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Video | 2024
Flooding: Toward a Municipal Contribution to Economic Risk Sharing
Bernard Deschamps, Sonali Chakraborti
One of the authors of the report, Flooding: Toward a Municipal Contribution to Economic Risk Sharing, Bernard Deschamps sat down with IMFG to discuss why it is important that municipalities implement a cost-sharing mechanism to reduce flooding risks.
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Video | 2024
Levelling Up Innovation in Local Government: An Evaluation of International Smart City Competitions
Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, Shauna Brail
Austin Zwick and Zachary Spicer discuss what they learned from studying smart city competitions from around the world and what governments can do to improve these competitions in the future.
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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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Video | 2024
Second Annual IMFG Address by Regional CAOs
Gary Kent, Elaine Baxter-Trahair, Erin Mahoney
In this second annual IMFG address, regional Chief Administrative Officers of Durham, York and Peel gave their perspectives on the role and effectiveness of regional governments, and discussed how they are addressing the housing crisis as well as the underlying infrastructure needed to serve it.
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Video | 2023
Development Charges: The case for and against
Adam Found, Ben Dachis
Development charges are currently being debated across Canada. On November 14, 2023, two municipal finance exports explored differing viewpoints on development charges.
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Video | 2023
11th City Manager’s Address: A New Deal for Toronto: What if They Say ‘Yes’
Paul Johnson, Sabine Matheson
Toronto City Manager Paul Johnson discussed the intergovernmental New Deal Working Group aimed at establishing a path to fiscal sustainability.
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Video | 2023
New Revenue Sources for Toronto: Learning from Other Cities
Heather Taylor, Andrew Reschovsky, François Vaillancourt, Antti Moisio
On May 18, 2023, a panel of experts brought examples of different revenue sources used in cities around the world. They told us what works, what doesn’t, and what could be applied to Toronto.
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Video | 2023
Making the Case for Regionalism
Don Iveson, Jen Nelles, Zack Taylor
Don Iveson, former Mayor of Edmonton and Chair of Canada's Big City Mayors’ Caucus, made the case for regionalism on January 17, 2023. He was was joined by Jen Nelles from the Oxford Brooks Business School and Zack Taylor from Western University who discussed ideas around regional coordination and highlighted some of the findings from their research.
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