• Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
  AANDC is one of the federal government departments responsible for meeting the Government of Canada's obligations and commitments to First Nations, Inuit and Métis and for fulfilling the federal government's constitutional responsibilities in the North.

• Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto
  Operates legal-related programs for Aboriginal people in Toronto.

• Human Rights Legal Support
  Offers legal assistance to people in communities across Ontario who believe they have experienced discrimination.

• Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
  Access to Ontario government programs, services and information.

• Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services Corporation
  Delivers and coordinates a range of legal services and alternative processes for First Nation communities.

Understanding the law:

• Canada's Court System
  A general description of the court system in Canada, the types and levels of courts and their responsibilities.
• Canada's System of Justice
  Understand what the law is, where it comes from, what it is for, and how it operates.
• LawFacts.ca
  A legal information resource from Legal Aid Ontario which provides in-depht legal information and resources
• Your Legal Rights: Criminal Law
  Information on a variety of criminal topics

Are you a victim or a witness to crime?

• Ontario Victim Services
  
• Victim Services (CLEO)
  
• Ontario Women's Justice Network
  
• Assaulted Women's Helpline
  

Statutes and regulations:

• Criminal Code
  View the full text of the Criminal Code of Canada.
• Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)
  The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), the YCJA explained and other information.

Government:

• Courtprep Guide
  A site that helps people prepare for court.
• Department of Justice Canada
  Review information on federal laws including youth services.
• Ministry of the Attorney General
  Visit the Attorney General site to get information on going to court, court locations, court forms and applications, small claims court, jury duty, power of attorney links to legislation and information on any court procedures.
• Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
  Find information on police services in Ontario, parole board hearings and correctional facilities.
• Ombudsman Ontario
  Investigates complaints against provincial government organizations.
• Ontario court addresses
  Find local courthouses by location or region.

• Abuse and Family Violence
  Your legal rights information on abuse and family violence issues
• Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic
  Provides free and integrated legal, counseling, interpretation, information and referral services for women who have experienced violence.
• Covering your tracks on the Internet
  If you are worried your abuser may be able to see what websites you have visited, read these tips on how to protect yourself.
• Do you know a women who is being abused? A Legal Rights Handbook
  Produced by Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO), this guide offers practical information on issues in family, criminal and other areas of law that women in abusive relationships often face.
• Get help with family violence
  Information from the Canadian Department of Justice
• If you need help - Services for Women
  The Ontario Women's Directorate provides many resources.
• Learning to end abuse
  Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children
• Neighbourhood Friends and Family
  A public education campaign to raise awareness of the signs of woman abuse so that those close to an at-risk woman or an abusive man can help
• Violence in the Family
  Information from the Ministry of the Attorney General
• Women's resources
  Working with the community to provide services and support for abused women & their children and to provide opportunities to end violence against women.

Child and spousal support:

• Child protection standards in Ontario
  The purpose of the Child Protection Standards in Ontario (dated February 2007) is to promote consistently high quality service delivery to children, youth and their families receiving child protection services from Children's Aid Societies across the province.
• Child support guidelines
  Provides step-by-step information on Federal Child Support Guidelines.
• Family Responsibility Office (FRO)
  Helps families in Ontario receive the financial support they are entitled to by enforcing court ordered support responsibilities.
• Ontario Child Welfare Eligibility Spectrum
  The Ontario Child Welfare Eligibility Spectrum is a field-developed, eligibility tool for child welfare in Ontario.
• Your Legal Rights: Family Law - Child Support
  
• Your Legal Rights: Family Law - Custody and Access
  

Family law

• Family Law Topics in American Sign Language
  From Family Law Education for Women (FLEW) - watch videos of the legal information booklets in American Sign Language
• Your Legal Rights: Family Law
  From birth and adoption to divorce and separation, yourlegalrights.on.ca covers a range of family issues.
• Your Legal Rights: Marriage and common-law relationships
  

Government:

