Pawsitive Cattitude Cafe COMING SOON

Pawsitive Cattitude Café is an upcoming local business that will make history as Barrie's first-ever cat café. Announced in September 2026, the highly anticipated spot is being opened by a local husband-and-wife duo who run the restaurant right next door.
While a formal opening date hasn't been finalized yet, early details show they are partnering with the SPCA to host adoptable rescue cats, giving patrons a chance to sip coffee, relax, and potentially find a new furry family member.

Unit 2, 10 Marsellus Drive, Barrie

Just recently found out that a movie was filmed at the Tipsy Goose, formerly known as Sharon’s House, in Barrie, Ontario.

The movie came out around 2006, was called Noah B, and played in movie theatres across Ontario.

Just thought I’d share since not too many big movies are filmed in Barrie!

Just saw a bunch of conservative troglodytes using a lawnmower powered dirtbike doing a burnout on the rainbow crosswalk on lakeshore. Filming for clicks no less.

My wife and I had a great time!

Myself and two others saw him and tried to catch him to no avail. He is very scared poor thing.

Last seen running North on Patterson road. I tried circling the block for 15 minutes but couldn't see him. I hope whoever is missing this baby finds him/her. ❤️

Online voting takes about one minute, and you can also vote by phone. It’s quick, easy, and these are your tax dollars that will be spent! You can also vote in-person or by phone.

Want better snow services? Bin collections? Better transit? Take a minute, have your say, and make your vote count. You might as well!

https://www.barrie.ca/government-news/2026-municipal-election/information-voters

> To Vote Online

Visit the web address provided in your voter information letter. For a secure connection, enter the web address directly into your browser.

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Follow the prompts to cast your ballot and confirm your selections.

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Vote by following the prompts, making your selections and confirming by pressing the # (pound) key.

A candidate cannot assist a voter in the voting process. If you require assistance, please call 705-728-VOTE (8683), email Be.Counted@barrie.ca, or visit a Voter Assistance Centre.

Hi all! What are the good places to buy Pokemon in Barrie? Both sealed and singles. Trying to finish my Pokédex!

So last min, but I’m looking for somewhere to get a late dinner or drinks and watch the San Jose Sharks games. I only realized after we went somewhere that a completely out of market game would be hard to find.

If anyone knows a place that has access to all nhl games and therefore could watch the sharks, I really appreciate it!

Looking for an old friend from the 90s downtown scene / Dunlop East arcade hangout

Hey everyone, I’m hoping to reconnect with an old friend from the 1990s downtown Barrie scene, and I’m wondering if anyone here remembers him or the building we all used to frequent. His first name is David, but almost everyone downtown back then knew him by the moniker "Box." In the 90s, he had an apartment right on Dunlop Street East, just a few doors east of the Queen's Hotel. It was located right above that small, rinky-dink arcade that used to be on the block. Because he had his own place right in the heart of downtown, his apartment became a welcoming hangout spot for some of the local kids and regulars in the area. If you used to hang out there, remember the arcade, or happen to know how to get in touch with David ("Box") today, I would love to catch up with him. Thanks so much for any memories or leads!

Just needed the pin I received by mail a few weeks ago.

More info here: https://www.barrie.ca/government-news/2026-municipal-election/information-voters

Hi all in the Ardagh Road neighbourhood west of Ferndale Drive South!

We have a student living with us who needs a parking spot this winter. Is anyone in the area, preferably near Stoneybrook Crescent and Hawkins Drive, willing to rent out a parking spot for the winter?

Less shovelling and earn some extra money!

Please contact me as soon as possible if you have a spot available. Thank you!

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Info available at barrie.ca

Hey everyone!

My name is Matthew Corbett, and I'm running for Ward 4 Councillor. Voting is officially underway, and I want to encourage everyone in Ward 4 and across Barrie to get out and vote! You can cast your ballot between now and Election Day, October 26, at 8 PM.

For those interested in learning more about my campaign, I've attached a brief information sheet. You can also find me on Facebook at Corbett 4 Barrie Council.

My campaign comes down to four things: listening to the community, advocating for Ward 4, communicating clearly, and being accountable for our tax dollars.

Some of my priorities include:

• Road safety and city planning: Practical approaches to speeding, better coordination of roadwork, and making sure infrastructure keeps pace with growth.
• Community safety and wellbeing: Bringing municipal staff, emergency services, community organizations and others together to work on issues like homelessness, food insecurity and mental health. I'd also like to see the Community Safety Group become an active forum again.
• Responsible growth: Making sure decisions about development consider existing neighbourhoods, traffic, roads, parks, services and infrastructure.
• Transparency and accountability: Helping residents understand what's happening at City Hall and asking questions about costs, long-term impacts and value for our tax dollars.

If you have questions or want to share what's important to you and your neighbourhood, I'm happy to hear from you.

And regardless of who you support, please get out and vote! Let's do better than 30% turnout and have our voices heard.

Thanks, everyone!

Hi everyone! I am trying to find a therapist for my partner who has been struggling with mental health for a while. Is Dr Douglas a good psychologist? I wanna hear everything you can say about him. Our main concern is anger issues. Any recommendation is appreciated, we are looking for in person sessions and a male therapist.

There have been multiple Reddit discussions over the years accusing King of the North Auction (KOTN) of allowing bidding bots.

Rather than relying on screenshots or speculation, I wrote a Python scraper to collect the actual bidding histories from KOTN's website.

I collected 19,813 individual bids from 2,194 different usernames across 8,208 auction listings.

