Tag: Information and Orientation

Government of Canada mobile apps

85 mobile applications and pages to access Government of Canada information and services.

They also have an Apps Gallery that lists third-party mobile applications created using Government of Canada data.

CanSettle provides offline access to organizations that can help you settle in Canada. If you have just immigrated to Canada and need help this app will direct you to organizations that can help.

CanSettle also gives you access to a big checklist on what to do before you get to Canada and what to do once you are here.

Key Features:

• Organization information is available offline for reference and to provide to transportation providers (e.g. taxi).
• Organizations with verified addresses and names have a checkmark next to the address allowing you to quickly see where to go for help!
• Business hours for many of the organizations for quick reference.
• You can see what services are available, how far the organization is from your location and quickly call them or get directions.
• You can also search all the organizations across the entire country by service, city and province if needed.

Similar to PointB, this app is a bit different from others. This is an organization-specific service app, which focuses on serving clients throug the organization’s app rather than serving them through other tools, such as digital messaging.

Available in English, Arabic, Mandarin, and Spanish, the Mennonite New Life Centre (MNLCT) Newcomer Support App was developed in partnership with iCent – a platform for international students and newcomers – and is designed to provide virtual tools to better support immigrants and refugees who are settled or settling in Ontario.

Key features include:

• COVID-19 updates regarding issues related to
  • settlement,
  • immigration,
  • legal rights,
  • employment,
  • mental health,
  • schooling
• #AskMNLCT webinars can be viewed right from the app
• Information on our programs and services and how we’re managing them online during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Trustworthy information on
  • settlement,
  • immigration,
  • legal rights,
  • employment,
  • health,
  • recreation,
  • the latest incidents affecting our communities

Upcoming features:

• Register for upcoming workshops, events, and information sessions for our programs
• Securely upload registration documents
• Book appointments with our settlement and mental health teams
• Live chat with staff

Note: the text below is an automatic translation of the text on the Google Play Store (from Arabic to English) and therefore is likely to contain translation errors.

A social service platform provides useful information in Arabic in various fields such as health, transportation and housing, education and employment Newcomers to Canada.

This platform is a bridge of communication between the newcomers or visitors with veterans of immigrant business owners, companies and professionals, experienced in the country, they underestimate their affairs of everyday life and help them adapt to their new country.

Therefore we have this creates a weird business guide is the first of its kind in Canada and the Western world, which includes more than four thousand companies and members of Arab organizations in various fields, such as doctors, lawyers, advisers immigration, contractors, real estate agents and mortgage and retail outlets and the sale of meat, in addition to community-based organizations and associations concerned with services the new arrivals of immigrants throughout Canada.

We have been careful while we collect this information at the highest degree of accuracy and credibility and to provide it to you in an organized manner, including communication with these companies or individuals information in addition to the addresses and working hours. We have also added property valuation to benefit users of this application from the previous experiences of people with such a wide range of companies and individuals.

With this application you will be able to:

• Quickly and easily search for companies and professionals Arabs, and get to communicate with any of them information as well as the ability to share this information with others
• Add your assessment of companies and services that are within the Weird guide
• access to basic guidance information for the area where you live, such as health insurance, housing, education, transportation and work translated into Arabic

We have made the State of Canada starting point for this project being of the population of this great country, which has always attracted thousands of Arab immigrants, and we hope very soon that we can be in all the Diaspora from Mushargaha to the west to provide our services to the Arabs wherever they are.

Finally, we hope and we wish to communicate your cooperation with us to express their opinion and advice anything you deem inappropriate or need to be corrected in this application Froakm and suggestions are the foundations of the construction of this project, which worked by a team of the finest Arab programmers.

PointB provides information, resources and online support to newcomers to Canada as part of the YMCA Immigrant Services program. Use is by invitation by the YMCA of Hamilton|Burlington|Brantford Immigrant Services.

This is an organization-specific service app. An attempt to bring clients into the org’s app service environment rather than serving them through WhatsApp, etc.