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On June 13, 2025, the CAOs of York, Peel and Durham Regions discussed how they are continuing to build communities while navigating the impact of tariffs, the influx of refugees and asylum seekers, and the nexus between development charges and housing affordability in the region.
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2024-25 Graduate Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance Peter Wu presented new research on the effects of the introduction of the City's land transfer tax on Toronto's real estate market.
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Who Does What report examines the role municipalities can play in delivering mental health and harm reduction services.
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Presentation on how eco-fiscal tools are used in Canadian cities, their impact, and some potential municipal eco-fiscal strategies held on May 22, 2025.
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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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Report details the rise and fall of a bottom-up, voluntary regional collaboration in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and offers lessons about what it takes to build effective metropolitan governance.
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Eric Goldwyn of the NYU Marron Institute discussed the NYU Transit Costs project on how infrastructure projects can be delivered better.
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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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