IMFG Director Enid Slack presented on “Public Financing of Municipal Infrastructure” at a session on Financing of Infrastructure in First Nations Communities, sponsored by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, in Ottawa on July 19, 2017.
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IMFG’s Data Visualization launch featured in July issue of eFocus Municipal Assessment & Taxation
This month’s issue of eFocus Municipal Assessment & Taxation (subscribers only) featured IMFG’s launch of its Data Visualization Pilot Project, and the first data visualization which focuses on residential property taxes.
Find out more »IMFG author Abigail Friendly’s paper on land value capture tools and social equity featured in NRU article
IMFG Paper, Land Value Capture and Social Benefits: Toronto and São Paulo Compared, by Abigail Friendly, was featured in Novae Res Urbis Toronto article, Pooling Benefits, on July 14, 2017.
Find out more »New IMFG paper evaluates whether land value capture tools should be used for social equity.
New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance evaluates land value capture tools in Toronto and São Paulo through an equity lens. Toronto, July 12, 2017 – In Toronto, Section 37 of the Planning Act allows developers to exceed height and density restrictions in exchange for cash or in-kind contributions to the neighbouring […]
Find out more »Director Enid Slack facilitates workshop for the International Property Tax Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania
IMFG Director Enid Slack facilitated a workshop on property tax reform in Central and Eastern Europe for the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI) in Vilnius, Lithuania on June 29 and 30, 2017.
Find out more »IMFG author Alexandra Flynn interviewed by The Public Record on new IMFG research paper
IMFG author Alexandra Flynn was interviewed by The Public Record on June 28, 2017 about her new IMFG research paper, Re(creating) Boundary Lines: Assessing Toronto’s Ward Boundary Review Process. Listen to the interview here.
Find out more »IMFG featured in June issue of eFocus Municipal Assessment & Taxation
This month’s issue of eFocus Municipal Assessment & Taxation (subscribers only) featured an IMFG Paper, Climate Change, Floods and Municipal Risk Sharing in Canada by Daniel Henstra and Jason Thistlethwaite, and an IMFG presentation, Local Governance and Public Finance Challenges of the Fracking Boom: Lessons for the US and Canada by Austin Zwick.
Find out more »IMFG’s launch of Data Visualization Pilot Project featured in Cities@UofT blog post
IMFG’s launch of its Data Visualization Pilot Project was featured in the Cities@UofT blog post, Visualizing Ontario’s Municipal Finance Data: U of T’s Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance Launches Data Visualization Pilot Project on June 26, 2017.
Find out more »IMFG welcomes Board Member Shirley Hoy
IMFG is pleased to announce the appointment of Shirley Hoy to the Institute’s Board of Directors. Shirley Hoy’s public service career has spanned more than 30 years. Between 2001 and 2008, she served as City Manager for the City of Toronto. In the early 1990s she worked in the Ontario Government at the Assistant Deputy […]
Find out more »IMFG welcomes Dr. Zachary Spicer as Visiting Researcher
IMFG is pleased to welcome Dr. Zachary Spicer as Visiting Researcher. Dr. Spicer recently served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University. He received his PhD in Political Science from The University of Western Ontario and completed post-doctoral fellowships with the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the […]
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