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Message Guide: Building Public Support for Immigrants and Refugees

This Message Guide is intended to help you create and share messaging that will win over Canadian public opinion in support of newcomers. This Message Guide is intended to help you create and share messaging that will win over Canadian public opinion in support of newcomers.

Refugee Hearing Preparation: What to Expect and How to Prepare

This toolkit is a comprehensive guide to the refugee hearing (before, during, and after), how to prepare, and what to expect. It also includes an extensive additional section with resources available to refugee claimants.

Guidance on fees for medical reports

This sheet helps community legal clinics address the high fees doctors charge for medical documents.

It outlines doctors' obligations and fair billing practices to:

• support Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) applications, and
• reduce barriers for clients needing timely medical records.

It also highlights the rules...

Talk4Healing

Operated by Beendigen, Talk4Healing is a free, confidential phone, text, and chat service that offers culturally grounded support for Indigenous women across Ontario. The service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

It provides crisis counselling, referrals, and guidance toward personal healing. It’s available in 14 languages, including...

Sharing Truth. Building Power. Driving Change

The 519 has launched a community-driven project called Sharing Truth. Building Power. Driving Change. It's aimed at addressing the unique racism, xenophobia, and queerphobia experienced by Black LGBTQ+ newcomers in Ontario.

Resources include:

• an Anti-Oppression Practice Toolkit for service providers, which offers sector-specific...

Primer: An organizers guide to wage theft

The Workers Action Centre's Primer: An organizers guide to wage theft explains:

• the high rate of wage theft in Ontario,
• its impact, and
• what workers can do.

Violence familiale et femmes immigrantes : identifier, comprendre et se protéger

Enregistré le 04 décembre 2025

Ce webinaire interactif vous permettra d'apprendre à reconnaître les signes de la violence, à évaluer le risque d'actions qui peuvent entrainer la mort et à savoir comment réagir.

Vous pourrez :

• mieux connaître vos droits ;
• vous familiariser avec les protections prévues par la loi notamment en...

Estate planning for Indigenous Peoples living on reserve

Recorded on November 28, 2025

This webinar looks at how provincial, federal, and Indigenous laws affect estate planning for Indigenous Peoples in Ontario.

This webinar covers:

• Steps to take when an Indigenous person living on reserve is not capable of managing their property.
• The federal and provincial laws that apply to...

Know Your Rights: A Guide for Queer Students

This online resource explains students' rights to equality, security of the person, dignity, and privacy. It also explains the laws and policies behind these rights, as well as what to do if you think your rights have been violated.

Understanding the Notwithstanding Clause

Egale Canada has an online resource with downloadable PDFs that explains the Notwithstanding Clause, Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.