October 20, 2023 - Incident Commander Course has been updated and posted to the Instructor's Only repository
September 13, 2023 - Team Rubicon has been recognized as an Agency AHJ with ICS Canada
July 12, 2023 - Ontario - Emergency Medical Assistance Team has been recognized as an Agency AHJ with ICS Canada
June 8, 2023 - French Language Lexicon Update Document (click to read document)
Significant Events and Items of Interest for 2021
June 15/2021 - Agencies are continuing during COVID 19, to provide important training by conducting online, instructor facilitated training. Instructors and training providers are continuing to gain experience and are fine tuning their deliveries to ensure that students are provided with an effective and interactive learning experience. For a list of training providers that offer an online training environment for students, links to contacts can be found here. It should be noted that this is not an all inclusive list and only displays contact information of those asking to be identified.
September 6/2021 - Purchase of the Online 1-100 available from the ICS Canada website
September 8/2021 - ICS Canada quarterly meeting - 2:00pm Atlantic
December 1 and 2/2021 - ICS Canada annual meeting - 2:00pm Atlantic
3 new A/AHJs were added to the membership:
- Transport Canada
- Emergency Management BC
- The Salvation Army
Current Membership for 2021
ICS Canada A/AHJs - Tier 1
| Newfoundland Labrador | Nova Scotia | New Brunswick |
| Prince Edward Island | Manitoba | Saskatchewan |
| Alberta | British Columbia | Yukon |
| Northwest Territories | ||
| Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre Agencies | Canadian Coast Guard | Transport Canada |
| Parks Canada | SARVAC | The Salvation Army |
Members Participating as a Community of Practice - Tier 3
| Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Canadian Food Inspection Agency | Global Affairs Canada |
| Canadian Energy Regulator | Ontario | NGO EM Consortium of Canada |
| Nunavut |
A new 8 hour workshop will be made available to the membership for distribution April 1, 2022 - ICS/ECC Interactions
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate, through activities and discussion, the interface of Incident Command System operations with Emergency Coordination Centre support.
Coming up in 4th Quarter of 2021-22 - Task Team discussions to review Centralization of ICS Canada certificate distribution.
Sandy McKinnon - Coordinator ICS Canada