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Urban Heat Island Mapping Workshop: What We Heard
The effects of urban heat islands pose a threat to Canadians, our infrastructure, and environment. The Standards Council of Canada, alongside four leading organizations from across Canada, hosted a workshop in Fall 2022 to...
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Discerning signal from noise: The state of global...
This white paper aims to equip SCC's AI and Data Governance Standardization Collaborative with the information necessary to understand how best to leverage AI standards and conformity assessment to advance Canada’s interests...
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Publicly Available Specifications
These guidelines outline the principles and key development steps of a Publicly Available Specification (PAS). It provides some procedural detail and is not definitive in nature to account for the intended flexibility of this...
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Moving forward together: 2021-2022 Annual Report
From Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to public health and wellness, we worked closely with our partners throughout the year to define standardization strategies for the most complex, interconnected challenges...
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Recovery & Resilience: Summary of Corporate Plan...
Standards and conformity assessment are critical enablers of the 21st-century knowledge economy, providing for effective, safe, reliable and interoperable products, services and processes. As it continues to respond to the...
Bridging the Standards Divide: Modernizing Standards Infrastructures in Peru, Colombia, Honduras and the Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM)
This report analyzes and compiles CATRTA beneficiary countries’ needs in the areas of standards, conformity assessment and technical barriers to trade (TBT), identified during the CIDA funded workshop/roundtable held from May...
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National Standards Strategy
The National Standards Strategy is a comprehensive strategy that explores new thinking and new priorities and engages with new stakeholders in the standards network. It considers the current geopolitical environment, national...
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Shaping the safe evolution of digital technologies...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies have the potential to deliver significant benefits for Canada and the world, but only if they are developed and used responsibly. Standards and conformity assessment...
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Young Professionals Standardization Framework
Proactive engagement and retention of young professionals in Canada’s standardization network is a key objective for the SCC and its partners. Of the 3,300 SCC members, roughly 16% are under 40 years of age. Appropriate...
Notice of Intent
Smoke Detectors for Fire Alarm Systems
This Standard sets forth requirements for smoke detectors and accessories, including mechanical guards to be employed in ordinary indoor locations in accordance with the following: a) In Canada only: 1) Standard for the...