Month: January 2018

The recent IMFG Paper (No. 34) Financing Urban Infrastructure in Canada: Who Should Pay?, by IMFG Director Enid Slack and IMFG Senior Fellow Richard Bird, was featured on the Cato Institute’s blog, Cato at Liberty, in a post entitled “Who Should Pay for Infrastructure?” 

IMFG Director Enid Slack and Harry Kitchen’s paper More Tax Sources for Canada’s Largest Cities: Why, What, and How? was featured in an article in the Toronto Start entitled “Why Toronto could benefit from levying a sales tax” by columnist Christopher Hume.

IMFG and the Innovation Policy Lab’s co-sponsored event Promise and Peril in the Smart City: Local Government in the Age of Digital Urbanism was featured in U of T News in an article entitled U of T, Toronto experts offer insight into the ‘promise and peril’ of building smart cities. More about the event, including presentations, can be […]

IMFG’s work was quoted in the Montreal Gazette in an article entitled “As budget complaints persist, revenue ideas for Plante” regarding Mayor Valérie Plante’s proposed budget.

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance provides blueprint for effective interlocal cooperation agreements for Canadian municipalities. Toronto, January 18, 2018 – Municipalities across Canada face pressure to provide high-quality services as well as build and maintain infrastructure while relying on limited sources of revenue. For many municipalities, limited geographic size or […]

IMFG has an opening for an Administrator. Under the supervision of the IMFG Director and the IMFG Manager of Programs and Research, the Administrator performs a wide and dynamic range of duties for IMFG (event planning, publication coordination and proofreading, communications, finances, website management) and is responsible for the smooth running of the Institute’s administrative […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack was featured in a Torontoist article entitled “Sizing up amalgamation, 20 years on,” discussing the financial state of the city 20 years post-amalgamation.