Connect

Nobody organizes Toronto from scratch — Toronto is already organized. Hundreds of communities, congregations, cultural associations, clubs, diasporas, fandoms and crews already meet, already care, already act. The work of connection is not building new rooms; it is inviting the ones that exist to talk to each other. That is what this section is for.

Toronto’s Tribes

The tribe map is our running catalogue of the city’s communities — who gathers, around what, and where. It will never be finished, and that’s the invitation: find your own tribes on it, and put the ones we missed on the map. Send a tribe — yours, or one you think we should know.

Where the conversation already lives

Before inventing a platform, look at the ones the city already talks on. Platforms & consensus tools is our research on how cities actually deliberate at scale — assemblies, consensus models, and the civic tech underneath them — and the reddit map catalogues where Toronto’s conversations are already happening, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, interest by interest.

The Toronto Citizen Assembly Simulator

What would it look like if a representative room of this whole city deliberated its hardest questions? The simulator is our full working model — the room, the raking, the deliberation protocol, and the engineering — run end-to-end and documented, so a real assembly has a blueprint waiting.

Free Toronto

The city is full of free things nobody told you about. The Free Toronto guides collect them — guide by guide, from food to skating to tools to trees — with the full resource list behind them as one big, downloadable map. Bring a guide to your tribe; it’s the easiest gift on this site.

Kits & questions

The kits equip any room — a living-room conversation, a community meeting, a candidate forum — and the Citizen Question Bank puts the city’s best questions in your hands, whoever you’re asking.