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About Starting Your Own Business

For-profit logo The Business Guide to Government Programs is a website operated by a past employee of the Government of Canada. The website offers information about where to find out about grants and loans, who to contact for more information and how to apply.
   
Canada logo Canada Business is a cross-jurisdictional government organization that helps Canadian entrepreneurs to access the information, advice and support that they need to operate their own business. The site includes a link featuring opportunities for entrepreneurs who have a disability and for those living in rural communities.
   
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Canada – Ontario Business Service Centre is a joint federal-provincial initiative offering free access to business information around thinking about, starting, growing and exiting your own business.
   
Canada logo Canada Revenue Agency features detailed information for small and medium-sized businesses in areas such as registering and setting up your business, paying taxes, charging GST and PST and payroll.
   
  Kawartha Small Business offers assistance to Kawartha Lakes businesses, including financial assistance, self-employment programs and business planning and advisory services.
   
Ontario logo Ontario Self-Employment Benefit provides unemployed people who are or have recently been eligible for Employment Insurance with income and entrepreneurial support while they develop and start their business.
   
Canada logo Opportunities Fund assists persons with disabilities to prepare for and obtain employment or self-employment as well as to develop the skills necessary to maintain that new employment.
   
  Strategis covers a vast array of public and private sector information to help businesses take root and grow.
   
  Your Guide to Government Services & Support for Small Business focuses on programs and services available to small businesses through the federal (Canadian) government.
   
  See also, Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDC).