Registered charity
Mediasmarts
Legal name on the register: MEDIASMARTS
CA-E-GHPS-RZGXActiveCanada (federal)3 independent sources
$2.8MRevenue reported
$6.5MPublic money on record
15On the board
8Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
86/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-GHPS-RZGX
- Address
- 205 CATHERINE STREET, OTTAWA, ON, K2P 1C3
- Earliest record
- May 29, 2008
- Also known as
- MEDIASMARTS/HABILOMÉDIAS · HABILOMEDIAS · HabiloMédias
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 890181092RR0001
- Business number
- 890181092
- Corporation number
- 3288081
Who controls this corporation. Federal corporations must file their Individuals with Significant Control with Corporations Canada. That register is not redistributed here — it can only be searched by corporation name or number, by design, so it cannot become a lookup by a person’s name. Search it directly for corporation number 3288081: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
Evidence depth
86/100
Deep recordThis 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
Additional graph evidence outside the score: 8 organisation connections.
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
100
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
79
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
74
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
85
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.
Registrations
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 890181092RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) | Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act | 3288081 | January 18, 2013 | Active |
Board and officers on record (15)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paola Granata | DIRECTOR | June 14, 2024 | current |
| Darcy Smith | DIRECTOR | June 14, 2024 | current |
| Nana Aba Duncan | DIRECTOR | June 27, 2022 | current |
| Nina Duque | DIRECTOR | June 27, 2022 | current |
| Steve De Eyre | DIRECTOR | June 25, 2021 | current |
| Nathalie Bourdon | DIRECTOR | March 26, 2021 | current |
| Ramona Pringle | DIRECTOR | June 5, 2020 | current |
| Nimtax Kanji | BOARD MEMBER | June 5, 2018 | current |
| Mara Tramontin | TREASURER | June 7, 2017 | current |
| Kevin Chan | OFFICER | May 28, 2015 | current |
| Michael Hoechsmann | VICE CHAIR | May 29, 2012 | current |
| Suzanne Morin | CHAIR | May 29, 2008 | current |
| Lindsay Doyle | DIRECTOR | June 27, 2022 | ended December 6, 2024 |
| Ruby Barber | DIRECTOR | June 7, 2017 | ended October 11, 2024 |
| David Fowler | CHAIR | May 29, 2012 | ended June 14, 2024 |
Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.
Organisations sharing a filed director name (8)
Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Learning Code INC. CA-E-B8F5-J4H4 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Ched Santas Anonymous Society CA-E-RM0B-NGQ7 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Creston Pet Adoption And Welfare Society CA-E-CRJ6-A17C | Registered charity | 1 |
| Danse Imédia O.S.B.L. CA-E-2EG9-ZW67 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Le Beaulieu Culturel du Témiscouata CA-E-Y4SV-E7K0 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Fowler Family Foundation CA-E-SAD8-VTHE | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Laurier Heights Baptist Church Of Edmonton CA-E-ZPP4-27Q0 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Wembley And District Agricultural Society CA-E-1BDJ-CNEA | Registered charity | 1 |
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
What it raised and spent — year ended December 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $2,756,520
- Total spending
- $2,511,335
- Total assets
- $1,312,152
- Total liabilities
- $216,788
- Receipted donations
- $51,200
Charitable programs88.8% · $2.2M · line 5000
Management and administration11.0% · $275K · line 5010
Not broken down in the return0.2% · $6K
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
Public money on record
Federal contracts
$184,594
across 4 awards, 2019–2022
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Elections Canada | 2 | $108,093 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | 1 | $38,364 |
| Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission | 1 | $38,138 |
Federal grants and contributions
$6,315,728
across 24 agreements, 2017–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Heritage | 9 | $2,947,945 |
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 3 | $1,775,481 |
| Public Safety Canada | 3 | $1,278,088 |
| Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | 5 | $294,290 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 4 | $19,924 |
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.
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
- Industry code
- 541990 · 611000North 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
- Federal grant — Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada$94,481
- Federal grant — Public Safety Canada$621,480
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$379,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$5,563
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$765,821
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$5,012
- Federal contract — Canadian Institutes of Health Research$38,364
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$94,015
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,840
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
- Federal contract — Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission$38,138
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$94,975
- Federal grant — Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada$50,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,509
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$225,000
- Federal grant — Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada$50,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$654,134
- Federal grant — Public Safety Canada$539,462
- Federal contract — Elections Canada$83,200
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$338,793
- Federal grant — Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada$50,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$650,000
- Federal contract — Elections Canada$24,892
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$1,097,895
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$35,000
- Federal grant — Public Safety Canada$117,146
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$338,793
- Federal grant — Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada$49,809
- Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
Why this is one record
6 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.
- Shares business number 890181092asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| 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 |
| Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada | October 24, 2026 | P1D | 11 captures · 10 comparisons | due |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 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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