Grants and Contributions

The project will provide the scientific evidence base to quantify the impacts of changes in the nature, extent, seasonality, and character of all things snow and ice and provide plans and strategies for Nunatsiavummiut and Nunavimmiut to manage future change.The project will undertake research co-created with Inuit investigators and partners, to understand changes in the ice, water, ecosystems, and animal habitats in the Torngat Mountains National Park.

This project will work across a range of disciplines and knowledge systems including Inuit knowledge, community wellness, population health, environmental health and epidemiology, veterinary medicine and animal health, social science and anthropology to answer questions critical to supporting community wellbeing in Nunavut, including: How can Inuit country food knowledge be shared to support country food preparation,
preservation, food safety, and good health? What are community research priorities related to environmental health and One Health? How can research methods and research knowledge be shared within Nunavut to strengthen research capacity across disciplines, and ultimately harness research as a tool to support community priorities and community wellbeing?

This project proposes to study how the combined effects of warming temperatures and permafrost thaw affect the growth of dominant boreal trees in northern Canada. Trees capture a record of their environmental conditions and growth responses in their annual rings. By measuring tree-rings, we can infer mechanisms driving growth changes. The project will combine coupled time series of climate, tree-ring growth, and permafrost thaw from a unique set of permafrost monitoring sites across a latitudinal gradient in the Mackenzie Valley River, Canada.

The grant supports 3 participants and 1 instructor from for Canadian Institutions to attend the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) training school at Lantmäteriet in Gävle, Sweden from July 3-7, 2023. The training school is targeted at Early Career Researchers (e.g., graduate students and postdocs) with goals of knowledge transfer and to foster networking amongst their peers and with international experts in GIA and related field

Pikangikum First Nation recently conducted a policing needs assessment to better understand the policing model options available to them under the FNIPP. A stand-alone, self-governed police service was indicated as the Nation’s preference of policing models. To support the community's needs, this project will support them in developing its own sets of customized policies and procedures, provide governance training and establish a board of directors, and consultants will support them in hiring a chief of police.

Public Safety Canada is to provide one-time funding to the Conseil des Atikamekw de Wemotaci to support the purchase of policing equipment and supplies. Wemotaci police officers will have access to essential and necessary resources in order to perform their duties safely and efficiently and they will be better equipped to ensure the safety of the community in which they work.

Public Safety Canada is to provide one-time funding to the Conseil des Atikamekw d'Opitciwan to support the purchase of policing equipment and supplies. Officers of the Opitciwan police service will have access to essential and necessary resources in order to perform their duties safely and efficiently and they will be better equipped to ensure the safety of the community in which they work.

This project will develop an online database containing all available information in a tiered system for recorded fatal avalanche accidents in Canada, providing a single, searchable resource that facilitates quick access to current information and enables important patterns to be recognized and characterized, allowing for the refinement of existing accident prevention programs and the development of new ones. An efficient process for data entry will ensure more timely access to this information in the future.

The overall objectives in the immediate and intermediate period are to train first responders about strategies to safeguard Canadian’s health and safety and to reduce deaths and injuries related to hazardous materials.

Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada (SARVAC) will provide a national framework for Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR) Volunteer; encouraging consistent protocols and procedures and portability of skills and resources across GSAR volunteer associations, and providing for local delivery of prevention messaging.