Government documents recently added to OPL's collection

Report of the propane safety review
(Report by independent panel prior to the August 2008 explosion in north Toronto)
Society at a glance 2009: OECD Social indicators
Organisation for Economic Co-operation & development biennial report that attempts to satisfy the demand for quantitative data on social well-being and trends. It compares facts and figures across countries, using a wide range of indicators, some more unexpected than others - time spent watching television, on personal care, leisure patterns by age. There are also many health indicators, poverty and education indicators, crime, bullying and suicide indicators.
Up against a wall. Coping with becoming a teen when you have been maltreated as a child
Substance use among adolescents in child welfare versus adolescents in the general population
Places to Grow: Size and location of urban growth centres in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
This report outlines the relevant policies in the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, which relate to urban growth centres and provides maps depicting the size and location of the 25 urban growth centres in the GGH.
Immigrants in rural Canada: 2006
Examines immigration patterns in Canada's rural and small towns
2009 Hunting Regulations Summary
From Government of Ontario - if you plan to hunt small game, wolves, moose, wild turkeys, black bear or deer, you need to know the regulations that apply.

Health Care Options Ontario

The Health Care Options website from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care aims to connect Ontario residents quickly with the local health care they need.
It provides contact information, including names, addresses and hours of operation, for frontline health care services in your community, and includes descriptions and links to Telehealth Ontario (call to get health advice from a registered nurse (helps you find family health care in your community), Healthcare Connect (helps you to find health care in your community), Community Care Access Centres (access to government-funded homes and community services and long-term care, Connex (alcohol, gambling and mental health services). Factsheets in over 20 different languages can be printed off from the website.
For analysis of the health care systems in the U.S. and Canada, see the report One Issue, Two Voices: Health Care in Crisis. The Drive for Health Reform in Canada and the United States

New government resources at Oakville Public Library

The following electronic resources have been added:
Finding home: Policy options for addressing homelessness in Canada
Finding Home aims to fill a gap in the information available on homelessness by providing an easily accessible collection of some of the best Canadian research and policy analysis on homelessness. This e-book includes summaries of recently completed research reports as well as the most policy-relevant published articles from scholarly journals. The chapters have been edited to keep them at a length of 3,000 to 9,000 words and to ensure that they are accessible to a non-specialist audience. Each chapter is a separate dowloadable PDF.

Opening doors to the world: Canada's international market access priorities

Lessons to be learned : The report of the Honourable Bob Rae, Independent Advisor to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, on outstanding questions with respect to the bombing of Air India flight 182

The community solution to gang violence - a collaborative community process and evaluation framework

With our best future in mind; Implementing early learning in Ontario

Children and lone-mother families

Recognition of the foreign credentials of immigrants

Canadian housing observer 2008: with a feature on housing need

Guide to Canadian Heritage financial support programs

Income in Canada

Abortion in Canada

Energy efficiency trends in Canada 1990 to 2005

Energy Consumption of major household appliances shipped in Canada