Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$50,000.00
Dec 22, 2025
Other
Wildland Fire Aviation Analysis
WFR2526-CIFF
The objective of this agreement is to analyze the national wildfire aviation landscape.
$17,337.00
Feb 1, 2021
Academia
entifying fire risk from surface water extent change using spatio-temporal analysis of imagery
FIRENFC-18
The objective of this Project is to adapt methods of mapping water extent for use in Google Earth Engine imagery and apply to pilot project study areas, assemble a database of spatio-temporal trends in surface water prior to peat fires and in similar non-burned peatlands, and to test time series analysis methods for their ability to determine the temporal conditions in surface water that occurs before peat fires, and link this to risk of fire.
$52,150.00
Feb 1, 2021
Aboriginal recipient
Giving Voice to Cultural Safety of Indigenous Wildland Firefighters in Canada
FIRENFC-20
The objective of this project is to use three data collection methods to increase understanding of occupational resiliency in relation to Indigenous wildland firefighters, and to promote cultural safety using the experiences of Indigenous firefighters across Canada.
$21,956.00
Feb 22, 2021
Other
A Methodology for Acoustical Measurement of Embers Impinging on a Surface
FIREPFC-05
The purpose is to enhance existing Fire Behavior Prediction models.
$45,679.00
Feb 3, 2021
Other
Translations for the Incident Command System
FIRELFC-7
The purpose of this project is to translate course materials for two training modules to support the training of French-speaking emergency responders and managers, in harmony with the training received by English-speaking counterparts across Canada.
$60,292.00
Mar 1, 2021
Other
Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta 2nd Edition
FIRENFC-22
The Objective of this Project is to publish a second edition of the Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta guidebook to provide current information for risk assessment and decision-making as well as to increase public awareness of rare plants to encourage a greater appreciation of rare species importance. This tool will be used in the management and conservation of wildlife (including plants) as rare species and will contribute to the need for current data to integrate into management decisions for fire mitigation.
$250,000.00
Feb 19, 2021
Academia
Assessment of wildfire impacts at the wildland urban interface
FIRLELFC-17
The project aims to develop methodologies and tools to fill the knowledge gap in the impact component in wildfire risk assessment of structures at wildlandfire urban interface (WUI) in Canada.
$50,025.00
Mar 4, 2021
Aboriginal recipient
INDIGENOUS FIREFIGHTERS IN FORT SMITH, NWT: HISTORY, KNOWLEDGE AND METHODS, PHASE ONE
FIRENFC-19
The objective of this project is to carry out research that records, preserves, and shares the knowledge, values, experiences and methods used by former Indigenous firefighters who worked on fire crews based out of Forth Smith, Northwest Territories.
$221,375.00
Nov 20, 2020
Academia
Identification of landscape configurations that decrease fire likelihood in the boreal forest
FIRELFC-14
The objective of the Project is to identify landscape configurations that limit wildfire likelihood in order to enhance fire management activities and reduce exposure to wildland fire risk in northern Quebec.
$233,542.00
Apr 13, 2021
Academia
Hydrologic modelling support for post-wildfire water resource integrity and flood risk assessment
FIREGLF-21
The objective of this Project is to: improve and extend the existing forest growth-hydrology model to simulate post-wildfire hydrologic regimes, both immediately following wildfire and during post-fire forest regeneration; develop and test model-based strategies for assessing post-wildfire flood risk in light of significant uncertainty in post-burn hydrologic response; and apply the model in multiple Canadian landscapes with contrasting fire and hydrologic regimes.