What's the best city in Canada for youth to live and work? Find out now!
Youthful Cities is excited to release the Urban Work Index 2023, championed by RBC Future Launch. Now in its third iteration, this ranking covers key topics within the ecosystem of work — education + training, affordability, good youth jobs, entrepreneurial spirit, city economy, equity + diversity, sustainability, public health, public transportation, and digital access.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s National Essential Skills Initiative program.
DEVlab is a project led by Youthful Cities in partnership with Tamarack Institute to develop a dynamic, engaged, and vital young workforce in cities through a deep investigation into the skills youth need to succeed. It is initially funded in part by the Government of Canada’s National Essential Skills Initiative program. We will use a community action research approach across eight Canadian cities: Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Regina, Moncton, Yellowknife, and Whitehorse.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s National Essential Skills Initiative program.
Youthful Cities, in partnership with Tamarack Institute, seeks to investigate how the youth workforce and work ecosystems in Canada have changed after the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are asking you to participate in our online survey: What's Up with Work Lately? This survey aims to better understand how young people view their work-life dynamics, their employability, the resources provided by their cities, and the skills needed to succeed in the current and future job markets. Your answers will help inform research around public policies for youth work and living practices in your Canadian city. This survey takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.
Join us as we assemble a think and do tank for/by youth championed by RBC Future Launch and the Government of Canada.
Application has been extended until December 10th, 2023! For those residing outside of Vancouver, travel, accommodation, and meals are provided. For those who live in Vancouver, travel stipends and meals are included
Youthful Cities is a social enterprise that creates data-driven solutions to make cities better for everyone. We bring together young people (15-29 year-olds) to collect data, spark dialogue, generate insights, and then work towards positive action. Click here to learn more about our values.
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Rob Carrick of The Globe and Mail discusses some of the findings of the Urban Work Index 2023 and the struggles young people face around affordability in the top-ranking cities.
Check out our executive director Robert Barnard’s National Observer article all about youthfulness.
At Youthful Cities, we know data is so much more than just numbers. We create a variety of web apps, data visualizations, and interactive data stories to activate the data we work so hard to capture.
Youthful Cities uses the community action research model to collect public opinion data, which can take the form of surveys or interviews. We hire youth from local communities and involve them in the process from start to finish.
Youthful Cities has nearly 10 years’ experience working with data to rank cities both in Canada and globally. The 6 Urban Attributes – connectedness, openness, dynamism, playfulness, curiosity, and inventiveness – help us shape our indicators and give our work a unique perspective.
Open Up is Youthful Cities’ Open Data Literacy + Activation Program that builds open data capacity in the youth-serving sector by empowering organizations and their changemakers with tools to activate open data in order to enhance their organization’s impact.
Enabling youth through a pop-up “think and do tank” co-creation model to effect change in their cities. Hackathons are a condensed version of the lab model that can be delivered virtually.
Summits bring together great people and spark dialogue around important issues. They provide unique opportunities for networking and connection. To make sure great ideas don’t fall through the cracks, summits can be combined with the virtual hackathon model following the conclusion of in-person sessions.
