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Profiling best practices for Canadian cities and elevating the public debate.
Shaping Canada’s next generation of municipal finance and governance experts.
Featured Research
IMFG Paper | 2023
Bernard Deschamps, Michael Bourdeau-Brien, and Mathieu Boudreault
Who Does What Report | 2022
Katherine Fierlbeck, Gaynor Watson-Creed, Lawrence Loh, Lindsay McLaren, Jason Cabaj
IMFG Paper | 2022
Hsi-Chuan Wang
IMFG Paper | 2022
Brittany Andrew-Amofah, Alexandra Flynn, and Patricia Wood
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Recent Presentations
Video | 2023
Don Iveson, Jen Nelles, Zack Taylor
Don Iveson, former Mayor of Edmonton and Chair of Canada's Big City Mayors’ Caucus, made the case for regionalism on January 17, 2023. He was was joined by Jen Nelles from the Oxford Brooks Business School and Zack Taylor from Western University who discussed ideas around regional coordination and highlighted some of the findings from their research. Find out more »
Presentation | 2023
Don Iveson
Don Iveson, former Mayor of Edmonton and Chair of Canada's Big City Mayors’ Caucus, made the case for regionalism on January 17, 2023. He was was joined by Jen Nelles from the Oxford Brooks Business School and Zack Taylor from Western University who discussed ideas around regional coordination and highlighted some of the findings from their research. Find out more »
Video | 2022
Janice Baker, Elaine Baxter-Trahair, Bruce Macgregor, Drew Fagan
On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, the CAOs of York, Peel and Durham regions outlined their current fiscal situations and provided a fiscal outlook. They explored their region’s COVID-19 response, and set out some future goals, including in the context of complex intergovernmental relationships across the GTA and with the provincial and federal governments. Find out more »
Presentation | 2022
Janice Baker, Elaine Baxter-Trahair, Bruce Macgregor, Drew Fagan
On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, the CAOs of York, Peel and Durham regions outlined their current fiscal situations and provided a fiscal outlook. They explored their region’s COVID-19 response, and set out some future goals, including in the context of complex intergovernmental relationships across the GTA and with the provincial and federal governments. Find out more »
Presentation | 2022
Robert Stewart
On November 29, 2022, IMFG postdoctoral fellow Robert Stewart outlined the GIB model, described how GIB entities are being used across several countries to finance low-carbon economic activity, and discussed the potential application of GIBs as tools for Canadian municipalities to bridge low-carbon financing gaps. Find out more »