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Sep 28, 2018 · If Canada somehow figured out how to avoid the devastation that factory shutdowns and job losses wreaked on U.S. cities like Detroit, it would be nice to know how they did it.
- Senior Business Columnist
Dec 2, 2015 · Cities like Detroit and Cleveland are filled with thousands of vacant lots. No abandonment of this magnitude exists in the Canadian Rust Belt, despite significant deindustrialization, suburbanization, wealth, and localist politics—all factors theorized to be central causes for American Rust Belt abandonment. This paper considers why such a ...
- Jason Hackworth
- 2016
Oct 31, 2022 · 3.1 Constitutional Status of Canadian Cities. I begin with some background on the status of cities in Canada. Under section 92 of the Constitution Act, 8 provinces have exclusive jurisdiction over cities and other municipalities in the province, subject to limited exceptions.
- Infrastructure Weighs on Cities
- Past Canadian Bankruptcies
- 'Legacy Costs' Hurt
Municipalities can take on debt to fund large-scale infrastructure projects, but provinces enforce strict rules on how much debt can be incurred. In Ontario, for example, a city cannot have debt charges exceeding 25 per cent of what they bring in with their own source revenues. "If they get into trouble — even with those rules — then the province w...
It's that cautious integration of a large margin of error that's helped Canadian cities, says Kelcey. "Detroit destroyed its own room for margin of error," said Kelcey. "Municipal leaders should take Detroit as a lesson to keep that room as much as possible instead of pushing themselves to the brink in terms of imprudent liabilities." Cities didn't...
A number of Canadian cities face overwhelming costs of paying the pensions of public sector retirees, a problem that will only rise at Baby Boomers enter their sunset years. Earlier this year, one of Canada's largest pension funds — the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System — tried unsuccessfully to reduce benefits paid to future retirees a...
Jun 21, 2021 · First, it should be noted that municipalities do not exist in Canadian constitutional law. Section 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867, formerly the British North America Act, gives the provinces power over “municipal institutions in the province.”
Jun 22, 2023 · Detroit is taking full advantage of the Detroit River, which connects the Motor City to the north and Windsor, Canada to the south. Situated at one edge of the downtown, the Detroit Riverfront has been the beneficiary of one of the largest reclamation projects in the US.
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Feb 4, 2021 · A common refrain among Canadian political and legal analysts is that municipalities are “creatures of the provinces.” This odd and disparaging way of describing an order of government in the Canadian federation downplays the democratic and constitutional significance of municipalities.