• Family court forms
  Provides you with electronic versions of forms under the Family Law Rules.
• Government of Ontario - families
  Information for residents on parenting, staying healthy and other topics that affect you and your family's well-being.
• Human Rights Legal Support
  Offers legal assistance to people in communities across Ontario who believe they have experienced discrimination.
• Ministry of the Attorney General - family law
  Find information about family justice programs and services, child support information, online publications and more.
• Ministry of the Attorney General - Family Mediation Services
  Mediation is a voluntary way of resolving disputes where a trained mediator helps parties of relatively equal bargaining positions to resolve disputes about family issues.
• Ministry of Children and Youth Services
  Find services for child welfare, family intervention, youth justice, children's community support, children's mental health, and childcare.
• Ombudsman Ontario
  Investigates complaints against provincial government organizations.
• Ontario court addresses
  Find local courthouses by location or region.
• Ontario family court structure
  Find services and information about Ontario’s family courts.

Separation and divorce:

• Divorce and separation
  If you separate or divorce, you will need to make many important decisions such as where you will live and how you will manage your finances. If you have children, their needs must be your priority.
• Your Legal Rights: Divorce and separation
  This page covers things people need to think about when they separate or divorce. It includes information on separation, how to apply for a divorce, how to make a separation agreement, and what to do if you can’t agree on making a separation agreement.

Services for children:

• Ministry of children and youth services
  Brings together information about all the children and youth programs and services provided by the Government of Ontario.
• The Office of the Children's Lawyer
  Delivers programs in the administration of justice on behalf of children under the age of 18 with respect to their personal and property rights.
• Ontario Association of Children's Aid Socities
  A non-profit agency that provides help and support to children and their families in local communities.

• Finding a Lawyer or Paralegal
  Information and links from the Law Society of Upper Canada
• Justice Net
  Justice Net is a not-for-profit access to justice program that helps clients who do not qualify for legal aid, and whose net family income is below $59,000, to find lawyers willing to accept cases on a reduced fee basis.
• Law Society Referral Service (LSRS)
  The LSRS provides the name of a lawyer or licensed paralegal who will give you a free consultation of up to 30 minutes to help you determine your rights and options.

Tenant resources

• The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)
  Defends Ontario’s low-income renters, co-op members and the homeless. Much of ACTO’s advocacy involves test-case litigation, lobbying the government and developing housing policy.
• The Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations (FMTA)
  Runs a hotline for tenant issues. They also publish information brochures, including the Tenant Survival Manual, and have a tenant outreach program.
• Human Rights Legal Support
  The Human Rights Legal Support Centre offers free legal services to people throughout Ontario who believe their human rights under the Code have been violated and who want to file an application to the Tribunal. The Centre’s services range from legal advice and assistance in filing an application, to representation at mediations and hearings before the Tribunal.
• Your Legal Rights: Housing Law
  Read about eviction, rental agreements, maintenance and more. From Your Legal Rights.

Resources for tenants and landlords

• Administrative Justice Support Network
  The Administrative Justice Support Network mission is to support people to feel competent and confident to proceed with an appeal before an administrative board or tribunal whether or not they have legal representation.
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
  Ensures availability, accessibility and choice of housing funding to Canadians. The key Canadian source of reliable and objective housing information.
• Landlord and Tenant Board
  Resolves disputes between landlords and tenants and provides information about the The Residential Tenancies Act and rights and obligations under the Act. Requests can be made to review an order under certain conditions.
• Landlord Self-Help Centre
  Landlord's Self-Help Centre is a non-profit community legal clinic which supports Ontario's small-scale landlord community exclusively.
• Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC)
  The Commission is an agency established to administer Ontario's Human Rights Code, which protects people against discrimination in employment, accomodation, goods, services and and facilities, and membership in vocational association and trade unions.

• Administrative Justice Support Network
  The Administrative Justice Support Network mission is to support people to feel competent and confident to proceed with an appeal before an administrative board or tribunal whether or not they have legal representation.
• Human Rights Legal Support Centre
  The Human Rights Legal Support Centre offers free legal services to people throughout Ontario who believe their human rights under the Code have been violated and who want to file an application to the Tribunal. The Centre’s services range from legal advice and assistance in filing an application, to representation at mediations and hearings before the Tribunal.
• Human Rights Triunal of Ontario
  This web site is your gateway to the HRTO application process. On these pages you will find How To File An Application or a Response using the online SmartForms.

