Licensed business

Light Cafe INC

CA-E-WF5Z-52K9IssuedCanada (federal)OntarioToronto3 independent sources

$15KPublic money on record

4Municipal licences

3Independent publishers

81/100Evidence depth

October 25, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-WF5Z-52K9
Address: 23 BALDWIN ST, TORONTO, ON, M5T 1L1
Earliest record: May 18, 2016

Identifiers held

Business number: 805980729
odbus-licence: City of Toronto:B71-4649874
statcan-odbus: 4689a76ad7ff65b43fd9
Toronto licence: B71-4649874
Toronto licence: R57-5202665
Toronto licence: R57-5403253
Toronto licence: R57-5658238

Evidence depth

81/100

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

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 1 same-address neighbours · 1 observed changes.

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 (4)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Toronto	EATING OR DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT	B71-4649874	May 18, 2016	Issued
Toronto	SIDEWALK CAFE	R57-5202665	August 24, 2022	Cancelled
Toronto	SIDEWALK CAFE	R57-5403253	March 14, 2024	Cancelled
Toronto	SIDEWALK CAFE	R57-5658238	September 22, 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.

At the same address (1)

Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 23 BALDWIN ST.

Organisation	Kind
Baldwin Street Laundromat INC CA-E-8K87-62YE	Licensed business

A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.

Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.

Public money on record

Federal grants and contributions

$15,000

across 1 agreement, 2023–2023

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	1	$15,000

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.

What changed, observed between two captures

Observed	What	Was	Became
September 24, 2026	Appeared on the register	—	—

This is the one thing on this page the publisher cannot give back. A register states what is true now. When this changed, the previous value was simply absent from the next file, and no public source records that it ever applied. It is here because two captures of the same register were kept and compared.

An event is dated by when it was observed between captures, not by when it happened — the register does not say. So a change seen on a Monday may have occurred at any point since the previous read. Everything that changed.

What it does

Trade: Eating Establishment
Licensed as: EATING OR DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT · SIDEWALK CAFE
Industry code: 72
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

September 22, 2026Licence first issued — SIDEWALK CAFE
March 14, 2024Licence first issued — SIDEWALK CAFE
October 16, 2023Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$15,000
August 24, 2022Licence first issued — SIDEWALK CAFE
May 18, 2016Licence first issued — EATING OR DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT

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 M5T 1L1
asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Toronto (Municipal Licensing and Standards)
Same name and address — 23 baldwin, toronto, ON
asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Toronto (Municipal Licensing and Standards)

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 disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 3, 2026	P3M	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Open Database of Businesses — version 1 Statistics Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada	—	—	—	not measured
Toronto business licences and permits City of Toronto (Municipal Licensing and Standards) · Open Government Licence – Toronto	October 25, 2026	P1D	10 captures · 9 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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