Grants and Contributions

Enhancement of Official Languages Program - Promotion of Linguistic Duality

Through this 30-month project, Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) will build its capacity to support and uplift QTBIPOC and 2SLGBTQAI+ communities. It will address staff representation and inclusion of marginalized and under-served community members through collaborative roundtables, town halls, knowledge sharing, and feedback collection via surveys. The project will include improving VPS’ financial management capacity, strategic planning, fundraising skills, human resources supports, training for volunteers and staff, and overall organizational dismantling and unlearning of systemic oppression. This project will allow VPS to ensure that all 2SLGBTQIA+ community members feel safety, belonging and see themselves represented at Pride.

Through this 30-month project, Qmunity Camp NWT will build its capacity and networks with other 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. It will address colonial barriers of the gender binary and heteropatriarchy in on the land spaces that lack the safety and inclusion of gender and/or sexually diverse individuals. The project will include a training resource and brochure for NGO's and Indigenous Governments, engagement with the 2SIQTIP community, a strategic plan, action planning, evaluation planning, governance and policy creation. In addition to these critical pieces of the internal structure, Qmunity Camp NWT will build relationships with other NGO's and Indigenous Governments. This project will allow Qmunity Camp NWT to ensure that 2SIQTIP community members feel safe and included in on the land spaces.

Through this 24-month project, John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights (JHC) will conduct research that will improve GBV services for at-risk groups by applying an intersectional lens to community-based best practices in prevention and intervention as well as engage community organizations in direct implementation strategies on the Federal Action Plan. The project will address the intensified crisis of Gender Based Violence seen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has increased vulnerability for women and gender diverse populations; has exacerbated issues of racism, ableism, low-income and security that intersect with GBV; has applied increasing pressure to non-profit organizations; and that exposed the harassment of women and 2STQLGBIA+ communities.

To do so, the project will conduct focus groups and interviews, including 1000 human rights-based assessments from community and organizations. JHC will document presentations of best practices and action strategies aligned with the Federal Action Plan and strengthen collaboration among partners working to address GBV. JHC will translate data collected on best practices into tools and resources to support capacity-building among service providers and disseminate those tools and resources through outreach and workshops in order to share information on the research findings.

Through this 30-month project, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) Canada will conduct research that will improve GBV services for Indigenous, Black, racialized, non-status, and temporary status women, who work in precarious, informal, non-standard labour sectors. Through community-based research with GBV service providers and women who access their services in the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the project will determine the benefits and limitations of using an anti-trafficking framework to understand and address GBV experienced by marginalized, racialized women who work in under-examined informal, precarious, non-standard labour sectors. GAATW Canada will use its national voice to share the research findings among key stakeholders to effect change at legislative, policy, and practice levels and will share information with Women and Gender Equality Canada’s GBV Knowledge Centre.

Supplemental funding will enhance the project’s knowledge mobilization activities including creating online resources, disseminating findings at events, and hosting follow-up community conversations.

InspecTech will develop in-house Electro-Magnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) hardware and integrate machine learning data analysis, for inspecting laser-welded inter-cell connectors in Li-ion battery packs.

EMAT is an emerging Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) technology that enables Ultrasonic Testing (UT) without the need for couplant, such as water; hence, EMAT overcomes the main barrier to using UT on Li-ion battery packs. The machine learning algorithm will refine the EMAT’s resolution to bring it to par with traditional UT. The machine learning enabled EMAT technology will have wide applicability to InspecTech’s other product offerings.

The objective of this 6-month project is to enhance operations and drive innovation. By developing a Material
Requirements Planning (MRP) program, this project seeks to optimize production processes, minimize waste, and
maximize operational efficiency. During this period, the project lead will work collaboratively to design and tailor the MRP
system, ensuring it aligns seamlessly with the plant's unique requirements and leads to streamlined production
workflows.

Wrmth has created a first-generation SDK box to allow both internal and external developers to build applications and features on hardware that is locally available. Through this project we will invest in a second-generation platform to advance the features and we will establish backend data structures and protocols to support expanded integrations.

The project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the firm.

A software development project to create a tool that enables Webtoons creators to publish paid webtoons to their audience.