Grants and Contributions

A three-year project to create small scale community-owned commercial fisheries in Arviat, Kinngait, and Sanikiluaq. In partnership with Research institutes from Université du Québec à Rimouski and Marine Institute at Memorial University, the project will identify fishing opportunities by 1) determining harvest levels 2) establishing potential markets for harvesters. By doing fisheries tests and surveys in the first year, the project will determine the state of the fish stocks in the three communities mentioned above. It will also initiate experimental fisheries frameworks in Sanikiluaq and Kinngait by 2025. These exploratory fisheries will lead to the commercial operation of whitefish fishery in Arviat by 2021. Fisheries are integral to Nunavut’s economy as well as contributing to the cultural identity of the territory.

The Selkirk Development Corporation will be receiving funding to take advantage of economic development opportunities related to Pembridge Resources Minto Mine operation in the Selkirk First Nation traditional territory. This will be done through the purchase of several pieces of heavy equipment enabling SDC to haul mine concentrate from the mine to tidewater in Skagway, Alaska.

A project to improve the accessibility and availability of online geoscience information. This project will provide stakeholders with up to date and accessible information in order to support economic development of the territory. It will achieve this through three objectives: improve the existing information on the mineral resource inventory; create a new, updated and complete geological map of Nunavut (which currently only exists in parts); and update and restructure the NunavutGeoscience.ca website and database so that searchable and discoverable geoscience and exploration information is readily available to stakeholders.

A three-year project to build and install a community freezer as well as create and deliver a program to increase the capacity of their residents to harvest, process and store country foods.

supports small and medium-sized territorial businesses operating in one or more of the territories, and which are currently, and expect to continue, operating at a loss as a direct result of economic disruptions associated with COVID-19.

Construct phase one of a micro-dairy

supports small and medium-sized territorial businesses operating in one or more of the territories, and which are currently, and expect to continue, operating at a loss as a direct result of economic disruptions associated with COVID-19.

Aurora College will undertake a two-year project to deliver the Northern Adult Basic Education Program (NABEP) to improve the delivery of adult basic/remedial education across the Northwest Territories. NABEP was created to support the territories’ working-age adults to acquire basic skills needed to participate in the labour market. The program emphasis is on basic literacy, numeracy, and other essential workplace skills. Aurora College has adapted the delivery of NABEP in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously established Community Learning Centres, including inclass teaching and student support, have been curtailed in favour of distance-education strategies. This approach is intended to allow the continued delivery of quality programming while maintaining a safe environment for students and staff. Curriculum and program development will be modified to support the transition to a greater reliance on distance education methods. Aurora College will continue to align curriculum development with culturally relevant methods that reflect the primarily Indigenous target for this program.

Delivery of the Northern Adult Basic Education Program (NABEP). NABEP was created in 2011 to address the unique challenges faced by working-age Northerners, more specifically the low educational attainment and high unemployment rates faced by northern Indigenous people. It aims to ensure that Northerners have improved access to training, and are better positioned to participate in the labour market. The objective of NABEP is to expand the territorial post-secondary educational institutions' basic workplace skills programs (e.g. literacy and numeracy programs, skills development programs, academic readiness, adult high school, trades training, educational assessment, and career counselling), particularly in remote communities.

Renovate and repurpose an existing conference room with new technology in order to create a publicly accessible teleconferencing room.