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BusCancellations.ca vs your board’s official bus site
Updated · By The BusCancellations.ca team
Every school bus region in Canada posts its morning decision on its own transportation website, run by the consortium for its boards. We read those sites; we don’t replace them. Here is what each is for, so you know which to open when.
Short answer
For your own child’s route, sign up for your consortium’s alerts: they are the source and they can reach you without you checking. Use BusCancellations.ca when you need more than one region at a glance, the night-before chance, or a quick check without hunting for your consortium’s page.
What each one does
| BusCancellations.ca | Official consortium site (two examples) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who decides | Nobody here: we show what the official site says, with the time we last checked | The consortium and its boards. This is the decision. |
| When it’s posted | We read each site every 3 minutes from 4 to 11 a.m. on school days, so we trail it by a few minutes | Simcoe County: “between 6:00 AM and 6:30 AM”. Southwestern Ontario STS: by 6:30 a.m. |
| Alerts for your route | None | Simcoe County: email alerts for delays of 15 minutes or more. Southwestern Ontario STS: the free BP Bus Delays app and email alerts through its parent portal. |
| Regions on one page | 28 regions (26 read automatically, the rest linked) | One region |
| Delayed and cancelled routes | Yes, as the official site lists them | Yes |
| Snow day chance for tomorrow | Yes, for 63 places | No |
Official-site facts are from the Simcoe County Student Transportation Consortium and Southwestern Ontario STS pages, checked 2026-10-29. Other consortia differ; your region page links to yours.
When to open the official site
- To sign up for alerts on your child’s bus run.
- If our page says the signal was lost or the status looks out of date: the official site always has the final word.
- For anything about a specific stop, transfer or the bus company: we don’t carry that.
When BusCancellations.ca is quicker
- Kids in two boards, or a commute across a region line: one screen shows every region.
- The night before: the snow day predictor gives a chance for tomorrow morning from the Environment Canada forecast.
- A fast check: every region page leads with the status and when we last read it, then links straight to the official site.
Who should rely on the official site
- Every family, for the decision itself and for route alerts.
- Families in Newfoundland and Labrador or Sudbury, where we don’t read the official site automatically and our page only links to it, and anyone in a region we don’t list.
See every region’s bus status
The live board: each region’s official status and when we last read it.
See every region’s bus status →Keep reading
Sources
- Simcoe County Student Transportation Consortium, checked 2026-10-29
- Southwestern Ontario STS, Bus delays and cancellations, checked 2026-10-29
- Southwestern Ontario STS, BP Bus Delays app, checked 2026-10-29
- BusCancellations.ca, About and how it works
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