PARTNERS
Best in Class Partners
Our partners truly are best in class and we are immensely proud to have them as part of the CNAR community. They are trusted leaders in each of their specific fields, generously sharing their insight and expertise at our events, in our newsletter, and on-line, in support of our shared goal of achieving regulatory excellence in Canada.
Thank you for your continued and invaluable support of CNAR and our regulatory community.
Our Partners
Barker Hutchinson & Associates
Barker Hutchinson is a leader in professional regulation investigations. We conduct methodical, objective and balanced investigations for a broad landscape of regulators across Canada and empower regulators to make reasonable and informed decisions. Our knowledgeable team of investigators is comprised of lawyers, healthcare practitioners, and former insurance and law enforcement professionals who draw upon decades of collective experience to bring clarity to often complex circumstances.
Barker Hutchinson also provides investigative training and workshops to regulators. We work closely with regulators to ensure their employees have the training, skill and support needed to bring meaningful conclusions to investigations handled internally. We also assist regulators to develop investigation policy, process and procedure.
Benard & Associates
Since 2004, Benard + Associates has provided investigation services to professional regulators in Ontario and across Canada. This leading regulatory investigation firm serves well over 60 regulatory bodies and associations, who rely on Benard + Associates to investigate hundreds of cases each year, while ensuring they are managed fairly, efficiently, and accurately. The company also provides mediation, education, and coaching services aimed resolving disputes, enhancing knowledge and skills, and supporting investigative staff. Benard + Associates laser focus on regulation has established them as the investigation experts, and a reliable and trustworthy resource to all their clients.
BDO
BDO is a leading provider of professional services, specializing in meeting the unique needs of the public and non-for-profit sectors. Through our comprehensive suite of services, including assurance, accounting, tax, and advisory, we offer expertise in digital transformation to our clients. Our dedicated Advisory team of over 800 professionals, encompassing technology, management, and risk consulting, is committed to innovation and excellence. We deliver bespoke solutions in business applications, data and AI, cybersecurity, cloud services, and modern workplace strategies, tailored to enhance efficiency and productivity within any organization. As a distinguished 15x Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and recipient of the 2023 Microsoft Canada AI Impact Award, BDO excels in deploying technology to foster innovation and drive significant improvements in service delivery. Our reach spans across Canada, serving over 50,000 clients from more than 125 offices, from Victoria, British Columbia, to St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Field Law
Field Law is a western and northern regional business law firm listed as one of the largest firms in Canada with offices in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The Firm has been proactively serving clients and providing legal counsel for over 100 years supporting the specific and ever-evolving business needs of regional, national and international clients who do business in western and northern Canada. Field's value advantage comes from a commitment to professional excellence and collaborative partnerships with our clients and networks. Clients benefit from Field Law’s framework of a client service culture and dedication to successfully running the Firm as a competitive, continuously improving business while pursuing legal excellence. Field Law is committed to meeting the needs of its clients through creative and pragmatic legal solutions that bring clarity to complex challenges.
Meazure Learning
At Meazure Learning, we ensure that professionals are qualified and ready to serve the public. We use a combination of technology, psychometric best-practice, and evidence-based research to securely assess the knowledge and abilities of millions of test-takers around the world.
Mietkiewicz Law
Mietkiewicz Law supports regulators, associations, other not-for-profits and retail and on-line operators in regulated industries to meet their objectives and legal responsibilities in a cost-effective and practical manner. It does this by providing pragmatic legal advice on regulatory compliance, governance and other corporate matters. Mietkiewicz Law represents the following types of not-for-profit and for-profit clients:
Professional regulatory bodies (both healthcare professions and non-healthcare professions) in multiple Canadian provinces; Not-for-Profit Associations representing professionals (provincial and national); Not-for-profit Associations such as social clubs and sports groups; Canadian licensing examination bodies; Healthcare providers (corporate and individual); Retail and on-line operators in regulated industries – Canadian and International
Pivotal Research Inc.
Based in Edmonton, Pivotal Research, Inc. is a national provider of research consulting services with more than 25 years of experience delivering market research, program evaluation, and stakeholder engagement to decision-makers across Canada. We leverage our deep expertise in designing and implementing innovative research to serve professional and industry regulators and associations, government agencies, and businesses. Since 1999, we have delivered high-impact research insights to more than 30 health regulatory bodies and associations enabling evidence-based strategic action, practice standards excellence, and high levels of member engagement. Our suite of services include: inclusive member engagement research, board governance evaluation, complaints process evaluation, practice standards reform initiatives, and patient experience research programs. We bring passion to all of our research initiatives ensuring that data-driven evidence makes a tangible impact on communities. Pivotal Research upholds inclusion and diversity as key tenets for the way we conduct business.
