Month: June 2017

IMFG Director Enid Slack facilitated a workshop on property tax reform in Central and Eastern Europe for the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI) in Vilnius, Lithuania on June 29 and 30, 2017.

IMFG author Alexandra Flynn was interviewed by The Public Record on June 28, 2017 about her new IMFG research paper, Re(creating) Boundary Lines: Assessing Toronto’s Ward Boundary Review Process. Listen to the interview here.

This month’s issue of  eFocus Municipal Assessment & Taxation (subscribers only) featured an IMFG Paper, Climate Change, Floods and Municipal Risk Sharing in Canada by Daniel Henstra and Jason Thistlethwaite, and an IMFG presentation, Local Governance and Public Finance Challenges of the Fracking Boom: Lessons for the US and Canada by Austin Zwick.

IMFG’s launch of its Data Visualization Pilot Project was featured in the Cities@UofT  blog post, Visualizing Ontario’s Municipal Finance Data: U of T’s Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance Launches Data Visualization Pilot Project on June 26, 2017.

IMFG is pleased to announce the appointment of Shirley Hoy to the Institute’s Board of Directors. Shirley Hoy’s public service career has spanned more than 30 years. Between 2001 and 2008, she served as City Manager for the City of Toronto. In the early 1990s she worked in the Ontario Government at the Assistant Deputy […]

IMFG is pleased to welcome Dr. Zachary Spicer as Visiting Researcher. Dr. Spicer recently served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University. He received his PhD in Political Science from The University of Western Ontario and completed post-doctoral fellowships with the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the […]

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance provides lessons for cities across Canada from Toronto’s 2013 ward boundary review. Toronto, June 22, 2017 – In 2013, the City of Toronto embarked on its first ward boundary review (WBR) since the enactment of the City of Toronto Act, 2006. By the time the […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack made a presentation on the role of the property tax in municipal finance at the 61st Annual Conference of the Institute of Municipal Assessors in Ottawa, on June 20, 2017.

IMFG Director Enid Slack participated in a University of Toronto/University College London workshop on affordable housing in London, UK on June 13 and 14, 2017.

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance explores the changing landscape of financial investments as a source of income for municipalities in Ontario. Toronto, June 7, 2017 – In light of the recently passed Modernizing Ontario’s Municipal Legislation Act, a newly released publication by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance explores […]