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Presentation | 2025
Effect of Land Transfer Taxes on Real Estate Markets: Evidence from Toronto
Peter Wu
2024-25 Graduate Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance Peter Wu presented new research on the effects of the introduction of the City's land transfer tax on Toronto's real estate market.
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Presentation | 2025
Eco-fiscal Tools and Municipal Finance: New Practices and Opportunities
Jean-Philippe Meloche, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot
Presentation on how eco-fiscal tools are used in Canadian cities, their impact, and some potential municipal eco-fiscal strategies held on May 22, 2025.
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Presentation | 2025
Can Transit Infrastructure Projects Be Delivered Better?
Eric Goldwyn
Eric Goldwyn of the NYU Marron Institute discussed the NYU Transit Costs project on how infrastructure projects can be delivered better.
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Presentation | 2024
12th Annual City Manager's Address
Paul Johnson
Toronto City Manager Paul Johnson spoke about the implementation of the New Deal for Toronto as well as future deliverables in the 2024 City Manager's Address.
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Presentation | 2024
Real Estate Development Timing in Toronto: Insights from Multi-Residential Development Applications
Keir Matthews-Hunter
The 2023-24 Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Graduate Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance Keir Matthews-Hunter presented preliminary findings from analysis of approved multi-residential development applications from 2012-2015.
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Presentation | 2024
Rethinking Surplus Land: Three Decades of Municipal Land Sales in the City of Toronto
Sean Grisdale
On June 18, 2024, 2023-24 IMFG Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance Sean Grisdale provided the first comprehensive summary of housing development outcomes on former city land in Toronto, drawing on almost 30 years of data documenting land sales,
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Presentation | 2024
The Politics of Local Budgeting in Canada: Three Case Studies
Stephanie Ortynsky
On June 12, 2024, Richard M. Bird Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stephanie Ortynsky, compared the process of local government budgeting to federal and provincial budgeting processes before diving into three case studies of municipalities that have embarked on budgetary reform: Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver.
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Presentation | 2024
The Culture of Public Money: Local, Provincial and Federal Perspectives
Peter Wallace
On April 11 2024, Peter Wallace, who has played key roles at all three orders of government, joined the IMFG’s Enid Slack for a candid chat about the financial governance at the heart of Canada’s federal government, its largest province and the largest city.
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CBC News: Aaron Moore on Political Engagement of Young Voters
October 14, 2026
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