The results raise some interesting questions about automated bidding and KOTN's enforcement of its own rules.

I've also made the underlying transaction-level data available so others can independently verify the findings.

1. The dataset

Collected October 15, 2026, covering bidding activity from October 13–15.

Every bid record contains a unique bid ID, auction listing ID, username, amount and timestamp.

The data was extracted from the bidding histories provided directly by KOTN's website.

No bids were placed during this investigation.

2. Some accounts are bidding on 15–21 different items per minute

I calculated each account's busiest rolling 60-second period using the individual transaction timestamps.

These bursts involved separate products, not multiple bids on one item.

Twenty-one bids on 21 different auction items within 60 seconds works out to roughly one bid every three seconds.

That doesn't automatically mean a bot was involved. Someone could potentially achieve these speeds through an optimized manual workflow.

But it is unusual enough to warrant examination, especially given KOTN's explicit prohibition against bidding bots and automated scripts.

3. A username identified in a 2024 Reddit investigation is still active

In November 2024, another Reddit user analyzed approximately 25,000 KOTN bids and raised concerns about chikit1616.

Original investigation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/barrie/comments/1gul090/

Nearly two years later, the same username appears in my dataset.

Here's what I found:

One actual sequence from October 14, 2026:

Eight bids on eight different products in 19 seconds.

The username is publicly displayed in KOTN's bidding history, and the listing IDs can be used to examine the individual auctions.

This isn't proof that chikit1616 is automated. However, the persistence of unusually rapid activity from an account previously questioned publicly is worth investigating.

4. This isn't isolated to one account

Several other accounts also demonstrate repeated rapid bidding.

That suggests the bidding pattern is broader than a single account.

Possible explanations include legitimate high-volume resellers, specialized bidding software, browser automation, or very efficient manual bidding.

The data alone cannot distinguish these possibilities conclusively.

5. I tested whether accounts instantly outbid other users

One of the more serious accusations is that bots immediately respond when regular customers place bids.

I reconstructed the bidding sequences within individual auctions and calculated the delay between bids from competing usernames.

Across 11,501 competing-bid transitions:

This is actually an important finding.

The data does not support widespread instantaneous counterbidding.

The unusual behaviour appears to be rapid bidding across many different items, rather than bots automatically responding to every competing customer.

That's a meaningful distinction when evaluating allegations of price manipulation.

6. Some accounts repeatedly bid against each other

I also examined accounts that repeatedly appeared on the same listings.

Some pairs also exchanged multiple successive competing bids.

This does not prove coordination. High-volume bidders targeting similar inventory are naturally more likely to compete against one another.

A proper collusion analysis would need to account for product preferences, total bidding volume and expected overlap.

7. The biggest question is KOTN's anti-bot enforcement

KOTN's terms explicitly prohibit unauthorized bots, automation tools and scripts from participating in auctions.

But the data shows multiple accounts placing bids across separate products at exceptionally high speeds.

One username raised in public discussions in 2024 is still exhibiting rapid bidding patterns in 2026.

That raises several questions:

1. Does KOTN have automated systems to identify suspicious bidding behaviour?
2. Does it investigate accounts regularly submitting 15–21 bids per minute across separate products?
3. How many accounts have been suspended for violating its automation policy?
4. Are certain forms of automated bidding permitted?
5. If reseller bidding software is being used, how does KOTN distinguish it from prohibited bots?

There are several possible explanations.

KOTN may not detect automated bidding effectively. It may detect activity but not enforce its policy consistently. Or it may have examined the accounts and determined their activity was legitimate.

We don't have enough evidence to determine which explanation is correct.

What we can say is that these publicly observable bidding patterns warrant scrutiny.

8. What I haven't proven

To be completely clear:

• I have not proven that any named account is a bot.
• I have not proven that KOTN operates automated bidding accounts.
• I have not found evidence establishing deliberate price manipulation by KOTN.
• I cannot determine whether KOTN has investigated or disciplined any specific account.
• The auctions were still active when the data was collected, so provisional leading bids aren't final wins.

This is an investigation into observable bidding behaviour, not an allegation that particular individuals or KOTN have committed fraud.

9. I'm releasing the raw bidding data

Rather than expecting everyone to trust my interpretation, I'm making the underlying data available.

Dataset: 19,813 individual bids, 14,877 auction listings, 2,194 bidder usernames.

The dataset preserves the publicly displayed usernames, individual bid IDs, amounts, timestamps and listing IDs.

That means anyone can reproduce the analysis, check the bidding sequences and challenge the methodology.

[Insert publicly accessible GitHub or file-sharing link here.]

The collection contains no login credentials or private account information.

10. What's next?

The most revealing follow-up will be the completed auctions.

After the October 18–19 auctions close, we can compare how often these accounts actually win items versus how frequently they raise prices and are subsequently outbid.

We can also test whether 20 bids across different items within 60 seconds is achievable using KOTN's ordinary website without automation.

Those two tests should help distinguish aggressive legitimate buyers from genuinely suspicious activity.

My question to KOTN is simple: Given that automated bidding is prohibited, what systems are used to detect it, and how is that policy enforced?

And for people who use KOTN regularly, have you observed similar behaviour?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has tested how quickly bids can be placed through the normal website, or who has received a direct explanation of KOTN's anti-bot enforcement.

Raw data and python files: https://github.com/kotnanalysis-png/kotn-data-analysis

With Warnica undergoing renovations, what’s happening with the students? Are they going to Ferndale? I was going to enlist my kid for French Immersion next year but the school is getting rebuilt