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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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Toronto City Manager Paul Johnson spoke on "Feeding Focus and Starving Distraction: Focusing on Priorities to Deliver on Torontonians' Investment."
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On January 30, 2025, the institute held IMFG @ 20, an afternoon of panels and discussions based on essays published in honour of the celebration.
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On the occasion of IMFG @ 20, several IMFG contributors looked back at their past papers to reflect on what they think now about the issues they wrote about earlier, and how they see the future 20 years from now. Authors include Enid Slack, Zack Taylor, Alexandra Flynn, Gabriel Eidelman, Adam Found, and Matti Siemiatycki.
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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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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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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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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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