This is an organization-level map only — organizations and public communities, never people. Individual member, moderator, participant, and staff data is never published anywhere on this map. On the community census specifically (Reddit and social platforms, linked below): sizes under 1,000 are not shown, so a count can never be small enough to identify who’s inside a community, and roughly two-thirds of those rows are listing-only — found to exist, but not independently confirmed — carrying a ⚠️ unconfirmed mark rather than being silently presented as checked. Free-text notes, moderation/activity signals, and anything else that could read as a “how to work this community” guide were deliberately excluded before any page on this map was built.

The Commons Map

A Torontonian opens this page and finds the map of who’s already doing the work — every organization, media outlet, tech hub, online community, and book that’s a door into a tribe — and can find their own ward’s slice of it. An organization finds itself on the map, and its entry point into the movement. A volunteer sees exactly which row still needs building.

Five maps, one commons

Find Your People

Answer three questions in plain language, get 2,586 real rooms sorted by what you’re hoping to do.

The Organization Directory

2,863 verified organizations, by category and ward.

The Media Landscape

145 outlets and organizations covering Toronto and the GTA.

The Civic & Tech Landscape

556 organizations across Toronto’s tech and civic-innovation ecosystem.

The Common Shelf

102 books, each one a door into a tribe of readers.

Reddit communities

271 public subreddits for Toronto, the GTA, and Ontario.

Platforms & consensus research

How a million people could agree — the tools and methods.

Why map the tribes at all

Nobody organizes Toronto from scratch — Toronto is already organized. Hundreds of organizations, congregations, cultural associations, clubs, diasporas, outlets, tech builders and crews already meet, already care, already act. Connection means inviting the rooms that already exist to talk to each other, not building new ones — and a map is where that starts. This map will never be finished, and that’s the invitation: find your own tribes on it, and if we missed one, tell us on the Harvest. The wider doorway to all of this is Connect — find your people.

Coverage, honestly

Census window: 2026-07-27 to 2026-07-28 · next scheduled refresh: 2026-10-27 (quarterly, per the census’s own refresh guidance).

Source	Total rows	Confirmed	Listing-only (⚠️ unconfirmed)
Reddit communities	271	126	145
Facebook / Instagram / Discord / YouTube	159	25 with a published size · 10 confirmed listing, no size	124
Total	430	—

More ways to plug in

Choosing tools for bigger rooms — 86 deliberation and civic-tech tools checked live.
The Assembly Simulator — our full working model of a representative Toronto citizens’ assembly, run end-to-end and documented.
The Toronto pilot conversation — a small live trial of the consensus tool we recommend first.
Find your people — the Free Toronto guide to joining what already gathers, at no cost.

Build it with us

Every row on this map started as one person deciding to check whether an organization was still there. If you want to help extend it — a ward we haven’t reached yet, a community we missed, a dead link to fix — take a work packet and build the next row.