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IMFG Director Enid Slack spoke to Metro Morning’s Matt Galloway on the CBC about the city’s financial situation, and the role taxes will play in the coming election. Listen to the interview here.

IMFG is pleased to welcome Visiting Scholar Bernard Dafflon to the Institute this fall. Bernard is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Economic and Social Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. While at IMFG, he will be conducting research on municipal finance. His research will be published in the IMFG Papers on Municipal Finance and Governance series, and he will give […]

The author of IMFG Perspectives 11, Matti Siemiatycki, was featured in an article on the CBC. The Perspectives paper referred to in the article, Cost Overruns on Infrastructure Projects: Patterns, Cause, and Cures can be accessed here.

IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Gustavo Carvalho’s new IMFG Perspectives paper (No. 18), Cities as Prudent Investors: New Rules for Investment by Ontario Municipalities, was featured in a Financial Post article entitled, “Ontario to give cities more leeway to invest their money, but that could mean more risk as well.”

Former IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Abigail Friendly’s new IMFG Paper, Land Value Capture and Social Benefits: Toronto and São Paulo Compared (No. 33), was featured in this month’s issue of eFocus Municipal Assessment & Taxation (subscribers only).

The IMFG Paper Climate Change, Floods, and Municipal Risk Sharing in Canada (No. 30), by Daniel Henstra and Jason Thistlethwaite, was featured in a Metro News article entitled, “How Toronto is trying to prevent future floods.”

IMFG Director Enid Slack was interviewed for an article entitled, “Toronto’s Fiscal Autonomy: Revenue Tools Needed” in the July 28 issue of Nova Res Urbis (subscribers only). The article featured her new IMFG Perspectives paper, How Much Local Fiscal Autonomy Do Cities Have? “A Comparison of Eight Cities around the World (No. 19).

IMFG Director Enid Slack was interviewed by Metro News on July 25, 2017 for an article, Toronto’s lack of tax flexibility makes it less competitive: Study, based on her new IMFG Perspectives paper, How Much Local Fiscal Autonomy Do Cities Have? A Comparison of Eight Cities around the World.

IMFG Director Enid Slack was interviewed on CBC’s “On The Money” on July 25, 2017 following the release of her new IMFG Perspectives paper, How Much Local Fiscal Autonomy Do Cities Have? A Comparison of Eight Cities around the World.

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance compares fiscal autonomy of eight global cities – Toronto has fewer tax options than almost all others. Toronto, July 25, 2017 – Major cities across Canada have been asking for more fiscal autonomy so that they can “control their own destiny.” But what exactly is […]