About Pulse Of Your City

Pulse Of Your City is an independent, city-aware local discovery site. Type in or auto-detect any city and the site reorganises itself around that place: the news feed switches to publications in your country, the sports scoreboard rebuilds around the leagues your country actually follows, the restaurants and attractions lists shift, the gas-price reference average updates, and the cost-of-living comparison adjusts its baseline. Nothing on the site is one-size-fits-all.

Who runs the site

The site is built and edited by Kirk Johnson, who lives in Canada and has spent the better part of the last decade working on consumer-facing web projects. The publisher of record is the same person — this is a one-person operation, not a content farm, and every editorial choice on the site comes back to me. If you have a question about a page, a correction, or a suggestion, you'll always reach me directly at feedback@exploreallplaces.com.

Why I built it

The project started in early 2024 as a private experiment. A close friend was moving from Winnipeg to Toronto and asked me, half-jokingly, whether I could put together a single page that answered the basic questions she kept Googling: what's the news here, what's hot this weekend, what does a normal week cost, where do locals actually eat, and what should I do with the kids on a free Saturday. I built a one-off page, she found it surprisingly useful, and then a second friend who was relocating from Halifax asked for the same thing. By the third request I'd stopped writing one-off pages and started building a city-aware version that worked for any place.

The site is intentionally not trying to be a hyper-local news desk, a tourism portal or a real-estate site. Each of those does its job well already. What was missing — and what this site exists to fill — is a single, opinionated, sourced overview of "what is this city like today" that updates itself when the city or the day changes.

What we publish

The site publishes original written guides on local news, live sports, restaurants, hot spots and events, attractions, date and family-night plans, buy-local shopping, gas prices, cost-of-living comparison, and the common factual questions people ask about a city. Each guide combines hand-written editorial copy (the part you're reading) with a live data layer that pulls from public, first-party APIs.

I do not republish full articles from other publishers. I link to them. I do not generate cookie-cutter pages from a template; every public page on the site has been hand-written and is revised as I learn what works. I do not run pages whose only purpose is to host advertising — every page has to earn its place by being genuinely useful.

Where the data comes from

The live data underneath the editorial copy comes from a small, deliberate set of public, first-party sources:

How we make money

The site is supported by display advertising (through Google AdSense, when the page-by-page approval is in place) and by affiliate links on the Buy Local page (Amazon Associates). No restaurant, attraction, venue or business pays for placement on the site. The lists are not sponsored. If a card is ever a paid placement, it will be labelled "Sponsored" — that has not happened to date.

Editorial standards and corrections

Every page links to the editorial policy, which spells out how I source facts, label opinion, and handle corrections. If something on the site is wrong, the fastest route to a fix is the contact page; include the URL of the page and a link to a public source for the correction, and I'll update it the same week.

Page last reviewed: May 21, 2026.