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Poutine
What first appeared as a fringe item on mobile kitchens in 1950s rural Québec can now be found everywhere from fine dining menus at top restaurants to fast-food chains. It has become a symbol of Québécois and Canadian cuisine and culture. In some US restaurants a variant of this hearstopping mix of fries, gravy and cheese is called "Disco Fries".
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During office hours today we break down consultations on titles relevant to education communities in the United States specifically; but also with sensitivity educational settlements in other geographies where thousands of like-minded organizations also provide credentialing, instruction, research, a home for local fine arts and sport.
Freely Available ICT Standards
In accordance with ISO/IEC JTC 1 and the ISO and IEC Councils, some International Standards and other deliverables are made freely available to promulgate leading practice and hasten market acceptance. Today we examine three titles covering the global vocabulary of information and communication technology.
Healthcare Organization Management
This relatively new committee administered by the United States provides business and government with a template for developing national healthcare policy. Public consultation on draft titles arrive on at a fairly brisk pace.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are where people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Academia
Subject matter experts directly employed by research universities present research, patented technology and contribute to development of practices in policy-regulatory environment. A United Nations sponsored platform supports the launch of public-private partnerships to re-invent the teaching, learning, business and cultural re-invention of education communities.
Canadian Parliament Debate on Standards Incorporated by Reference
In administrative law, incorporation by reference is a legislative drafting technique that enables federal agencies to give legal effect to materials that are already published elsewhere. It is most controversially used to incorporate privately authored voluntary consensus standards into health and safety regulations without infringing the standards developers' copyright. We find enlightened debate in Ottawa.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
Standards for American Prosperity
In introducing the session, the first in a series of virtual conferences hosted by the Langone Chair at CSIS, Dr. Hamre drew attention to standardization as a foundation for American prosperity, pointing to President George Washington’s call, in his first message to Congress, for a uniform system of weights and measures in order to unify the 13 colonies into one common economic entity.