Who Does What Report | 2025
The Governance of Homeless Encampments in Canada
Alexandra Flynn and Estair Van Wagner
New IMFG report identifies homeless encampments as an urgent human rights crisis and highlights how adopting new encampment strategies based on human rights will achieve a more dignified and efficient public outcome.
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IMFG Paper | 2025
Fiscal Gains from Real Estate Development: The Case of Québec Municipalities
Jean-Philippe Meloche
Report examines the relationship between municipal growth and property taxation in Québec.
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IMFG Paper | 2025
Eco-Fiscal Tools and Municipal Finance: Current Practices and Opportunities
Jean-Philippe Meloche, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot
Report details how municipalities can use innovative eco-fiscal tools (taxes, fees, and charges) to influence behaviour and combat climate change.
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Who Does What Report | 2025
The Municipal Role in Mental Health
R. Marcus Hammond, Barb Fornssler, Elaine Hyshka, Kwame McKenzie, et al.
Who Does What report examines the role municipalities can play in delivering mental health and harm reduction services.
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IMFG Paper | 2025
A Fleeting Metropolitan Moment
Gabriel Eidelman, Jen Nelles
Report details the rise and fall of a bottom-up, voluntary regional collaboration in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and offers lessons about what it takes to build effective metropolitan governance.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Flooding: Toward a Municipal Contribution to Economic Risk Sharing
Bernard Deschamps, Philippe Gachon, Michel Leclerc, Mathieu Boudreault
Report proposes an economic contribution mechanism for municipalities facing floods to reduce inequity and encourage mitigation and risk reduction.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Levelling Up Innovation in Local Government: An Evaluation of International Smart City Competitions
Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, Aaron Eben
Report evaluates whether the nationally-led smart city competition model advances technological adoption in participating cities.
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Forum Paper | 2024
Changing Patterns of Governance in Metropolitan Regions: Australian and Canadian Perspectives
Graham Sansom, Zack Taylor, Janice Baker
IMFG Forum paper reflects on recent changes to metropolitan governance in Greater Western Sydney in Australia and Peel Region in Canada, and concludes that current approaches are falling short in both countries.
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Toronto Star: 13th Annual Toronto City Manager’s Address
November 25, 2025
Global Radio: Enid Slack on the Challenges Facing Municipalities
October 21, 2025
CBC Calgary: Enid Slack on How Canadian Municipalities Face Similar Fiscal Strains
October 18, 2025
