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As Ontario's community-based bilingual distance education and training network, Contact North | Contact Nord helps underserved residents in 800 small, rural, remote, Indigenous and Francophone communities get jobs by making it possible for them to access education and training without leaving their communities.

We respond to 1.3 million+ requests a year and provide five local services for Ontario students in both English and French, delivered virtually and at 116 online learning centres:

Information about available online programs and courses
Help with registrations and information about financial help
Free use of computer workstations and high-speed Internet access to complete online courses
Free use of web conferencing and videoconferencing distance learning platforms for online programs and courses
Supervision of written and online exams and tests

In 2020-21, we generated nearly 180,000 course registrations for Ontario’s 24 public colleges, 22 public universities, 9 Indigenous institutes, 76 district school boards, 200 literacy and basic skills providers, and 50 skills development training providers.
Students can access our province-wide Student Information Hotline at 1-877-999-9149. They can also access resources and information at our studyonline.ca / etudiezenligne.ca and e-channel.ca / apprentissageenligne.ca portals, which generate 920,000+ pageviews a year.

*Not all online learning centres may be open at this time

Read Contact North | Contact Nord’s Mandate and Mission Statement

Corporate Information

Established by the Government of Ontario in 1986
Incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation headquartered in Thunder Bay and governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of individuals from Ontario’s public colleges, universities, district school boards, Indigenous communities, Francophone communities and public members
Receives annual funding of $10.5 million from the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Colleges and Universities continuously since 1986