The May 3rd IMFG Graduate Fellow Seminar “Does Local Government Autonomy Promote Fiscal Sustainability? Lessons from Illinois’ home rule municipalities?” was advertised in the Municipal World Journal. More information about […]
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10 Apr,
2018
IMFG Director Enid Slack delivers Harry Kitchen Lecture at Trent University
IMFG Director Enid Slack presented “You Get What You Pay For: Funding Cities in the 21st Century” as part of the Harry Kitchen Lecture in Public Policy Series at Trent […]
Find out more »09 Apr,
2018
IMFG Director Enid Slack discusses transit, affordable housing at RBC Capital Markets’ Canadian Municipal Symposium
IMFG Director Enid Slack and Urban Land Institute’s Executive Director Richard Joy led a conversation called “City Building – Financial and Governance Structures to meet Increasing Demands of Transit, Affordable […]
Find out more »04 Apr,
2018
IMFG Director Enid Slack presents at the Conference on Smart Villages
IMFG Director Enid Slack delivered a presentation entitled, “Smart Villages- Financing Services and Infrastructure” at The Fields Institute Conference on Smart Villages.
Find out more »21 Mar,
2018
IMFG Director Enid Slack hosts engaging discussion at the III Ibero-American Forum of Mayors in Mendoza, Argentina
IMFG Director Enid Slack led a roundtable discussion entitled, “Cases and Challenges of Multilevel Metropolitan Coordination” to mayors and political leaders from Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean in Mendoza, […]
Find out more »15 Mar,
2018
Four ways that Ontario municipalities could finance climate change projects
New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance explores the potential and drawbacks of green bonds, environmental impact bonds, catastrophe bonds, and green banks for Ontario municipalities Toronto, […]
Find out more »15 Mar,
2018
Former IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Gustavo Carvalho’s new IMFG Paper covered in QP Briefing
Former IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Gustavo Carvalho’s new IMFG Paper (No. 37) Climate Finance for Canadian Cities: Is Debt Financing a Viable Alternative? was highlighted in a QP Briefing article entitled, “U […]
Find out more »08 Mar,
2018
IMFG Visiting Researcher Zachary Spicer featured in The Beacon Herald
In the article, “Will high-speed rail divide provincial voters in Southwestern Ontario?”, IMFG Visiting Researcher Zachary Spicer highlighted the potential political backlash of Ontario’s planned high-speed rail system in the upcoming […]
Find out more »20 Feb,
2018
IMFG Director Enid Slack interviewed for Beyond the Headlines radio show
IMFG Director Enid Slack was featured in a radio show entitled “Beyond the Budget: Examining Canadian Fiscal Policy” for Beyond the Headlines, describing the fiscal challenges facing all levels of the […]
Find out more »17 Feb,
2018
IMFG Visiting Researcher Zachary Spicer quoted in London Free Press
IMFG Visiting Researcher Zachary Spicer discussed the controversy of London, Ontario, becoming Canada’s first city to switch to ranked-ballot voting in the article, “New-look London vote will cost more to run, […]
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