ABUNDANCE — The People's Endowment

A plan for Toronto to find money it already wastes, locks away, or lets sit idle, and put it to work for the whole city before ever asking for a new tax.

It moves in a fixed order: first unlock underused public space and assets, second capture savings from waste reduction into a dedicated account instead of letting it vanish into next year's budget, and third build a smaller-but-real, walled fund from several possible funding lines, prioritized from cheapest-to-prove to most uncertain. The plan is explicit that a fund of any realistic size cannot alone carry a full income floor for residents, so it treats shrinking what people need as just as valid a win as growing the fund itself.

A companion piece asks whether blockchain and web3 technology are quietly becoming the plumbing under identity, voting, data ownership, and group decision-making — and checks that claim against real evidence across four questions, comparing blockchain-based approaches against mainstream, non-blockchain alternatives in each case, without assuming the claim is right or wrong going in. That piece is in verification: the underlying research has not yet had an independent fact-check pass.

This program has not been ratified. Nothing here is a promise, and no real resident has been contacted about any part of it.