News articles published by the Standards Council of Canada are listed below.
News
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2022/03/24
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 billion per year. These events have devastating impacts... -
2022/03/22
Building in the far North has always presented unique design challenges, but with Northern Canada warming at more than double the global rate, immediate solutions are critical. To help address climate threats and integrate climate resiliency, Northern communities now have... -
2022/03/17
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), the national standards body of Brazil, renewed their cooperation arrangement to advance international standards work between Canada and Brazil. “Together, we’ve leveraged... -
2022/02/01
In the last two years, Accessibility Standards Canada emerged as an important player for accessibility to Canadians with disabilities. Recently, the organization signed the accreditation agreement from the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), which recognizes Accessibility... -
2022/01/20
Shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for a domestic supply of filtering respirators in Canada that meet required performance and quality requirements to protect Canadians. In response to this need,... -
2021/12/21
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) applauds the cooperation arrangement between the Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) and the Pan American Standards Commission (COPANT). As an active member of both PASC and COPANT, SCC welcomes this milestone as a new opportunity... -
2021/12/20
Food safety depends on how well produce can be tracked from farm to table. Distributed ledger technologies like blockchain are well suited to this task. They provide an immutable and easily available record that can be used to follow items through supply chains. The CIO... -
2021/12/09
As witnessed in recent weeks, rising seas, swollen atmospheric rivers and post-tropical storms are a threat to community infrastructure, housing and the safety of those living along Canada’s east and west coasts. In response, new guidance from the Intact Centre on Climate...