Year: 1981
Summary: A review of current Bureau of Municipal Research studies, and details on the BMR council and executive committee. Research and study topics include the importance of recreation as a municipal service and current housing stock in the province of Ontario as an important economic predictor.
Year: 1977
Summary: Listing of recently published studies, research in progress, and upcoming Bureau of Municipal Research events. Sample research topics include the island airport, teaching of local government in schools, the planning act review, saving energy, managing local government resources, and legislative attempts to deal with urban growth.
Year: 1962
Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto representatives.
Year: 1982
Summary: Publications catalogue, 1982. Sample publications topics: economy, education, environment, finances, government, housing, productivity, planning, public safety, regional government, transportation
Year: 1974
Summary: Programme from the Bureau of Municipal Research's 1974 meeting and seminar. Seminar topics include urbanization, land, planning, property development, issues facing Pickering, and city government in general.
Year: 1980
Summary: Addendum to the directory of governments - listing telephone number of municipal reference library
Summary: A review of current Bureau of Municipal Research studies, and details on new BMR council members. Study and research topics include employer-subsidized daycare, and an examination of the fragmentation of municipal, regional and provincial governments. A need for more consolidation, efficiency and accountability is stressed.
Year: 1965
Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto and suburban representatives.
Year: 1957
Year: 1976
Summary: Listing of recently published studies, research in progress, and upcoming Bureau of Municipal Research events. Sample research topics include policing, housing, the media, and municipal pet licensing.
Year: 1969
Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto, suburban representatives, and children's aid.
Year: 1968
Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto and suburban representatives. Now also including contact information for Children's Aid and Student Housing.
Year: 1940
Summary: Outlines the Bureau's mission statement, highlights press clippings, lists sample publications and outlines how to support the Bureau by becoming a subscriber.
Year: 1958
Summary: A proposal for the BMR to plan and coordinate a conference on the subject of metropolitan problems - at which papers can be presented, reviewed, and published to form the basis of further study in the area of metropolitan problems. International academics would be invited to attend, and the conference would be scheduled for Canada's centennial year, 1967. Funding to be provided by municipal, provincial and federal government.
Summary: A newsletter outlining the Bureau of Municipal Research\'s work and its influence on public policy. The newsletter cites occasions on which Bureau of Municipal Research recommendations had been adopted or Bureau studies had been mentioned by public policy-makers - eg. John Robarts endorsed Bureau recommendations that local government have more control over fire services. The BMR\'s recommendation that local government be taught in schools was adopted by the municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. Ontario legislature members cited Bureau work.
Summary: A review of current Bureau of Municipal Research studies. Topics include: questions for electors, decentralization and transit proposals, industrial developments, trends in schools, property and business tax assessment, and declining local, provincial and federal revenue for municipal services.
Year: 1953
Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services.
Year: 1963
Summary: Announcement of Mary Lynch's appointment to the position of Executive Director of the Bureau of Municipal Research. The election of 1980 and issues of voter turnout and the role of party politics in municipal elections is discussed. Additional information on Bureau fundraising initiatives is provided.
Year: 1952
Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services
Year: 1916
Summary: This publication highlights the need for an independent citizen research bureau (such as the Bureau of Municipal Research) to inform fellow citizens and to keep municipal government accountable when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars. Additionally, the Bureau outlines some of their near and long-term goals in improving and modernizing city administration and planning.
Year: 1959
Year: 1951
Year: 1955
Summary: Listing of recently published studies, research in progress, and upcoming Bureau of Municipal Research events. Sample research topics include the island airport and harbourfront development, vandalism in schools, disappearing farmland, provincially funded regional development planning, and cooperation between London, Ontario transit agencies.
Year: 1964
Year: 1925
Summary: A list of Toronto's ratepayers associations, along with the proviso that informed citizens should become active in their local ratepayers associations
Summary: Listing of recently published studies, research in progress, and upcoming Bureau of Municipal Research events. Sample research topics include housing, citizen responsibility, policing, landlord-tenant rights, island airport, transportation, vandalism in schools.
Year: 1979
Summary: Listing of recently published studies, research in progress, and upcoming Bureau of Municipal Research events. Sample research topics include utilization of user fees, cost saving innovations in local government, teaching local government, transportation planning, and downtown core revitalization