some hard to stomach, some of the rest of it wonderful, but libraries will still be around. And I’m very glad of that. But, it’s going to be tough. When even the Greens – as they have done in Bristol – are proposing library cuts then we...
In the late 70’s and early 80’s, the Government of Quebec began a major deve-lopment plan for public libraries by including grant programs targeting municipali-ties. At the same time, operating standards were proposed. These would be thesubject of major revision in 1996, under the ...
Public services in Toronto are funded by municipal property taxes, financial transfers from the Government of Ontario and Government of Canada, or are operated and financed by the higher-level governments. Funding for services provided by the municipal government is determined by a vote of the ...
Univision Houston partnered with the Houston Public Library to promote the 2016 Summer Reading Program “Aim for the Stars.” The Summer Reading Program encourages kids and teens to read during the summer months to elevate their reading skills in preparation for the next school year. Univision Hous...
s participation was supported by the National Library of Medicine Medical Informatics Training Grant T15LM007442-08. We wish to thank the study participants for their time and cooperation, Jim Wallace for his help with figures, John Hartman for providing public health expertise, Dr. George Dem...
P.W.S.N. has received travel and accommodation funding from the Spanish Federation of Rehabilitated Gamblers, and received open access fee grant income from Gambling Research Exchange Ontario.Additional information Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in ...
Following a broadly similar format, Partnership BC (operating in the Canadian province of British Columbia; now Infrastructure BC) was created in 2002 as an arm’s-length agency with links to the Ministry of Finance, while Partnership Ontario (now Infrastructure Ontario) was formed in 2005 (...
Ontario Food Bank Drive According to the Ontario Association of Food Banks, more than 300,000 people rely on food banks every month, 40% of whom are children. In the fall of 2003, BMO Bank of Montreal employees helped to fight hunger by raising cash and food for a total donation with ...
A general population survey found that 73% of problem gamblers had home access to the Internet in Ontario in 2007 [36]. As our history of radio, TV and VCR ownership demonstrates, any remaining disparities in current use of the Internet across groups will likely reduce to the point that ...
A general population survey found that 73% of problem gamblers had home access to the Internet in Ontario in 2007 [36]. As our history of radio, TV and VCR ownership demonstrates, any remaining disparities in current use of the Internet across groups will likely reduce to the point that ...