Cayley Burgess presents on "Preparing for the Costs of Extreme Weather in Canadian Cities: Issues, Tools, Ideas". Cayley is the 2011 recipient of the IMFG Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance.

Gabriel Eidelman presents on "Landlocked: Exploring Institutional Inertia on Toronto's Waterfront, 1960-2000". Gabriel is the 2011 recipient of the Blanche and Sandy van Ginkel Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance.

The fourth lecture in our "Moving Our Region: Transportation for the Future" series is entitled, Funding Transportation for the Future: Strategies for Winning Public Support, featuring John Inglish and Barry Watson and moderated by Joe Berridge.

IThe third lecture in our "Moving Our Region: Transportation for the Future" is entitled, National Transit Strategy and Policy: North American and International Perspectives on the Federal Role, featuring Steve Heminger and Matthew Mendelsohn, and moderated by Joe Berridge.

Howard Chernick presents on "Cities in the U.S. and Around the World: Getting the Finances Right". Chernick is Professor of Economics, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Following the banking and economic crisis, cities are being encouraged to adopt new strategies that embrace green economies, emerging markets, new technologies, and the modernization of export industries. This talk explores these new urban strategies.

Co-sponsored by Neptis Foundation, on December 4 2008, this talk features presentations by Zack Taylor, Planner and doctoral candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto,and John Van Nostrand, Architect and Planner; with panelists Andrea Gabor, Partner, Urban Strategies, Inc.; Brad Graham, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Ontario Government; and Bruce Krushelnicki, Director of Planning, City of Burlington.

This event features IMFG's Visiting Fellow Trinh Hong Loan at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

The second seminar in our "Moving Our Region: Transportation for the Future" series is entitled, "Planning for Better Transportation Outcomes in Complex Environments: Lessons Learned from Vancouver and Chicago".

The first session of its 2010-2011 seminar series “Moving Our Region: Transportation for the Future” is entitled “Transport for our Region in 2030… But not as we know it” with George Hazel, OBE, Chairman of MRC McLean Hazel, a subsidiary of Toronto-based MMM Group, and Joe Berridge, Partner at Urban Strategies.