Prometric
Prometric is a leading provider of technology-enabled testing and assessment solutions to many of the world’s most recognized licensing and certification organizations, academic institutions, and government agencies. We support more than 7 million test takers annually at our testing locations in more than 180 countries around the world. We have nearly three decades of experience working with clients of all sizes across a multitude of industry sectors to develop and deploy innovative test development and test administration solutions that address evolving market needs. As a result, we have the market expertise, organizational stability, and demonstrated capability to ensure the successful implementation, administration, and future growth of your testing program.
PSI
Every day our clients help people around the world to realize their dreams, reach their potential, and improve their life chances. They care about their test takers – and we share that responsibility. Working in partnership to deliver over 22 million tests every year.
Our unwavering focus is on delivering frictionless and fair test taker experiences, without compromising test integrity. Whether it’s through valid and legally defensible test content, our authorized test center network, secure remote testing with online proctoring, flexible multi-modal test delivery, testing windows or continuous testing on-demand.
Because their dreams deserve trusted science, technology and operational expertise - they deserve PSI.
Rosen Sunshine
Rosen Sunshine LLP was established in 2011 as a boutique health and regulatory law firm. Our mission is to provide our clients with strategic, practical advice and effective and creative representation with any matter entrusted to us. We aim to provide clients with the highest level of service but to meet our clients’ needs in a cost-effective manner. Our practice includes all areas of regulatory and health law advocacy and advice.
Spire Psychometrics
Spire Psychometrics opened its proverbial doors in November of 2018, with the goal of providing a cost-effective and personal psychometric solutions attuned to the specific needs of the Canadian market. The slogan, “A high point for professional testing’, brings together the quality of solution and service that Spire aims to provide, an allusion to optimization/maximization that is the mathematical objective of much psychometric work, and Greg’s enduring love of the mountains and climbing.
Steinecke Maciura LeBlanc
Steinecke Maciura LeBlanc is a leader in professional regulation. To our knowledge we are the only firm in Ontario solely dedicated to advising regulators. Our award-winning lawyers have extensive experience acting as general counsel, prosecuting counsel and independent legal counsel for numerous regulators. We provide trusted and timely advice to entities that regulate professions, trades and industries regarding their public interest mandate. Our team of professional, knowledgeable and engaging lawyers assists regulatory bodies with respect to all aspects of their work, including: registration and licensing; drafting codes of ethics, standards of practice, regulations and by-laws; assisting with investigations; and conducting discipline and fitness to practise hearings. Our lawyers regularly appear at all levels of court in Ontario.
WeirFoulds
WeirFoulds regularly acts for several professional regulatory bodies, assisting them with their mandates to serve and protect the public interest, maintain high standards among registrants and foster public confidence. We provide advice on such matters as governance, statutory compliance and interpretation, and regulations, by-laws, and policies. We routinely advise on registration matters, establishing codes of ethics and standards of practice, and investigations of complaints and reports. We conduct discipline and fitness to practice hearings and enforcement proceedings. We also act as independent legal counsel to several regulatory bodies, assisting tribunal members in the context of hearings.
All these engagements require a sensitivity to the unique legal challenges facing regulatory bodies – a sensitivity that our lawyers have acquired through many years of experience.
World Education Services
WES validates international academic credentials and provides Canadian academic equivalents. WES’s International Credential Advantage Package (ICAP) delivers evaluation reports and verified transcripts in one package. With WES ICAP service, you may consider accepting the verified transcripts from WES and not require your licensure candidates or students to arrange for their transcripts to be sent from the issuing institutions or proper authorities. All WES evaluation reports are based either on transcripts received directly from the institutions that issue them, or documents have been submitted by WES to the issuing institutions for verification. WES is widely used by occupational regulatory bodies, academic institutions and employers. WES is recognized by the Government of Ontario and is a designated provider of educational credential assessments (ECA) for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
Why Become a Partner?
Connect with the regulatory sector through creative and unique activations that are custom built to deliver the best results! Join this growing list of companies that recognize the value of being associated with CNAR! Our creative and holistic approach to partnership allows us to collaborate to find the best way to deliver information and value to members through organizations like yours!
If you are a consultant, a company supporting aspects of regulation, or a commercial provider of services for the regulatory community, two options are available for you to join the CNAR community:
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CNAR Partner
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Supplier
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CNAR Partner was created to provide extensive engagement opportunities with the CNAR community. Benefits are like those of a CNAR member (but without voting rights).
However, if you wish to simply stay in touch with the CNAR community and receive updates, you can become a CNAR “Supplier.
Partnership & Sponsorship Opportunities
Join the growing list of companies that recognize the value of being associated with CNAR! Our creative and holistic approach to sponsorship and partnership allows us to collaborate to find the best way to deliver information and value to members through organizations like yours!
To find out more about our partnership and sponsorship opportunities, please submit your information below.