INUIT BROADCASTING CORPORATION: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Iqaluit, Nunavut · grants and contributions register · Ottawa Centre

INUIT BROADCASTING CORPORATION: federal grants and contributions: 39 agreements; $28.4M value; 5 departments; 9 programs.

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39agreements
$28.4Mvalue
5departments
9programs

Largest agreements

Agreement$2.8Mvalue2008start–end
Promoting Inuit Language Through Television Production: 2024-2026$2.6Mvalue2026start2028end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting

  • Canadian Heritage
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting
Promoting Inuit Language Through Television Production: 2021 - 2023$2.5Mvalue2021start2023end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program

Agreement$1.5Mvalue2017start–end
Agreement$1.5Mvalue2012start–end
Agreement$1.4Mvalue2006start–end
Agreement$1.4Mvalue2007start–end
Agreement$1.4Mvalue2011start–end
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Agreement$1.4Mvalue2015start–end
Agreement$1.3Mvalue2016start–end
Agreement$1.3Mvalue2010start–end
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation Promoting Inuktitut Language Through Television Production 2018 - 2019$1.3Mvalue2018start2019end

Aboriginal Peoples' Program

Inuktitut Language Television Production: 2019-2020$1.3Mvalue2019start2020end

Aboriginal Peoples' Program

Promoting Inuit Language Through Television Production$1.3Mvalue2023start2024end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting

  • Canadian Heritage
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting
Agreement$1.2Mvalue2013start–end
Agreement$1.2Mvalue2014start–end
Agreement$448Kvalue2014start–end
Tigulavut - "To Get a Hold of"$328Kvalue2025start2026end

Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) will prepare plans and training materials for Inuit entering the media industry.

Inuktitut Language Television Production: 2020-2021$318Kvalue2020start2021end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program

Iqquamavavut: ''We Remember Them'' Archival Project$280Kvalue2022start2023end

Indigenous Languages & Cultures Program

IQQAUMAVAVUT (We Remember Them)$233Kvalue2018start2020end

Aboriginal Peoples' Program

Iqqaumavavut: "We Remember Them" Archival Project$121Kvalue2020start2021end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program

  • Canadian Heritage
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures
Agreement$117Kvalue2014start–end
Agreement$111Kvalue2018start–end
Agreement$91.3Kvalue2014start–end
2526-NR-000509$87.0Kvalue2025start2026end

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

1819-NU-000008$85.4Kvalue2018start2019end

P009466

Inuit Broadcasting Corporation Iqqaumavavut: "We Remember Them" Archival Project$82.2Kvalue2024start2025end

The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) undertakes the annual cataloguing and digitization of as many analog tapes as possible. Analog content is digitized to hard drives for real-time viewing, describing, and presenting on publicly accessible web platforms. Since the project’s inception in 2014, IBC has digitized over 3 200 analog tapes, mostly in U-Matic format. For the 2024–2025 fiscal year, the project’s main goal is to catalogue and digitize another 200 Betacam tapes.

Promoting Inuit Language Through Television Production: 2024-2026$80.9Kvalue2024start2026end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting

  • Canadian Heritage
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting
Iqqaumavavut: "We Remember Them” Archival Project$77.4Kvalue2023start2024end

Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC)project will catalogue and digitize 300 Betacam tapes. Project activities will include updating data base and cataloguing, professional bulk digitizing of Betacam and tapes by a digital content curator, content viewing in real time and detailed descriptions, editing descriptions for clarity, grammar and consistency of language, refreshing video content to publicly accessible web platforms, updating/renewal digital asset management software (CatDV), and CatDV training.

Iqqaumavavut: “We Remember Them” Archival Project$75.7Kvalue2021start2022end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program

2122-NR-000519$75.0Kvalue2021start2022end

P005431

2425-NR-000641$75.0Kvalue2024start2025end

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Iqquamavavut: ''We Remember Them'' Archival Project$60.0Kvalue2022start2023end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures

  • Canadian Heritage
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures
1920-NR-000536$50.0Kvalue2019start2020end

P031250

Agreement$49.7Kvalue2009start–end
The Baker Lake Tapes: Cataloguing/Digitizing/Description Archival Project$38.7Kvalue2020start2021end

The Baker Lake tape collection consists of over 1,000 video tapes in U-matic format, in varying stages of decay. The tapes encompass Inuit cultural, historical, sociological and political development from the late 1970s to 1993. They describe and demonstrate (in Inuktitut) Inuit traditional hunting and fishing skills, shelter, clothing, transportation, food preparation, celebrations, and societal development. Participants include cherished Elders who have since passed on. Tapes include early political discussions leading to the creation of Nunavut. As Baker Lake is the only inland Inuit comm

2324-NR-000527$38.6Kvalue2023start2024end

P058509

IBC Archive Records Management and Training 2019-2020$26.8Kvalue2019start2020end

The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) established the Inuit Film Video Archives in 2014-2015. The organization holds a video collection that includes approximately 9,000 hours of Inuit language video capturing cultural, social and political developments of Inuit since the mid-1970s. This project will involve archival activities related to this collection and includes the renewal of archival software, updating database records, migration of records to an asset management system, and renewed training for IBC staff.

Departments

Canadian Heritage28agreements$27.4Mvalue5programs
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program
  • Aboriginal Peoples' Program
  • Indigenous Languages & Cultures Program
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures

All grants from Canadian Heritage

Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency1agreements$328Kvalue1programs
  • IDEANorth

All grants from Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency

Indigenous Services Canada5agreements$326Kvalue1programs
  • Education

All grants from Indigenous Services Canada

Library and Archives Canada4agreements$225Kvalue2programs
  • Listen, Hear Our Voices
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program

All grants from Library and Archives Canada

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada1agreements$85.4Kvalue1programs
  • Education

All grants from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Years

20261agreements$2.6Mvalue1programs
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting
20252agreements$415Kvalue2programs
  • IDEANorth
  • Education
20243agreements$238Kvalue3programs
  • Listen, Hear Our Voices
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting
  • Education
20233agreements$1.4Mvalue3programs
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting
  • Listen, Hear Our Voices
  • Education
20222agreements$340Kvalue2programs
  • Indigenous Languages & Cultures Program
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures
20213agreements$2.7Mvalue2programs
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program
  • Education
20203agreements$477Kvalue3programs
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program
20193agreements$1.4Mvalue3programs
  • Aboriginal Peoples' Program
  • Education
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program
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20184agreements$1.7Mvalue2programs
  • Aboriginal Peoples' Program
  • Education
20171agreements$1.5Mvalue0programs
    20161agreements$1.3Mvalue0programs
      20151agreements$1.4Mvalue0programs
        20144agreements$1.9Mvalue0programs
          20131agreements$1.2Mvalue0programs
            20121agreements$1.5Mvalue0programs
              20111agreements$1.4Mvalue0programs
                20101agreements$1.3Mvalue0programs
                  20091agreements$49.7Kvalue0programs
                    20081agreements$2.8Mvalue0programs
                      20071agreements$1.4Mvalue0programs
                        20061agreements$1.4Mvalue0programs

                          Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.