Grants and Contributions

This project will identify knowledge gaps in federal right to housing mechanisms and develop public legal education and information materials on how right to housing mechanisms can be leveraged to strengthen and protect tenants' rights. The project will produce a national summary report highlighting key points and strategies for advancing tenant protections and accessibility through mechanisms in the National Housing Strategy Act.

The project will publish the 4th French edition and the first English translation of Language Rights in Canada. This edition will provide a vital bilingual resource for practitioners and students of official language law.

The project will provide free, age-appropriate legal rights education to children and youth throughout British Columbia through interactive workshops. With a lawyer present, workshops will address legal questions and foster meaningful conversations about rights and responsibilities. The project will help bridge access to legal and other support services, with a particular focus on reaching marginalized youth, including those in rural, northern, and Indigenous communities.

Provide financial assistance to an individual Canadian victim of a specified serious violent crime in a foreign jurisdiction for emergency situations of undue hardship where no other source of financial assistance is available (specified categories of crimes are homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault or assault with serious personal violence, or threat of serious violence, including against a child) or to an individual support person to accompany, attend with or support a Canadian victimized in a foreign jurisdiction. A total of 42 individuals were approved to receive financial assistance in this regard.

Provide financial assistance to an individual victim or support person (as defined in the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and who are registered with Correctional Service Canada or the Parole Board of Canada), to attend Parole Board of Canada hearings in respect of the offender who harmed them.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Expansion of the operations of the university IP clinic

Expansion of the IP services offered by the university business law clinic

The offering of pro bono IP legal services to entrepreneurs and the provision of practical experience in various IP matters to university law students

This project will help tourism SMEs modernize their services by providing updated business development resources and a management diagnostic tool.