Grants and Contributions

Reaching Home aims to prevent and reduce homelessness across Canada. This is accomplished by mobilizing partners at the federal, provincial/territorial and community levels, as well as the private and voluntary sectors, and other stakeholders, to address barriers to well-being faced by those who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness.

Reaching Home aims to prevent and reduce homelessness across Canada. This is accomplished by mobilizing partners at the federal, provincial/territorial and community levels, as well as the private and voluntary sectors, and other stakeholders, to address barriers to well-being faced by those who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness.

The City of Saint John has some of the highest tides in the world and is at increasing risk of flooding from extreme weather, which is magnified by climate change. Two significant riverine flooding events have occurred on the St. John River in the past decade with the highest water levels on record, causing significant damage to infrastructure. The project will upgrade and rehabilitate 3 wastewater systems, mitigating the flooding risk and ensuring the provision of wastewater services to an estimated 32,600 people. The project will reduce or eliminate untreated wastewater discharge caused by flood damage and protect existing infrastructure from damage, as well as reduce expected sewer backup.

Retrofit of a historic theatre in Saint John, NB that provides social and cultural services to the community. It includes the replacement of the building's ageing HVAC system and gas-powered boiler with new heat pump and control systems, as well as upgrades to the building's lighting systems.

Action Research on Chronic Homelessness will identify actions needed to end chronic homelessness by exploring ways to break down persistent barriers encountered by communities across Canada. This is accomplished by providing direct funding to eight communities across Canada and mobilizing collaborators at the federal, provincial/territorial and community levels, as well as the private sectors, to address barriers encountered by communities to preventing and reducing chronic homelessness through the Community Capacity and Innovation funding stream under Reaching Home.

Action Research on Chronic Homelessness will identify actions needed to end chronic homelessness by exploring ways to break down persistent barriers encountered by communities across Canada. This is accomplished by providing direct funding to eight communities across Canada and mobilizing collaborators at the federal, provincial/territorial and community levels, as well as the private sectors, to address barriers encountered by communities to preventing and reducing chronic homelessness through the Community Capacity and Innovation funding stream under Reaching Home.

The not-for-profit Coastal Link Trail Inc., in partnership with the Southwest New Brunswick Service Commission, The City of Saint John and the NB Department of Natural Resource and Energy Development, will be rehabilitating and re-purposing 4.8-km of former NB Railway lands along the shoreline of the City of Saint John's Spruce lake, which will then connect to 2.2 Kilometers of new unbuffered bike lanes along the Ocean Westway Road in the City’s south end. The 7 Kilometer addition of greenway trail and buffered bike lanes in the City of Saint John will create a connection to the existing Nationwide Trans Canada Trail Network, and the City's existing Active transportation network that currently ends near the City's center. The Addition of the new trail and unbuffered bike lanes being proposed for this project will also will create a contiguous AT network from the South end of the City (Spruce Lake) to the North east end, ultimately creating a balanced transportation network that meets the needs of all community members with a variety of AT options which include cycling and pedestrian traffic. The Not-for- Profit Coastal Link Trai Inc. is the Organization responsible for constructing New Brunswick’s provincially recognized Signature Trail, the Coastal Link Trail, across South West New Brunswick. When complete, the 171-km trail it will connect the East Coast Green way in Calais, Maine, USA to the rest of the Trans Canada Trail Network, that ends in Saint John, NB. When it is done, it will be the longest International Trail network in the world, and also a part of Canada’s Nationally recognized Trans Canada Trail network. The Spruce Lake to Ocean West Way section of the trail is a critical connection of the regional trail network. The Trail will travers the entire region by creating new active transportation routes from the existing trail segment in St. Stephen, NB to the Trans Canada Trail in Saint John.

This project will identify locations on arterial and collector streets within Saint John where there should be crosswalks, define the type of crosswalk warranted in each location, and prioritize the projects.

A Road Safety Strategy is part of our new Transportation Plan. Education forms one of the 3 E's of Transportation Safety and this project will produce the first public education plan as part of this strategy.

This project would finalize a Sidewalk Infill Strategy introduced as part of the Pedestrian Strategy of our new Transportation Plan (MoveSJ) as well as prioritize missing sections of sidewalks, and potentially trails, that should be constructed using the developed Priority Framework.