Showing posts with label municipal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label municipal. Show all posts
Friday, 24 April 2026

Do Thunder Bay Councillors Deserve a Raise?

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   At the April 21 st council meeting, Thunder Bay City Council voted itself a substantial set of pay increases that will tak...
Monday, 2 February 2026

Budget Season in the GTHA

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   In municipalities across Ontario, it is budget season and the GTHA is no exception with the City of Toronto the latest to ...
Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Finances of the City: Hamilton Edition

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  Municipal budget season is underway in cities across Ontario.   Hamilton is a particularly interesting case this year gi...
Thursday, 7 August 2025

Municipal Employment in Ontario's North

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  Municipal public finances are always of interest to the average city resident given that municipalities are the level of...
Friday, 2 May 2025

Making Major Decisions at Thunder Bay City Council-Part II

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  As noted in the previous post, the last few weeks at Thunder Bay City Council have been busy with three major decisions ...
Sunday, 22 September 2024

Getting Ready for Budget Season: A look at Thunder Bay Municipal Indicators

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  Municipal budget season is well underway in Thunder Bay, but the main public theatrics over the 2025 budget should be tr...
Thursday, 25 April 2024

Municipal Spending in Ontario: A Long-Term Overview

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 This originally appeared on the Fraser Institute Blog.  Municipal dollars in Ontario—where did the money go? — April 24, 2024       Municip...
Monday, 12 February 2024

Municipal Spending Evolution in Thunder Bay

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  As the 2024 municipal budget season wraps up, it is worth looking at where Thunder Bay has been going over the last deca...
Sunday, 4 February 2024

Measuring Municipal Public Sector Size

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  Public sector size and its impact on the economy is a long-standing research question in public finance.   In the case o...