Category: News

IMFG Director Enid Slack and the late Richard Bird were cited in The Economist on their work on property tax reform in Ontario for an article on China’s new property […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack publishes a new paper called “The Rise of Megacities and Multi-Level Governance” as part of the Forum of Federations’ occasional paper series.

IMFG Director Enid Slack appeared on Kitchener-Waterloo’s CKGL 570News to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of regional amalgamation.

The 2020–2021 IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow, Julie Mah, was featured in a CBC online story about her paper on Evictions in Toronto where she called for more collaboration and data sharing […]

As part of the “Beyond Local: Bridging the Municipal Funding Gap” series, Airdrie Today quoted IMFG Director Enid Slack on how municipal responsibilities are changing while revenue sources remain the […]

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.