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  • Development charges: The case for and against

    Massey College, Massey Common Room 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Development charges are currently being debated across Canada. On November 14, 2023, two municipal finance exports explored differing viewpoints on development charges.

  • Wellbeing Budgets in New Zealand and Canada: What Can Municipalities Learn?

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

    On November 29, 2023, Richard M. Bird post-doctoral fellow, Stephanie Ortynsky, outlined how New Zealand adopted and implemented its innovative wellbeing approach to budgeting, described where Canada stands on wellbeing budgets, and discussed how Canadian municipalities could benefit from considering their budget decisions holistically.

  • Second Annual IMFG Address by Regional CAOs

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

    In this second annual IMFG address, regional Chief Administrative Officers of Durham, York and Peel gave their perspectives on the role and effectiveness of regional governments, and discussed how they are addressing the housing crisis as well as the underlying infrastructure needed to serve it.

  • The Culture of Public Money: Local, Provincial and Federal Perspectives

    Massey College, Massey Common Room 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    On April 11 2024, Peter Wallace, who has played key roles at all three orders of government, joined the IMFG’s Enid Slack for a candid chat about the financial governance at the heart of Canada’s federal government, its largest province and the largest city.

  • 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.

  • 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,

  • 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.