Licensed business

Cai Ltd

CA-E-F8MF-XTC5IssuedBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources

$587KPublic money on record

3Municipal licences

0Employees reported

3Independent publishers

86/100Evidence depth

October 15, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-F8MF-XTC5
Address: 8358 St George St, Vancouver, BC, V5X 3S7
Earliest record: January 26, 2010
Also known as: Collins Educational

Identifiers held

odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:22-152575
statcan-odbus: 6c906d8d04c595cf5737
Vancouver licence: 4533613
Vancouver licence: 4660333
Vancouver licence: 4878570
Vancouver licence no.: 24-153270
Vancouver licence no.: 25-152608
Vancouver licence no.: 26-155985

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Evidence depth

86/100

Deep record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers

Operationsmunicipal licences

Filed figuresfinancials or workforce

Public moneycontracts or grants

Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links

Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Regulatorydecided findings

Dated historyevents with effective dates

Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration

Operationslicences and operating places

Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce

Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations

Regulatorydecided public findings

Historydated span and recorded events

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Municipal licences (3)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food	4533613	February 1, 2024	Issued
Vancouver	Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food	4660333	—	Pending
Vancouver	Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food	4878570	January 5, 2026	Issued

A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.

Public money on record

Federal contracts

$586,679

across 12 awards, 2010–2023

2010$31K

2014$25K

2015$22K

2017$37K

2021$167K

2022$79K

2023$225K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
National Research Council Canada	12	$586,679

Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.

What it does

Trade: Wholesale Dealer
Licensed as: Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food
Industry code: 41
North American Industry Classification System

Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.

Timeline

January 5, 2026Licence first issued — Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food
February 1, 2024Licence first issued — Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food
October 6, 2023Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$225,095
October 6, 2022Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$79,083
November 1, 2021Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$23,317
February 19, 2021Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$100,838
January 29, 2021Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$20,920
January 18, 2021Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$22,072
February 6, 2017Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$13,032
January 16, 2017Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$24,356
November 2, 2015Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$22,377
July 24, 2014Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$24,961
February 4, 2010Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$14,219
January 26, 2010Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$16,410

Why this is one record

3 public datasets from 3 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

Same name and postal code V5X 3S7
asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 8358 george, vancouver, BC
asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from

Dataset	Last captured	Cadence	Coverage kept	Health
Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 1, 2026	P3M	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Open Database of Businesses — version 1 Statistics Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada	—	—	—	not measured
Vancouver business licences City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver	October 15, 2026	P1M	3 captures · 1 comparisons	current

Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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