• The University of Ottawa Refugee Assistance Project
  Written materials and training programs to support community workers and refugee claimants in preparing for refugee hearings.

Government services

• Citizenship and Immigration Canada
  Information about how to work, study, visit or immigrate to Canada. Learn about the Canadian refugee system, how to sponsor your family, and how to become a Canadian citizen.

• Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
  Find information about citizenship and immigration in Ontario.

Settling in Ontario

• Settlement.org
  Information and answers on settling in Ontario

• In My Language
  Information in 11 languages for newcomers to Ontario. Find out about immigration, housing, work, healthcare, educations, legal matters and more.

• Government of Ontario - newcomers
  Provides information and resources needed to settle into life in Ontario.

Career development

• Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC)

• Prepare to work in Ontario
  Outlines what newly arrived immigrants need to know about working in Ontario.

• Working in Ontario

• Working temporarily in Canada

• Consent and Capacity Board
  The Consent and Capacity Board (CCB) is an independent provincial tribunal. Most of the CCB’s work involves a review of a person's involuntary status in a psychiatric facility under the Mental Health Act, or a review under the Health Care Consent Act of a person's capacity to consent to or refuse treatment.

• Dealing with mental incapacity
  Mental incapacity is when someone cannot understand relevant information or cannot appreciate what may happen as a result of decisions they make — or do not make — about their finances, health or personal care.

• Drug & Alcohol Helpline
  Free Health Services information: 1-800-565-8603

• Mental Health Helpline
  Free Health Services informstion: 1-800-531-2600

• Ontario Problem Gambling Helpline
  Free Health Service Information: 1-888-230-3505

• Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office
  Information about mental health and patients’ rights in Ontario.

• Your Legal Rights: Health and Disability – Mental health

Power of Attorney

• Power of Attorney Kit
  A booklet from the Ministry of the Attorney General. Contains forms and information on Continuing Power of Attorney for Property and Power of Attorney for Personal Care.

• Your Legal Rights: Wills and Estates – Powers of attorney

Wills and estates

• Ministry of the Attorney General wills and estates
  Find answers and services about wills and estates, power of attorneys, and laws and regulations.

• Your Legal Rights: Wills and Estates

• 211 Ontario
  Connect to information about community, social, health and related government services.

• Administrative Justice Support Network
  The Administrative Justice Support Network mission is to support people to feel competent and confident to proceed with an appeal before an administrative board or tribunal whether or not they have legal representation.

• Service Ontario
  Offers a single window access to a wide range of information, services and resources offered by the government of Ontario.

• Your Legal Rights
  A project of CLEO, Your Legal Rights is a web site of legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario.

Children and youth

• Canada child and family benefits
  Offers information about financial support programs for children and families such as the Canada Child Tax Benefit, and Universal Child Care Benefit

• Child protection standards in Ontario
  The purpose of the Child Protection Standards in Ontario (dated February 2007) is to promote consistently high quality service delivery to children, youth and their families receiving child protection services from Children’s Aid Societies across the province.

• Ministry of Children and Youth Services
  Makes it easier for families to find and access the services they need to give kids the best start in life at all stages of a child's development and to help youth become productive adults.

• Ontario Child Benefit
  Ontario Child Benefit is a monthly benefit paid to low income families with children under the age of 18.

• Ontario Child Care Supplement for Working Families
  This program gives eligible working families tax-free money every month to help with child care costs. To qualify, children must be under the age of seven.

• Ontario Child Welfare Eligibility Spectrum
  The Ontario Child Welfare Eligibility Spectrum is a field-developed, eligibility tool for child welfare in Ontario.

• Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)
  OSAP provides eligible Ontario students with financial assistance to help pay for tuition, books, mandatory fees, living costs and transportation.

Financial/employment assistance

• Canada Benefits
  Connects people to a range of federal benefits such as Employment Insurance (EI), education and training, housing, health, business.

