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Presentation | 2024
Real Estate Development Timing in Toronto: Insights from Multi-Residential Development Applications
Keir Matthews-Hunter
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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Who Does What Report | 2024
The Municipal Role in Immigration
Valerie Preston, John Shields, Valerie Pruegger, Mireille Paquet, Sivakamy Thayaalan
Who Does What report examines the role municipalities can play in delivering immigration services.
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Presentation | 2024
Rethinking Surplus Land: Three Decades of Municipal Land Sales in the City of Toronto
Sean Grisdale
On June 18, 2024, 2023-24 IMFG Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance Sean Grisdale provided the first comprehensive summary of housing development outcomes on former city land in Toronto, drawing on almost 30 years of data documenting land sales,
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Presentation | 2024
The Politics of Local Budgeting in Canada: Three Case Studies
Stephanie Ortynsky
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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IMFG Paper | 2024
Land Use Planning to Mitigate Climate Change in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
Clara Turner, Jeff Allen, Karen Chapple, Sarah A. Smith
Report evaluates the extent to which different forms of new housing production will achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets and suggests best practices and policy approaches for housing and land use.
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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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Who Does What Report | 2024
The Municipal Role in Child Care
Martha Friendly, Gordon Cleveland, Sue Colley, Rachel Vickerson, Carolyn Ferns, Carley Holt,
Who Does What report examines the role municipalities can play in delivering child care.
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Presentation | 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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