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.
$70,000.00
Jun 1, 2024
For-profit organization
Exploration Pathfinder
1019137
The proposed project is the development of software tools used by early stage resource companies engaged in critical mineral exploration. The tool is to be used in the field and in conjunction with portable scientific instruments. Instead of collecting samples and waiting for results, the software will give near real time results while also generating a 3D model of mineralization structures on the fly. With this added intelligence, the service allows a sample collection plan to be dynamic, thereby making exploration projects much more efficient. Testing of the software will be done on customer-owned properties in British Columbia.
$122,000.00
Jun 1, 2021
For-profit organization
Mobile NIR Soil Analysis
972914
The proposed project targets the quantification of nutrients in soil using newly available mobile near infrared (NIR) sensors coupled with cloud-based support in the form of data processing, machine learning and spectral matching algorithms/libraries. Development work includes integration of NIR sensors from multiple hardware vendors into a common platform that supports location, soil type and device-specific calibrations/analysis. Field testing with partners includes two pilots that are located at (1) a Northern Alberta wellsite being reclaimed and (2) numerous cropland locations in Alberta and Saskatchewan.