Meet Ron Reinhold – Private Investigator and Paralegal

Ron Reinhold was brought up in the Lower Mainland of B.C.

Ron has a B.Sc. (Microbiology) and BMLSc. (Laboratory Science) degrees from UBC.
Ron also has a Legal Assistant Diploma from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT).

Ron was previously employed by the BC Center for Disease Control, (Lab Tech), and Health Canada (Drug Inspector).

In May of 2000, Ron Reinhold started Rainbow Investigations.

In March of 2001, Ron pro-actively started to investigate the famous “PhytoPharma” weight loss scam. Eventually, this scam was covered in the Globe and Mail and on W5. Ron became a spokesperson for the day on diet fraud. Isn’t it a coincidence that very little of this type of scam is in Canada now!

In May of 2002, Ron was asked by a team of other health fraud activists to join in an investigation of a vitamin promotion being targeted to the mentally ill. In May of 2003, Ron co-authored the provocative book, “Pig Pills, Inc.” www.pigpills.com that describes the story up until May 2003.

In April of 2021, Ron Reinhold accepted a 16 month contract employment position with Alberta Health Service (AHS), working in the Communicable Disease Control Unit as part of the Admin COVID-19 Exposure Response Team.  Ron assisted in taking the lab results from province-wide COVID testing, triaged the lab reports and prepared the data for the actual community health nurses.  Ron also monitored and answered the COVID Toll-Free line at this job.

Ron was a Continuing Education instructor at Bow Valley College in Calgary, from 2006 to 2009. He taught all the courses in the Private Investigation Certificate Program. Among the topics covered include interviewing skills, surveillance, surveillance equipment, covert investigations, and how to start a PI agency.

From 2000 to 2004, Ron was a Provincial Board Member with the Schizophrenia Society of Alberta. Ron volunteers, when his time allows, at the Bethany Riverview location in Calgary, which is a long term care home for people with dementia.

Ron is currently the Treasurer of the Alberta Association of Private Investigators.