Grants and Contributions

The objective of the EAF is to support community based projects across Canada that improve accessibility, remove barriers, and enable Canadians with disabilities to participate in and contribute to their community.

In Phase I of the Indigenous Justice Strategy, Wolastoqey Tribal Council Inc. will focus on engaging with the six Wolastoqey communities in New Brunswick (leadership, Elders, women, youth, Knowledge and Language Holders, 2SLGBTQQIA+) on the Indigenous Justice Strategy and determine priorities for the communities and Nation as a whole. Wolastoqey Tribal Council Inc. will then work with the All-Nations Common Table to develop a Plan for New Brunswick.

The Elsipogtog Justice Strategic Planning Project is the first step toward implementing the Indigenous Justice Strategy (IJS) in a way that reflects Mi'kmaq values and community priorities.

This project will gather input and feedback on Justice priorities through a community-driven approach, identify key priorities, and develop a draft Mi'gmaq Justice Strategy and an implementation plan for key priorities.

This project will support the Nation’s participation in the initial implementation phase of the Indigenous Justice Strategy (IJS) by ensuring that they remain fully engaged in discussions, planning, and decision-making processes. It will also ensure that the Nation’s priorities, cultural teachings, and lived experiences inform the early development of justice initiatives, as well as strengthen collaboration with partner organizations, governments, and other Indigenous communities. The project will lead to proposed framework, that will guide future phases of IJS implementation.

This project aims to elucidate cosmic dawn and the dark ages through observations of the radio sky with two custom-built telescopes in the Canadian high Arctic: the Mapper of the Intergalactic medium Spin Temperature (MIST) and the Array of Long Baseline Antennas for Taking Radio Observations from the Seventy-ninth parallel (ALBATROS). These telescopes will advance scientific knowledge while simultaneously serving as platforms for prototyping instrumentation and measurement techniques for future space missions. The project objectives focus on in-depth calibration tests using MIST and ALBATROS.

This project will use JWST/NIRCam to image Epsilon Eridani b; a Jupiter mass object in orbit around one of the closest neighbouring sun-like stars.

This project will use JWST/NIRSpec to reveal how gas flows in and out of an early low-mass galaxy as well as mapping its chemical abundances to search for signs of proto-globular clusters or metal-free gas. By combining JWST’s unparalleled sensitivity with gravitational lensing and an advanced “MSA stepping” technique, this project will achieve ultra-efficient, spatially resolved spectroscopy down to star-cluster scales, at a depth that would otherwise be unfeasible.

This project will use JWST/NIRCam and NIRSpec to discover and study the faintest and most distant galaxies, black holes, stars, and stellar explosions in the early universe. By using the powerful effect of gravitational lensing, this project will reveal over 10-100 times more strongly magnified, early-universe objects than previous surveys.

This project will use JWST/MIRI to study six nebulae that are transiforming into perfect crystals and analyze organic molecules called PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) that reveal the environmental conditions in these stellar nebulae.