Kingston, Ontario Podcasts

Podcasts About Kingston, Ontario

Kingston's shelf in the PlayNext corpus is thin: four shows, and they do not add up to a local podcast scene. Two are history projects, one is the municipal government's own feed, and one covers the local music scene. There is no Kingston news show here, nothing from or about Queen's University, no sports and no true crime. Civic information and military history carry most of the weight.

What Kingston is

A city of about 130,000 at the point where Lake Ontario drains into the St. Lawrence River, roughly midway between Toronto and Montreal. It was Canada's first capital, and it is known for limestone architecture, Queen's University, the Royal Military College, Fort Henry and a long-standing live music circuit.

The city explaining itself

City of Kingston Podcasts is the largest and most current show of the four, filed under Government. Its main strand, Inside Kingston, is a near-weekly municipal briefing, and the recent run shows what that means in practice: "Why some sidewalks are plowed first | Inside Kingston, Jan. 23, 2026", "Track Kingston road work in real time | Inside Kingston, Feb. 6, 2026", "Weather-based overnight parking in March | Inside Kingston, Feb. 27, 2026". Occasionally there is harder news, as in "City secures Lemoine Point Farm property | Inside Kingston, Feb. 20, 2026". The feed also carries a longer interview strand, Tell Me More, in which city leadership and staff go through local issues at more length. It is the city describing its own work, not a newsroom covering it.

Music

Kingston Live Podcast is the only show here about the city's culture. It is independently produced, hosted by a rotating cast of local media people, and built around interviews with artists and with the people who run venues and organisations: "Frank Ryan on Kingston as Canada's music city", "How the Kingston Jazz Society keeps the city's music legacy alive", the two-part "Inside The Isabel", and artist conversations such as "Paul Langlois stays honest and true on Smooth Rock Falls".

Two history projects

Both history shows are military and both are small. Kingston WWI Memorial Walk was made by PeaceQuest.ca as a numbered walking tour of family homes, churches and memorials connected to Kingstonians who served in the First World War. The stops sampled here are in French — "02 La Gare centrale du chemin de fer Grand Tronc", "05 Monument commémoratif de la Grande Guerre". It is an audio guide meant to be used on foot more than a show to work through at home.

Travel and Tourism - Impact of Tourism is a 16-episode project about Old Fort Henry and the effects of tourism on it. Its recent episodes — "Brainstorming", "Creation / Production", "Reflecton" — are about the making of the podcast rather than about the fort, so it reads as coursework rather than a finished programme.

Where to start

City of Kingston Podcasts if you live in Kingston and want to know what the municipality is doing this week; Kingston Live Podcast if you want the city's culture rather than its parking rules. Beyond those two, the shelf runs out quickly.