Health in Canada

Statistics Canada has just introduced a new module available from its home page. Called Health in Canada the module features the most up-to-date statistics on the health of Canadians and the health care system.
Scroll down the page and view the sections: Health Indicators (data about a topic), Health Reports (articles on a topic), Health Subtopics (information by theme) and Health Profile, which features community-level data from a number of sources, including Statistics Canada's health surveys, administrative data, and the Census of population.
The application provides the latest statistics available for a selected health region (e.g. Oakville), provides the corresponding provincial data by default, and users can easily select any region of choice for comparison.

Use this information to:

• Find the latest health statistics available from a wide range of indicators for a specific region
• Quickly compare with provincial or national rates, other jurisdictions, peer groups, etc.
• Profile the overall health of a community.
• Toggle to census Community profile data for the same area.

Ontario government report on early education

This 68-page report, published yesterday, is available from the Ministry of Education's website With our best future in mind: Implementing early learning in Ontario.
There will be a link in Bibliocommons to the PDF, and the print copy will be added as soon as it is available for ordering.

Virtual Reference Service - U.S. Government Information Online

GIO (Government Information Online)is a free online information service supported by nearly twenty public, state and academic libraries throughout the United States. Through Chat and e-mail users are directed to information from U.S.. government agencies, in particular federal, but state, regional and local agancies as well. The libraries involved are federal depositories.

Funding for Town of Oakville from Ontario and Federal governments

A total of $3.4 billion in federal funding has been granted to municipalities in Ontario for investment in infrastructure projects. These funds will be matched by the Ontario government and the municipal governments themselves.
The Town of Oakville has received $30 million in infrastructure stimulus funds - equally provided by the governments of Canada and Ontario - to build a new $45 million dollar transit facility (the remaining third to come from Town's capital funding). The new facility will be completed by March 31, 2011.
For an aerial view and site plan of the proposed facility, see the Town's website