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Offers settlement and community orientation services for immigrants and refugees, including:

Orientation and Adaptation Services

• Offers needs assessment and information and referral to community and social services, support with finding housing, child care, registering children in school and health care
• Provides help filling out government forms including housing and immigration sponsorship forms
• Offers workshops to reduce stress of adjusting to Canadian culture

Commissioner of Oaths

• Serves as a Commissioner of Oaths for verifying original documents

Translation and Interpretation Services

• Offers professionally trained interpreters with expertise in health, community and social services

Supportive counselling

• Provides short-term counselling to clients who encounter difficulties in adjusting to life in Canada and assistance in overcoming these challenges

Job search preparation and training

• Provides assistance in developing strong job search strategies and workplace communication skills

Employment counselling

• Offers resume help, employment counselling, skills and career development and help in establishing social and professional networks

• Gives immediate legal assistance to individuals who appear in court without a lawyer
• Provides information about legal rights, obligation and the court process
• Provides assistance in the courtroom for bail hearings and sentencing
• Assists with diversions, guilty pleas and sentencing
• Helps determines if further duty counsel services are required or if the matter requires Legal Aid Ontario's assistance in retaining a lawyer

Provides assistance in specialized courts such as:

• Mental health
• Drug treatment
• Domestic violence
• Aboriginal persons (Gladue) court

Note: Criminal duty counsel cannot assist with trials

Provides legal assistance for low-income people

Services include:

• Legal representation for eligible clients who appear in court without a lawyer
• Legal aid applications and information over the phone
• Legal resources and referrals to other social assistance agencies
• A certificate program for complex and serious cases

Areas of law served include:

• Criminal
• Domestic violence
• Family

Does NOT cover applications for:

• Wrongful dismissal
• Change of name
• Personal bankruptcy
• Power of attorney
• Money lent to others or money owed to others
• Sponsorship of relatives
• Commercial litigation
• Real estate matters and libel
• Defamation and slander

• Provides free legal advice and assistance to low income earners
• Offers representation in a court or at a tribunal, such as the Social Benefits Tribunal or the Landlord and Tenant Board
• Assists with preparing documents, such as an application to the Landlord and Tenant Board

Helps with the following areas:

• Employment Insurance
• Canada Pension Plan (CPP and CPP Disability)
• Housing law for tenants and co-op members only
• Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
• Ontario Works (OW)

Note: No advice or representation is given regarding Family Law, Criminal Law, or Refugee Law

Operates as a program under the Education and Training Branch

• Advocates for Métis people in the development of education policies and programs in Ontario
• Participates in community school boards, colleges and universities and other educational agencies/stakeholders
• Encourages academic skills development
• Provides training programs that enable individuals to attain their educational aspirations
• Administers the Métis Student Bursary Program and provides assistance in applying for the Métis post secondary education bursary (list of participating colleges/universities on website)

• Provides a telephone legal advice and information line to the francophone community living in Northern Ontario, including Barrie, Parry Sound, Muskoka and Kawartha Lakes
• Provides an opportunity to discuss legal questions or difficulties and obtain information about rights and obligations in French

Offers assistance in the following areas of law:

• housing law
• income assistance
• Canada Pension Plan
• Employment Insurance

Note: the advice line does not help with family law or criminal law matters

Provides municipal services to residents including:

• Access to a Commissioner of Oaths
• Facility hall rentals, field and ice bookings
• Leisure program registration

Additional services include:

• Accepts payments for parking tickets, property taxes and water bills
• Sells bus tickets/passes, cemetery plots, and licenses such as animal, business, lottery and marriage

Provides municipal services to residents including:

• Access to a Commissioner of Oaths
• Facility hall rentals, field and ice bookings
• Leisure program registration

Additional services include:

• Accepts payments for parking tickets, property taxes and water bills
• Sells bus tickets/passes, cemetery plots, and licenses such as animal, business, lottery and marriage

Provides municipal services to residents including:

• Access to a Commissioner of Oaths
• Facility hall rentals, field and ice bookings
• Leisure program registration

