Latest Past Events
Rethinking Surplus Land: Three Decades of Municipal Land Sales in the City of Toronto
School of Cities, Suite 853, Boardroom 55 St. George Street, TorontoOn 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, TorontoOn 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.
The Culture of Public Money: Local, Provincial and Federal Perspectives
Massey College, Massey Common Room 4 Devonshire Place, TorontoOn 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.