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This paper profiles election campaigns in six of Ontario’s biggest cities – Hamilton, London, Mississauga, Ottawa, Toronto and Windsor. For each of the six cities, a local expert was recruited to take on this task.
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A strong university helps build a strong city, and vice versa. Universities impart innovative dynamism and resilience to the economies of urban regions. They are stabilizing forces on urban economies, and on the local neighbourhoods they inhabit. And they connect their host regions to the world. What role should the University of Toronto play in our region’s future?
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In this video, University of Toronto President Meric Gertler delivers a public talk at IMFG, as part of the ongoing Big City, Big Ideas lecture series organized by IMFG at its partners, entitled “Universities, Cities and Prosperity: An Agenda for the Future.” The event was moderated by Alan Broadbent.
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A key ingredient in Toronto’s success has been the city-building and civic leadership that has emerged from private firms, public institutions, non-profits, and cultural sector organizations in Toronto’s wider civil society. This paper reflects on how, for any great city, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the OMTRA Annual Conference on September 9, 2014 in Kingston, Ontario.
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This paper describes the City of Toronto’s financial condition and recent fiscal trends in four areas: spending and services; taxes and revenues; infrastructure; and debt and savings.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Conference on Making Fiscal Equalization Work at Freie Universität Berlin on June 27, 2014.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the UN Habitat Global Expert Group Meeting on Urban Development Financing: The Challenge of Local Governments in Developing Countries in Barcelona, Spain on June 25, 2014.
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