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This video features a panel discussion held on March 27, 2018, on the challenges and opportunities of the 1998 Toronto Amalgamation.  Speakers include Shirley Hoy (former City Manager, City of Toronto), John Matheson (former Chief of Staff to Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing), Alexandra Flynn (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto), Zack Taylor (Assistant Professor, Western University), and Enid Slack (event moderator, Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance).
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Zack Taylor, Assistant Professor, Western University, presented as part of the event Legacies of the Megacity: Toronto’s Amalgamation 20 Years Later on March 27, 2018. 
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Enid Slack, Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance presented as part of the event Legacies of the Megacity: Toronto’s Amalgamation 20 Years Later on March 27, 2018.
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Alexandra Flynn, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, presented "Toronto @ 20: Participation in a “too big, too small” city" as part of the event Legacies of the Megacity: Toronto’s Amalgamation 20 Years Later on March 27, 2018.
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Presented by Alexandra Flynn at the "Democracy from the Bottom Up: Unlocking the Potential of Community Councils" event on Dec. 12th, 2017.
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Presented by Jessica Silver at the "Democracy from the Bottom Up: Unlocking the Potential of Community Councils" Event on Dec 12th, 2017
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Presented by Edana Beauvais at the "Democracy from the Bottom Up: Unlocking the Potential of Community Councils" Event on Dec 12th, 2017
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In 2015, Toronto City Council asked city staff to review community councils as part of the City’s ward boundary review process. Toronto’s ward boundary review realigned the city’s wards, so the City now needs to set new boundaries for community councils. Staff has been directed to report back to Council in 2017 on the “impacts to governance and structure changes to the authority, duties, and function of community councils.” Meanwhile, in November 2016, the Province of Ontario introduced measures to strengthen the use of community councils across Ontario. There is thus a unique opportunity available to re-imagine the authority and use of Toronto’s community councils.
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