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Grant Spotlight: Funding for Businesses in Southern Ontario

SUMMARY: FedDev Ontario has opened its 2025 intake for funding applications, supporting businesses across southern Ontario in adopting innovative solutions, enhancing productivity, and expanding into new markets. Examples of eligible services and equipment include: Capital expenditures Consulting and professional services Labor costs Materials and supplies Travel and accommodation Applicants normally request a minimum of $125,000 […]
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Federal Dollars, Local Economies: Navigating Grant-Funded Development in Northern Canada

By Sid Aubeeluck, Grants Development Associate (Canada)   Introduction Canada’s North continues to embody a place of resilience and determination, where communities are driving bold development, celebrating vibrant cultures, and forging a sustainable future. Yet even with billions in federal funding invested over the years, communities across Nunavut, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories still face […]
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Grant Spotlight: Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund – Stream 2 Shovel-Ready Projects

SUMMARY: This program supports shovel-ready clean energy and transportation infrastructure projects in Canada’s critical minerals sector, including site preparation, construction, rehabilitation, and upgrades, along with capacity-building and engagement activities that prioritize Indigenous and other impacted communities. Eligible projects: Clean energy infrastructure Projects that drive environmental performance while supporting increased critical minerals production. Transportation infrastructure Projects […]
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Grant Spotlight: Rural Ontario Development Program

SUMMARY: The Rural Ontario Development (ROD) Program provides cost-share funding to support projects that foster economic growth, workforce development, community infrastructure, and business expansion in rural Ontario communities. This program aims to build strong, sustainable rural economies by addressing local challenges and creating new opportunities. Examples of eligible services and equipment include: • Economic diversification […]
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Grant Spotlight: Digital Health Innovation Fund (DHIF)

SUMMARY: This fund, led by the Terry Fox Research Institute’s Digital Health & Discovery Platform (DHDP), supports cutting-edge health with a focus on AI and data-driven innovation. While the fund prioritizes oncology and neurology research programs, the DHDP is a disease agnostic initiative. Applications focused on other areas of health and AI research where similar data […]
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Grant Spotlight: AI Compute Access Fund

SUMMARY: The AI Compute Access Fund helps Canadian SMEs access high-performance AI compute at reduced costs, accelerating innovation in sectors like energy, manufacturing, and life sciences. As part of Canada’s Sovereign AI Strategy, this fund aims to strengthen national AI capacity and make cutting-edge infrastructure more accessible to businesses driving economic growth. Applications should clearly demonstrate […]
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Breaking Down Canada’s Major Transfers: How Federal Funding Shapes the Nation

Introduction: Public funding is a fundamental pillar of Canada’s governance, ensuring all provinces and territories receive the necessary resources to maintain essential services across the nation. A significant portion of public funding is channeled through federal transfers, which are essential for maintaining fiscal capacity across the nation and providing critical support for healthcare, social programs, […]
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Grant Spotlight: Catapult Grant

SUMMARY: Established by the Rideau Hall Foundation, Catapult Canada supports youth-serving organizations in Canada to design, build, scale up and evaluate the impact of initiatives to better support Canadian youth in their learning goals, especially those underserved by the education system and disengaged from education and/or career pathways. This includes newcomers to Canada; refugees; youth […]
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Grant Spotlight: Thriving Indigenous Systems Fund (TISF)

SUMMARY: The Vancouver Foundation offers flexible, multi-year grants of up to $100,000 per year for three years to land-based First Nations and Indigenous-led organizations serving land-based First Nations in British Columbia. Examples of eligible projects include: Capacity building Elder and knowledge keeper support Gender-specific support groups Advocacy Governance capacity through research Policy development Cultural mentorship […]
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How Federal Grants Are Helping Canada Tackle the Housing Crisis

Siddhi Aubeeluck, Grants Development Associate (Canada)   Canada’s housing crisis is a matter of national urgency. As of 2024, nearly 45% of Canadians reported being very concerned about their ability to afford housing due to rising costs.[1] In Ontario, the average home price in 2019 was approximately $604,883, and in 2024, that number rose to […]
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