Urban-suburban shift presents opportunities, says Saxe
 The movement of some residents away from downtown may be a good thing for the City of Toronto from the point of view of infrastructure, says UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe in a radio interview for CBC Metro Morning, January 19, 2021.
Read more about Saxe's comments and link to the complete radio interview and transcript.
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‘Fundamental mismatch’ between municipal responsibilities and funding tools: Slack
 UTTRI associated faculty Dr. Enid Slack, Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, discusses the City of Toronto’s budget shortfalls and its lack of revenue sources to cover costs in an interview with Global News January 14, 2021.
Read more and link to Slack's interview video “Toronto begins budget process under financial strain”.
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ONLINE EVENTS
- January 21, 6:30-8 p.m., Building Back Better: Community Benefits and Social Inclusion. Welcome: Colette Murphy, Chief Executive Officer, Atkinson Foundation. Panelists: Matti Siemiatycki, Interim Director, School of Cities and Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto; Rosemarie Powell, Executive Director,Toronto Community Benefits Network ; Fausto Natarelli, Adjunct Professor, York University School of Public Policy and Administration. Closing words: Chris Campbell, Equity and Diversity Representative, Carpenters’ District Council of Ontario and TCBN Labour Co-Chair. Moderator: Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University. Presented by the Toronto Community Benefits Network (TCBN) and co-sponsors Atkinson Foundation, City Institute at York University, School of Cities at University of Toronto and City Building Ryerson. Free, registration req'd.
- January 22, 12-1 p.m., Modelling Mobility Services within Agent-Based Travel Demand Model Systems and Implementation of a Ridehailing Case Study, Dr. Francisco Calderón Peralvo. UT-ITE seminar series. Free, all welcome.
- January 25, 1-2 p.m., What don't we know about COVID-19 in Canada's cities? Moderator: Mary W. Rowe, Canadian Urban Institute. Panelists: Kate Graham, Canadian Urban Institute; Thierry Lindor, The Colors of Covid; Patrick Brown, Mayor of Brampton,
Janice Abbott, Atira Women's Resource Society. Free, registration req'd.
- January 25, 4-5 p.m., Role of Ontologies in Measuring Supply Chain Performance, Professor Mark Fox, Industrial Engineering and Associate Director (Research), Computer Science. Presented by School of Cities, Building Resilience in Food and Health Supply Chains seminar series. Free, registration req'd.
- January 26, 4-6 p.m., Emergency: The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success, Mark Jaccard, Professor of Sustainable Energy, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University. Eric Krause Memorial Lecture 2021, School of the Environment. Free, registration req'd.
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OPPORTUNITY
- Postdoctoral Fellow (Limited Term), Transportation and Air Quality (TRAQ) research group, supervised by Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto. Closing January 25, 2020.
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RESOURCES
PAST WEBINARS / PODCASTS
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