From 2009-2019, Brent Binions served as President and CEO of Chartwell Retirement Residences.

He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer, former Trustee and former Audit Committee Chair of SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust.

[9] In 2020, The Chartwell Foundation (Charity #714784931 RR 0001) was established as a national charity to carry on helping seniors continue to live a life of purpose, connectedness, and engagement through wish granting.

The Chartwell Foundation is on a mission to grant the wishes of all Canadian seniors and to contribute to meaningful charities with a shared purpose of making people’s lives better.

In 2010, Chartwell created and published a book entitled Honour to commemorate Canada’s Second World War veterans.

[15] It also sparked controversy by paying its shareholders and board members tens of millions in dividends while at the same time receiving tens of millions in emergency funding from the Province of Ontario.