• Employment Ontario
  Ontario’s employment and training network with services for apprenticeships, job seekers, employers, and employees.

• Ontario Works (OW)
  Ontario Works can provide people in temporary financial need with money to cover the costs of basic needs and with help for prepare for and find a job. They may also be able to provide health benefits, including drug and dental coverage, and additional benefits.

• Service Canada
  Offers access to a wide range of Canadian government programs and services.

• Social Benefits Tribunal
  Hears appeals about social assistance decisions that people receive under the Ontario Works Act, 1997 and the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997.

Health

• Assistive Devices Program
  Provides personalized devices or equipment to Ontarians who have long-term physical disabilities.

• Health Canada
  Health Canada helps people maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances.

• Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  Find information about the government of Ontario’s health and long-term care programs.

• Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT)
  Delivers a range of services to protect your legal, personal and financial interests, as well as monitors the activities of Ontario charities.

• Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  The Ontario Disability Support Program helps eligible people with disabilities by providing financial help and help finding a job.

• Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  Residents of Ontario must have a valid Ontario Health Card to show that they are entitled to health care services paid for by OHIP. OHIP covers most Ontario health benefits across Canada.

Seniors

• Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE)
  ACE provides direct legal services to low-income seniors, public legal education, and engages in law reform activities.

• Ontario Senior's Secretariat
  The Ontario Seniors’ Secretariat works to improve the quality of life for Ontario’s seniors.

• Seniors Canada
  A comprehensive website for seniors-related information in Canada, including information on elder care.

• Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime
  Ensuring the equitable treatment of crime victims in Canada

• Criminal Injuries Compensation Board
  The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board is a quasi-judicial adjudicative agency that awards compensation to victims of crimes of violence that occurred in Ontario.

• The Office of the Children's Lawyer
  The Office of the Children's Lawyer is a law office in the Ministry of the Attorney General which delivers programs in the administration of justice on behalf of children under the age of 18 with respect to their personal and property rights.

• Victims of Violence
  A national nonprofit, non-government funded chartiable organization, dedicated to the prevention of crimes agaisnt children.

• Victim Quick Response Program (VQRP)
  The Victim Quick Response Program has ben established by the Ministry of the Attorney General to provide timelyassistance to victims of violent crimes.

• Your Legal Rights: Criminal Law – Rights of victims

• Court preparation guide
  Helps youth prepare for court.

• Justice for Children and Youth (JFCY)
  Provides legal representation to low-income children and youth in Toronto and area. Specializes in protecting the rights of those facing conflicts with the legal system, education, social service or mental health systems.

• Ministry of Children and Youth Services
  Provides youth justice services to youth, aged 12 to 17 at the time of their offence, who are charged with or convicted of criminal or provincial offences.

• Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN)
  Dedicated to promoting understanding, education, and dialogue to support a responsive and inclusive justice system.

• Youth Criminal Justice Act
  The Youth Criminal Justice Act is Canada's law that applies to youth between the ages of 12 and 17 who have come into conflict with the law.

• Youth justice information
  Publications, information and answers to questions about youth justice, the new Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), and the Youth Justice Renewal Initiative. Public Legal Education and Information (PLEI) material from across Canada.

• Your legal rights: Youth criminal justice

Are you a victim or a witness to crime?

• Ontario Victim Services
• Victim Services (CLEO)
• Ontario Women's Justice Network
• Assaulted Women's Hotline

• Canadian Bar Association

• Criminal Lawyer's Association (CLA)
  A voice for criminal justice and civil liberties in Canada

• LAO LAW
  A free service providing support to lawyers representing legally aided clients for lawyers registered with Legal Aid Ontario

• LawFacts.ca

• Law Foundation of Ontatio

• Law Society of Upper Canada

• Legal Aid Online
  The secure website for submitting billing information to Legal Aid Ontario

• Ontario Bar Association

• Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN)

• Pro Bono Law Ontario (PBLO)

• Your Legal Rights

Acts

• Crimnal Code

• Legal Aid Services Act, 1998

• Youth Criminal Justice Act (YJCA)