The Bubble 🫧

The deposit that is not a deposit, the form that ends a lease, and the photos I did not take.

I built Cribb partly because of the things nobody told me the first time I rented in Guelph. Three of them, short. 1. There is no damage deposit in Ontario. The only deposit a landlord can take is one month's…

Three downtown spots with real hours, from someone who has tried to write a paper in all of them.

Midterms turn every study spot on campus into a queue. These are the ones downtown I end up at, with the hours so you do not walk over for nothing. Red Brick Café, 8 Douglas Street. Open seven days: Monday to…

Fired, cemented shut, lost in the weeds, towed back on Halloween and painted thousands of times. Meet Old Jeremiah.

It's 1 a.m. sometime in 1913. A group of students fires the campus cannon. It's the last time anyone ever does. College officials respond by filling the barrel with cement. That cannon is Old Jeremiah, the one…

Three breweries, three very different rooms, and a weekly schedule you can plan a cheap week around.

Guelph makes a lot of beer for a city its size, and the taprooms are the cheapest good rooms in town. Nineteen plus for all of these, and the bus home is the 99. Fixed Gear Brewing, 20 Alma Street South. The…

The rent increase cap, the 24 hour rule, the pet clause that does not count, and how many days notice you owe when you leave.

You do not need to read the Residential Tenancies Act. You need these seven things, which are the ones that come up in a student house, with this year's figures. 1. Rent can only go up 2.1% in 2026. That is…

Ten named trails, a Japanese garden and an old-growth forest, open dawn to dusk on the edge of campus. Most students never walk in.

Ask a fourth-year where the Arboretum is and about half will point and the other half will say "the what?". It is 400 acres of trails, gardens, wetland and old forest, right next to campus, and the grounds are…

Guelph is a river city with two beaches and a gorge up the road. Here is where to go when the house gets small.

Guelph is built on two rivers, and the best free thing in the city is the path along them. When four people and one bathroom start to feel like a lot, this is the list. The river trail, from your front door…

Which cart, which day, what the couch is going to cost you, and the free alternative that also does your back a favour.

Nothing exposes a house's dynamics like the week nobody took the carts out. Learn the system once and it stops being a fight. Three carts, one calendar. Guelph collects household waste in three carts, and the…

After months of building, testing, and gathering feedback from students and landlords, Cribb is officially live! 🎉 Whether you're looking for a rental, sublet, roommate, or just want to explore what's…

What a ride costs, why you want the card, the fare cap nobody mentions, and which route runs past midnight.

Guelph Transit is small enough to learn in a week. Here is the week. The fares, as of January 1, 2026. Cash is $3.50, and cash is the wrong answer. With an OnYourWay card an adult ride is $2.90 and a…

Dates worth putting in your calendar between now and December, most of them free.

Here is the fall, in date order, so you can stop finding out about things the day after. September 11 and 12: Welly BierFest. Wellington Brewery, 950 Woodlawn Road West, runs its own beer festival. 19 plus…

Photos before boxes, the lease rule with teeth, and the two phone calls that keep the lights and heat on.

You have the keys. The van is double parked. Here is the order that saves you money later, because a few of these have deadlines that start the day you walk in. Day one: photograph everything before a single…