Month: August 2018

IMFG Director Enid Slack presented a talk on “Metropolitan Governance: Lessons from International Case Studies” at the 3rd International Congress on Metropolitan Areas, co-sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Government of Chile in Santiago, Chile.

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance revisits the remaking of Toronto Toronto, August 21, 2018 – In 1998 the Province of Ontario consolidated Metropolitan Toronto and its six lower-tier municipalities into a single City of Toronto. It was a controversial decision. Supporters claimed amalgamation would produce a more cost-effective, transparent, and […]

IMFG Chair Alan Broadbent and Richard Florida wrote an article for The Globe and Mail entitled, “What is the most democratic and effective way to govern a city the size and economic import of Toronto?” exploring some of the governance challenges facing Toronto.

IMFG Director Enid Slack and IMFG Senior Fellow Richard M. Bird contributed a chapter entitled, “Financing Regional Public Transit in Ontario: The Case for Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection,” in the newly released McGill-Queen’s University Press book, Canada: The State of the Federation 2015: Canadian Federalism and Infrastructure.

IMFG Director Enid Slack gave the policy keynote speech entitled, “Governance and Finance of Metropolitan Areas: Learning from International Experience,” at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Conference on Urban Development and Economics in the Developing World in Shanghai, China. Dr. Slack also participated in two panel discussions, “Capitalization of Transaction Taxes in Housing Markets: Evidence from […]

The 2018 Q1 edition of the Municipal Monitor covered two IMFG papers: IMFG Paper (No. 30), Climate Change, Floods, and Municipal Risk Sharing in Canada, by Daniel Henstra and Jason Thistlethwaite and IMFG Perspectives paper (No. 20), The potential and consequences of municipal electoral reform, by IMFG Fellow Aaron Moore.