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  "projectId": "prj-ca-telescope-lithium-sulphide",
  "corpus": {
    "revision": "2026-11-03",
    "legalStatusCutoff": "2026-11-03",
    "view": "current_corpus_revision",
    "notice": "Curated corpus revision, not source freshness or historical known-as-of coverage. Financial histories retain their own status dates."
  },
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    ],
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      {
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      }
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        "note": "NRCan names Telescope Innovations Corp., Vancouver, British Columbia, lithium, and a project to scale up and pilot low-cost lithium sulphide manufacturing."
      }
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            "actor"
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          "locator": "Issuer; third and fourth paragraphs",
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        {
          "role": "recipient",
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        }
      ],
      "evidence": [
        {
          "sourceId": "src-canada-grant-telescope-lipick-2024",
          "supports": [
            "name",
            "kind"
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          "evidence": "explicit",
          "locator": "Recipient's Legal Name; Recipient Type",
          "note": "The disclosure gives the legal recipient name and identifies it as a for-profit organization."
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          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
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            "kind"
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          "locator": "Research and development projects: Telescope Innovations Corp.",
          "note": null
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        "currencyBasis": "issuer_context",
        "basisNote": null,
        "basisLabel": null
      },
      "amountBasis": "current_recorded_terms_not_historical_totals",
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        "org-ca-nrcan"
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        "org-telescope-innovations"
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      "facility": null,
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        }
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          "date": "2025-10-31",
          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
          "note": "The G7 backgrounder says Telescope was conditionally approved for up to C$3.04 million under CMRDD. NRCan's standing CMRDD register later gives the exact funded amount, but no binding agreement date is established in the reviewed sources."
        }
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      "terms": [],
      "statedOutcomes": [],
      "relationships": [],
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        {
          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
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            "status",
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            "materials",
            "stages",
            "programme"
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          "evidence": "explicit",
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          "note": "Establishes conditional approval under CMRDD for a pilot method to manufacture lithium sulphide."
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        {
          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-programme",
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            "recipient",
            "project",
            "materials",
            "stages",
            "programme",
            "location"
          ],
          "evidence": "explicit",
          "locator": "Funded Projects: \"A Route to Establish a Canadian Lithium Sulphide Supply Chain for Solid-State Batteries\"",
          "note": "Gives the exact C$3,039,344 amount funded, Telescope Innovations Corp., lithium, Vancouver, British Columbia, and the scale-up/pilot lithium-sulphide manufacturing purpose."
        }
      ],
      "notes": "NRCan's current project register says the project was launched in 2025 and is expected to be completed by 2028. No matching binding contribution agreement was located in the reviewed disclosure search, so the financial status remains decided rather than contracted; no payment or disbursement is inferred."
    }
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  "designations": [],
  "nativeMilestones": [],
  "policyContexts": [
    {
      "id": "evt-ca-g7-cmpa-2025",
      "relationship": "finance_or_designation_parent",
      "jurisdiction": "canada",
      "issuingBody": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "titleEn": "Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains (G7 Critical Minerals Production Alliance, first round)",
      "titleOriginal": "Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains",
      "documentNumber": null,
      "date": "2025-10-31",
      "policyStatus": "active",
      "sourceIds": [
        "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025"
      ]
    }
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  "financePackageReferences": [],
  "unknowns": [
    "No project-native source-reviewed industrial milestone is published. Attributed activity in financing histories remains a separate evidence class; no exact milestone date or facility-wide conclusion is inferred.",
    "Historical amount review is incomplete. Current amounts cannot be read as a time series of earlier commitments.",
    "Structural links and shared materials do not demonstrate that a government measure caused an industrial outcome."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-canada-grant-telescope-lipick-2024",
      "title": "Grants and Contributions — UKRI Critical Minerals – 10113987 - Li-PICK - Energy Efficient Battery Recycling Enabled by Recrystallization",
      "publisher": "Government of Canada Open Government",
      "url": "https://search.open.canada.ca/grants/record/nrc-cnrc%2C172-2024-2025-Q2-1022725%2Ccurrent",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": null,
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-07"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-2024",
      "title": "Government of Canada Supporting Critical Minerals Processing in Kingston",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2024/09/government-of-canada-supporting-critical-minerals-processing-in-kingston.html",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2024-09-04",
      "accessedOn": "2026-09-23"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-programme",
      "title": "Critical Minerals Research, Development and Demonstration Program",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/critical-minerals-in-canada/federal-support-for-critical-mineral-projects-and-value-chains/critical-minerals-research-development-and-demonstration-program.html",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": null,
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-07"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
      "title": "Backgrounder: Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2025/10/backgrounder-canada-unlocks-25-new-investments-and-partnerships-with-9-allied-countries-to-secure-critical-minerals-supply-chains.html",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2025-10-31",
      "accessedOn": "2026-09-23"
    }
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  "limitations": [
    "Policy contexts here parent existing finance or designation records; a shared material or date never creates a causal edge.",
    "Coannounced controls are announcement siblings only, not project-specific restrictions or effects.",
    "Direct project attribution and nonallocative association are different. No individual monetary allocation, financial sum or payment conclusion is authorized.",
    "Financing statuses describe the current corpus revision. Legacy implementation observations require scoped review and are not project-native milestones.",
    "A milestone's event/target date, publication/access horizon and reviewer date are separate. A planned target is not automatically occurred.",
    "An absent reviewed milestone means no approved entry in SMPT, not that the facility is inactive or failed.",
    "Amounts retain current source-stated terms, original currency and exact decimal strings. This packet computes no historical financial totals or project-wide monetary allocation.",
    "Published source review does not establish independent on-site verification. Source, financial-status, occurrence, target and review dates remain distinct."
  ]
}