Upcoming events

    • 03 April 2023
    • 10:00 AM
    • 04 April 2023
    • 6:00 PM
    • Zoom


    • 20 April 2023
    • zoom



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    THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2023

    The ACFE and the CPIO are proud to announce that the FIT conference will be virtual on Thursday, April 20, 2023. 

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    • 05 June 2023
    • 10:00 AM
    • 06 June 2023
    • 6:00 PM
    • Zoom


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    Jim Smyth & CPIO present:

    BASIC INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES


    Monday, June 5 - Tuesday, June 6, 2023




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    • 21 June 2023
    • 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
    • Zoom

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    Wednesday, June 21, 2023 Webinar

    A Presentation on The Ontario Review Board

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    Jean Polak is a member and alternate chair of the Ontario Review Board but speaks today on her own behalf and not as a spokesman for the Board. 

    She is also an experienced litigator whose practice as a barrister includes municipal prosecutions, estate litigation and commercial litigation (such as construction liens, employment law and property disputes).  Earlier in her career she also did criminal defense work.  Jean practices as a solicitor in the area of wills and estates. 

    Jean was called to the bar in 1989, and began her legal career as a civil litigator in Toronto at what was then Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington.  In 1993, Jean chose to relocate to Muskoka, where she initially worked for a small firm, then opened her own practice in 2000.  She successfully ran that sole practice for over twenty years before joining Barriston LLP as Counsel in 2021.

    Jean has always been active in her community.  Since moving to Muskoka, Jean has volunteered as a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Bracebridge, an assistant governor with Rotary International District 7010, as a committee chair with Community Living South Muskoka and as a board member of the local hospital, the Muskoka Heritage Foundation, and its successor the Muskoka Conservancy.  At a provincial level she has also served as a member of the Chief Justice of Ontario's Advisory Committee on Professionalism and as a director of The Advocates' Society.  She is currently a provincially-appointed grant review team volunteer for the Trillium Foundation.  She is a Rotary Citizen of the Year, recipient of the Town of Bracebridge Good Citizenship Award, and in 2019 she was awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship by the Province of Ontario.


    • 18 September 2023
    • 10:00 AM
    • 19 September 2023
    • 6:00 PM
    • Zoom


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    Jim Smyth & CPIO Present:

    ADVANCED INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES

    Monday September 18 - Tuesday September 19, 2023


    *More information to Follow*

Past events

22 March 2023 Forensic Video Analysis & Audio Forensics – What’s possible through the analysis of recorded evidence
06 March 2023 Critical Thinking for Investigators
22 February 2023 February Webinar - Free for Members
13 February 2023 Social Media Intelligence and Investigations
25 January 2023 What a Private Investigator Should Know About Insurance Claims Investigations in Ontario
28 December 2022 Body Language Cues & Lie Spotting
17 November 2022 CPIO Annual General Meeting
17 November 2022 CPIO Professional Development Day
05 October 2022 Online Image Investigation: Metadata, Reverse Searches, Facial Recognition and Deep Fakes
28 September 2022 Issues to Address on Fraud Intake Meetings
17 August 2022 Down The Rabbit Hole: A tour into the dark web
20 July 2022 The Casino Experience - Part 1 A Review of Security Features on Identification
29 June 2022 Investigative Journalism with Martin Himel
18 May 2022 Do's and Don't For Private Investigators and Lawyers
21 April 2022 F.I.T. 2022 - April 21, 2022 - save the date
30 March 2022 Intellectual Property Part 1 and 2
16 February 2022 February Webinar - "Reconstruction", presented by Pario Engineering & Environmental Sciences
19 January 2022 "Detecting Deception" Presented by Desmond Taljaard
10 January 2022 Training Course: Advanced Internet Intelligence - January 10 & 11, 2022
18 November 2021 Professional Development Day
03 November 2021 Slavery & Human Trafficking Investigations presented by Dr. Richard Schoeberl
13 October 2021 Detecting Art Fraud by Graham Ospreay
08 September 2021 Trauma Informed Investigations
11 August 2021 A Lawyers View .... presented by Daniel Strigberger
07 July 2021 Environmental Crime Investigation
02 June 2021 Stress Management for the Private Investigator, presented by Amit Rajput
05 May 2021 Critical Thinking - presented by David Toddington
22 April 2021 F.I.T. 2021 Fraud Investigation Techniques
07 April 2021 Employment Contracts and Independent Contractors - presented by Brian Wasyliw & Samia Hussein
10 March 2021 Body Language Cues & Lie Spotting - part 2 (with Vanessa Greenblatt)
16 February 2021 CPIO Virtual Town Hall Meeting
10 February 2021 Webinar: Investigative Note Taking (with Dave Quigley)
27 January 2021 Webinar: Elements of a Civil Action: From Claim to Trial (with Theresa Hartley & Maeve O'Malley)
09 December 2020 Report Writing
25 November 2020 Document Analysis Part 2
25 November 2020 Body Language
16 November 2020 CPIO 50th Anniversary Professional Development Day & Annual General Meeting
11 November 2020 Image Analysis for Identifying Locations
28 October 2020 OSINT Investigations replaces Electronic Signatures and their Identification: A forensic Look at Digital Signatures)
14 October 2020 An Introduction to Forensic Document Examination and Forgery Analysis
30 September 2020 An Introduction to Intellectual Property - Part 2
16 September 2020 A Lawyer's Perspective on Insurance Investigation
02 September 2020 An Introduction to Intellectual Property
19 August 2020 Cyber Security
05 August 2020 Online Investigation Interviewing
22 July 2020 An Introduction to Surveillance Equipment
08 July 2020 Body Language Cues
17 June 2020 OSINT
10 June 2020 Basic Interview Techniques II
04 June 2020 Basic Interview Techniques Part 2
03 June 2020 Basic Interview Techniques II
20 May 2020 Basic Interview Techniques I
06 May 2020 COVID-19 WEBINAR
02 April 2020 ** FIT 2020 CONFERENCE CANCELLED **
22 January 2020 2020 OIAA Professional Development & Claims Conference
01 October 2019 2019 Annual General Meeting of the Council of Professional Investigators of Ontario (CPIO)
01 October 2019 OPEN-SOURCE INTELLIGENCE (OSINT) SEMINAR and DEMONSTRATION
09 April 2019 F.I.T.4 FRAUD INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES ONE DAY CONFERENCE
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