Grants and Contributions

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Grant as part of the Participant Funding Program to Fort McKay Métis to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the impact assessment process for the Suncor Base Mine Extension Project.

Contribution as part of the Policy Dialogue Program to Stanley Oliver to assist in preparing for and engaging in participation activities associated with the ongoing Review of Legislative, Regulatory, and Policy Development Processes.

Grant as part of the Participant Funding Program to Métis Local 1954 Touchwood Lake/Big Bay Area to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the impact assessment process for the Suncor Base Mine Extension Project.

Grant as part of the Participant Funding Program to Clearwater River Band #175 to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the impact assessment process for the Suncor Base Mine Extension Project.

Digital technologies have ushered in the current digital culture. There is widespread use of smartphones/tablets and the internet to interact with digitized artifacts, enabling more collective and networked forms of culture. Cisco forecasts global IP traffic to surpass 4.8 ZB (of which wireless and mobile traffic will account for > 70%) and the number of devices connected to IP networks to exceed 3 times the global population by 2022. The global IT infrastructure must expand to support this growth and demand in data traffic. Solutions for ultra-high capacity optical interconnections—from long-haul (undersea) to short-reach (data center interconnections)—and optical-wireless (RF) communications are required.
The main objective of this project is to explore integrated approaches for optical frequency comb generation, including quantum dot lasers and silicon photonic technologies, for applications in flexible high-capacity optical transport from data center interconnections to long haul transmission to fiber-wireless networks.

This development project will address key issues encountered with conventional electronic beamforming networks (BFN) used in space based Radio-Frequency (RF) phased array antennas. Those antennas are gaining in popularity thanks to the recent plans for low cost, large, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation projects. Large bandwidth performances are thus expected to be much improved over the wide scan angles needed for operations in LEO. This feasibility study will evaluate a concept for a large scale true time delay optical beamforming for RF phased arrays.

The objective of this project is to develop general machine learning techniques for graph generation, with the end application of smart design including new material discovery, advanced circuit design, and novel drug invention, amongst many others. Research will focus on deep generative models and reinforcement learning for the generation of graphs with optimized properties. The representation power of graph will be leveraged to sufficiently encode the key compositional behaviours and their interplays of the target domain, and treat developing a novel design as a new graph structure generation process with various composition constraints. The decomposition in the former can be attained through deep generative models with disentangled latent variables, and the composition search space in the latter can be effectively explored by deep enforcement learning.

The project will equip and activate a network of more than 1,300 MPs worldwide to protect democracy and political inclusion, human rights, freedom of expression and association as well as the ability of civil society organizations to operate in a free, open, independent, and effective manner through collective and responsive calls to action by a community of parliamentarians, and increased ability of legislators to recognize and oppose initiatives which curtail civil and political rights.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)