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 […]
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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, […]
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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, […]
Find out more »14 Feb,
2018
IMFG Director Enid Slack featured in article in Globe and Mail
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 […]
Find out more »12 Feb,
2018
IMFG Forum paper featured in eFocus newsletter
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).
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