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Video | 2022
Security Breach: Municipalities and the Cyberattack Threat
Zachary Spicer, Kush M. Sharma, Laura Mateczun, Sumit Bhatia
On March 1, 2022. a panel of academics and practitioners examined the growing threat of cyberattack to local governments in Canada and other parts of the world. How do municipalities need to adjust process and existing practices? What is the risk? What are the costs of action/inaction? Where do municipalities start to ensure they are protected?
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Video | 2022
Data Dilemmas: Municipalities and Smart-City Technology
On February 16, 2022, a panel of academics and practitioners examined the growing smart city industry and the advancement of data-intensive public infrastructure in Canada. The panel featured Merlin Chatwin, Executive Director of Open North, Cyrus Tehrani, City of Hamilton's Chief Digital Officer, Natasha Tusikov, Assistant Professor at York University, and moderator Zachary Spicer of York University.
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Video | 2022
Municipalities and the Platform Economy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Zac Spicer, Betsy Donald, Jason Reynar, David Wachsmuth
On February 1, 2022, a panel of academics and practitioners looked at the future of the relationship between municipalities and the platform economy. Looking at examples from across the country the panel examined questions including: What trends around the platform economy are lasting, which are short term? What new regulation is needed? Are new taxation models or user fee frameworks needed? The panel included Betsy Donald of Queen's University, Jason Reynar, Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Windsor, David Wachsmuth of McGill University and moderator Zachary Spicer of York University.
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IMFG Paper | 2021
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change?
Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack
New IMFG and Urban Project paper reviews the current state of provincial-municipal equalization transfers in Canada and suggests ways to improve their design. Arguing that no province provides adequate equalization for municipalities, the authors take a critical look at the mechanics of such a transfer, and how it should ideally operate. Issues that first need to be resolved range from determining how local needs are calculated to ascertaining how municipal fiscal capacity is measured. Slack and Bird conclude with some suggestions for what is needed to devise fair, efficient, and transparent provincial-municipal equalization systems.
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Presentation | 2021
10th Annual IMFG Toronto City Manager’s Address
Chris Murray
In this presentation for the tenth annual IMFG City Manager Address, Chris Murray spoke to the urgency of a whole-of-community and whole-of-government approach to tackle the precursors of homelessness before the downstream consequences and costs multiply for all orders of government.
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Video | 2021
10th Annual IMFG Toronto City Manager’s Address
Chris Murray
In this video of the 10th Annual IMFG City Manager's Address, Chris Murray spoke to the urgency of a whole-of-community and whole-of-government approach to tackle the precursors of homelessness before the downstream consequences and costs multiply for all orders of government.
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Presentation | 2021
Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?
Adam Found
In this presentation, Adam Found reviewed the findings from his new paper for IMFG, which examined the connection between municipal development charges and housing affordability.
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Video | 2021
Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?
Adam Found
In this video, Adam Found reviews the findings from his new paper for IMFG, which examined the connection between municipal development charges and housing affordability.
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