Changelog

Type your address to see your own ballot for the 26 October municipal and school board election: the mayoral race, your district’s councillor race, your school board trustee area, every certified candidate with their published contact details, and your advance and voting-day voting places. Four races were settled by acclamation, and the page says when yours is one of them. You can also pick your district from a list instead of typing an address.

The Wolfe Island ferry board now carries the background it was always meant to: that nobody — not the Ministry of Transportation, not the Township of Frontenac Islands — publishes a queue length for either dock, which is the whole reason this board exists, and what the Wolfe Islander IV carries per sailing. Both notes had been researched and stored; a gap in our own code meant the page never showed them.

The Wolfe Islander IV is free, first-come first-served and crosses in about 20 minutes roughly every 80 minutes — but nobody publishes how many cars are waiting to board. Ontario 511 tracks where the boat itself is; it doesn't count the line. This new board is neighbours reporting the queue at the Kingston and Marysville docks, right now, alongside the official ferry service links.

Two things were wrong with this page. It listed 13 of Kingston Transit's 31 routes. Everything else was invisible — including Route 2, which had four live alerts, Route 7 with three, and Routes 31 and 32 to Providence Care Hospital. Every route the agency runs is now on the page, and a route with nothing under it genuinely has no alert in the feed. The other was worse. Kingston Transit's feed publishes a wordless twin of each alert: an entry naming the out-of-service stop numbers and carrying no description at all. Rendered as a sentence, twelve of those read "No service — since 2 December" under routes that were running perfectly normally. Route 11's card was nothing but two of them. Those entries now say what they actually mean — which stops are out, by number — and the page keeps "No service" for an alert the agency has scoped to a whole route. Alert times also printed a doubled full stop ("5:00 a.m.."), which is fixed.

Kingston's collection week has four rules and they interact. Garbage and the green bin go out weekly. The blue box and the grey box alternate, so which one is due depends on the week rather than the day. A statutory holiday pushes the rest of that week a day later. And roughly every fourth week a second untagged bag is taken. Type your address and this reads the City's own waste calendar for it — the same schedule behind the Kingston Waste App — and shows the next six weeks of dates with exactly what goes out on each one. The dates come from the City with the holiday shifts already applied; the tool computes none of them. It also carries the things a date can't tell you: one bag free and $4 a tag after that, which addresses have changed over to carts (15,134 of them so far, against 62,383 still on bags), and that the blue and grey boxes are Emterra's to fix rather than the City's. Apartment and condo buildings usually arrange their own collection, so an address in one may find nothing here. That is not a fault — the building's own schedule is the one that applies.

A new tool reads the City's own zoning by-law schedules live for your address, and reports what's flagged for a second, third or fourth residential unit — servicing constraints, or a Holding provision that keeps a fourth unit out of the by-law until Council lifts it. It never says yes or no on its own; it points you to Planning and the City's permit guide for everything it can't check.

Type an address and it reads the City's own heritage registers — designated, listed, or inside one of the three conservation districts — and says what each one means before you replace a window or repair masonry. It also flags the 1 January 2027 deadline, after which Council must remove a listed property from the register unless it has started a designation. Advice from Heritage Services is free, and the page says so.

Reads Kingston Transit's own real-time alerts feed for the trunk routes, the three the 2026 service review heard riders ask to revert, and every Express corridor.

Kingston's page now opens with a drawing of Fort Henry's limestone ramparts on the hill where Lake Ontario becomes the St. Lawrence, with the Wolfe Island ferry crossing in the distance.

Kingston is live with two tools, both reading the City's own data rather than a page someone has to keep retyping. **Next Buses** shows the next departures from the four busiest stops — Downtown, Queen's/Kingston General Hospital, Cataraqui Centre and St. Lawrence College — reading Kingston Transit's published timetable and its live vehicle feed together. Times marked live come from the bus itself; the rest are the timetable, and the page says which is which. Route changes and holiday schedules follow automatically, because it reads the same file the agency publishes. It is not the agency: for a cancellation or a detour, Kingston Transit's service alerts are still the word that counts. **Winter Parking Ban** answers the question the rules make genuinely confusing. In January and February there is no overnight on-street parking at all — every night, snow or no snow, 1 a.m. to 7 a.m., and from midnight around Kingston General Hospital. In December and March the City only bans it when the weather calls for it, and announces that by about 4 p.m. The page tells you which rule tonight falls under, and in the weather-based months whether the forecast snow is anywhere near the 5 cm the City acts on. It never says a ban is on — only the City declares one — and it links straight to the City's page and its email notices. Both tools carry the City of Kingston's open data licence. If something here is wrong, the correction link at the foot of each page comes to us.