Grants and Contributions

In 2022–2023, Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) initiated foundational efforts to preserve the Nation's documentary heritage by creating an Archives Policy, an Archives Committee, and a Facility Plan. This led to CLFN's 2023–2024 Listen, Hear Our Voices project "Digitizing the Documentary Heritage of Cold Lake First Nations." This project focuses on digitizing at-risk items needing urgent intervention, such as oral history maps and media (cassettes, videos and floppy disks), expanding the Nation's digital storage capacity, and researching into accessibility models.

As a result of the 2022–2023 project, it has become apparent that next steps should be continued digitization of paper-based records into a digital inventory. This will be achieved using a scanner and software package purchased this year.

The funding supports projects that enable seniors to age at home under two streams: .• In-Home Support Pilot Projects.• Scaling Up for Seniors. . .In-Home Support Pilot Projects stream.Provides funding to seniors-serving organizations to expand delivery of volunteer-based services to low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors to help them age at home and provide a service that helps seniors navigate and gain access to services provided by other organizations active in the local area. .Scaling Up for Seniors stream.Provides funding to expand services that have already demonstrated results in helping seniors age at home.

The Saskatoon Southeast Water Supply System is used to convey water for industrial, municipal, wildlife, recreational and irrigation water supply needs. The project consists of refurbishing the canal, for the purpose of providing additional water conveyance in time of drought and also mitigate flooding during high rain events.

This project aims to promote legal careers in Canada through the activities of a group of legal language professionals.

The project consists of developing two new three-credit university courses to respond to new realities in the Canadian jurilinguistic market.

The ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS Justice Sector proposes to meet with Justice Canada weekly for a technical exercise to co-develop the First Nations components of the IJS. The objective is to have a draft ready for approval by September 30, 2024, to allow time for internal approval and communications coordinator for a release in November 2024.

The objective of paying the annual assessed contribution is to enable Canada to meet its financial obligations to the organization as well as fulfilling Canada's international policy objectives by participating in the work of the organization.

ITK Board of Directors endorsed the creation of the Ad-hoc Inuit Justice Working Group (Inuit Working Group) which was mandated to participate in the proposed federal Indigenous Justice Strategy.
The Inuit Working Group endorsed a proposed approach for co-development of the IJS: building on the engagement process that ITK, ITOs and Pauktuutit have previously conducted for the IJS development, the Inuit Working Group will draft the Inuit chapter for the Indigenous Justice Strategy.

The project will support the Manitoba Métis Federation within Wave 3 of the Indigenous Justice Strategy to undertake key activities within the co-development process with Canada.
The project through a multi-stage process will focus on the prioritization of Red River Métis distinctions-based areas for action and implementation as identified within Canada’s IJS Key Element Consultation Draft.

To create a shared table with Metis National Council, Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, and various Canadian government departments where issues arise that are common across all national Indigenous organizations. Bilateral or trilateral meetings with Metis National Council, Governing Members, and Canada ensure that Métis specific approaches to certain areas of concern are addressed.