Additional services include:

• Accepts payments for parking tickets, property taxes and water bills
• Sells bus tickets/passes, cemetery plots, and licenses such as animal, business, lottery and marriage

Provides municipal services to residents including:

• Access to a Commissioner of Oaths
• Facility hall rentals, field and ice bookings
• Leisure program registration

Additional services include:

• Accepts payments for parking tickets, property taxes and water bills
• Sells bus tickets/passes, cemetery plots, and licenses such as animal, business, lottery and marriage

Provides municipal services to residents including:

• Access to a Commissioner of Oaths
• Facility hall rentals, field and ice bookings
• Leisure program registration

Additional services include:

• Accepts payments for parking tickets, property taxes and water bills
• Sells bus tickets/passes, cemetery plots, and licenses such as animal, business, lottery and marriage

Provides municipal services to residents including:

• Access to a Commissioner of Oaths
• Facility hall rentals, field and ice bookings
• Leisure program registration

Additional services include:

• Accepts payments for parking tickets, property taxes and water bills
• Sells bus tickets/passes, cemetery plots, and licenses such as animal, business, lottery and marriage

Coordinates all duties relative to the administration and legislative requirements necessary for a functional Council and town's corporation including the following:

• Provides secretarial support for proceedings of Council, committees
• Facilitates towns and school board elections
• Participates in and provides support for various community committees
• Administers the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
• Maintains the corporate policy manual and the corporate bylaw and report systems
• Liaises with Aboriginal organizations
• Provides Commissioner of Oaths services
• Provides civic information

Archives

• Provides records management and archival services to Town departments and research facilities to the general public
• Processes Freedom of Information requests

• Provides an online single point of access to information on a variety of government programs and services for residents, visitors and businesses
• Provides referral services to government staff who can provide specialized help

Provides the following services:

Business Taxes

• Accepts payments and authorizations for certain business taxes
• Accepts tax returns for certain business taxes

Driver and Vehicle Services

• Accessible parking permits
• Copies of records
• Driver's licences (name and address change, renewal, replacement)
• Motorized Snow Vehicle Operator's Licence
• Motorized Snow Vehicle Permits
• Off-Road Vehicle Permits
• Vehicle Permits and Plates

Fish and Wildlife

• Fishing licences (multi-day, single day, Canadian, non-resident)
• Hunting licences (resident, non-resident, variety of game)
• Outdoors card (temporary, hunter apprenticeship)

Forms, Publications and Official Documents

• Commissioner of Oaths

Health

• Health card renewal and replacement
• Name and address change on health card
• New health card registration
• Organ and tissue donor registration

Ontario Photo Card

• New Ontario Photo Card registration
• Ontario Photo Card renewal and replacement
• Name and address change on Ontario Photo Card

Provides a public computer to obtain a variety of government information and online services for businesses and residents including the following:

• Registering a business
• Updating business information
• Changing home address
• Applying for birth, marriage, or death certificates
• Registering a newborn

Note:

• Health card services are also available by appointment and can be booked online

Provides legal advice and assistance to individuals who do not have the means to assert or defend their legal rights through the following services:

• Client representation in clinic areas of practice
• Free summary legal advice
• Information and referral
• Law reform advocacy
• Public education
• Specialized legal services

Services are offered in the following areas:

• Birth certificates
• Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Disability or Pension benefits
• Canada Child Benefits (CCB)
• Consumer and Credit/Debt issues
• Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB)
• Disability Tax benefits
• Employment Insurance (EI)
• Employment Standards (ESA)
• Human Rights
• Native Status applications
• Old Age Security (OAS)
• Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
• Ontario Works
• Residential Tenancies (tenants only)

Note: No advice or representation is given regarding Family Law or Criminal Law

Provides services to Wiikwemkoong members relating to issues involving estates

Services include assistance with the following:

• Acting as estate administrator as a last resort
• Appointment of estate administrators
• Guidance to administrators in the performance of their duties
• Research with the history of families and lands
• Storage of wills in secure facility
• Writing of wills