Year: 1918
Summary: This publication examines how the education system functioning and whether or not it is efficiently using its funding and achieving its goals.
Year: 1976
Summary: Describes how various Ontario municipalities handle their animal control responsibilities. The objectives, scope of services, financial costs and results of different programs are identified.
Year: 1951
Summary: The Bureau opposes the provision of meals to children of families on welfare at such a low cost, and also criticizes the lack of planning in provision of Child Care.
Year: 1936
Summary: Discusses the importance of leaving elementary and secondary education under the same roof.
Year: 1940
Summary: An open letter to the citizens of Toronto, highlighting the need for better snow removal - including coordinating snow removal under one department, improving snow removal equipment, and keeping the snow removal budget consistent from year to year.
Year: 1937
Summary: Queries as to the wisdom of converting the Exhibition grounds into a horse-race track. Suggests that affecting economies in city services could be of greater benefit to city revenue.
Year: 1924
Summary: In this publication, the Bureau objects to the city's plan to enter the business of gasoline, milk and coal selling, claiming that the city has not proven to efficiently and competitively supply goods and the cost of expanding the city's activities.
Year: 1920
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.
Year: 1962
Summary: The introduction of sewer charges in Metro Toronto could have two major advantages: equitable distribution of service costs and diversification of municipal revenue.
Year: 1980
Summary: Reviews the history of individual user charges for municipal services, and outlines the political and social reasons for their limited use.
Year: 1931
Summary: Provides a summary of annual reports of the Toronto Hydro-Electric System, Toronto Transportation Commission, and Toronto Harbour Commission.
Year: 1930
Summary: Examines the ways in which legislation can prevent traffic accidents and fatalities, but also outlines ways in which roads and vehicles can and should be improved in order to make roads safer.
Year: 1929
Summary: Outlines the efficacy of "safety-responsibility" legislation passed by the Connecticut Commission of Motor Vehicles. Concludes these efforts to increase vehicle safety are worthy of more study.
Summary: Outines different policy tools for addressing road safety and traffic fatalities, addressing pros and cons of each. Some proposals include compulsory liability insurance, the establishment of a state fund for those injured in auto accidents, and refusing to register a motorists who has outstanding judgements against them, or who has been responsible for any traffic fatality.
Summary: Outlines more aspects of the efficacy of "safety-responsibility" legislation passed by the Connecticut Commission of Motor Vehicles. Concludes these efforts to increase vehicle safety are worthy of more study.
Summary: Statistics on motor mortality rates in Toronto. Special consideration is given to the high percentage of child fatalities as a result of motor accidents.
Year: 1946
Summary: Newsletter discussing summer recreation, general spending and taxation and suggesting two-year staggered term in city council instead of annual elections.
Year: 1973
Summary: The education system is trying to address too many problems at once and therefore is not accomplishing any of the hoped for changes.
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
Year: 1916
Summary: Outlines expenditure on various municipal services; encouraging voter turnout based on citizens' stakes in key areas.
Summary: A survey of the physical conditions of Toronto schools and an account of the conditions of school facilities and supplies. The Bureau of Municipal Research, with the participation of the Board of Education make suggestions for future school sites, and recommend modernizing and fireproofing existing schools.
Year: 1921
Summary: Interim report of the Toronto school survey calling for a reorganization and centralization of school supply purchases and stores
Year: 1927
Summary: Road accident fatality rates in Toronto and Ontario.
Year: 1914
Summary: Examines expenditure on Education in Toronto, with relevant recommendations and their implications.
Year: 1971
Summary: Provides a definition of day care, the need to provide it, responsibility for funding it and the societal perception of it.
Year: 1975
Summary: Survey of the Oro Township school system as an example of how the consolidation of the school system into larger units has affected education in the six years since it took place.
Summary: Discussion of division of responsibilities regarding education and citizen's involvement in decision-making.
Summary: Statistics on education expenditures in Toronto; this bulletin argues economy with efficiency is essential in the public education department.
Year: 1970
Summary: Discusses principles for playground planning and the need for Toronto to invest in playgrounds in areas like Regent Park.
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.