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Are you interested in starting your own business in Ontario, but don’t know where to start? We can help you understand the Canadian laws of having a business and learn how to navigate your new life in Ontario, with these programs and services:

  • training and coaching you in how to start and run your own business
  • helping you improve your English to learn and understand entrepreneurial English terms
  • providing support with your living and emotional needs as you learn how to live in a new city and country
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Your Business

Start
Your Business

Starting a Business

How to Get Money | Grants/Loans

Grants and Funding from the Government of Canada
Get Funding from the Ontario Government
Grants, Incentives & Rebates, Toronto
BDC: Start-up financing

Language Skills

Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) courses provide free English training for newcomers to Canada, along with free CNC (Childminding) services and free TTC tokens for eligible participants.
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Services for Newcomers

Individual Settlement Counselling

A variety of services to immigrants and refugees looking to settle in Canada. Services provided in English, Arabic, and Spanish.
Contact us for more information.

Settlement Workshops

Workshops on settlement-related topics about Information & Orientation, Community Connections, and Employment. Specific topics include immigration, housing, access to community and government programs and benefits, health care, education, employment, life in Ontario, and more.
Contact us for more information.
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Emotional Support

Individual Mental Health Counselling

Emotional support for newcomers struggling with stress or trauma, to promote resilience, strength and wellbeing at an individual and community level. Services provided in English, Arabic, Farsi, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
Contact us for more information.
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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.

How we work on Canada Day Week

All our offices will be closed from Monday, June 29th, to Friday, July 3rd inclusive.

LINC, Mental Health, and Bridging programs are available virtually on Monday, June 29, and Tuesday, June 30.

Community Health Services is available virtually on Tuesday, June 30.

We will reopen on Monday, July 6th.

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦

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 at our Keele office in Units 111 (Resource Centre) & 112 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Monday to Friday to answer questions and provide guidance. 
  • LINC in-person classes are running as usual at Keele office and online.
  • HAP is closed for the summer.
  • Community Health Services is able to support at our Finch office on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.

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.