Saw a problem. Built the fix.

The information existed. It was just spread across a City map, a boundary file and a candidate list that never spoke to each other. So Jon pulled all 53,796 Guelph civic addresses from the City's own published data, matched every one of them against the official ward boundaries, and put the answer behind a single search box.

Type a street name and it tells you your ward — and then who is running to represent you there in 2026, with links to every candidate's own site. Twenty-six Guelph streets cross a ward boundary (Gordon Street runs through four), so for those it asks for a house number and gets it exactly right.

It is also free to embed. Paste one line of code and the whole lookup appears on any website — neighbourhood associations, community groups, other campaigns, anyone at all. Helping people find their ward is not a partisan act, and a tool that only works for one candidate isn't much of a tool.

Rather than take a side, Jon read the books. Guelph Junction Railway is owned outright by the City and has been since 1910, so its audited financial statements are public. In 2025 it posted $2.4 million in profit and spent nothing at all on crossing equipment or bridge work — the same year it closed one.

The fix is a Rail Corridor Safety Fund: the railway sets aside a second payment, on top of the dividend it already sends the City, that can only be spent on safe, legal crossings along its own line. The dividend doesn't move. No line is added to anyone's tax bill. A share of the railway's own profit gets reinvested in the one corridor it is responsible for.

It is published as a full piece, with the exact motion to bring it to council, alongside every source document it rests on — five years of audited statements, the dividend policy, the shareholder declaration. Read it and check the work.

A 33-point gap between what people want to know and what they feel they're told is a problem the City could see in its own data. The report was public. It was just a long PDF written for council, reported out days before the summer.

So the whole thing got read — this year's and the previous years' — and rebuilt as a page anyone can follow in ten minutes: what residents actually said, what the City actually controls, and charts you can read at a glance. Every figure names the page of the report it came from, so nothing has to be taken on trust.

Two findings stand out. Roads and infrastructure went from 7% to 16% of residents naming it Guelph's most important issue, now tied with housing for first. And the share of residents who feel they get good value for their tax dollars is the lowest this survey has on record.