Here is an extremely helpful 2026 Waterloo Region municipal election guide courtesy of Citified. There are a few editor endorsements and whatever the opposite of endorsements is, along with a variety of links to various resources to help you figure out the whens, wheres and whos of everything.
The most useful bit, for me anyhow, is the breakdown of the school board races. Those are important to me as they should be to you even if, like me, you don’t have kids in the schools. We’re paying for those schools regardless, so it would be nice if they function properly. And as I’ve said before, your kids impact my life on the daily, so it would be nice if they too function properly. Thanks to this, I’ve gone from knowing 0 things about 0 candidates to having a decent enough idea of which names to consider and which to avoid, which is all most of us can realistically hope for, I think.