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IMFG paper on flood risk in British Columbia and Quebec argues that restructuring disaster financial assistance could incentivize municipalities to improve flood protection and suggests tools they can employ to achieve lower risk.
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Don Iveson, former Mayor of Edmonton and Chair of Canada's Big City Mayors’ Caucus, made the case for regionalism on January 17, 2023. He was was joined by Jen Nelles from the Oxford Brooks Business School and Zack Taylor from Western University who discussed ideas around regional coordination and highlighted some of the findings from their research.
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Don Iveson, former Mayor of Edmonton and Chair of Canada's Big City Mayors’ Caucus, made the case for regionalism on January 17, 2023. He was was joined by Jen Nelles from the Oxford Brooks Business School and Zack Taylor from Western University who discussed ideas around regional coordination and highlighted some of the findings from their research.
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New IMFG report analyzes the fiscal health of U.S. cities and finds that, between 2000 and 2014, many cities were in poor health and disparities among cities increased.
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On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, the CAOs of York, Peel and Durham regions outlined their current fiscal situations and provided a fiscal outlook. They explored their region’s COVID-19 response, and set out some future goals, including in the context of complex intergovernmental relationships across the GTA and with the provincial and federal governments.
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On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, the CAOs of York, Peel and Durham regions outlined their current fiscal situations and provided a fiscal outlook. They explored their region’s COVID-19 response, and set out some future goals, including in the context of complex intergovernmental relationships across the GTA and with the provincial and federal governments.
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New IMFG report describes the current challenges in delivering police services across three orders of government, and sets out approaches to address these challenges.
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On November 29, 2022, IMFG postdoctoral fellow Robert Stewart outlined the GIB model, described how GIB entities are being used across several countries to finance low-carbon economic activity, and discussed the potential application of GIBs as tools for Canadian municipalities to bridge low-carbon financing gaps.
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