Past Hacknights
June 10, 2025 – Hacknight #497
Democracy's Library Canada
with Andrea Mills, Brewster Kahle
June 03, 2025 – Hacknight #496
with Cherlene Tay
Building Trust: How You Can Shape Digital Governance in Canada
May 27, 2025 – Hacknight #495
with Aniket Kali
Changes in immigrant voting patterns in the Greater Toronto Area
May 20, 2025 – Hacknight #494
with Andrew Young
The COVID-19 Marathon: from vaccines to wastewater signals
May 13, 2025 – Hacknight #493
with Henry Luan
AI for Tenants: Flagging Illegal Lease Clauses Before You Sign
April 29, 2025 – Hacknight #491
with Ilya Kreynin, Sharmeena Lalloo, Jasper Ruban, garo
Civic Dashboard - Turning Passion Into Action By Making Council Accessible To All
April 22, 2025 – Hacknight #490
with Giancarlo Fiorella
Documenting War Crimes with Volunteers – Bellingcat's Open Source Approach
April 08, 2025 – Hacknight #488
with Philip Mai, Anatoliy Gruzd
Making the Invisible Visible: Tracking and Visualizing Political Advertising on Meta Platforms with PoliDashboard.org
April 01, 2025 – Hacknight #487
with Alexei Abrahams
Gray Hat Social Media – Surveilling Online Political Discourse in the Public Interest
March 25, 2025 – Hacknight #486
with Tara Khani
Accurate, scalable and secure AI for the public sector
March 18, 2025 – Hacknight #485
with Anita Li, Sebastian Tansil
From News to Action: How The Green Line's Documenters Are Changing Civic Engagement
March 04, 2025 – Hacknight #483
with Sam Burton
How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?
February 25, 2025 – Hacknight #482
From Sensors to Insights: Using IoT, AI, and People to Monitor Watershed
with Jason Spitkoski
February 18, 2025 – Hacknight #481
Would data help you depute at City Council meetings?
with Veronica Yeung
February 11, 2025 – Hacknight #480
Behind the Scenes: Creating Toronto's Climate Voting Records Website
with Mitch Bechtel
February 04, 2025 – Hacknight #479
Crowdsorsa – a mobile game to engage your citizens!
with Katja Boutou
January 28, 2025 – Hacknight #478
with Mikaal Naik
The Civics Project - Indexing all of Canadian politics
January 21, 2025 – Hacknight #477
with Yumi Numata, Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
Behind The Yellowhead Treaty Map - Reclaiming Indigenous Perspectives on Treaties in Canada
January 14, 2025 – Hacknight #476
From Bacteria to Bikes – Quantitative Cycling Research in Toronto
with Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher
December 17, 2024 – Hacknight #474
The evolution of retail business: Bloor St (Spadina/Christie)
with Martin J. Osborne
December 10, 2024 – Hacknight #473
Noise Cameras: New Tech to Solve an Old Problem
with Reuben Peckham, Ingrid Buday
December 03, 2024 – Hacknight #472
Empowering Climate Action in Every Language
with Helena Yu, Luis Ticas, Maryam Tavakoli
November 26, 2024 – Hacknight #471
Crowdsourcing care: Solving healthcare service gaps with open data
with Sidra Mahmood
November 19, 2024 – Hacknight #470
with Cara Scarfone
Canada's National Action Plan on Open Government
November 05, 2024 – Hacknight #468
Policy2Code Challenge @ BenCon
with Jerry Wilson, (David) Yuan Xu, Alexander Chen
October 29, 2024 – Hacknight #467
Automatic TTC detour detection
with Emily Gates, Marisa Henry
October 22, 2024 – Hacknight #466
Building VoteInformer: Empowering Civic Engagement & Shaping an Informed Electorate
with Blair Ellis, Michael Traynor
October 15, 2024 – Hacknight #465
Bike Lane Uprising with Christina Whitehouse
with Christina Whitehouse
October 08, 2024 – Hacknight #464
The Uncounted and the Unseen: Learning to Work with Dark Data
with Timothy Quinn
September 24, 2024 – Hacknight #462
with Argerie Tzouras, Lisa Guo
Bringing Complaints Online at the City of Toronto
September 17, 2024 – Hacknight #461
with Mario Salvagio, Lin Mu
Toronto Fleet Services, Business Intelligence
September 10, 2024 – Hacknight #460
How committing to Open Data has helped change how Toronto talks about homelessness
with Heath Priston
September 03, 2024 – Hacknight #459
Modelling Toronto's Paths to Net Zero
with Da Huo, Sourabh Jain
August 13, 2024 – Hacknight #456
with Serena Peruzzo, Max Veytsman
Steps towards finding meaning in software
August 06, 2024 – Hacknight #455
What's going on with GenAI?
