We were pleasantly surprised to see an article on libraries referenced on the home page of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.  https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/news/public-libraries-where-impromptu-exchanges-build-community

Public Libraries: Where impromptu exchanges build community and belonging (Municipal World)

By Anne Marie Madziak, a consultant with Southern Ontario Library Service, an agency of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport.