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🇨🇦 Canada Day Celebrations @ varying locations on July 1st
🌳 Nature Play Days @ varying parks all summer
🍁 The Long Weekend @ Friday Harbour
🍽 Recipe Of The Week: Strawberry Muffins with Maple Butter
🗞 Local Good News Stories
🌆 What’s Happenin’
Let’s get to it!
🇨🇦 Canada Day Celebrations 2026 - July 1st - various locations
Canada Day On The Move features travelling Canada Day activities popping up in Lampman Lane Park and Painswick Park. This year's celebrations also include a pop-up food truck festival at Centennial Park featuring entertainment, a spectacular performance by the Ultimutts Animal Actors Show and more.
📅 Wednesday July 1st
📍 various locations around Barrie
🌳 Nature Play Days @ varying parks all summer
The City of Barrie Nature Play Trailer can be found in parks all around the City, offering free nature-based games and activities for kids and families. The trailer houses a variety of natural loose parts and is a mobile way to connect with the community. Working with our partners, the trailer brings environmental education and fun to you!
Kids can try their hand at fishing by catching colorful pipe cleaner fish from a bucket of water. Once they've made their catch, they can sort the fish by colour, size, or type, and take on the challenge of feeding the hungry sharks! This hands-on activity encourages fine motor skills, sorting and counting practice, and provides a fun way to learn about aquatic life.
📆 See schedule here.
📍 varying parks across Barrie
🍁 Canada Day Long Weekend @ Friday Harbour
Celebrate the start of a True North Summer at Friday Harbour Resort from June 26–28. Enjoy live entertainment on the CIBC Pier, and explore The Market featuring curated “Made in Canada” vendors.
Spend the day shopping and dining along the Promenade before enjoying waterfront entertainment and Beach Club After Dark (19+) on Saturday night.
Complimentary guest admission and on-site parking.
📆 Friday June 26th to Sunday June 28th.
📍 Friday Harbour, Innisfil
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👩🍳 Recipe of the Week: Strawberry Muffins with Maple Butter
These muffins are just as good for dessert as they are for breakfast. They are the perfect amount of sweet from the strawberries and honey. Filled with strawberry jam and topped with honey butter. They’re super cute and also super easy to make.
🗞 Local Good News Stories
🎣 Free fishing returns across Ontario for Canada Day week. Read more.
👩🎤 Singer, cancer survivor Bif Naked joins Barrie fundraiser this weekend. Read more.
🎸 Legendary Canadian rock band set to perform at Kee to Bala. Read more.
👨🏫 This professor is leading a global initiative to bring Indigenous knowledge to AI. Read more.
🐝 There’s so much you can do to help ‘precious pollinators’. Read more.
🏳🌈 Barrie Pride brings colour, community spirit to downtown. Read more.
🏑 McKnight’s reignited passion for ball hockey puts her on world stage. Read more.
🛝 New park named for former Innisfil mayor, Barrie city councillor. Read more.
🍖 Saucy and succulent: Barrie Ribfest set to celebrate 20 years. Read more.
🛟 OPP urges boaters to wear life-jackets ‘every time, every ride’. Read more.
🌳 NVCA celebrates 4.5 million trees planted across watershed. Read more.
☀ After a winter hangover, Spring failed to bloom, but Summer might redeem it. Read more.
🏀 Recreation access expanding in Barrie through growing use of public school facilities. Read more.
🕹 Pixel Paradise opens in Barrie: Why this new arcade is betting big on old-school nostalgia. Read more.
🎟 How to score major summer savings at the CNE, Toronto Zoo, Ripley’s Aquarium and local restaurants - but you have to have this card. Read more.
🧘♀ Barrie yoga studio marks summer solstice by taking things outside. Read more.
🎭 Talk Is Free Theatre unveils lineup for 25th season. Read more.
🍳 Barrie’s waterfront fills with ribs, music and midway rides in July. Read more.
🌆 What’s Happenin’
Friday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library - Holly Branch - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🏳🌈 Pride Storytime @ the Barrie Library Downtown Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🎥 Friday Flicks @ the Barrie Library - Downtown Branch - 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.
🎥 Friday Flicks @ the Barrie Library - Painswick Branch - 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Learn more.
🎥 Friday Flicks @ the Barrie Library - Painswick Branch - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Learn more.
Saturday
🧑🌾 Barrie Farmer’s Market @ City Hall - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn more.
🐟 Summer Kickoff Craft: Aquarium in a Box @ the Barrie library - Painswick Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🧸 Summer Kickoff Craft: Toy Story Mania! @ the Barrie library - Holly Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🧸 Summer Kickoff Craft: Cardboard Creations @ the Barrie library - Downtown Branch - 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Learn more.
🚶♂ Annual walk for Suicide Awareness and Life Promotion @ Barrie City Hall Rotunda - 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Learn more.
🎸 Summer Concert Kickoff @ Horseshoe Resort - 5 p.m. Learn more.
Sunday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library - Holly Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🚶♂ Stronger Than Cancer Walk @ Sunnidale Park - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more.
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