with Alex Olson
July 23, 2024 – Hacknight #453
tRacket: tracking urban noise
with Gabe Sawhney, Mitch Bechtel, Daniel S, Clyne
July 16, 2024 – Hacknight #452
Grocery Tracker: Leveraging Data for Food Transparency in Toronto
with Eric Wickham
July 09, 2024 – Hacknight #451
Building Scattered Unit Co-Ops in Toronto
with Jim Rootham
June 25, 2024 – Hacknight #449
What is Toronto Open Data Even Doing?
with Mackenzie Nichols
June 11, 2024 – Hacknight #447
Where do you go when your internet is down?
with Olivia Ou, Emily Sakaguchi
June 04, 2024 – Hacknight #446
Opening silos! Innovation through the Urban Data Platform Hamburg
with Dr. Pierre Gras, Hannah Reinicke
May 07, 2024 – Hacknight #442
How Local Groups Digitally Engage Torontonians
with Nick Vlahos
April 30, 2024 – Hacknight #441
Toward Equitable Service Provision: A Catchment Area Analysis of The Bike Share Toronto System
with Zehui Yin
April 23, 2024 – Hacknight #440
Data-driven strategies for safer cycling
with Keith Chau, Yuseung Lee, Candice Fung
April 16, 2024 – Hacknight #439
with Ryan Androsoff, Meghan Hellstern
Assessing Digital Maturity for Civic Impact
March 26, 2024 – Hacknight #436
Danforth Dad: Reviewing Toronto's Playgrounds
with Andrew Moore
March 05, 2024 – Hacknight #433
AI and Urban Resilience
with Joshua Welch, Dipika Giritharan
February 13, 2024 – Hacknight #430
Working on Environment and Climate Technology
with Dawn Walker
February 06, 2024 – Hacknight #429
Ontario Place for All
with Norm Di Pasquale, Ken Greenberg
January 23, 2024 – Hacknight #427
with Shaban Mohammed
Meaningful Pixels – Redesigning the TTC Bus Info Display
November 21, 2023 – Hacknight #420
Civic Tech Toronto principles and governance
with Gabe Sawhney
November 14, 2023 – Hacknight #419
Mapping Toronto’s bicycle parking needs: BikeSpace
with Sonal Ranjit
November 07, 2023 – Hacknight #418
with Marisa Bernstein, Anne-Marie Croce
Human-centred housing initiatives at the City
October 24, 2023 – Hacknight #416
Mapping open shelter spaces
with Zachary Donsky, Saheel Acharya
October 17, 2023 – Hacknight #415
Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations
with Geordie Dent
September 26, 2023 – Hacknight #412
with Erik Derohanian, Dyl Lavoie, Isaac McAuley
The Missing Persons Project
August 15, 2023 – Hacknight #406
Open data for safe water recreation
with Steve Hulford, Mitch Bechtel
August 01, 2023 – Hacknight #404
TorontoBot: AI to make government accessible
with Chris Dinn
July 25, 2023 – Hacknight #403
An Analytical Dive into the Mayoral By-Election
with Alex Olson
July 18, 2023 – Hacknight #402
The Disruptive Launch of Rate the Landlord
with Kellen Wiltshire, RJ
June 27, 2023 – Hacknight #399
Augmentation tech, AI, and the future of an AI-enhanced self self
with Isabel Pedersen
June 13, 2023 – Hacknight #397
with Gabe Sawhney, Alex Olson, Saheel Acharya, Clyne
The Toronto Bids Archive Project
June 06, 2023 – Hacknight #396
Peeping Platforms: data, surveillance & Pornhub Insights
with Maggie MacDonald
May 30, 2023 – Hacknight #395
Community-based Research and AI
with Fenwick McKelvey, Alex Megelas
May 16, 2023 – Hacknight #393
with Nabeel Ahmed, Hamish Goodwin, Alex Lougheed
Behind the scenes: Introducing a principles-based tech framework at the City of Toronto
April 11, 2023 – Hacknight #387
What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation with
with Paris Marx
April 04, 2023 – Hacknight #386
TaxGPT: Advising Canadians about tax filing
with Paul Craig
March 28, 2023 – Hacknight #385
The Large Language Model Next Door: Living with Intelligent Agents
with Jennifer Schellnick
March 21, 2023 – Hacknight #384
How does Toronto use open data?
