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Toronto City Manager Paul Johnson spoke about the implementation of the New Deal for Toronto as well as future deliverables in the 2024 City Manager's Address.
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Toronto City Manager Paul Johnson spoke about the implementation of the New Deal for Toronto as well as future deliverables in the 2024 City Manager's Address.
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Report proposes an economic contribution mechanism for municipalities facing floods to reduce inequity and encourage mitigation and risk reduction.
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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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Report evaluates whether the nationally-led smart city competition model advances technological adoption in participating cities.
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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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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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The 2023-24 Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Graduate Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance Keir Matthews-Hunter presented preliminary findings from analysis of approved multi-residential development applications from 2012-2015.
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