Month: June 2018

IMFG Fellow Zack Taylor discussed the impact of Toronto’s ward boundaries on the October municipal elections and explained why new ward boundaries are “long overdue” in the Toronto Sun piece, “Balance of power at Toronto city hall up for grabs?”

The IMFG and Canadian Tax Foundation June 20 event Toronto: The Accidental Metropolis and public finance expert Bernard Dafflon’s latest IMFG Paper (No. 39), Returning to the Golden Rule of Balanced Budgets: The Institutional and Political Economy of Restricting Public Deficits, was featured in the June 2018 edition of the Municipal Journal World. 

IMFG Fellow Alexandra Flynn discussed the problems of Toronto’s cycling infrastructure and potential solutions to improve cyclist safety in The Globe and Mail piece, “Cycling should not be a contact sport. Toronto must do better for bikers’ safety.”

IMFG Fellow Zack Taylor looked at the voting differences between urban and rural areas in Ontario in the article, “Analysis: Stark urban-rural divide split local Ontario voters.”

IMFG Fellow Zack Taylor analyzed the feasibility of Ontario PC’s financial plans like reducing hydro costs in the Global News piece, “PCs win Ontario election- here’s a look at the promises Doug Ford made.”

An excerpt from IMFG Director Enid Slack’s panel discussion “What is a Fiscally Healthy City?” at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Municipal Fiscal Health International Conference on May 22, 2018, was featured in CitiesSpeak. 

IMFG Fellow Zack Taylor was quoted in an article entitled, “News Analysis: An NDP surge in London region? ‘I sense a lot of that’,” for London Free Press.    

Two new IMFG Papers provide lessons for local governments in managing and regulating smart-city technologies. Toronto, June 5, 2018 – The recent swell of interest in smart cities and the platform economy draws attention to the way the city of the future will be designed, built, and run. How will the shift toward “smart” impact […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack participated in workshops entitled “Trends in Property Taxation in Canada,” “The Role of the Property Tax In Local Government,“ “How to Reform the Property Tax: Challenges and Opportunities,” and “Policy Considerations for the Property Tax: Challenges and Solutions – Interactive Panel Discussion” at the International Property Tax Institute’s 13th Annual Mass […]

IMFG is delighted to announce the appointment of Alexandra Flynn as Fellow. Alexandra is an Assistant Professor in the City Studies program at the University of Toronto (Scarborough). She teaches and researches in the areas of urban governance and local government law.