Montreal Botanical Garden and Insectarium visit
Looking for something to do with the kids when it's too cold to play outside? Do you know that Montreal offers a lot of winter indoor family activities? The Botanical Garden and Insectarium are two great places to visit during those cold winter days. Come and be dazzled by the thousands of colourful, shimmering butterflies flying all around. Join us at one of the world's greatest gardens with its collection of plant species from the four corners of the globe. The fresh air and natural beauty makes for an excellent outing for the whole family! | *Offered for newcomers: individuals who have arrived within the last five years and are registered with Ometz.
Time: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Category: Newcomer Integration Activities
Cost: $ 15.00
The Quebec Tax System
Personal income tax: what's new for 2021? Find answers to questions on how to submit federal and provincial income tax declarations | Registration is required | Offered for newcomers: individuals who have arrived within the last five years and are registered with Ometz.
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Category: Financial Education Programs
Cost: Free
The ABC's of Starting a Business: Business Law
ProMontreal Entrepreneurs and PME MTL present present The ABC's of Starting a Business training series. This 3-part workshop series will provide participants with a base line of information of things to consider and know when starting a business. This workshop will focus on important information to know from a legal perspective when starting a business.
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Category: Entrepreneurial Workshops
Cost: Free
French Course Beginners 1 (A1)
Online French course - Beginners 1 level | 20-week session | Cost for individuals registered with Ometz: $220 | Purchase of a workbook is mandatory | Registration is required
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Category: Language Courses
Cost: $ 350.00
English course
General English course | Offered in partnership with the Sylvan Adams YM-YWHA | 10-week session | Spring 2019 session: Beginners: April 16 - June 20, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 - 7pm; Intermediate: April 15 - June 19, Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-7pm | Cost for Newcomers registered with Ometz: $109* | Payable to the YM-YWHA | *Registration is required | *Newcomers: individuals who have arrived within the last five years and are registered with Ometz | Information and registration: Kate Oursegova, 514.342.0000, ext. 3457 or at
[email protected]
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Category: Language Courses
I'm thinking of buying a house/condo
Financial Education Program presents: an online seminar.
Real estate market: what's new for 2023? Make strategic decisions on purchasing a home, including where to look, how to select a real estate agent, and when to obtain a mortgage | Registration is required | Offered for newcomers: individuals who have arrived within the last five years and are registered with Ometz.
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Category: Financial Education Programs
Cost: Free
Boost Word Knowledge in 3 hours
Learn how to use Word styles to help save time creating consistent and well-designed documents. Apply, and modify a variety of style types, from paragraph styles to list styles. More advanced topics include generating a dynamic table of contents from styles, using style sets, restricting formatting and document use with styles, using keyboard shortcuts, and much more.
Topics include:
- Understanding the different types of styles
- Creating styles
- Applying styles
- Customizing styles
- Basing new styles on existing styles
- Managing style sets
- Copying, deleting, and renaming styles
- Creating a table of contents with styles
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Category: Computer Training
Cost: $ 65.00
[OLD] The ABC's of Starting a Business: Financing
ProMontreal Entrepreneurs and PME MTL present The ABC's of Starting a Business training series*. This 3-part workshop series will provide participants with a base line of information of things to consider and know when starting a business.
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Category: Entrepreneurial Workshops
Cost: Free
Maximize Excel Data Skills in 3 hours
Maximize Excel Data Skills in 3 hours:
Repairing Data, Data Validation, Filters vs. Sorts and Printing Tips
Learn to;
- Fix bad data so you can use it using Find & Replace and Flash Fill
- Setup data validation to prevent bad data from being entered.
- Use both Filters and Sorts to manage your data (Including Data Tables)
- Manage Wide Printouts
This bite-sized workshop runs for 3 hours on one day.
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Category: Computer Courses
Cost: $ 65.00
Children's Summer Camp Fair
Do you have a plan? Soon the children will be out of school. What will they do? Come and meet with the Jewish camp representatives and learn more about their programming, languages, prices, subsidies and anything else you want to know. Bring your children along and let them be involved in choosing the right camp for them.
Ometz invites you to attend our Summer Camp Fair. Remember that spaces for summer camps are limited, so make sure to register your child (children) as soon as possible for summer 2019
| *Registration is required | *Offered for newcomers: individuals who have arrived within the last five years and are registered with Ometz
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Category: Information Sessions
Cost: Free
Increase Excel Pivot Tables Proficiency in 3 Hours
Increase Excel Pivot Tables proficiency in 3 hours:
Pivot Tables Demystified
Topics:
What's a pivot table?
To Pivot or not To Pivot?
How can I use one to save time?
Displaying Percentages of a row, column or grand total.
Add Calculated columns.
Dealing with Fiscal Years.
This bite-sized workshop runs for 3 hours on one day.
Time: 3:00 AM - 3:15 AM
Category: Computer Courses
Cost: $ 65.00
Excel 2016 Level 1
Learn how to develop, edit, format and print basic worksheets, how to create formulas and use basic functions. Prerequisite: Good understanding of Windows. Three consecutive days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) 3-hours per day.
The deadline for registration is February 13, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Category: Computer Courses
Cost: $ 150.00
Ottawa Tulip Festival Guided Tour
Visit the Canadian Capital during the famous Canadian Tulip Festival. The trip includes a guided tour of the Parliament Hill and a relaxing late afternoon among the flowerbeds of the Commissioners Park by Dow's Lake | *Registration is required | *Offered for newcomers: individuals who have arrived within the last five years and are registered with Ometz.
Time: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Category: Integration Activities
Cost: $ 45.00
Betty and Bernard S. Shapiro Family Lecture 2018
Dr. Jean Twenge, the internationally recognized psychologist and researcher on adolescence and technology, offers up-to-date research and tips that may make a difference in how we interact with our phones and each other. This free public lecture will help us understand the effects of our smartphones on our families, relationships, and behaviour.
Parents and their teens will learn:
- The truth about how many hours children are spending on screen time each day
- What the consequences are from this lack of connection to other children, including loneliness and anxiety
- How to set boundaries for screen time for kids
- The fall-out of screen time on sleep patterns and the subsequent effect on learning
- The importance of parents being positive role models with their own use of phones and electronic devices
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Category: Betty and Bernard S. Shapiro Family Lecture Series
Cost: Free
Pearl Leibovitch Clinical Day 2018
Featuring guest speaker Dr. Jean Twenge on May 15, 2018
Dr. Jean Twenge, the internationally recognized psychologist and researcher on adolescence and technology, discusses loneliness and its relation to anxiety and depression. She offers up-to-date research and strategies that address the psychological, educational, and counselling issues faced by professionals and their clients.
Professionals will learn:
- What the research tells us about best practices concerning the use of phones and electronic devices in the classroom
- The effects of screen time on the brain and learning in general
- The consequences of increased screen time with the concurrent decrease of social interactions
- The signs of depression and anxiety in students resulting from a lack of social interaction
- What we need to introduce into clinical practice to engage our young clients
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Category: Betty and Bernard S. Shapiro Family Lecture Series
Cost: $ 150.00
Ask the Doctor! Online Information Session
What you may not know about the Quebec healthcare system?
Do you have a family doctor/and or pediatrician? What happens if you need a specialist? What other resources exist? What is the difference between public and private health care? As well, learn more about some of the safety measures during the COVID19 pandemic.Join us and meet our volunteer doctor who will be happy to provide more information and answer some of your questions | *Registration is required | *Offered for newcomers: individuals who have arrived within the last five years and are registered with Ometz
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Category: Information Sessions
Cost: Free