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Kingston

Public Transit in Kingston, Ontario

Public transit sucks anywhere, but it sucks even more in Kingston for some reason.

Other ideas:

Now is the time that I suggest you stop reading this website and spend all your free time making a new bff that owns a car. Yes, you heard right. Beg, plead, buy, screw, whatever make friends with someone with wheels.
The [...]

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Guide to Grocery Shopping in Kingston

A&P:
Rumour has it that the A&P in Kingston is the most expensive grocery store in Canada. They can charge whatever the hell they want because students are lazy. Keep that in mind. One thing to note about the A&P is that they are open 24/7 and around midnight they have some killer sales!
Food Basics:
The Food Basics [...]

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Day Trips From Kingston Ontario

Kingston has the advantage of being fairly close to lots of great sights, not just the big cities like Toronto and Montreal, but also smaller more unique sights, all easy to get to and cheap to see.

Casino Bus
Go to the Kingston Center and get on the Casino Bus. It departs each morning around 8am (check [...]

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Buying Booze in Kingston

So if that fermented apple juice your housemate made is cramping your style, there are multiple booze buying options close to campus.
LCBO: Your best bet for wine and liquor is the LCBO. It’s located right across from Food Basics and is about a fifteen minute walk from campus.

Other ideas:

The Beer Store: The Beer Store is [...]

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What You Need to Know About Kingston Ontario

For the average Queen’s student, there are really only three parts of Kingston that you might end up visiting:
1) The area around campus
2) Princess street (and maybe NOP)
3) That area “near the mall or movie theatre”; aka the suburban sprawl
Kingston is a fabulous city to go to university in. It’s small enough that you are always [...]

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Delivery and Takeout Numbers in Kingston

I sort of cringe when I think of the amount of money that I spent on takeout while at Queen’s. In rez you get most meals covered, but they don’t include the fourth meal of the day (after-booze meal) or dinners on Sunday. In upper years I learned that Kingston not only offered a wealth [...]

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Greasy Spoons in Kingston

This is not to imply that the following places are in any way greasy- we’re merely listing those restaurants/cafés that conjure up fond memories of days in NYC, stirring coffee with teaspoons alongside breakfasts that would fill you up and clog arteries. We are certain at least, had we ever eaten breakfast in NYC, that [...]

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Sneak Peek: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

For those of you wondering about all of the construction at King and Morton, wonder no longer:
The School of Music, Department of Drama, Department of Film and Media and the Department of Art will soon be teaching in a new building on one of the province’s most historic waterfront properties. The Norwegian architectural firm Snohetta — [...]

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The Kingston Music Scene

Sure, Kingston is pretty small, but it has some pretty good bands- great bands actually. Think Sarah Harmer, The Tragically Hip, Bryan Adams. Plus some awesome artists come through town frequently.
Elixir and Ale House often host some good acts (Stars, Bedouin Soundclash, Weakerthans). Bars such as the Brass have regular performers on certain nights of [...]

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Life in the Student Village (Aka The Ghetto)

Queen’s hasn’t enough residence space for upper-year students (although you’re likely to find a room if you’d like one) and this has evolved into an annual spree where first year students (and those fed up with their second-year houses) hunt for places to nest outside the structural integrity of the Queen’s Campus.
This area is referred [...]

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