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Presentation | 2011
Transport for our Region in 2030…But not as we know it
George Hazel
IMFG hosted the first session of its 2010-2011 seminar series “Moving Our Region: Transportation for the Future,” with sponsorship from Metrolinx. This first seminar features George Hazel, OBE, Chairman of MRC McLean Hazel, a subsidiary of Toronto-based MMM Group, and Joe Berridge, Partner at Urban Strategies.
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Presentation | 2011
Rethinking Toronto's Governance
Paul Bedford
A panel discussion on September 14, 2010, with: Keynote Speaker: Paul Bedford, Urban Mentor and Former Toronto Chief Planner; panelists: Kyle Rae, Toronto City Councillor; Richard Joy, Toronto Board of Trade.
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Presentation | 2011
Property Taxes in the United Kingdom – Are There Lessons for Ontario?
Paul Sanderson
A panel discussion on August 25, 2010, with: Chair: Dr. Enid Slack, Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance; and panelists: David Magor, Chief Executive, Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV), England; Paul Sanderson, Director of Professional Services, Valuation Office Agency, (VOA), England; Jerry Grad, P. Eng., CRE, FRICS, President, International Property Tax Institute, (IPTI), Canada. The talk was co-sponsored by the International Property Tax Institute.
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Other | 2011
Amenities for Density: Section 37 of the Planning Act
Larry Beasley
This presentation was delivered by Larry Beasley at an event co-sponsored by Ideas That Matter on December 6, 2006, with two panel presentations: Planning in Toronto: What's the Problem?, chaired by Paul Bedford, including panelists Julie Di Lorenzo, Frank Lewinberg, and Gary Wright; and Amenities for Density: Section 37 of the Planning Act, chaired by John Lorinc, with a presentation by Larry Beasley, and panelists Steve Diamond, and Ted Tyndorf.
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Other | 2011
Trends in Public Finance in Canada
Enid Slack and Harry Kitchen
The current division of spending responsibilities among the three orders of government and their ability to use own-source revenues to fund these responsibilities has led to concerns about the existence of a vertical fiscal imbalance. This paper provides an assessment of trends in the levels of expenditures and revenues by all three orders of government, trends that are important in assessing the extent to which there is a fiscal imbalance.
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Presentation | 2011
The Practice of Municipal Finance in Hungary
Izabella Barati-Stec
Presentation delivered by IMFG Visiting Scholar Izabella Barati-Stec on September 27th, 2012. Barati-Stec is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics, at Corvinus University, Budapest.
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Presentation | 2011
Funding Transportation for the Future: Strategies for Winning Public Support
Barry Watson
Presentation from the fourth event in the "Moving Our Region: Transportation for the Future". Keynote speakers at the event were: John Inglish, General Manager, Utah Transportation Authority; and, Barry Watson, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, Environics Research Group; Moderated by Joe Berridge, Partner, Urban Strategies.
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Presentation | 2011
National Transit, Strategy and Policy
Matthew Mendelsohn, Joshua Hjartarson, and Kelly Hinton
IMFG hosted the third lecture in our "Moving Our Region: Transportation for the Future" series entitled, National Transit Strategy and Policy: North American and International Perspectives on the Federal Role.
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