IRL: We’re Running Out of Places to Just Exist
Third places are disappearing. Here’s why that matters more than we admit for loneliness and belonging.
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Community Lens
IRL: We’re Running Out of Places to Just Exist
Third places are disappearing. Here’s why that matters more than we admit for loneliness and belonging.
Community Lens
Canada’s Nuclear Expansion: The Controversial Decisions That Deserve Public Attention’
Canada’s nuclear decisions have regional consequences. Hear experts discuss nuclear waste, Indigenous rights, environmental oversight and community involvement.
Community Lens
How to Find (or Help Build) a Third Place Where You Live
Want more connection? Here’s how people and organizations in Canada are creating third places that actually work.
Community Lens
Why constant availability might be training us out of human skills
The growing gap between people who use AI to practice and people who use it to replace.
Community Lens
Community Lens focuses on grounded, place-based storytelling and reflective reporting from within our communities. It highlights local voices, cultural perspectives, grassroots initiatives, news and articles that capture how people experience and interpret the world around them. Featuring everything from community events and artistic practices to environmental observations and social change, this section offers an alternative to mainstream coverage by centering lived experience, context, and care. It serves as a living archive of evolving community knowledge—where stories are shaped by the people closest to them, and meaning emerges through connection to place, practice, and collective memory.
Canada’s Nuclear Expansion: The Controversial Decisions That Deserve Public Attention’
Canada’s nuclear decisions have regional consequences. Hear experts discuss nuclear waste, Indigenous rights, environmental oversight and community involvement.
Read More →
How to Find (or Help Build) a Third Place Where You Live
Want more connection? Here’s how people and organizations in Canada are creating third places that actually work.
Read More →
Why constant availability might be training us out of human skills
The growing gap between people who use AI to practice and people who use it to replace.
Read More →
Building Capacity Without Burning Everyone Out
You don’t need a huge budget to build capacity. Here are realistic approaches that actually work for grassroots teams.
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Why Third Places Quietly Protect Your Mental Health
Only 36% of Canadians feel connected most of the time. Third places help close that gap. Here’s the evidence.
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Online Communities vs. Real Meaning
Young adults are finding community online while questioning what meaningful connection requires beyond messages, posts and digital spaces.
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Stop Making Communities Compete for Scraps
Canadian nonprofits are cutting services while research dollars pile up at big institutions. The gap is policy, not capacity.
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What Are Third Places?
Third places are informal hangouts outside home and work. Here’s the original research and why they still matter.
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Global Dignity Day: Your Work Matters. So Do the People Doing It.
Dignity at work means respect, meaning, and fair treatment. Global Dignity Day reminds us it starts with how we show up.
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