First Peoples’ Cultural Council Community Engagement Survey. Closes Friday April 24, 2026. FPCC’s Community Engagement Survey is for members of B.C. First Nations communities residing anywhere in B.C. If you are creating, teaching, learning or supporting B.C. First Nations language, arts or cultural heritage, this survey is for you! Every four years, FPCC reaches out to the communities we serve to collect feedback and gather data around our communications efforts. Our Community Engagement Survey aims to learn about your experiences with FPCC so we can improve our communication with you. We want to learn more about the tools you are using, where you find your information, and how engaged you are with our programs and services. We are always looking for ways to improve and we value your input!
Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship. Closes May 22, 2026. The Endangered Language Fund (ELF) is pleased to announce again in 2026 the Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship. The Fellowship is meant to support the research of Ph.D. students who have completed two years of study in a graduate program in Linguistics and related disciplines, and who are engaged in the documentation of Indigenous languages and the archiving of linguistic data as part of their PhD graduate studies. The primary purpose of this fellowship is to encourage emerging linguists, in collaboration with their Indigenous partners, to responsibly share annotated materials in a sustainable public forum for equitable access to ongoing and finished research, both for community members and for other scholars. Fellowships provide up to $30,000 for expenses related to the documentation of the Indigenous language and the responsible archiving of data from documentation and analysis done by the Fellow.
Heritage conservation engagement leads to updated proposals to make the act work better for everyone Province modernizing Heritage Conservation Act to better meet needs of people in B.C. The Province has published a technical policy paper outlining updated proposals for changes to the Heritage Conservation Act so that First Nations, local governments, industry and other interested parties can provide further input. The updated proposals reflect what the Province has heard to date through engagement and aim to improve clarity and efficiency, while supporting the protection of heritage in British Columbia. March 26, 2026.
Indigenous Teacher Education Initiative. As part of the Indigenous Teacher Education (ITE) Initiative, the Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF) has commissioned research led by Indigenous scholars and organizations to strengthen the evidence base around systemic barriers and opportunities to recruitment, training, and retention of Indigenous teachers in K-12 education.
CRTC making it easier to connect Indigenous communities to high-speed Internet and cellphone services. Feedback welcome- closes September 18, 2026. The CRTC is making it easier for Indigenous communities to get connected to high-speed Internet and cellphone services through its Broadband Fund. Through the Broadband Fund, the CRTC contributes to a broad effort by federal, provincial, and territorial governments to connect underserved rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across Canada. To date, the fund has helped connect 135 Indigenous communities to high-speed Internet and cellphone services. This includes helping to bring high-speed Internet to all 25 communities in Nunavut, and committing funding to deliver fibre Internet to Atlin, an underserved remote Indigenous community in northern British Columbia. Many Indigenous communities continue to face a gap in access to high-quality Internet and cellphone services. To help close this gap, the CRTC is gathering views on how to better support Indigenous applicants to the fund.
