Canadian Journal of Regional Science articles from March 2000

Canadian Journal of Regional Science archives from March 2000

Provincial and municipal restructuring in Canada: assessing expectations and outcomes.
March 22, 2000... Provincial-municipal restructuring in Canada has received considerable attention during the 1990s from both provincial and municipal levels of government. The fiscal download by the Federal government to the provinces and the municipalities,...

Preliminary assessment of the new City of Toronto.
March 22, 2000... On January 1, 1998, the new City of Toronto came into being by replacing the former metropolitan level of government and its constituent lower-tier municipalities (Toronto, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York and East York) with a...

Amalgamation perspectives: citizen responses to municipal consolidation.
March 22, 2000... The 1999 Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) Citizen Survey is used here to study citizen responses to a municipal amalgamation that created the Halifax Regional Municipality. The analysis of this survey brings forward citizen-based assessments...

Municipal consolidation, regional planning and fiscal accountability: the recent experience in two Maritime provinces.
March 22, 2000... In the recent debates on municipal consolidation in Canada, the importance of regional planning has emerged as an important aspect of the discourse. The advocacy for consolidation has been particularly apparent in regions affected by rapid...

Evolutionary alternatives for Metropolitan areas: the capital region of British Columbia.
March 22, 2000... It is common to examine the organisation of local government in terms of the functions different local governments are responsible for. Equally important, however, is at what level decisions on "who does what" are made and accommodations to...

Regional restructuring in Montreal: an historical analysis.
March 22, 2000... The current upsurge of interest in metropolitan government on both sides of the Atlantic is mirrored in the debates raging in Montreal. An earlier boom period in the formation of metropolitan structures in the western world, the 1960s and early...

Municipal reorganisation in Quebec.
March 22, 2000... This study is based on the assumption that municipal government has a certain autonomy and can influence decisions even at an upper level of government. Local political institutions have an existence of their own even though they are formally...

Amalgamations, service realignment, and property taxes: did the Harris government have a plan for Ontario's municipalities?
March 22, 2000... Drastic change was contemplated by The Common Sense Revolution (CSR), the election manifesto that brought Mike Harris to power as premier of Ontario in 1995; the Harris government implemented drastic change; therefore the CSR explains what the...

Alternative service delivery in Canadian local governments: the costs of producing solid waste management services.
March 22, 2000... In this paper, key findings are presented from three complementary national surveys of producers in the Canadian solid waste management industry. The surveys, conducted by the Local Government Institute between 1995 and 1999 focused on factors...

Merger mania: the assault on local government.
March 22, 2000... Merger Mania: The Assault on Local Government. Andrew Sancton. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000, 183 pages. Andrew Sancton has written a very useful and timely book that approaches the problem of municipal...