with Reza Ghasemzadeh, Mackenzie Nichols
March 07, 2023 – Hacknight #382
ChatGPT and Large Language Models 101
with Alex Olson
February 14, 2023 – Hacknight #379
Civic Participation and Democratic Experience: Civic Tech in Toronto
with Curtis McCord
January 31, 2023 – Hacknight #377
Exploring Ontario's public data repository
with Corey Trott, Kobikah Chandran
January 24, 2023 – Hacknight #376
Know Your Vote T.O.
with Sarah Yaffe, Chris Ellis
January 10, 2023 – Hacknight #374
with Terra Loire Gillespie
It's Not Magic, It Just Looks Like It: Cool digital tools addressing complex civic issues
December 06, 2022 – Hacknight #371
Running great hybrid events on a shoestring
with Gabe Sawhney, Sam McGarva
November 22, 2022 – Hacknight #369
Where's my bus?
with David Cho, Adam Cohoon, Shelagh Pizey-Allen
November 15, 2022 – Hacknight #368
Toronto Transportation Services
with Maddy Ewins, David McElroy
November 08, 2022 – Hacknight #367
How North America is turning away from cars (and how Toronto is leading this trend)
with Reece Martin
November 01, 2022 – Hacknight #366
Tales from the Toronto Star transportation beat
with Alexandra (Lex) Harvey
October 18, 2022 – Hacknight #364
with David Cox
Improving web accessibility at the scale of a government
October 11, 2022 – Hacknight #363
with Raphael Dumas
An Open-Source Tech Stack for Transportation Data Operations
September 27, 2022 – Hacknight #361
with Michel Mersereau, Hamish Goodwin, Nabeel Ahmed, Alex Lougheed
DiscoTech: Discussing Technology in our City
August 16, 2022 – Hacknight #355
with David Cass
Enabling Citizen-Sourced Speeding Data Using Raspberry Pi and Motion Tracking
August 02, 2022 – Hacknight #353
Campaign Cash: Using Open Data to follow the money at Toronto City Hall
with Matt Elliott, Jeff McCartney
May 24, 2022 – Hacknight #343
with Ushnish Sengupta
Algorithm Registers – What are they and why do you need to know?
