• Third Annual Regional CAOs’ Address

    Campbell Conference Facility Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    On June 13, 2025, the CAOs of York, Peel and Durham Regions discussed how they are continuing to build communities while navigating the impact of tariffs, the influx of refugees and asylum seekers, and the nexus between development charges and housing affordability in the region.

  • IMFG @ 20

    Campbell Conference Facility Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    On January 30, 2025, IMFG celebrated 20 years with an afternoon of panel discussions featuring IMFG contributors as they reflected on their work.

  • Can Transit Infrastructure Projects Be Delivered Better?

    Campbell Conference Facility Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Eric Goldwyn of the NYU Marron Institute discussed the NYU Transit Costs project on how infrastructure projects can be delivered better.

  • A New Deal for Toronto: They Said “Yes” – What Happens Now?

    Campbell Conference Facility Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    On November 26, 2024, Toronto City Manager Paul Johnson discussed the implementation of the New Deal over the past year and looked ahead to key deliverables as well as next steps of how the City is working towards financial sustainability.

  • Rethinking Surplus Land: Three Decades of Municipal Land Sales in the City of Toronto

    School of Cities, Suite 853, Boardroom 55 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    On June 18, 2024, 2023-24 IMFG Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance Sean Grisdale provided the first comprehensive summary of housing development outcomes on former city land in Toronto, drawing on almost 30 years of data documenting land sales,

  • The Politics of Local Budgeting in Canada: Three Case Studies

    Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Room 108N 1 Devonshire Place, North House, Room 108N, Toronto, ON, Canada

    On June 12, 2024, Richard M. Bird Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stephanie Ortynsky, compared the process of local government budgeting to federal and provincial budgeting processes before diving into three case studies of municipalities that have embarked on budgetary reform: Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver.