Year: 1962
Summary: Discusses whether Metro should make capital grants for hospital construction, or the province accept greater responsibility for coordinating and financing hospital construction.
Year: 1959
Summary: Describes changes to school funding with the new Metro arrangements.
Year: 1975
Summary: Assesses the quality of Metro Toronto's fire departments to determine whether amalgamation would be the most effective way to provide the best level of service.
Year: 1964
Summary: Draws attention to important issues in the 1964 election.
Year: 1921
Summary: Interim report of the Toronto school survey calling for a reorganization and centralization of school supply purchases and stores
Year: 1931
Summary: Provides a summary of annual reports of the Toronto Hydro-Electric System, Toronto Transportation Commission, and Toronto Harbour Commission.
Year: 1936
Summary: Discusses the importance of leaving elementary and secondary education under the same roof.
Year: 1971
Summary: Describes the importance of learning from past rehabilitation projects of low-income housing.
Year: 1920
Summary: A survey of "educational waste" - the strain on school social and financial resources attributed to children with intellectual disabilities, children who start school at a later age, and children who do not complete their education
Summary: Details of modern athletic structures/stadiums in North American cities (e.g. Cambridge, Philadelphia, New York), and discussion of logistics of building a municipal stadium in Toronto.
Summary: Presents a summary of the findings and constructive suggestions emerging from the Bureau of Municipal Research interim report: "Measurement of Educational Waste in the Public Schools."
Year: 1954
Summary: Discusses the structure of care in housing for the elderly and challenges this housing faces.
Year: 1916
Summary: This document draws upon reports from the Medical Inspection Department of the Board of Education, and suggests Improving health conditions and health education in the schools. Some suggestions including the building of "open air schools" and being aware of ill-venthilated cloak-rooms as a source of contagion. The difficulties of trying to teach children who come to school hungry are also highlighted.
Summary: The introduction of sewer charges in Metro Toronto could have two major advantages: equitable distribution of service costs and diversification of municipal revenue.
Summary: Suggests that schools and school grounds be used more efficiently to meet community needs, such as the need for integration of new immigrants from Central and Southern Europe - both children and parents.
Year: 1939
Summary: The Bureau notes that the cost of direct unemployment payments will challenge the city's budget through 1950 - and argues that it must be restructured and the responsibilities distributed more equitably between the three levels of government.
Summary: Engages the public in ensuring the development of the green belt.
Summary: Presents statistics on median, maximum, and minimum salaries of teachers (1914-1919), and the 1919 salary limits of Toronto teachers. Suggests that teachers' salaries should be increased to support the process of education.
Year: 1973
Summary: Toronto must find a new way to dispose of waste, after having used lake Ontario, incineration and landfills. There are economic and social advantages to turning to recycling.
Year: 1914
Summary: Creation of a permanent Rotary Relief Fund for Unemployment would provide a self-recreating fund for citizens, and make possible projects employing a large number of workers.
Summary: An informational pamphlet for "parents and taxpayers" highlighting the need for improvements in the school system. This document considers recent reports from board of education inspectors on the state of public schools and makes suggestions and recommendations, including better cooperation between public schools and technical schools to reduce the drop-out rate, the need to identify the "feeble-minded", and better accounting practices in public schools.
Summary: Discusses the urgent need for reform in parking regulations in the city.
Year: 1950
Summary: Discusses emergency housing set up in the aftermath of WWII and its costs.
Summary: Outlines topics of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Ontario Educational Association.
Summary: Presents a tentative scheme for central control of labor supply, unemployment, and immigration, with suggestions for: administration, legislation, fees and costs, methods and procedures, and interdepartmental co-operation.
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.
Summary: A self-recreative fund should be implemented to contend with the issue of unemployment. Certain private institutions are creating work in the community, and their endeavors should be supported.
Year: 1917
Summary: This publication provides a "measure of school efficiency" for parents and taxpayers, based on recent reports by the Toronto Board of Education inspectors. It charts student progress through grades and warns against the costs associated with students being held back a grade.
Year: 1968
Summary: Suggests the implications of transferring the authority of the Toronto Housing Authority to the province: the city would experience financial gains, while the province would gain control and authority. Discusses Regent Park.
Year: 1919
Summary: Highlights the great need for more housing, and argues the the newly appointed Toronto Housing Commission should be allowed to act fast. Details steps taken to increase the supply of housing - other than by private means.