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Presentation | 2014
Financing Cities in the 21st Century
Enid Slack
Presentation by IMFG Director Enid Slack for the Edmonton Regional Planning Speakers Series on October 21, 2014.
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Perspectives Paper | 2014
The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Mostly)
Zachary Spicer
This paper profiles election campaigns in six of Ontario’s biggest cities – Hamilton, London, Mississauga, Ottawa, Toronto and Windsor. For each of the six cities, a local expert was recruited to take on this task.
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Presentation | 2014
Universities, Cities, & Prosperity: An Agenda for the Future
Meric Gertler
A strong university helps build a strong city, and vice versa. Universities impart innovative dynamism and resilience to the economies of urban regions. They are stabilizing forces on urban economies, and on the local neighbourhoods they inhabit. And they connect their host regions to the world. What role should the University of Toronto play in our region’s future?
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Video | 2014
Universities, Cities and Prosperity: An Agenda for the Future
Meric Gertler
In this video, University of Toronto President Meric Gertler delivers a public talk at IMFG, as part of the ongoing Big City, Big Ideas lecture series organized by IMFG at its partners, entitled “Universities, Cities and Prosperity: An Agenda for the Future.” The event was moderated by Alan Broadbent.
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Perspectives Paper | 2014
The Many Faces of Leadership in a Thriving City
Alan Broadbent
A key ingredient in Toronto’s success has been the city-building and civic leadership that has emerged from private firms, public institutions, non-profits, and cultural sector organizations in Toronto’s wider civil society. This paper reflects on how, for any great city, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Presentation | 2014
The Fiscal Health of Ontario Municipalities
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the OMTRA Annual Conference on September 9, 2014 in Kingston, Ontario.
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Perspectives Paper | 2014
Is Toronto Fiscally Healthy? A Check-up on the City’s Finances
Enid Slack and André Côté
This paper describes the City of Toronto’s financial condition and recent fiscal trends in four areas: spending and services; taxes and revenues; infrastructure; and debt and savings.
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Presentation | 2014
Local Finance & Fiscal Equalization Schemes in a Comparative Perspective: Australia and Canada
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Conference on Making Fiscal Equalization Work at Freie Universität Berlin on June 27, 2014.
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