Grants and Contributions

Grant awarded under the Participant Funding Program to the Constance Lake First Nation to help it prepare for and engage in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities related to the assessment process for the Marten Falls Community Access Road Project.

Grant awarded under the Participant Funding Program to the Constance Lake First Nation to help it prepare for and engage in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities related to the assessment process for the Webequie Supply Road Project.

NorthStar will advance the critical capability to identify hundreds of thousands of unknown space objects by processing millions of space-based optical observations per day. Achieving this to commercial standards requires innovative adaptations of Initial Orbit Determination algorithms and massively parallel data processing pipeline methods configured in novel architectures. This project will adapt new Big Data methods to process unknown objects with a system that will scale appropriately as the NorthStar constellation expands, while still meeting latency and security requirements.

This project will develop a robust human cell culture-based pipeline for engineering innate radiation protection mechanisms. As opposed to traditional models which lack biological relevance, this proposal leverages the use of hPSCs and derived cells thereof, constituting both a sensitive and relevant approach. The project will identify potential gene therapy targets that can confer radioprotective phenotypes by effectively reducing oxidative stress, DNA damage, and cell death responses whilst deepening our understanding of their underlying mechanisms. This approach could significantly advance efforts to protect human health in the challenging environment of space. The data generated herein is a potentially invaluable resource for the Canadian Space Agency and others for prediction of radiation resistance factors in living systems. Finally, this project will engineer gene therapy delivery vectors to demonstrate effective radiation protection in target cell culture models relevant for spaceflight environments.

The purpose of this CanExport Innovation agreement is to support Canadian organizations to carry out activities related to pursuing opportunities that would lead to establishing new collaborative Research and Development (R&D) partnerships between the Recipient and foreign organizations in order to support R&D on the Recipient’s technology and advance its commercialization.

This project is mostly related to codes and standards development.

The contribution supports the Government of Yukon / Department of Environment participation in protected area establishment discussions and national park establishment projects within the Yukon.

This contribution supports the Epekwitk Assembly of Councils, Inc. (operating as L'nuey) in the implementation of the Pituamkek National Park Reserve based on obligations negotiated in the Pituamkek Establishment Agreement.

This contribution supports the recovery of the Southern Resident Killer Whales that are culturally important and an endangered species at risk, including their habitat, and will further support the on-going collaboration between Gulf Islands National Park Reserve and the Halalt First Nation.

The purpose of this contribution is to enhance the security of the project site by purchasing and installing a closed-circuit television (CCTV) system, panic alarm system with public access (PA) capability, and an access control system, which will aid in the prevention and mitigation of the harm caused by potential incidents of hate motivated crime against the community centre.