April 19, 2022 – Hacknight #338
Municipal Critical Infrastructure & Cybersecurity
with Stephanie Tran, Sharan Khela
April 12, 2022 – Hacknight #337
with Jury Konga
Life as Data, Data as Life and... today's Civic Tech
March 29, 2022 – Hacknight #335
with Sophie Duncan, Sandi Trillo
The Leading Social Justice Fellowship
March 22, 2022 – Hacknight #334
with Siena Anstis, Noura Aljizawi
Emotional War: Digital Transnational Repression in Canada
March 08, 2022 – Hacknight #332
with Alice Xu, Hamish Goodwin, Nabeel Ahmed, Bianca Wylie
City of Toronto Digital Infrastructure Strategic Framework
February 22, 2022 – Hacknight #330
Civic Tech Toronto – Co-organizing 101
with Sam McGarva
February 15, 2022 – Hacknight #329
with Tom Linder
Digital surveillance technologies in Canadian policing
February 01, 2022 – Hacknight #327
Reflecting on the Ontario Internship Program
with Theo Arbez, Sharon Lam, Russell Christmas
January 25, 2022 – Hacknight #326
Why we Use Maps: On open data, mapping, and advocacy
with Ingrid Buday
December 14, 2021 – Hacknight #322
with Raj Burman
Leaving no displaced persons behind in a digital world
December 07, 2021 – Hacknight #321
with Gloria Er-Chua, Trevor Rutherford
Ontario’s Digital and Data Innovation Fellowship
November 16, 2021 – Hacknight #318
Kensignton Market and the Church of Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields
with Maggie Helwig
October 26, 2021 – Hacknight #315
Building Tech Co-operatives
with Stephanie Guico
October 05, 2021 – Hacknight #312
with Nabeel Ahmed, Hamish Goodwin
Toronto's Digital Infrastructure Plan: Civic Tech & Building a Connected Community
September 21, 2021 – Hacknight #310
with Hriday Keshav
CivApp: Democracy in CA lacks tech infrastructure
September 14, 2021 – Hacknight #309
with Kevin, Gordon Ruby
Building community with Civic Tech Vancouver
July 13, 2021 – Hacknight #300
Tracking Toronto's supply of affordable rental
with Daniel Liadsky
July 06, 2021 – Hacknight #299
with Jennifer Chen, Jessica Lui, Hanlin Cheng
Empowering students to empower NPOs
June 29, 2021 – Hacknight #298
with Jerrold McGrath
New Not Normal: A Community Generated Mapping Project
June 15, 2021 – Hacknight #296
Leveling the Playing Field in Canadian Politics
with Stefan Kollenberg
May 18, 2021 – Hacknight #292
with Amy Bihari, Cara Scarfone
A framework for trustworthy AI use in Ontario
March 16, 2021 – Hacknight #283
with Stephanie Malcher, Wondu Amenu
City data for powering solutions to homelessness
March 02, 2021 – Hacknight #281
with Naoufel Testaouni, Andy Saldaña
QueerTech Expansion and Programs
February 16, 2021 – Hacknight #279
with Geoff Zakaib
Civic Tech YYC - Tech for Good & Civic Innovation
February 02, 2021 – Hacknight #277
with Ana Rita Morais
me-dérive: toronto — Participatory Archiving x AR
January 19, 2021 – Hacknight #275
Strengthening The Social Safety Net with Civic Tech Fredericton
with Sandi MacKinnon, Joy Iloreta
January 12, 2021 – Hacknight #274
Chalmers Cards & Signal - Project Update
with Steven Xie, Zachary Donsky
January 05, 2021 – Hacknight #273
Joining the Movement: Civic Tech Montreal
with Zoé McLennan, Romane Thiboutot-Martin
December 08, 2020 – Hacknight #271
with Matthew Johnson
Canadian Youth Voices: Online Privacy and Consent
December 01, 2020 – Hacknight #270
with Skaidra Puodziunas, David Cox, Gabriella Teixeira
How can tech bring us together? A FWD50 Debrief
November 24, 2020 – Hacknight #269
with Ryan Fukunaga
Reusing e-waste to increase access to technology
November 10, 2020 – Hacknight #267
with Pearl Buhariwala
Precarious Work Research: A multi-country study
November 03, 2020 – Hacknight #266
Introduction to Techfugees Toronto
with Olivia Doggett, Mounir Nasri
October 27, 2020 – Hacknight #265
with Geoff Evamy Hill
maplesync: the futures of economic coordination
September 29, 2020 – Hacknight #261
Building The Toronto Community Network
with Henry Wilkinson, Cole AC
September 22, 2020 – Hacknight #260
with Manik Perera
Re-imagining a Future for Political Participation
September 15, 2020 – Hacknight #259
People-Driven Smart Policy
with Rashi Khilnani, Matt Leger
September 08, 2020 – Hacknight #258
Lessons from Civic Tech projects
with Dilini Kurukulaarachchi, Avery Au, David Cox
September 01, 2020 – Hacknight #257
with Adam El-Masri, David Jorjani
Education, Social Impact, Tech & Civic Engagement
August 25, 2020 – Hacknight #256
Pandemic Connectivity for Ontario Students
with Karen Louise Smith
