Fact-finding of Home Lighting

Judicial Fact-Finding at Sentencing

Building Technologies Program SOLID-STATE LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY FACT SHEET

LM-79 testing captures performance characteristics of products that feature solid-state lighting (SSL) technology, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This testing provides a snapshot of performance under specified operating conditions at some point in the life of a product, usually at the beginning of operation— these are referred to as initial measurements. It does not address lifetime ra...

Fact finding study The Informal Economy

Incorporating Local Knowledge into Joint Fact Finding

At its core, joint fact finding (JFF) is about bringing knowledge—usually scientific or technical— into the policy arena in the most effective way possible. The JFF approach assumes that better decisions can be made when value judgments are informed by science. Therefore, much of the focus of JFF is around knowledge produced by experts, or information provided by the scientific community. This ...

Finding our way home

Eleven years ago, my wife and I lost our son Callum to cancer. He had just celebrated his 3 birthday at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto where he was undergoing his 3 “rescue” stem cell transplant for his 6 and final chemotherapy cycle, following the surgical removal of a brain tumor. The image above is a plaster imprint of Callum’s untouched foot, and was created on November 11, 2006 – just momen...