Housing
Vacant Property Bylaw
Template licensing, escalating fees, inspections and public reporting.
Municipal organizing across Canada
Your ballot has a boundary. Your participation doesn’t.
Find municipal candidates, support aligned people beyond your own ward, connect around issues, and reuse policy instead of reinventing it city by city.
Search 25 major Canadian municipalities.
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6municipalities
5policy templates
1shared civic commons
NEWS WATCH
Signals worth following.
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FIND
Who is running?
Search a municipality for candidates imported from a current official filed-candidate list.
Candidates publish only after an editor verifies a current official source. Historical candidates and current officeholders are not treated as current candidates.
ALIGN
Organize around policy.
POLICY COMMONS
Community Land Trust Expansion
Open a policy to see a reusable municipal motion, implementation notes, and which candidates or councillors support the idea.
MODEL MOTION That Council direct Administration to identify surplus municipal land suitable for long-term community ownership and develop a framework to transfer or lease such land to non-profit community land trusts for permanently affordable housing. IMPLEMENTATION • inventory public land • publish transparent eligibility criteria • protect affordability in perpetuity • prioritize resident-controlled governance • report annually on units created
CONNECT
Outside your ward still matters.
A resident may be unable to vote for a councillor elsewhere, but they can volunteer, research, amplify, translate, design, organize events, or contribute policy.
01Find
Discover candidates, councillors and issues across municipal boundaries.
02Align
Match around explicit policy positions instead of party branding.
03Connect
Offer labour, skills, introductions, research and amplification.
04Build
Fork motions, bylaws and implementation templates into other cities.
BUILD
GitHub for municipal policy.
Instead of every councillor starting from zero, a civic policy commons can expose what was tried, where it passed, what failed, and how to adapt it.
Food
Municipal Grocery Pilot
Framework for city-backed food retail in underserved neighbourhoods.
Digital
Public Broadband Utility
A reusable pathway for municipally owned broadband infrastructure.
THE CORE IDEA
Democracy is more than where your ballot is counted.
Make municipal politics searchable, collaborative, issue-based and reusable across Canada.