What’s New at IMFG

IMFG is delighted to welcome Visiting Scholar Graham Sansom to the Institute this spring. Graham is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Local Government Association and has advised on local government development in the Pacific, South East Asia, and South Africa. While at […]

In the article “Why Ontario’s planning act needs major changes,” IMFG fellow Dr. Aaron Moore argues the provincial government should revisit Section 37 of Ontario’s Planning Act. Section 37 allows municipalities to receive benefits, such as affordable housing, from developers in exchange for permitting developers to build properties which exceed city height and density restrictions. […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack is on a World Bank Mission in Tanzania, from April 17-April 28, studying fiscal decentralization and own-source revenue.

As the fracking industry expands to Canada, a new paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance presents lessons from the United States to inform regulatory responses for municipalities in Canada and elsewhere. Toronto, April 17, 2018 – Throughout the United States, fracking has revolutionized oil and gas markets, practically overnight. But it might […]

The upcoming May 3rd IMFG Graduate Fellow Seminar “Does Local Government Autonomy Promote Fiscal Sustainability? Lessons from Illinois’ home rule municipalities?” was advertised in the Municipal World Journal. More information about the event, including registration for tickets can be found here.

IMFG Director Enid Slack presented “You Get What You Pay For: Funding Cities in the 21st Century” as part of the Harry Kitchen Lecture in Public Policy Series at Trent University on April 10, 2018.

IMFG Director Enid Slack and Urban Land Institute’s Executive Director Richard Joy led a conversation called “City Building – Financial and Governance Structures to meet Increasing Demands of Transit, Affordable Housing” at RBC Capital Markets’ Canadian Municipal Symposium on April 9, 2018.  

IMFG Director Enid Slack delivered a presentation entitled, “Smart Villages- Financing Services and Infrastructure” at The Fields Institute Conference on Smart Villages.

IMFG Director Enid Slack led a roundtable discussion entitled, “Cases and Challenges of Multilevel Metropolitan Coordination” to mayors and political leaders from Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean in Mendoza, Argentina.

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance explores the potential and drawbacks of green bonds, environmental impact bonds, catastrophe bonds, and green banks for Ontario municipalities Toronto, March 15, 2018 – Cities bear a disproportionate share of the economic and social costs of extreme weather and climate change because of their population […]