Canadian Heritage · Grant program
Digital Citizen Program
Support the priorities by providing time-limited financial assistance to research and programming across Canada in order to enhance and/or support countering online disinformation and other online harms and threats to our country’s democracy and social cohesion. The program will include opportunities for local communities, organizations, and academics to obtain funds for new and existing related initiatives.
- Total value
- $10.1M
- Agreements
- 35
- Aug 2025 to Nov 2025
- Median agreement
- $355K
- Typical range
- $227K–$379K
- the middle half of agreements
Federal grants and contributions, agreements starting Jan 2006 to Oct 2026, each counted once at its latest amended value. Source: Treasury Board proactive disclosure, published October 11, 2026.
See every record for this program on the government’s search. How to apply: look up the program on Canadian Heritage’s website.
Who got it
Organizations with the most funding under this program.
By year
Agreements by the year they started.
| Year | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | $10.1M |
By province
| Province or territory | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario | 20 | $6.1M |
| Quebec | 6 | $1.4M |
| British Columbia | 4 | $963K |
| Alberta | 3 | $857K |
| Nova Scotia | 1 | $380K |
| Nunavut | 1 | $355K |
By type of recipient
As the department classified the recipient.
| Recipient type | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Other organizations | 35 | $10.1M |
Latest agreements
| Start | Recipient | What for | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2025 | DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society | Trust Pathways Project: A Community-Based Study on Health Information and Misinformation Among NewcomersGrant | $313,057 |
| Nov 2025 | Children's Healthcare Canada / Santé Des Enfants Canada | Mind Over Media: Safeguarding Youth in the Digital AgeGrant | $376,540 |
| Nov 2025 | University of Ottawa | Strengthening Information Resilience: Addressing Disinformation Targeting Indigenous, Diasporic, and Non-Official Language Communities in the ArcticGrant | $361,000 |
| Nov 2025 | Université de Sherbrooke | Équipe de veille des écosystèmes radicaux et désinformationnels au Canada et au Québec : comprendre, former et sensibiliserGrant | $84,242 |
| Nov 2025 | Open Digital Literacy and Access Network | Fostering Online Cultural Safety for 2SLGBTQIA+ Diasporic Communities: Addressing Mis/disinformationGrant | $371,480 |
| Nov 2025 | McMaster University | Using AI to build an early warning system to detect, assess, and understand trends in the spread of disinformation on social media platformsGrant | $377,732 |
| Nov 2025 | Gurdwara Guru Nanak Mission Centre | Feeling Secure & Protecting AllGrant | $98,500 |
| Nov 2025 | Digital Public Square | Foreign Interference Resilience & Education: Building Community Cohesion, Trust, and SolidarityGrant | $380,000 |
| Oct 2025 | University of Waterloo | From Front Lines to Policy: Engaging Influencers to Counter Gender-Based Hate and Extremism in CanadaGrant | $160,398 |
| Oct 2025 | Société Makivik - Makivik Corporation | Nunavik Digital Truth Initiative (subject to be changed to integrate Inuktitut)Grant | $240,000 |
| Oct 2025 | John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights | Seen & Safe: Confronting Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Canada's Digital SpacesGrant | $250,900 |
| Oct 2025 | The Governing Council of the University of Toronto | Grant | $227,307 |
| Oct 2025 | Dalhousie University | SHIELD: Building Digital Resilience in Immigrant Communities: An Adaptive Persuasive Technological Intervention to Combat Disinformation in CanadaGrant | $380,000 |
| Oct 2025 | Conseil De Presse Du Quebec | Programme de formation en déontologie et recherche journalistique pour créateurs de contenuGrant | $151,185 |
| Sep 2025 | Casa Cultural Peruana Inc | "Bridging Cultures, Fighting Disinformation: A Casa Cultural Peruana Initiative"Grant | $62,500 |
| Sep 2025 | Students Commission Of Canada (The) / Commission Des Etudiants Du Canada (La) | Grant | $271,317 |
| Sep 2025 | Ontario College of Art and Design University | Creators for Democracy: A National Accelerator Pilot to Equip Canadian Content Creators Against Misinformation and DisinformationGrant | $373,138 |
| Sep 2025 | World Sikh Organization of Canada | Canadian Sikh Information Integrity Initiative (CSIII)Grant | $249,955 |
| Sep 2025 | CityHive Youth Engagement Society | CityShapers: Urban DecodersGrant | $100,000 |
| Sep 2025 | York University Faculty Of Education | The Place of "Influencers" in Canada's Digital Ecosystem: Lessons for Digital Literacy and Citizenship of Young CanadiansGrant | $378,284 |
| Sep 2025 | University of Lethbridge | Toxic Masculinity/Weaponized Femininity: Disinformation, Social Media Influencers and Student-Led Approaches to Countering Gender-based Violence and EGrant | $227,083 |
| Sep 2025 | Université de Sherbrooke | DÉSINFO-PME : Lutter contre la désinformation numérique auprès des entrepreneur·e·s minoritairesGrant | $380,000 |
| Sep 2025 | Toronto Metropolitan University | Building Digital Resilience in Diverse Canadian Communities and the Media EcosystemGrant | $362,400 |
| Sep 2025 | Toronto District School Board | Enacting AI Enabled Futures through High School Partnerships (EAIEF)Grant | $226,500 |
| Sep 2025 | Science North | Building Canadian Youth’s Skills at Debunking Disinformation through Hands-On Experiential Learning and Digital EngagementGrant | $380,000 |