Year: 1962
Summary: To maintain the level of competence of senior municipal officers, university trained recruits are required whose academic backgrounds permit them to understand the effect and ramifications of municipal activity.
Year: 1955
Summary: Discusses non-partisan municipal elections and their implications, especially the question of effect on voter turnout.
Year: 1963
Summary: Appraises the first decade of Metropolitan Toronto's Municipal Council.
Year: 1950
Summary: Analysis of the use of the referendum in Canada.
Year: 1949
Summary: Discusses the length and inefficiency of City Council meetings.
Year: 1958
Summary: Analysis of function and challenges of fire departments in the Toronto area.
Year: 1972
Summary: Examines the trend towards building privately developed new communities in Toronto.
Summary: Better accountability in budget making requires more transparency in information and more clarity regarding tax assessments.
Summary: A public address by Dr. W. A. Mackintosh about what the government should and shouldn't be doing in terms of responsibilities for services and infringement on the personal and economic freedoms of the residents.
Year: 1969
Summary: Three case studies concerning personnel transfers stemming from municipal amalgamations and assumption of the welfare function by Metro.
Year: 1966
Summary: Provides recommendations to alleviate the problems faced by expropriated owner-occupants.
Year: 1952
Summary: Discusses the advantages of a two-year term in efficiency and performance of city council members.
Year: 1959
Summary: Analysis of voter turnout in Toronto and suburbs.
Summary: Results of a questionnaire sent to all candidates for municipal office in Metropolitan Toronto in December 1962. Notes the similarity in social and economic positions of municipal politicians.
Summary: Looks at the meaning of "the spoils system", and the application of the ideas of "merit", "the central personnel agency" and "the classification system" in the public personnel field.
Year: 1961
Summary: Examines proposals which aim to correct weaknesses of Metro Toronto Area government.
Year: 1960
Summary: Authority and form of management of the different boards and commissions in the city
Year: 1951
Summary: Analysis of Board of Education structure, authority and expenditure in light of public controversy about their current level of expenditure.
Summary: Advocates for "full and frank treatment" of important civic business in order to keep the public engaged.
Summary: Identifies structural implications of municipal reform and re-defining of municipalities in Ontario.
Summary: Describes the responsibilities and requirements of elected city officials.
Year: 1957
Summary: The Bureau indicates its support of a temporary increase in tax rates.
Summary: Presents data on capital expenditure in Toronto. Provides recommendations to improve capital works programming and debt management functions.
Summary: Analsis of voting trends in the last election.
Summary: Summarizes relevant factors which influence the number of councillors required to do the work of the Metropolitan Municipality.
Year: 1968
Summary: Summarizes the Report of the Ontario Committee on Taxation, with emphasis on assumptions, conclusions, and recommendations pertaining to municipal government.
Summary: Describes trends in voter turnout and issues that could increase engagement.
Year: 1965
Summary: Examines recommendations proposed by The Royal Commission on Metropolitan Toronto (which evaluated the effectiveness of the existing form of metropolitan government).
Summary: Commercial taxpayers in Ontario pay a greater proportionate share of municipal taxes than other types of ratepayers. Statistical evidence shows that the difference in rates levied to residential and commercial taxpayers has increased.
Summary: Analysis of voter turnout in the last elections.