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Canada
Free, confidential, available across all provinces and territories. You don't need a doctor's referral or insurance.
9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline
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Call or text 988 from anywhere in Canada to talk to a trained responder if you're thinking about suicide, or worried about someone who is. Free, confidential, available in English and French. Launched November 2023, replacing the previous Talk Suicide Canada line.
- 24/7
- Call or text
- English & French
911, emergency services
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If you or someone near you is in immediate physical danger, suicide attempt in progress, overdose, violence, call 911. For mental-health crisis without immediate danger, 988 is usually the better first call.
- 24/7
- Immediate danger only
Hope for Wellness
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Counselling and crisis support for Indigenous peoples across Canada. Always available in English and French; Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut on request (availability varies week to week). Online chat at hopeforwellness.ca.
- 24/7
- Indigenous-led
Kids Help Phone
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Counselling and crisis support for kids, teens, and young adults across Canada, by phone, text, or live chat. Phone service offered in over 100 languages.
- 24/7
- Young people
Trans Lifeline (Canada)
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Peer support hotline run by and for trans people. No active rescue without consent.
- Peer support
Assaulted Women's Helpline
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Crisis line for women across Ontario experiencing abuse. Toll-free TTY 1-866-863-7868. Outside Ontario, call 211 to be routed to your provincial equivalent.
- 24/7
- TTY available