What’s New at IMFG

IMFG’s 2015-2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow Abigail Friendly has been appointed Assistant Professor in Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, Netherlands, starting in July 2017.

IMFG Graduate Fellow Austin Zwick was awarded the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship.

Harry Kitchen, IMFG’s Visiting Scholar, led a discussion on “Financing Municipal Services as Communities Age” at a Special City Council Meeting, Kingston on April 25, 2017.

IMFG was featured on Cities@UofT – a new website showcasing the University of Toronto’s expertise in all things urban: research, teaching and engagement/outreach.

This month’s issue of eFocus Municipal Assessment & Taxation (subscribers only), a subscription-based taxation report, made mention of two IMFG upcoming presentations.

IMFG Director Enid Slack, participated in a panel discussion and presented on Fiscal Sustainability at the Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario (AMCTO) 2017 Municipal Leaders’ Forum […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack and Visiting Scholar Harry Kitchen were featured in CBC New Brunswick article, New agency should reassess all properties, Saint John deputy mayor says.”

IMFG Board Chair, Alan Broadbent, gave keynote address at the Tamarack Institute’s poverty reduction summit, Cities Reducing Poverty, in Hamilton, Ontario.

IMFG Director Enid Slack wrote a chapter on “The Geography of Local Finance” in Handbook of the Geographies of Money and Finance, edited by Ron Martin and Jane Pollard, Cheltenham, […]

Sara Hughes presented findings from her recent IMFG Perspectives Paper, Reducing Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions, at a Lunch and Learn session for the City of Toronto entitled, “Ideas to Address […]