What’s New at IMFG

IMFG’s Bold Election Idea, “Ending the Incumbency Epidemic,” by Sevaun Palvetzian, CEO, CivicAction and Jodie Rawn, Managing Director, CivicAction Leadership Foundation, was looked at by Sevaun Palvetzian on the CBC’s Metro Morning. Read the entire series of IMFG’s Bold Municipal Election Ideas for the Toronto Region.

On CBC Radio One’s Metro Morning, IMFG Fellow Alexandra Flynn looked at how community councils foster civic engagement on municipal issues.

IMFG’s Bold Election Idea, “Policing Society’s Poor: Unjust, Ineffective, and Inefficient,” by Alok Mukherjee, former Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board (2005-2015), was excerpted in the Toronto Star. Read the entire series of IMFG’s Bold Municipal Election Ideas for the Toronto Region.

Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance releases bold ideas from some of Toronto’s most respected leaders, ahead of the municipal election. Toronto, September 17, 2018 – Elections are an ideal time to talk and ask questions, often uncomfortable ones, about the places we live and the opportunities we are creating for those who live here. To […]

IMFG Fellow Alexandra Flynn was mentioned in the Burnaby Now article, “What does the court decision quashing Ontario’s council-cutting move mean?”, commenting on the ruling against the Ontario Province’s legislation to reduce the size of Toronto’s City Council before the municipal election.

In the Toronto Star article, “Voters want Toronto to have more power. Is that possible?” IMFG Board Chair Alan Broadbent and IMFG Director Enid Slack explained how a mix of taxes and other sources of revenue would give Canadian cities more “fiscal autonomy” and the power to become internationally competitive.

IMFG Fellow Aaron Moore looked at why the lack of candidates running for municipal elections in Manitoba is concerning for the Virden Empire-Advance.

IMFG is pleased to introduce our Fellowship Recipients for 2018-2019. Alejandra Reyes is the recipient of the 2018-2019 IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance; Kate Nelischer is awarded the 2018-2019 Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance; and Chibulu Luo is the recipient of the 2018-2019 IMFG Graduate […]

IMFG Director Enid Slack presented a talk on “Metropolitan Governance: Lessons from International Case Studies” at the 3rd International Congress on Metropolitan Areas, co-sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Government of Chile in Santiago, Chile.

New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance revisits the remaking of Toronto Toronto, August 21, 2018 – In 1998 the Province of Ontario consolidated Metropolitan Toronto and its six lower-tier municipalities into a single City of Toronto. It was a controversial decision. Supporters claimed amalgamation would produce a more cost-effective, transparent, and […]