August 18, 2020 – Hacknight #255
with Nicole Edwards
Start a Podcast: 10 Tips for Audio Storytelling
August 11, 2020 – Hacknight #254
How to fall in love with accessibility
with Kate Kalcevich
July 21, 2020 – Hacknight #251
CTTO 5th Anniversary
with Jenn Hollett, Nasma Ahmed, Dilini Kurukulaarachchi, Emily Macrae
June 09, 2020 – Hacknight #245
Strategic Foresight + How Fiction Informs Futures
with Madeline Ashby
May 26, 2020 – Hacknight #243
with Marisa Bernstein
10 Tips to Run Inclusive Usability Testing Remotely
May 12, 2020 – Hacknight #241
with Kim Allen, Brett Tackaberry
Collaborating with Tech4good, Chat Service
April 28, 2020 – Hacknight #239
Emerging Digital and Urban Technologies in Forestry
with James Steenberg, Sophie Nitoslawski
March 31, 2020 – Hacknight #235
with Dr. Sarah Saska
Unintended Consequences: NextGen Discrimination
February 11, 2020 – Hacknight #228
Building a Solidarity Economy by & for Workers
with Hazel Corcoran
January 28, 2020 – Hacknight #226
Incubating your community-driven project at CivicTechTO
with Mohammed Asaduallah
January 07, 2020 – Hacknight #223
with Jack Jamieson
IndieWeb: Empowering individuals through collective design
December 17, 2019 – Hacknight #222
with Dilini Kurukulaarachchi
Updates from the Accelerator Project team
December 10, 2019 – Hacknight #221
How interactive storytelling can boost civic engagement
with Jordan Sparks
December 03, 2019 – Hacknight #220
Information & Resources for Toronto's Homeless
with Zachary Donsky
November 26, 2019 – Hacknight #219
Youth lead the way to a carbon free future!
with Halyna Zalucky
November 12, 2019 – Hacknight #217
Retro-GTFS – Back to The Future of Transit
with Nate Wessel
November 05, 2019 – Hacknight #216
Climate Action in Toronto: Let's TransformTO Together
with Tamara Grossutti
October 29, 2019 – Hacknight #215
Everything you ever wanted to know about recycling
with Lucas Playford
October 22, 2019 – Hacknight #214
Ontario's new Data Catalogue
with Bianca Sayan, Cara Scarfone
October 15, 2019 – Hacknight #213
with Skaidra Puodziunas, Marsha Druker
Failure through a government lens, can we talk about it?
July 30, 2019 – Hacknight #202
Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
with Branka Marijan
July 16, 2019 – Hacknight #200
with Jesse Gazic, Sebastian Pines, Jillian Wakarchuk
Patch Me Up indie game
April 16, 2019 – Hacknight #187
Toronto Mesh: Towards a Better Web
with Dante Sanchez
April 09, 2019 – Hacknight #186
with Ninar Fawal, Andrea Fernandez
Snapshots Report: A Profile of Newcomer Youth and their Civic & Political (Dis)Engagement in Toronto
April 02, 2019 – Hacknight #185
with Jay Ginsherman
Liquid Maps: Interactive Analogue Maps for Conversation
March 12, 2019 – Hacknight #182
CodeAcross Report-back
with Alex Jung, Laura Chang
February 26, 2019 – Hacknight #180
KnowYourVoteTO.ca Toronto Public Library & MASS LBP
with Pam Ryan, Alex Carruthers, Laurie Drake
January 15, 2019 – Hacknight #175
Project Updates: BikeSpace & TTC Dashboard
with Ollie Sheldrick, Raphael Dumas
December 11, 2018 – Hacknight #172
with Francesca Oprandi, Sheau Lih Vong, Matt Wong, Will Meneray, CG Chen
Updates from Ample Labs and Law & Design CoLab
December 04, 2018 – Hacknight #171
with Mohammed Asaduallah, Sharon Kennedy
How-to create social impact by asking for help
November 13, 2018 – Hacknight #168
with Patrick Connolly
Report from g0v Toronto / Crowdsourcing decisions workshop
October 30, 2018 – Hacknight #166
The Accessible Neighbourhood Initiative: Indoor Wayfinding for People who are Blind or Partially Sighted
with Mary Ann Bent, Debbie Gillespie
September 11, 2018 – Hacknight #159
What Canada can learn from Brazil on Internet Governance
with Natasha Tusikov
May 29, 2018 – Hacknight #144
with Shagithya Deivendran, Fahad Khan
City of Toronto Automated Vehicles Team with Shagithya Deivendran and Fahad Khan
May 08, 2018 – Hacknight #141
Building Old Toronto: An open-source, open-data map tool to help locals discover Toronto's past
with Dan Vanderkam
March 20, 2018 – Hacknight #134
Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan
with Brianna Smrke, Laura Hache
March 13, 2018 – Hacknight #133
NXT City Prize winners Lucas DeClavasio, Monica Low & Andrew Patterson
March 06, 2018 – Hacknight #132
Closing the Gender Gap on Council
with Li Koo, Chris Cowperthwaite
January 09, 2018 – Hacknight #124
King St. Transit Pilot
with Jesse Coleman, Raphael Dumas
December 12, 2017 – Hacknight #122
End of the Year Review!
