Search Results for: Governance
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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Presentation | 2024
The Politics of Local Budgeting in Canada: Three Case Studies
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.
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Video | 2024
The Culture of Public Money: Local, Provincial and Federal Perspectives
Peter Wallace
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.
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Presentation | 2023
Changing Patterns of Governance in Metropolitan Regions: Australian and Canadian Perspectives
Graham Sansom, Janice Baker, Zack Taylor
Panel discussed new trends in regional governance in Australia and implications for Greater Toronto, Ontario, and Canada, with a focus on the dissolution of Peel Region.
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Forum Paper | 2023
Strong(er) Mayors in Ontario – What Difference Will They Make?
Zack Taylor et al
Led by IMFG Fellow Zack Taylor, this Forum paper brings together the contributions of the panelists who participated in the IMFG panel on Strong(er) Mayors – What Difference Will They Make?, held last October following the Government of Ontario’s decision to expand the powers of the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa. The paper has been updated to reflect key developments since the panel took place, including the additional powers given to the mayor in the Better Municipal Governance Act.
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Who Does What Report | 2022
The Municipal Role in Policing
Alok Mukherjee, Jihyun Kwon, Erick Laming
New IMFG report describes the current challenges in delivering police services across three orders of government, and sets out approaches to address these challenges.
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Other | 2022
Expert Commentary on Fall 2022 Changes to Municipal Governance in Ontario
Zack Taylor
Bills 3 and 39 have brought major changes to municipal governance in Ontario. IMFG Fellow Zack Taylor synthesizes expert commentary on these changes, following a panel with Karen Chapple, Gabriel Eidelman, Matt Elliott and Alison Smith.
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Video | 2022
Strong(er) Mayors: What Difference Will They Make?
Karen Chapple, Gabriel Eidelman, Matt Elliott, Alison Smith, Zack Taylor
In this video, our expert panel examined what the “Strong Mayors” policy actually means: what difference will it really make? Is it a sea change or a tempest in a teapot? Will strong mayors actually mean stronger cities?
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Search Research Archive
Canadian Property Management: Almos Tassonyi on a Federal Surtax on Vacant Residential Land
October 22, 2024
CityNews: Enid Slack on City of Toronto Budget Consultations
October 21, 2024
Honolulu Civil Beat: Alexandra Flynn on Vancouver’s Empty Homes Tax
October 18, 2024