Month: November 2017

IMFG Director Enid Slack, IMFG Board Chair Alan Broadbent, and IMFG Visiting Scholar Harry Kitchen spoke at the Big City Mayor’s Caucus Summit in Toronto, presented by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, on a panel entitled “The Right Tools for the Job”.

IMFG Director Enid Slack recently led a half-day workshop in Kampala on metropolitan governance for the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area, on behalf on the International Growth Centre at Oxford University and the London School of Economics.

On November 2nd, IMFG Director Enid Slack took part in Understanding Smarter Cities: What Happens Next?, an event co-sponsored by IMFG and organized by the Urban Studies Program at Innis College. This event was covered by The Public Policy & Governance Review. 

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance evaluates how best to price water for efficiency and conservation. Toronto, November 21, 2017 – Throughout much of the 20th century in Ontario, water was seen as a plentiful resource and water rates did not promote conservation. Today, the Province and more and more municipalities treat water […]

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance argues better pricing is needed to link those who benefit with those who pay for municipal infrastructure. Toronto, November 9, 2017 – IMFG is pleased to announce the release of a new paper, excerpted from the new book Financing Infrastructure: Who Should Pay?  The poor state of […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack guest lectured in an Urban Studies class at Innis College, regarding metropolitan governance.