Grants and Contributions

This program is an integral component of the AFS and facilitates the voluntary retirement of commercial licences and the issuance of licences to eligible Aboriginal groups in a manner that does not add to the existing fishing effort, thereby providing Aboriginal groups with much-needed employment and income.

Grant funding is to support Indigenous peoples' efforts to build technical capacity regarding species at risk policies, programming and regulatory initiatives; and, to support their greater involvement in the cooperation and consultation processes in the listing and related recovery documents for species at risk per the Species at Risk Act and Section 35 of the Constitution Act.

The Government of Northwest Territories is constructing a new facility located at 5019 51 Street in Yellowknife with the primary purpose of providing shelter for the territory’s unhoused population. The Wellness and Recovery Centre (WRC) will be a safe place for the unhoused population to access services, food, warmth, and a sense of belonging.

The existing transportation infrastructure in the community is automobile oriented, gravel and chipseal roadways (8.0 km) with no sidewalks, and several informal trails. This project would focus on developing an active transportation network plan that would identify and prioritize the development of safe pedestrian and cycling connections for residents of all ages within the growing community.

This initiative will provide outreach through the purchasing of a community mobile unit through hiring workers to provide harm reduction services delivered within a wrap-around, trauma-informed and culturally-safe circle of care.

This project will address the interconnected crises of substance use, homelessness, and mental health by providing stable shelter, wrap-around supports, and expanded harm-reduction outreach teams and services.

This program will offer immediate intervention through a Mobile Response Unit staffed with trained counselors, providing crisis outreach, counseling, and culturally relevant programming, and also connecting individuals to treatment options.

To provide funding to willing jurisdictions to support improving access for patients with rare diseases to drugs for rare diseases, as well as improving and broadening rare disease treatments and services, to achieve better health outcomes.

To provide funding to willing jurisdictions to support improving access for patients with rare diseases to drugs for rare diseases, as well as improving and broadening rare disease treatments and services, to achieve better health outcomes.

To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, such as palliative and end-of-life care, home and community care, mental health care and other federal, provincial-territorial and emerging priorities.