Registered charity
Centre For The Study Of Living Standards
Legal name on the register: CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LIVING STANDARDS
CA-E-HDHB-0AKTActiveCanada (federal)3 independent sources
$567KRevenue reported
$438KPublic money on record
12On the board
5Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
86/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-HDHB-0AKT
- Address
- 604-170 Laurier Ave. West, OTTAWA, ON, K1P 5K5
- Earliest record
- June 2, 1995
- Also known as
- CENTRE DE L'ETUDE DE NIVEAU DE VIE
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 896132578RR0001
- Business number
- 000000000
- Business number
- 896132578
- Corporation number
- 3123677
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 3123677: 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: 5 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
67
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
70
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
82
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 | 896132578RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) | Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act | 3123677 | October 16, 2014 | Active |
Board and officers on record (12)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Wernick | BOARD MEMBER | February 28, 2024 | current |
| Jean-francois Perrault | BOARD MEMBER | November 30, 2023 | current |
| Louis-mark Ducharme | BOARD MEMBER | September 30, 2023 | current |
| Helen Heslop | BOARD MEMBER | June 3, 2016 | current |
| Michael Horgan | CHAIR | September 10, 2015 | current |
| Jack Finlayson | BOARD MEMBER | September 10, 2015 | current |
| Richard Van Loon | TREASURER | April 20, 2004 | current |
| Maureen O'neil | BOARD MEMBER | February 1, 2004 | current |
| Lars Osberg | BOARD MEMBER | June 2, 1995 | current |
| Donn Feir | BOARD MEMBER | April 1, 2022 | ended June 30, 2023 |
| David Green | BOARD MEMBER | June 2, 2021 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Pierre Fortin | BOARD MEMBER | June 2, 1995 | ended June 30, 2023 |
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 (5)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario Brain Institute Foundation CA-E-42B8-1BQ5 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Perimeter Institute CA-E-YFF1-5P18 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Canadian Ditchley Foundation CA-E-G7KA-JTEB | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Gairdner Foundation CA-E-7M48-J2NR | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Portrait Gallery of Canada CA-E-MVQT-74V0 | 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 March 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $566,547
- Total spending
- $511,399
- Total assets
- $519,286
- Total liabilities
- $276,540
- Receipted donations
- $38,300
Charitable programs90.0% · $460K · line 5000
Management and administration10.0% · $51K · line 5010
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
$408,010
across 18 awards, 2006–2024
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 8 | $216,196 |
| Transport Canada | 4 | $114,490 |
| Department of Finance Canada | 5 | $59,325 |
| Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | 1 | $18,000 |
Federal grants and contributions
$30,000
across 2 agreements, 2011–2021
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 1 | $25,000 |
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 1 | $5,000 |
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
- 541720North 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 contract — Transport Canada$39,990
- Federal contract — Department of Finance Canada$13,221
- Federal contract — Department of Finance Canada$11,526
- Federal contract — Department of Finance Canada$11,526
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$25,000
- Federal contract — Department of Finance Canada$11,526
- Federal contract — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$18,000
- Federal contract — Department of Finance Canada$11,526
- Federal contract — Transport Canada$25,000
- Federal contract — Transport Canada$24,500
- Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
- Federal contract — Transport Canada$25,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$5,000
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$49,995
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$24,900
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$24,750
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$10,501
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$47,250
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$15,900
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$24,900
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$18,000
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 896132578asserted 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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