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EmpowHER: Virtual Networking Event for Women in Entrepreneurship

🗓 Friday, February 20 🕑 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM 📍 Online   If you are a Women and want to be an Entrepreneur, or already started your small business unit, then this Event is for you!   Guest Speaker: Elena Jara, Entrepreneur Facilitator at MNLC In collaboration with CultureLink Settlement & Community Services and […]

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Art Therapy Group

Starts on Friday, March 13, 2026   🗓 5 sessions, every Friday🕑 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM📍 Online Healing Through Creativity Join our Art Therapy Group for: 🔹 Navigating anxiety, trauma, and difficult emotions🔹 Building resilience and expressing emotions 🔹 Reconnecting with yourself through art and boosting creativity *No ART experience is needed. Sign up

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Help nominate MNLC as a Toronto Community Champion

Every day at MNLC, newcomers walk through our doors carrying big hopes and heavy stories. They come to learn English, understand their new community, find confidence, and build a future for their families in Toronto. Through language instruction, educational programs, workshops, and trauma-informed supports, MNLC helps people not just settle, but truly belong. Now, our

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Our Health for All Partnership (HAP) Clinic reopens on January 20

🌿 Starting next Tuesday, January 20th, our Health for All Partnership (HAP) Clinic (@hapclinic) is re-opening! In collaboration with Humber Polytechnic’s Bachelor of Science Nursing Program, we are providing FREE and confidential care along with health education for everyone.   No OHIP card is required! 🙌 🗓 Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 🕒 9:30 AM – 3:30

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Enrolling Your Child in Daycare & Accessing Subsidies

Thursday, January 15, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Online   Join this interactive workshop to learn: how to choose the right daycare for your child understand the registration process explore available subsidies and financial supports find reliable resources to help you navigate childcare options To register, please contact us: settlementworkshops@mnlct.org

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MNLC celebrates the season at Holiday Toy Giveaway

On Saturday, December 13, MNLC was proud to welcome families and community members to our Keele office in North York for a joyful holiday celebration in partnership with the Toronto Police Service’s Project HOPE initiative. Thanks to the generosity and coordination of Project HOPE, thousands of toys were collected and distributed to families during the event. More

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Thank you for your patience as we continue to respond to a cybersecurity incident affecting our communication systems.

We are happy to share an important update — we are now able to send outgoing emails. Going forward, you will receive our emails from our new domain, @mnlc.ca, in addition to our temporary Gmail addresses. Please watch for us in your inbox. 

If you haven’t already, you can sign up to receive email updates from us directly here.

Please note: All our services, classes, and appointments will be closed from Friday, July 31, to Monday, August 3. We will resume on Tuesday, August 4.
Happy Civic Holiday!

We know it has been frustrating and difficult to reach us during this time, and we sincerely apologize for that. Please know that all our programs and services are running and staff are ready to support you. For getting in touch with us, please continue to use our temporary Gmail addresses:

Or drop in to our Keele location (2737 Keele St, units 9, 111, 112, North York) or Finch location (1122 Finch Ave West, Unit 1, North York) during office hours:

  • Settlement staff are available onsite at 2737 Keele St Units 111 & 112 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Monday to Fridays to answer questions and provide guidance. Wi-fi is now available.
  • Community Health Services are available at 1122 Finch W Unit 1 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. The HAP clinic is closed for the summer but our Health Navigator can provide guidance in accessing health services.
  • LINC classes are closed for the summer. Registration will begin in August for the fall semester.
  • Mental Health and BREM staff are available by appointment only.

We take your privacy seriously and kindly ask that you do not share sensitive personal information via email.

Thank you for your understanding. We appreciate the many kind words of empathy shared by our community, and we look forward to being fully operational again. We will continue to share updates as our systems are restored.