What’s New at IMFG

IMFG Fellow Zack Taylor’s co-authored research on the urban-rural divide between Liberals and Conservatives was featured on CBC online.

IMFG Director Enid Slack appeared in both St. Albert Today and the Toronto Star to discuss the impact of newly downloaded RCMP costs on small Alberta budgets.

Doug Anderson and IMFG Fellow Alexandra Flynn co-authored an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail summarizing the arguments from their IMFG Paper, Indigenous-Municipal Legal and Governance Relationships.

IMFG Director Enid Slack discussed the Ontario Chamber of Commerce report on the fiscal resilience of Ontario municipalities for Novae Res Urbis, stating that the province should get out of […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack commented in Alberta’s St. Albert Today on the “visibility” of property taxes as a deterrence to municipalities to raise them.

IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Julie Mah’s preliminary research on Section 37 and Affordable Housing in Toronto was discussed in an article in the Globe and Mail (paywall). It reported that only 1.5 […]

IMFG Fellow Alexandra Flynn co-authored an opinion piece on how to get cities out of their constitutional straitjacket for Policy Options.

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Richard Bird, Senior Fellow at IMFG and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics and the Rotman School of […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack and IMFG Manager of Programs & Research Tomas Hachard have co-authored a new article for Policy Options on the need for municipalities to be given more control […]

IMFG Fellow Alexandra Flynn co-authored an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun on provinces as partners and not ‘parents’ to cities.