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Stars and Dogs: How Senior Governments Rank on Fiscal Transparency
- Financial reporting by Canada’s senior governments has improved over time, but setbacks and…
<time datetime="2021-02-25T00:00:01-05:00">February 25, 2021</time>
Perplexing Budgets Overstate Financial Pain of Cities
- William B.P. Robson and Miles Wu look at the annual budgetary projections for spending and the bottom line in…
<time datetime="2021-01-21T00:00:01-05:00">January 21, 2021</time>
- Outdated practices make the budgets of too many Canadian cities impossible for non-experts to understand.
- In this report, authors William B.P. Robson and Miles Wu grade the clarity…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post
The budgets that show a city’s plans for the upcoming fiscal year and the audited financial statements that report its results after year-end are crucial tools both…
Intelligence Memos
From: John Lester
To: Members of the Treasury Board
Date: April 8, 2024
Re: The federal expenditure management system needs a makeover
The federal expenditure management…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson
To: Toronto budget watchers
Date: January 23, 2024
Re: Toronto’s Annual Budget Panic Ignores Its Surplus
The annual panic over the City of Toronto budget is…
