Grants and Contributions

This contribution supports Trent University's long-term research program focused on the health of the Stoney Lake ecosystem. They will conduct a multi-year fish tracking project that will answer questions about fish behaviour, spawning, survival, habitat needs. Acoustic telemetry will be used to track the movements of fish, by listening for ‘tagged’ fish with a network of underwater ‘listening stations’ (acoustic receivers).

This grant supports Kainai First Nation to do research and conduct ceremony in support of planning and implementation of a successful ceremonial harvest of Bison in Banff National Park.

This grant facilitates the Mayne Island Conservancy Society’s work to revegetate degraded habitat in the globally imperiled Coastal Douglas-Fir ecosystem. This work contributes to the objectives of the 2 Billion Trees program.

This grant will support Semiahmoo First Nations desire to extend the display of the travelling exhibit Che' SemiahmahSen, Che' Shesh Whe Weleq-sen Si'am at Fort Langley National Historic Site.

This grant supports capacity within the Squamish First Nation to plan, decide on text, and choose a location for the unveiling and installation of the Andrew Paull designation. The funding will be solely used to support the travel, meetings, and capacity of members of Squamish First Nation to do this work.

This project is mostly related to increased knowledge and collaboration with stakeholders and/or international organizations.

The Program will pilot innovative solutions for aggregated deep energy retrofits in community-housing neighborhoods in Canada, as well as support Market Development Teams in developing regional roadmaps to inform and promote deep energy retrofit projects across the country.

The project will lead to an improved and more cost-effective AAV-LPL gene therapy for the treatment of Lipoprotein Lipase (LPL) Deficiency. The previous limitations of the high costs of production of advanced biologics, such as Glybera, will be addressed through new cost-effective manufacturing in Canada. The project will develop a further optimized AAV?based gene therapy for the treatment of LPL Deficiency as a pilot demonstration of a cost-effective production strategy for new advanced gene therapeutics in Canada

Traditional berries and edible/medicinal plants are integral to the Inuit food system/culture/identity. However, Inuit communities' access to traditional tundra plants is impacted by loss of local mixed economies/traditional knowledge and extreme temporal/spatial variability in species abundance. The harsh Arctic environment imposes severe constraints on plant development, further intensified by climate change, limiting the availability/accessibility of harvesting opportunities. The lack of reliable information, resources, and published knowledge (traditional/research) regarding High Arctic traditional plant food production, along with limited access to reproductive materials, represents major obstacles for Inuit communities seeking to cultivate their preferred traditional plants and support their food autonomy/food security.

This project is mostly about the use and management of forest resources and Indigenous participation in the forest industy.