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This presentation explores some key challenges and considerations when it comes to fare integration in Toronto. How can lessons learned from other major cities help us to develop our own transit fare policies?
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This paper argues that additional taxes are entirely appropriate for major cities and estimates the potential revenue that some of these taxes could generate in eight Canadian cities – Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, and Halifax.
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What new financial instruments and strategies could municipalities rely on to take advantage of today’s low interest rates? What can we learn from municipal lending markets elsewhere?
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This presentation was delivered by Dr. Enid Slack to the Caribbean Valuation and Construction Conference in St. Lucia.
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A presentation given by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Caribbean Valuation and Construction Conference in St. Lucia.
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Toronto is known for having been a prosperous and successful city in the decades after the Second World War, and the postwar period has come to be seen as something of a Golden Age for the city. What role did Toronto’s postwar municipal finances play in making the city the success that it was?
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In this presentation, historian Richard White presents on the history of Toronto’s revenues and expenditures, public debt, regional governance, intergovernmental finances, and more.
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In this video, Toronto City Manager Peter Wallace delivers his annual address to IMFG. Toronto is facing tough decisions in the coming years: does the City have the right toolkit to fund high quality public services and badly needed capital improvements? Do we have a solid foundation on which to position our city-building objectives?
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