Year: 1978
Summary: Evaluates instruction on local government in Ontario secondary schools. Includes summaries of workshops held around the province to gain a better understanding of how to improve instruction.
Year: 1979
Summary: Identifies various cost-saving innovations in municipalities in Canada, as well as other countries. Documents efforts at the local level to save money through the use of innovative management and/or technological changes.
Year: 1980
Summary: Evaluates the impact of cost-saving innovations in Canadian municipalities, as well as factors which led to the success or failure of those innovations. Examines five case studies.
Summary: Presents important issues faced by municipal representatives in the 1980 election.
Summary: Addresses the issue of school closures, reviewing the decision-making process and providing a case study of The School Board of Etobicoke.
Year: 1981
Summary: Examines increased contracting of municipal services to the private sector. Recommends that a number of factors, not just cost-savings, must be taken into account.
Summary: Assesses the role of recreation at the municipal level, considering major benefits and financial constraints.
Summary: Reviews advantages and disadvantages of workplace day care as an option to meet increasing demand.
Year: 1982
Summary: A guide to the Municipality of Metro Toronto and the six area municipalities.
Summary: Examines the phenomenon of bachelorettes (furnished, one-room rental units) and consequences for housing in Toronto.
Summary: Discusses transportation-oriented activities in Toronto, which may weaken the concept of decentralization.
Summary: Presents important issues faced by municipal representatives in the 1982 election.
Summary: Illustrates how municipalities are being forced to adjust their approach to to economic development.
Year: 1983
Summary: Identifies the problems and reasons for the increase in complaints about street prostitution.
Summary: Discusses the province's adoption of Section 63 of the Assessment Act. Section 63 aims to base assessment on market value but not allow shifts in the tax burden between residential, commercial and industrial properties.