On February 25, IMFG Chair Alan Broadbent participated at the ROMA-OGRA Conference, debating with Harry Kitchen the motion: “Be it Resolved that Ontario’s Prosperity no longer depends on its rural […]
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22 Feb,
2013
Council-Staff Relations Feature in The Grid discusses IMFG Fault Lines Report
“Who Actually Runs this City?”, a feature story in The Grid published on February 20th, examining the relationship between Toronto city council and city staff, discusses the IMFG’s Fault Lines […]
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2013
Enid Slack comments on Toronto land transfer tax proposal in the Toronto Star
On February 14, Enid Slack was quoted in an article on the Toronto land transfer tax proposal in the Toronto Star.
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2013
IMFG’s ‘Fault Lines’ Report Profiled in Toronto NRU Publication
The January 25th edition of Novae Res Urbis Toronto featured an article about diffuse leadership at City Hall that profiled the The Fault Lines at City Hall, a new Perspectives […]
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2013
IMFG in the Media Regarding the Mayor Ford Appeal Decision
On January 28th, the IMFG’s André Côté provided some reaction to the governance implications of the appeal ruling regarding Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in the Toronto Star and on CTV […]
Find out more »21 Jan,
2013
IMFG releases report that examines the Fault Lines at Toronto City Hall
Toronto, January 21, 2013 – A report by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) looks at local government in Toronto in the wake of the tumultuous recent events […]
Find out more »14 Dec,
2012
“Big City, Big Ideas” series with Ester Fuchs discussed in Economic Development blog
On December 11, “Big City, Big Ideas” series with the talk by Ester Fuchs at the Munk School of Global Affairs was discussed in a blog at Economic Development.org. To […]
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2012
IMFG Fellow Aaron Moore’s new book: “Planning Politics in Toronto”
IMFG Fellow Aaron A. Moore‘s new book entitled Planning Politics in Toronto: The Ontario Municipal Board and Urban Development (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2013) is now available for […]
Find out more »04 Dec,
2012
Application Deadline for 2013-14 IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellowship
The Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) invites applications for the one-year IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year. The deadline for receipt of applications is March 29, 2013, […]
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2012
IMFG Releases Two Research Papers about Municipal Finance
A new IMFG Paper explores economies of scale in municipal service delivery. Using an econometric model to estimate costs for fire and police services for 445 municipalities in the Canadian […]
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