Betsy Powell of the Toronto Star reported on Toronto City Manager Peter Wallace’s 2016 City Manager’s Address to IMFG, in an article entitled Toronto can’t ‘cut our way out’ of budget […]
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IMFG Director Enid Slack discussing Fiscal Health at the Innovation Lab
On October 11, IMFG Director Enid Slack delivered a talk to the City of Toronto’s Innovation Lab on “Toronto’s Fiscal Health: Insights from the Outside.”
Find out more »Enid Slack speaks to the London Finance Commission
On October 7, IMFG Director Enid Slack provided oral evidence to the London Finance Commission in the UK, based on a report written for the Commission.
Find out more »Daily Commercial News reports on Matti Siemiatycki’s study calling for an infrastructure oversight agency
Daily Commercial News published an article on a new report by U of T professor Matti Siemiatycki, which recommends the establishment of a Canadian Infrastructure Investment Agencey as “centre of excellence,” […]
Find out more »IMFG Perspectives Paper: National Urban Policy: A Roadmap for Canadian Cities
Complex urban challenges require new thinking both locally and nationally: New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance examines the case for a national urban agenda in Canada.
Find out more »IMFG Forum Paper: Participatory Budgeting: The Practice and the Potential
Complex urban challenges require new thinking both locally and nationally: New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance examines the involvement of citizens in budgeting decisions at the […]
Find out more »Book Review of Is Your City Healthy in Public Finance and Management
“[A]n interesting read for academics, politicians and professionals in the field of municipal finance,” states Peter B. Boorsma in his review of Is Your City Healthy? Measuring Urban Fiscal Health in Public Finance and […]
Find out more »Enid Slack and Harry Kitchen cited in Maytree Opinion
In a recent editorial entitled The housing and transit budget shell game, Alan Broadbent cites research presented by Enid Slack and Harry Kitchen to support his argument that “Canada’s large cities […]
Find out more »Murtaza Haider quoted in TVO’s The Next Ontario
John Michael McGrath mentioned IMFG’s paper on tax increment financing for transit infrastructure, authored by Murtaza Haider and Liam Donaldson, in a The Next Ontario post called Can a private […]
Find out more »Paper Spotlight: Fostering Citizen Trust in Municipal Government
Geothink featured IMFG Perspectives A Recipe for Fiscal Trust (No. 13), by Pamela Robinson and Dina Graser in its Spotlight, entitled Fostering Citizen Trust in Municipal Government.
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