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Housing Rights: Repairs and Maintenance Workshop

🗓 Thursday, March 19 🕑 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM 📍 Online Guest Speaker: Rose Vandermeer, Senior Engagement and Education Advisor from the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR). Join our workshop to learn about tenants’ rights and responsibilities related to repairs and maintenance. The session will cover these topics: 🔹 What landlords are legally

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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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MNLC Community Kitchen Pilot is Preparing Newcomers to Thrive 

By Trudy Tumusime  Every other week, something magical happens at the MNLC Queen Street Office kitchen.  The air fills with the aromas of spices. Laughter bounces off the walls. Pots simmer, pans sizzle, and hands work in harmony – in a shared space where strangers have become a community. It is the MNLC community kitchen!

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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 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.