Municipal Finances & Canadian Cities
Issue 5 - October 2018

From the Editor's Desk

By Gord Hume

Canada is deep into the fall season—football games, the start of the hockey season, crisp temperatures, leaves turning red and gold, and the fragrant aroma of election sweat in the air.
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Great Cities Help Make a Great Country

By Adam Vaughan

When countries go to war they target each other's major cities. Damage a country's city and you weaken the nation. It is strange that many governments don't respect the equation in reverse. If attacking cities weaken a nation, does it not make sense that building strong cities is key to building a better country?
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Institute on Municipal Finance and Government

By Harry Kitchen and Enid Slack

Canadian cities face many challenges - changing demographics, increased income inequality, increasingly complex expenditure demands, deteriorating infrastructure, and so on. These challenges have increased over the last few decades, yet the revenues available to cities to meet those challenges have remained largely the same - property taxes, user fees, and transfers from federal and provincial governments.
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Making the Most of Data-Driven Government
It's not enough to simply produce data — what that data shows must track with residents' lived experience.

By Paul W. Taylor

This is the story of a university professor, a blogger and a journalist, each part of a larger narrative about the intersection of crime statistics and fear. Once it came together, the police department and city council wanted to operationalize it. But first it got messy.
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Overcoming the Resistance: How to Gain Support for Risk Initiatives

By Rebecca Webb

In the last few years, risk management has become more popular. Risk managers were traditionally purchasers of insurance and the "department of no", but today they are expected to predict and prevent risks.
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Regional Elections in Ontario Disrupted by Province
A Personal Perspective by Long-Time Councillor Paul Grenier

By Paul Grenier

Premier Ford's cancellation of the direct election of Regional Chairs in York, Peel, Niagara and Muskoka districts in Ontario was not only an affront to the democratic process by changing the rules in the middle of the game, but has also negated the possibility for residents to participate directly in the much needed debate on the role, purpose, and benefits of Regional Government.
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Frequently Asked Questions: Local Preference Policy

By National Education Consulting Inc.

As a municipality, can we enact a local preference policy for procurements that are below the trade agreement thresholds? Is there any case law on this?
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Civic Comment: How a Province Can Wreak a Municipal Election

By Gord Hume

The Toronto municipal election that happens in just a couple of weeks has been a trainwreck. The chaos that erupted last month after the Court decision to rescind Bill 5 reverberated not just in Toronto, not just in Ontario, but across the entire country.
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