Grants and Contributions

This project will provide funding to BC Legal Aid over four years, to prepare Impact of Race and Culture Assessments (IRCAs) for qualified legal aid clients in the province of BC. IRCAs are pre-sentencing reports that assist courts in considering the effect that racism and other unique circumstances experienced by members of Black, and potentially other racialized communities, have contributed to their contact with the criminal justice system.

The project will provide funding to support the successful organization of Arctic 360’s Annual Conference: “Tilting the Globe: Accelerating Cooperation, Innovation and Opportunity”, in Toronto, February 21-23, 2023. This includes expenses such as venue rental, catering, audio-visual services and conference promotion.

The project will also include hosting a Young Entrepreneurs Lunchtime Fireside Chat at which conference attendees will benefit from engaging with young Northern and Indigenous entrepreneurs and students as they share why they are interested in business and economic development, what challenges they have faced and how some of the barriers to entry, expansion and success can be removed so that they and other entrepreneurs can develop and grow the much needed business sector in northern regions.

Addressing poverty and food insecurity for rural coastal communities in Pohnpei, Micronesia through small-scale family-based aquaculture ventures.

Increasing awareness of human trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) through workshops, campaigns and support for survivors in Solomon Islands.

The overarching goal (purpose) is to support enhancements in marine safety and marine environmental protection in Canadian waters, while embracing the concepts of co-development and sustainable economic development.

Contributes to the recovery of endangered, threatened, and other species of concern, by engaging Canadians in conservation actions to benefit wildlife and to protect aquatic species at risk.

Encourage the sustainable management of Canada’s fisheries, Indigenous fisheries programs and aquaculture activities and support commercial fishing harbours.

Support the acquisition, development, construction, improvement or repair as well as the management, maintenance, safety and accessibility of eligible fishing harbours.

Canada's Fisheries Fund will transform and drive innovation in the fish and seafood sector in Canada with a focus on developing the sector to better meet growing market demands for sustainably sourced, high-quality fish and seafood products.

The recent reduction in launch costs has opened up potential for cost-efficient, high-performance, rapidly-deployable low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations. StarSpec Technologies specializes in high-precision high-accuracy Attitude Determination and Control Systems which are critical to the advancement of scientific, commercial, and military applications in space. StarSpec is directly addressing burgeoning demands in this sector through its InspireSAT Constellations On-Demand Initiative. This technology and related industrial capabilities will enable rapidly-deployable, high-precision and high-accuracy 12U to SmallSat class constellations uniquely suitable for next-generation sustainable applications in high-resolution Earth-imaging/Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR), Space Situational Awareness (SSA)/ Space Domain Awareness (SDA), military surveillance, and research.
This project will enable rapid commercial access to LEO while fostering growth through training of a critical mass of highly qualified personnel (HQP), thereby increasing Canadian space technologies prevalence and market share. StarSpec has received significant interest in this technology from Universities to collaborate on their projects, and is continuing to gain solid traction from the commercial sector.