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.
$365,000.00
Jul 22, 2019
For-profit organization
Forest Fire Situational Awareness
932761
The project is to enable fire management offices (FMOs) more situational awareness when fighting multi-hectare forest fires. Today's FMOs cobble together information from many sources arriving at various times, review with meteorologists and fire behaviour experts and make resourcing and fire-fighting decisions hours after the data arrives instead of seconds. Situational awareness is about getting the right data, in real-time, with smart alerts and intelligent dashboards that alert and recommend next steps. FTS will collect many different data sources and data and display to the FMO in an easy to understand way.
$102,803.00
Aug 20, 2018
For-profit organization
Internet of Things (IOT) via Satellite
912725
The overall project objective is to enable the delivery of environmental monitoring data via existing satellite systems to the Internet of Things (IOT) allowing software systems to interact seamlessly with remote sensors regardless of IOT transport used.
$3,000.00
Apr 23, 2018
For-profit organization
Canadian Forestry Technology Mission to EUREKA Innovation Days
906926
Participation in a Forestry Technology mission to Helsinki, Finland, led by the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) and Global Affairs Canada (GAC) from May 21-25, 2018, including EUREKA Innovation Days partnering events, a special Canada-Finland forestry sector partnering event and a site visit to a Finnish forestry technology organization.