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New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance provides lessons for cities across Canada from Toronto’s 2013 ward boundary review. Toronto, June 22, 2017 – In 2013, the City of Toronto embarked on its first ward boundary review (WBR) since the enactment of the City of Toronto Act, 2006. By the time the […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack made a presentation on the role of the property tax in municipal finance at the 61st Annual Conference of the Institute of Municipal Assessors in Ottawa, on June 20, 2017.

IMFG Director Enid Slack participated in a University of Toronto/University College London workshop on affordable housing in London, UK on June 13 and 14, 2017.

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance explores the changing landscape of financial investments as a source of income for municipalities in Ontario. Toronto, June 7, 2017 – In light of the recently passed Modernizing Ontario’s Municipal Legislation Act, a newly released publication by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance explores […]

Director Enid Slack presented on the “Place and Role of Local Government in Canada” to a senior delegation from Myanmar in Toronto on June 5th, 2017. The group was hosted by the Forum of Federations.

IMFG’s new book, “Financing Infrastructure: Who Should Pay?”, edited by Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack, is available for pre-order (to be released in November). Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada’s urban infrastructure urgently needs work. Bringing together perspectives and case studies from across Canada, the US, and Europe, this book contends that the […]

Director Enid Slack presented on “Financing Municipal Infrastructure: Who Should Pay?”, at a roundtable hosted by the Canadian Political Science Association on Trudeau and Urban Infrastructure at Ryerson University, on June 1, 2017. The panel was chaired by IMFG Fellow, Dr. Zack Taylor, Assistant Professor, Western University.

Toronto June 1, 2017 – Today, the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance launches the first of three data visualizations intended to highlight key issues in municipal finance.

Director Enid Slack’s participation in the University of Toronto Smart Cities workshop in India was featured in Cities@UofT article, The Future of Smart Cities: University of Toronto partners with IIT-Bombay, Tata Trusts and Government of Ontario to deliver two-day Smart Cities workshop in Mumbai, India .

IMFG Board Chair, Alan Broadbent, launched his new book, You’re It, on May 25th at Conrad Grebel University College, in Waterloo, Ontario.