with Sharmarke Noor, Jake Miller, Mohammed Asaduallah, Henrik Bechmann, Raphael Dumas, Micah Richardson, Marc De Pape
October 24, 2017 – Hacknight #115
with Lindsay Clarke, Andrew Hladkyj, Zaid Khan, Chris Leveille
OCAD’s Strategic Foresight & Innovation Program
October 03, 2017 – Hacknight #112
Using Artificial Intelligence for Immigration
with Nargiz Mammadova
September 05, 2017 – Hacknight #108
Investigating Ways to Build Data Literacy and Data Confidence
with Binh Lu, Matthew Clarke, Kristie Pratt
August 22, 2017 – Hacknight #106
City of Toronto Open Data Master Plan
with Karen Gomez, Denis Carr
July 18, 2017 – Hacknight #101
Community & Social Services Data Analytics and Evaluation Strategy
with Jose Iguiñiz, Mandeep Flora
July 04, 2017 – Hacknight #99
Using City of Toronto's Open Data to create a Tableau Dashboard
with Lilly Tong
June 27, 2017 – Hacknight #98
The Open Democracy Project
with Riley Peterson, Micah Richardson
June 06, 2017 – Hacknight #95
with Safiah Chowdhury
Improving How Residents Access Social Assistances using Human-Centered design
May 30, 2017 – Hacknight #94
Writing a Scraper and API for Toronto Homeless Shelter Usage
with William Wolfe-Wylie
May 16, 2017 – Hacknight #92
with Sarita Parmar, Shanna-Kay Smith
Open Architecture Collaborative Toronto
May 09, 2017 – Hacknight #91
The World in Ten Blocks
with Marc Francoeur, Robinder Uppal
April 25, 2017 – Hacknight #89
Arnstein's Ladder of Participation
with Karen Louise Smith
April 04, 2017 – Hacknight #86
The City of Toronto's New Human Services Finder Tool
with Melissa Armstrong, Rebecca Turner
February 28, 2017 – Hacknight #81
Project updates from DemocracyKit and Guerrilla Archiving
with Chris Cowperthwaite, Katie Gilfillan, Matt Price, Dawn Walker|Dawn Walker
January 31, 2017 – Hacknight #77
with André Côté, Grahame Rivers
Ontario's Digital Government Agenda
November 08, 2016 – Hacknight #67
Open Democracy Project
with Chris Cowperthwaite
October 18, 2016 – Hacknight #64
The Youth Employment Challenge
with Lia Milito
August 09, 2016 – Hacknight #54
INHALE Toronto
with Jolene Cushman
August 02, 2016 – Hacknight #53
Open Data Journey: Of Glass Ceilings & Mountain Climbing
with Keith McDonald
April 19, 2016 – Hacknight #38
The City of Toronto Transportation Services Big Data Innovation team
with Jesse Coleman, Stephen Buckley
March 22, 2016 – Hacknight #34
SMS Chatbots for Citizen Engagement
with Michael-Owen Liston
March 15, 2016 – Hacknight #33
Discussion on Public Accountability & Councillor Voting Records
with Alonzo Bartley
December 01, 2015 – Hacknight #20
with Henrik Bechmann, Matthew Gray, Gabe Sawhney, Alex Lougheed
Project Updates
November 17, 2015 – Hacknight #18