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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack on Infrastructure Planning and Financing, at a workshop on “Governance of Metropolitan Regions in Federal Systems,” sponsored by the European Union Committee of the Regions and the Forum of Federations, in Brussels, Belgium.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack at a Forum on “Financing Local Economic Development” in Manila, Philippines, sponsored by the Canadian Urban Institute.
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Two presentations delivered by Enid Slack and Rupak Chattopadhyay of the Forum of Federations in Mexico on October 20, 2011.
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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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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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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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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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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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