The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) stands in solidarity with Survivors and strongly supports the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) for bringing international attention to the trag...

Inspired by Phyllis Webstad’s story of having her orange shirt taken away on her first day at Indian residential school, we uplift the voices of Survivors and invite all people in Canada to walk the p...

Sep 29th – Oct 5th, 2025 - An experience created for everyone to learn firsthand about barriers and challenges for nondrivers. Join, support, or become a host.

After nearly four decades, a stalwart bookstore on a busy Toronto street is being forced out of its home due to creeping rent and rising property tax…

Tracing public libraries from their roots to modern times

A helpless raccoon stuck in a sewer grate was rescued by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) last week and is now back to rummaging through trash and…

Libraries have always been gathering places, but increasingly, those gathering spaces extend beyond the walls of the building itself. At the 2026 American Library Association Annual Conference in Ch...

Did you know that Las Cruces, New Mexico spends 870 times more on policing than libraries? Our new publication, Budgets Are Values, gives an overview of how 15 public library systems are funded, gover...

Much of professional librarianship is built around responding well to what is happening today. A researcher needs assistance with a literature search, a student needs help evaluating information, a fa...

As community needs shift, libraries are among the few civic institutions that provide the stability and essential infrastructure needed to navigate that change together.   ULC’s new policy roadmap...

Discover creative ways to reuse board books as bookmarks, STEM materials, art supplies, building pieces, and more.

Curbside Giveaway Day is a fun way to help the environment while connecting with your community, the region said.

When radical individualism takes over spirituality, it leaves people confused, anxious, and alone. But the church has something better to offer.

We should resist calls for credential erosion. If anything, the need for a foundational M.L.S. has only grown in this era of information abundance.

Small things can add up to meaningful change. Use and repeat this seven-step placemaking process to turn resistance into momentum and transform places into centers of community and vitality.

How neighborhood backyards are restoring something children—and communities—have quietly lost.

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New research shows Gen Z is using public libraries more than ever. But they’re not finding us the way you might expect.

Habitat for Humanity GTA has selected 521 Rossland Road West in Ajax for one of its largest affordable housing projects in Ontario.

Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.

Given the trends over the past decades and looking toward the future, how could or should the overarching, primary rationale for libraries be refashioned?

The Lincoln Pelham Public Library system has received an anonymous donation of $500,000 towards the renovation of one of its branches.

What would make the Oak Ridges Moraine Trail a better trail for people to explore, enjoy, and return to for generations to come?

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The Ford government is facing backlash after 30 workers at the Ontario Science Centre, including its entire science department, were laid off as part…

“There’s only one thing to do here – we’re going to ask people to open their doors.” It was the day in which Gander and surrounding communities welcomed the world to its doorstep. *Join our mailing…

How do you balance the desire to do all the things and make your library a "Third Place" while battling librarian burnout?

On South Korea’s “dopamine sites,” the pleasure comes from aspirational shopping rituals like browsing, curating, and tracking — not from a delivery.

For those of us who lived through the attacks on librarians, watching these stories receive national recognition feels deeply personal.

Two cities have found a relatively novel way to reduce high-speed crashes by rewarding law-abiding drivers rather than just punishing the lead-footed ones.

Secondary succession or how cities can heal themselves.

Attacks on public libraries have been worsening in recent years, threatening freedoms that form the bedrock of American society.

As heat waves intensify, cities are racing to develop ways to cool large outdoor areas, from simple mist-spraying towers to complex schemes to create artificial clouds.

Do modern cities still offer the opportunity to meet people from different income levels, social and ethnic groups and backgrounds?

The company is part of an intercity bus revival, with better intermodal terminals in major cities and an upgraded customer experience.

More than two-thirds of the 15 selections in American Libraries' 2026 Library Design Showcase are renovations or adaptive reuse projects.

Bonton Farms and a New Model for Inside-Out Community Change

Finding Hope in God’s Interdependent Creation (A Eulogy)

How to turn the expert testimony in any podcast into searchable, citable text.

These bills may be best as a bargaining chip

An Urbanist's Review of G.K. Chesterton's 1908 Orthodoxy

The president of the Seneca Nation is arguing that the 'Lake America' renaming is more than merely controversial.

Summer in Toronto is incomplete without a pool party, and that rule applies to our beloved doggos just as much as it does to their humans. Free annua…