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1. Government wages and employee numbers drive municipal spending across Canada

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, October 7, 2020 Over the last two decades, in an apparent contradiction, municipalities across Canada have increased spending and employment while claiming they are fiscally challenged. They typically run surpluses for their ...

2. Local Leviathans: The Rise of Municipal Government Spending in Canada, 1990–2018

   Canada’s municipalities have increased their spending and employment over the last two decades while maintaining that they are fiscally challenged. Notwithstanding the recent pandemic-induced fiscal shocks, they typically run surpluses on their operating ...

3. Police numbers in Canada have dropped

   A recent article in the New York Times noted that crime in the United States in 2017 was down in the 30 largest cities and this decline was on the heels of nearly two decades of declining American crime rates and subsequently safer ...

4. Municipal public debt in Ontario—where you live matters

   Most discussions of public debt in Ontario revolve around the provincial government’s net debt, which for 2016-17 is estimated at $317.9 billion and in per capita terms amounts to approximately $22,800. However, Canada is a federation ...

5. Municipal finances in Ontario—growing water charges, too

   While there is a growing property tax burden in Ontario, what’s often left out of the discussion is the parallel rise in separate water and sewer/wastewater charges. The BMA Management Consulting Group’s annual municipal studies present ...