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March 2021
Taking Flight: The Role of Airports in Thriving City Regions
This webinar looked at the following questions: What role do airports play in ensuring thriving and prosperous city regions? How will that change following the COVID-19 crisis? How can governments at all levels work together to make sure airports are fully integrated within their regions and continue to succeed as economic hubs?
Find out more »February 2021
Inclusionary Zoning: Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Toronto
Toronto’s Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) policy will go before City Council this year. The IZ tool has produced new affordable housing by compelling developers to set aside a portion of their new housing units as affordable housing in the US and the UK. What lessons can help inform the implementation of IZ in Toronto?
Find out more »Policy in Place: Models for Federal-Provincial-Municipal Collaboration
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of cities as partners in implementing and enforcing national and provincial policies, programs, and services. This webinar looked at how can federal-provincial-municipal collaboration be improved and what models exist for all three orders government to come together and address shared policy challenges?
Find out more »November 2020
Redevelopment and Equity: Examining the Impacts of Revitalization in a Resurgent Detroit
This webinar examined the impacts of regeneration initiatives on housing affordability in Detroit. It analyzed how property tax abatements, housing subsidies and demand-side incentives can help to stabilize neighbourhoods and spur redevelopment activity, but also contribute to gentrification pressures and potential displacement.
Find out more »9th Annual IMFG Toronto City Manager’s Address: If Not Now When? A Whole of Government Approach to Recovery
What does Toronto and the region need to recover from COVID-19 and build back stronger? How can we build on recent successes and continue to address and overcome the constraints and barriers that have historically limited effective intergovernmental and intersectoral collaboration? What will partnership look like across the GTHA?
Find out more »October 2020
Global Check-Up: How Has COVID-19 Affected Municipal Fiscal Health?
Many Canadian municipalities have taken hits to their budgets due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But what has the effect been on municipalities around the world? Have municipalities in different countries fared better than others? What accounts for any differences? What needs to be done to ensure municipalities bounce back?
Find out more »Municipal Finance and COVID-19 in Canada: What Comes Next?
This panel examined the continued impact of COVID-19 on municipal finance. How are municipalities preparing for their 2021 budgets? What impacts are they anticipating from COVID-19? What steps are needed at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels to safeguard the fiscal health of municipalities?
Find out more »September 2020
A City for All: Achieving More Inclusive Municipal Governance in Toronto
Over the last several months, Toronto’s fissures and inequalities have been put on display. Protests against police brutality and anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism have once again highlighted the systemic racism that undergirds many of the city’s key institutions, all while COVID-19 has disproportionately affected areas of the city with large racialized and newcomer populations. These events have sparked many important conversations about policy gaps, such as the need for more race-based data, and policy solutions, such as calls to defund…
Find out more »April 2020
How Will Local Governments Deal With The COVID Cash Crunch?
Municipalities across Canada are facing significant financial pressures due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. On Thursday, April 30, join the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) and Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance for a webinar conversation about what the crisis means for municipal budgets and fiscal sustainability in the short and long term.
Find out more »December 2019
Engagement to Action: Improving Policy Outcomes Through Better Consultation
In an era of increasing political polarization, compromise seems difficult to come by. Simultaneously, recent reports show public trust in government is declining. Both conditions can make public consultation more difficult as communities become reticent to engage with one another and with institutions. However, bringing people together in thoughtful dialogue may be especially important in this environment. On December 3, experts from different sectors discussed the role of public consultation in policy development within the context of increasing polarization and…
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