Department News

Professor Abelson - New Publication
The Third Edition of Professor Abelson’s book, Do Think Tanks Matter? Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes was recently published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. [Read More]

Kate Graham - Dissertation Defense
Kate Graham successfully completed her PhD, "Leading Canada's Cities? A Study of Urban Mayors”, supervised by Professor Emeritus Andrew Sancton. Congratulations Kate!

Professor Taylor - Talks Local Autonomy
Professor Zack Taylor appeared on TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, discussing whether cities need more powers with Globe and Mail international correspondent Doug Saunders and Enid Slack, Director of the University of Toronto’s Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance. [Read More]

Professor Horak - Assessing Mayoral Candidates
With less than two weeks to go before municipal elections, the promises are coming fast and furious from mayoral hopefuls across Ontario.  Professor Martin Horak discusses vision, communications key when picking a mayor in his recent opinion editorial. [Read More]

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