What we’ve built, and what’s coming
The homework is done, in public, with receipts. Here is the shelf — what’s live today, what’s days from publishing, and what’s being built next. Everything is free forever, open, and forkable.
Live now
- The library — hundreds of plain-language pages on Toronto’s issues: 149 researched backgrounders, 145 citizen briefs, 144 evidence cards, all receipt-backed.
- The Government Atlas — every federal, Ontario, and Toronto-region government body in one registry — 785 organizations, their public contact/data endpoints, and a document shelf reaching back to 2000. Disclosure gaps are shown as data, not hidden: a searched-and-not-found year says so on its face. Built for candidates, journalists, and anyone who needs the receipts; coverage grows as verification sweeps land, and every page states its own completeness.
- The transit report — a full 21-chapter investigation of why Toronto can’t move, every claim sourced, every receipt shown.
- The homelessness book — Ending Homelessness in Toronto: how to end it for less than the crisis costs now — ten chapters, every figure receipted, readable online or as one PDF. The companion research package (PDF) binds the executive case plus all 28 research backgrounders; also as a zip package with an offline copy of every page.
- Free Toronto — the atlas of free help, food, programs and crisis lines, plus 21 situation-by-situation guides.
- The wiki — the city’s issues, evidence first, one page per area.
- The explainers — the same work in plain language, including 20 program blueprints for what Toronto could build.
- The candidate question bank — 66 citizen questions, sourced and sealed, identical for every candidate in every race.
- Permanent Culture 3.0 — a free design framework grown from nature; book online and as a PDF.
- How we verify — the receipts system: every claim carries a checkable source, and every correction is published.
- The commons repository — the research and cleaned civic datasets in source form, on GitHub, free to fork; the site’s own code is at unitetolove/site.
- Next actions — the short list: sign, volunteer, host a room, or run for office — one page, ~12 real rungs.
- Invite me in — the connector’s page: bring the conversation into your own room, your rules.
- Aggregate-only site measurement — a cookieless page-view count (Cloudflare Web Analytics); no personal data, no individual tracking, ever. Full disclosure: the constitution.
Finishing now (days to weeks)
- State of the Election — a data report on every 2026 Ontario municipal race, refreshed every two weeks to voting day.
- A major consumer-protection investigation — verification complete, publishing soon.
- So You’re Thinking of Running — the free starter kit for anyone considering candidacy (nominations close August 21).
- The signature rail and welcome count — a 30-second, consent-first sign-up with a public counter the whole city can watch.
- The Civic Hour — a small personal ask for a few hours off between October 7 and 26, plus a one-page policy any workplace, union, school, congregation, or association can adopt this month, ready to copy onto its own letterhead.
- Essays — on building this with AI in the open, on skepticism, on what a practiced city feels like.
- Open data — our cleaned civic datasets, downloadable with documentation, free to use with attribution.
- The policy pages — methodology, corrections policy, AI-disclosure standard, funding transparency (to the dollar).
Building next (this season — help wanted)
- The ward browser — every candidate, every ward, one fast page a normal voter actually uses.
- The plan scoreboard — which candidates have published a real platform; presence or absence, no ratings, checkable by anyone.
- The equal-question rail — this fall we publish what Toronto’s rooms said they want and put one identical question to every candidate; every answer (and every silence) published the same way.
- A mobilization toolkit — host a dinner, start a block circle, run a story-collection night; one page each, free and forkable.
- A citizens’ assembly toolkit — how any room runs real deliberation, with Toronto’s own facilitation bench behind it.
- Ward data packs — turnout history, poll-by-poll results, demographics: free to every campaign identically.
- A press data desk — story-ready datasets and receipt bundles for any journalist.
How to help
Pick one piece — the ward browser, the scoreboard, the calendar, translations, accessibility — and build it in your own name. Everything here is open and forkable; nothing to join, nobody paid, receipts for everything.
Start at the front door — sign up for the conversation.