You will learn how to manage an emergency scene, how to recognize a heart attack, and how to respond when someone stops breathing.

A better version of the ID school egg drop assignment

The world's first suburbs were designed to exclude. Today, they might just hold the secret to doing transit-oriented development right.

A new study of three New York communities shows that parks, libraries and sidewalks can spur familiarity, belonging and friendship — and…

A story in The Living Places

There is a worldwide pattern of attacks on sustainable transport.

While owning a home on the Toronto Islands is a dream for many of the city's residents, actually getting the opportunity to buy one is a little more …

The Week Without Driving should expose not just the injustices endured by people outside cars, but the joys they experience, too.

Social-media safeguards can make phones safer. A richer offline childhood can make kids more resilient to them.

The Steel City is celebrating the Week without Driving ... and some shiny new bus lanes.

The Built Environment and Mental Health in Beijing

We didn't lose housing production in 2008 by accident. The financial conditions supporting it were part of the problem.

Growing older does not mean disappearing from public life. It can mean continuing to live fully, in a different way, and feeling in control of our mobility.

The parent-driven coalition pushing back against book bans in Florida

Social value should not be dismissed as just an add-on. It is a core metric of impact

How spending time in public space became something we pay for, and why that matters for our democracies

We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975

Learn more about the Rochester Public Library and the Strong National Museum of Play from the perspective of a youth librarian.

Cities should be designed around what is most permanent, especially streets, where the stakes of getting them right are highest.

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

It’s possible that you were undermined, endangered, cut off or disrespected. But if we begin with that, then the relationship gets shaky. Perhaps the other person simply didn’t understa…

The permanent commission for the new Lassonde Art Trail reflects on the past, present and future of North America with Monkman’s characteristic quirky twists

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.

I’m back on Circulating Ideas this week, this time with Sam Helmick, talking with Steve Thomas about the piece Sam and I wrote for Inside Higher Ed, The Case for a Professional Foundation in …

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.

New York City Council

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.