Month: May 2017

An editorial in the Globe and Mail on May 8, 2017, “In Canada, flooding happens because governments let it happen“, featured a recent IMFG Paper.

A new paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance explores the role of the city manager in Canadian municipal government.

IMFG Board Chair, Alan Broadbent, launched his new book You’re It, on May 4th , at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto.

IMFG welcomes Harry Kitchen as a Visiting Scholar. Harry is Professor Emeritus in the Economics Department at Trent University and is spending five months at the Institute researching the impact of changing demographics on municipal finances.

An article on who pays for damage and property tax relief due to fracking in this month’s issue of eFocus Municipal Assessment & Taxation (subscribers only) featured IMFG’s event, Local Governance and Public Finance Challenges of the Fracking Boom: Lessons for the US and Canada, presented by Austin Zwick on April 26th. The issue also […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack facilitated two panel discussions at the Ontario Community Hubs Summit 2017, May 1 -2. Dr. Slack sits on the Premier’s Advisory Group on Community Hubs.

Harry Kitchen, IMFG’s Visiting Scholar, presented a seminar on “Local Taxes and User Fees: Myths and Realities” at the Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario (AMCTO) , hosted by Region of Peel, Brampton on May 2, 2017.

IMFG’s 2015-2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow Abigail Friendly has been appointed Assistant Professor in Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, Netherlands, starting in July 2017.

IMFG Graduate Fellow Austin Zwick was awarded the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship.

Harry Kitchen, IMFG’s Visiting Scholar, led a discussion on “Financing Municipal Services as Communities Age” at a Special City Council Meeting, Kingston on April 25, 2017.