Category: News

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack was featured in an article entitled, “John Tory will not commit to future cap on Toronto property taxes” in The Globe and Mail, discussing the city’s […]

The recent IMFG Forum paper Finding Common Ground: Interlocal Cooperation in Canada was mentioned in the latest edition of the eFocus – Municipal Assessment and Taxation’s newsletter (subscription only).  

The Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance partnered with the Canadian Tax Foundation to co-sponsor a Symposium on Municipal Taxation: Funding the Canadian City – a National Dialogue on Municipal […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack was featured in an article entitled, “Paying more, getting less” in The Observer Extra about commercial property taxes.

The recent IMFG Paper (No. 34) Financing Urban Infrastructure in Canada: Who Should Pay?, by IMFG Director Enid Slack and IMFG Senior Fellow Richard Bird, was featured on the Cato […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack and Harry Kitchen’s paper More Tax Sources for Canada’s Largest Cities: Why, What, and How? was featured in an article in the Toronto Start entitled “Why […]