department store chain dating back to 1670 hasn’t announced plans to shutter locations, Insolvency Insider newsletter editor Dina Kovacevic says it’s not unusual for retailers…
Courtesy Barrie360.com and The Associated Press By Michelle Chapman, March 10, 2025 Hours after a series of outages Monday that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a “massive cyberattack.” “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk…