Objects can be measured in different units, depending on their size. It is important to know the conversions between metric units. When you are converting one type of unit to another you need to ...

Environment Canada's use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025. It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion ...

After Great Britain voted to adopt the metric system in 1965, there was growing pressure to make it mandatory in the United States. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 encouraged adoption of the system.

It was the catalyst for a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began. The result is seen and felt every day. Canadians wear clothes measured in inches and buy ...

An international team of environmentalists, zoologists and land use specialists has developed an extinction probability ...

Environment Canada’s use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025. It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began. The result is seen and ...

Faulty fuel measurement conversion was cited as a factor. Gossage died in January 2001. His son, Jonathan Gossage, says his father felt the transition to metric was important for Canada because ...

Weather-watching expert David Phillips remembers the confusion that came when Canada switched over from the imperial to the metric system 50 years ago.