Canada Federal Corporation Status Portfolio Monitor

Watch a list of federal corporation numbers / business numbers (BN) and receive typed status / change events when free official ISED Corporations Canada fields flip — dissolved / amalgamated / discontinued / intent-to-dissolve / reactivated, plus legal name changes. Not another Corporations Canada directory scrape. Not Equifax / Creditsafe.

Honest coverage (read before buying)

Included (free ISED Corporations Canada API)	Not included
Federal corporation status (Active / Dissolved / Inactive-Amalgamated / …)	Provincial OBR / REQ / BC Registries
Intent-to-dissolve / dissolution-pending active subtypes	Credit scores, payment defaults (Equifax)
Primary legal name changes	Director / officer registers (default product)
Lookup by corporation number or 9-digit BN on your watchlist only	Nationwide new-incorporation lead dumps
Official ISED public JSON API (no key)	Instant streaming; sub-hour guarantees

Live path: per-ID poll of official ISED JSON. First observation stores a baseline (no charge). Quiet days ≈ $0 product charges.

Legal: ISED / Open Government public corporation data + documented API. Do not treat this as an official Government of Canada product. Prefer official HTTP; do not scrape Equifax/Creditsafe as primary.

Value proposition

• corp# / BN watchlist × ISED snapshot diff → CA_FED_DISSOLVED, CA_FED_AMALGAMATED, CA_FED_DISCONTINUED, CA_FED_INTENT_TO_DISSOLVE, CA_FED_REACTIVATED, CA_FED_STATUS_CHANGED, CA_FED_NAME_CHANGED.
• Official free ISED path only. No Equifax key.
• Pay only for unique delivered change events. Durable KVS checkpoint + event_uid dedupe.

PRODUCTION USE (required for real monitoring)

Store default ≠ product. Schema defaults use sourceMode=fixture so Apify Store daily auto-tests leave a non-empty health dataset without calling ISED. That fixture path only writes a non-billable RUN_STATUS / FIXTURE_HEALTH row. It is not federal corporation monitoring.

For production monitoring you must:

1. Set sourceMode = live
2. Provide your corporationNumbers watchlist (corp# and/or 9-digit BN)
3. Schedule runs (daily is typical; ISED is not a sub-hour stream)

Official references:

• Accessing federal corporation JSON datasets
• Corporations Canada data services
• Federal Corporations open data
• JSON: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/api/corporations/{id}.json?lang=eng

Honest limit: Federal Corporations Canada covers federal entities only.

Apify Store daily auto-test / default input

Field	Default
corporationNumbers	["1007","821080","7286139"]
signalGroups	status, identity
sourceMode	fixture
emitFixtureDemoEvents	false
maxRunSeconds	55
requestPaceMs	250

On that path the Actor SUCCEEDS quickly, pushes exactly one RUN_STATUS / FIXTURE_HEALTH row (billable: false), and does not charge ca-corp-status-event-delivered.

Input (summary)

Field	Notes
corporationNumbers	Watchlist (required) — corp# or 9-digit BN
signalGroups	status, identity
sourceMode	fixture (default) or live
emitFixtureDemoEvents	Default false
asOfHint	Optional as_of hint
maxRunSeconds / maxEvents	Budgets
resumeFromCheckpoint	Default true
requestPaceMs	Default 250 (raise on 429)

Production example

{
  "corporationNumbers": ["1007", "821080", "7286139", "8593094"],
  "signalGroups": ["status", "identity"],
  "sourceMode": "live",
  "asOfHint": "2026-09-17",
  "maxRunSeconds": 300,
  "requestPaceMs": 250,
  "resumeFromCheckpoint": true
}

Output

Change events (billable under PPE)

Typed rows include: corporation_number, legal_name, event_type, event_subtype, changed_fields, previous_value, new_value, as_of, evidence, summary, source_url, event_uid, status_class, billable: true.

RUN_STATUS (never billed)

Every successful run pushes one health row (FIXTURE_HEALTH | MONITOR_IDLE | CATCHUP_COMPLETE | HEALTH_OK).

Pricing

Pay-per-event: ca-corp-status-event-delivered at $0.02 per delivered unique change event ($20 / 1,000). Single tier (see docs/monetization.md and ADR 0010). Health / baseline / duplicate / fixture rows are never charged.