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REPORTS

Federal Budget 2025–2026: HighlightsFederal Budget 2025–2026: Highlights

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PTOC Strategic Plan 2020-2025Strategic Plan 2020–2025 of the Provincial-Territorial Officials Committee on Local Government

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NEW BOOKS

Artificial intelligence for urban planningArtificial intelligence for urban planning

/ Sanchez, Thomas W. — New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2026.

The CAOThe CAO

/ Cuff, George B. — Union, ON : Municipal World, 2025.

Social resilience and the urban migrant experienceSocial resilience and the urban migrant experience

/ Preston, Valerie; Shields, John; & Bedard, Tara. — Montréal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025.