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With 2021 expected to be the worst year on record for cyberattacks, the CIO Strategy Council has published a new standard that will help smaller businesses protect their systems from intruders. The new standard, supported by...

The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is proud to announce that nine Canadians received the 1906 Award from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The 1906 Award was created to commemorate the year that IEC was...

Standards and conformity assessment are here when Canadians need them most The Standards Council of Canada is committed to supporting government, industry and the broader community to respond to this unprecedented challenge...

The global pandemic has shone a light on the unique challenges within Canada’s long-term care (LTC) sector, with approximately 70% of all deaths attributed to people living in LTC settings and retirement home settings across...

Dr. McCarney is a self-proclaimed “data nerd” turned “ISO nerd”. She wholeheartedly believes that the international standardization of data is the fuel to propel positive change in cities. “I’m a devoted urbanist, and I...

A line of violent windstorms carved a path of destruction through Ontario and Quebec in May of this year, passing close to or directly through three of Canada’s four largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. And, just...

Every year across Canada, billions of litres of clean rain and groundwater is unnecessarily discharged into sanitary sewers and treated at sewage treatment plants. This excess water in sewers, referred to as Inflow...

Canada’s climate is changing twice as fast as the global average, and it is affecting our built environment: the places we live and work. Our smallest communities to our largest cities need standardization to help address current and future challenges so...

The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is proud to appoint the Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) as the new secretariat of the ISO Technical Committee (TC) behind the world’s most widely used family of standards. ISO/TC...

Five years—more than 130 companies helped—Canadian leadership established internationally in standardization—amid a global pandemic: this is the story of the Innovation Initiative . In 2017, it was apparent to the Standards...

With extreme weather on the rise, flooding is now the fastest-growing source of disaster-related costs in Canada; in eleven of the twelve years leading up to 2020, property and casualty insurance payouts have exceeded $1...