Grants and Contributions

Renovations and additions to a community centre in Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, ON includes new ramps, barrier free door access hardware, and an extension of the building's floor space to make room for a food bank to operate. Further upgrades to the building’s envelope are also planned.

This project involves the construction of a new gymnasium to address gaps in recreational infrastructure and support year‑round community sport and physical activity. The facility will provide accessible, multi‑use spaces suitable for a range of indoor sports and community use. Designed to operate as a net‑zero building, the project will incorporate sustainable design features to minimize environmental impacts while expanding access to inclusive, high‑quality recreation opportunities.

Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness across Canada will have increased support through the Program. This is accomplished by providing direct funding to communities and mobilizing collaborators at the federal, provincial/territorial and community levels, as well as the private and voluntary sectors, to address barriers to well-being faced by Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness, through two funding streams: the Services and Supports Stream and the Capacity Building Stream.

CARAT is a space-based instrument that will fly in low-Earth orbit on a CubeSat and act as a known reference source for Canadian and other ground-based radio telescopes. This “artificial radio star” can be observed, tracked, and used to calibrate their receivers to greatly improve their accuracy. This project will develop and test the payload for CARAT to prepare it for a future flight and involves the development of several cutting-edge space technologies, increasing their technology readiness level in the process. The project will also train personnel in space-related areas, particularly CubeSat payloads and technology as well as radio astronomy, to build greater space capacity in Canada.

The project will be carried out in collaboration with the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun (FNNND), using space-based data to support local priorities, providing updated information for wetland mapping, and improving knowledge of local hydrology and carbon storage. The project will combine drone imagery, satellite data, and field measurements to capture the unique characteristics of peatlands in sloped areas. It will also test new quantum dot SWIR technology while assessing smouldering peatland wildfires by tracking their movement over time and will use field and drone-based observations to improve models that predict how smouldering fires on flat and sloped terrain start, spread, and stop. The project will deliver updated peatland maps, detailed time-series maps of smouldering fire progression, empirical models linking drone and satellite data, and validated insights into fire behavior that can be used to support wildfire monitoring, emissions estimation, and land management strategies.

The project aims to conduct Ku- and L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) experiments during the 2026-2028 winter seasons at Forêt Montmorency, QC, to better understand radar responses to seasonal snow changes in forested environments. The main objectives include: collecting polarimetric Ku- and L-band SAR data and detailed measurements of snowpack and forest biophysical properties; developing a comprehensive reference dataset to enhance Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission (TSMM) retrieval methods for forested terrain; and training highly qualified personnel (HQP) in snow, soil, and forest biomass characterization, SAR data processing, and TSMM retrieval approaches. Key deliverables are a robust dataset for TSMM development, improved retrieval techniques for snow mass estimation in forests, and specialized HQP skills in advanced SAR remote sensing and data analysis.

This project will use JWST/MIRI to conduct the first systematic search for habitable worlds around two white dwarfs. These observations will enable ultra-precise computer models of these dead stars’ atmospheres, which will allow for the detection and characterization of eventual rocky planets.

This project will use JWST/MIRI and NIRSpec to measure the atmospheric abundances of the first known intact planet orbiting a white dwarf (WD 1856+534). The spectra will also be used to obtain a better estimate of the white dwarf’s cooling age which will be compared with simulations of hydrogen-helium convective mixing in white dwarfs using stellar hydrodynamics code.

This project will use JWST/MIRI and NIRCam to map the edge-on galaxy NGC 4565, resolving its vertical PAH, dust and star formation structure at <20 pc resolution. Covering the full disk out to 30 kpc, the study will test models of galactic self-regulation and reveal whether giant interstellar filaments and vertical ISM structures seen in the Milky Way are common in other galaxies.

This project aims to enhance the capacity of national and sub-national governments to integrate wildfire risk management as a standardized component of regional, national, and local disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies. The project seeks to bolster country resilience to wildfires across Latin America and the Caribbean by supporting evidence-based decision-making for wildfire risk reduction, strengthening technical capacity for improved governance to reduce wildfire risk, and integrating sustainable wildfire management practices into national and local planning through multi-stakeholder collaboration and public-private partnerships. The intervention aligns with the principles of the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, to which Canada is a signatory.