The short answer
To check a Canadian company, MarketPrior resolves it against Corporations Canada, then screens it against the 4 global sanctions lists (OFAC SDN list, EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions, UN Security Council Consolidated List, UK Sanctions List), a PEP screen, global news and web signals. In total 28 catalogued sources apply to Canadian companies: 1 specific to Canada and 27 global. Every finding links to the record it came from, and gaps are shown rather than filled in.
At a glance
- Canadian sources
- 1
- Sources that apply in total
- 28 (incl. global)
- Company register
- Corporations Canada
- Officers & directors
- Not from a national register
- Financial figures
- Not from a national source
- Sales triggers
- 3 (0 Canadian-specific)
How do you check a company in Canada?
Canadian companies incorporate either federally or in a province. Corporations Canada covers federally incorporated companies; provincial registers are separate.
In MarketPrior, a Canadian company is first resolved to the right legal entity — using its national identifier and, where it has one, its LEI — so that every later lookup is about the same company. The report then combines what the Canadian sources publish with global sanctions, PEP, news and web signals, and every finding is cited to its record.
Which Canadian sources does MarketPrior read?
| Source | Provides | Updates | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corporations Canada company registry (CA) | company profile, searchable company corpus | weekly | Open Government Licence – Canada |
What else applies to every Canadian company?
Some of the most important checks are not national. These global sources are applied to every Canadian company:
- Sanctions: OFAC SDN list, EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions, UN Security Council Consolidated List, UK Sanctions List — with every hit tiered confirmed, probable or possible.
- Politically exposed persons: a PEP screen built on Wikidata.
- Identity and ownership: GLEIF LEI records and GLEIF Level 2 parent and subsidiary links.
- Adverse media: GDELT global news, classified for relevance, sentiment and materiality.
- Growth signals: public job boards, GitHub, web traffic rank, web-archive history, tech stack and app listings.
Which sales triggers cover Canadian companies?
There are no Canadian-specific registry triggers yet. These triggers work for companies in any country:
- Hiring spikes
- Tech adoption
- Website launches
What is not covered for Canada?
Public records are uneven between countries. Where a source is missing or thin, a MarketPrior report says so instead of filling the gap with a guess.
- Officers and directors are not read from a Canadian register feed. They can still appear from the company’s own website (team and leadership pages) and, for the largest groups, from global identifiers.
- Financial statements are not read from a Canadian source, so the financials section of a report will usually be empty for private Canadian companies.
- Beneficial owners are not read from a Canadian register. Ownership links come from GLEIF Level 2 parent and subsidiary data where the company has an LEI.
- No Canadian court or regulator feed is wired. Enforcement and litigation findings rely on global news (adverse media) and global sanctions lists.
- There are no Canadian-specific registry triggers yet; only the any-country triggers (hiring spikes, tech adoption, website launches) apply.