This year’s recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Art Owen. This prestigious award is bestowed upon a person who has made outstanding contributions to statistics, or to probability, either to mathematical developments or in applied work. It is intended to honor current leaders in their field.

Jason Loeppky is the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Service Award from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). This award honours an individual who has played an important and substantial role in fostering the growth and success of the Canadian Statistical Sciences community through leadership in the SSC.

The CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) in recognition of outstanding research carried out primarily in Canada by a statistician during the first fifteen years after completing a PhD. The 2021 recipient of this prize is Jiguo Cao, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Statistics, and Actuarial Science at Simon Fraser University.

This prize recognizes the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics defended at a Canadian university in a given year.

The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award is presented each year by the Statistical Society of Canada to the author(s) of an article published in the journal, in recognition of the outstanding quality of the methodological innovation and presentation. This year’s winner is the article entitled “Post model-fitting exploration via a ‘Next Door’ analysis". (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2020, Pages 447–470) by Leying Guan and Robert Tibshirani.

Mary E. Thompson, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Statistics at the University of Waterloo, has been named an Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). This award is intended to honor an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the development of the statistical sciences in Canada and whose work has had a major impact in this country.

The 2021 recipient of the Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work is Thérèse Stukel, Senior Scientist at ICES in Toronto and Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by a member of the SSC in collaborative research and applied work, the importance of which derives primarily from its relatively recent impact on a subject area outside of the statistical sciences, on an area of application, or on an organization.

The CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) in recognition of outstanding research carried out primarily in Canada by a statistician during the first fifteen years after completing a PhD. The 2020 recipient of this prize is Erica Moodie, William Dawson Scholar and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University.

Karen Kopciuk is the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). This award honours an individual who has played an important and substantial role in fostering the growth and success of the Canadian Statistical Sciences community through leadership in the SSC.

The 2020 Lise Manchester Award is conferred upon Leah Smith of the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS). This award is given every other year by the Statistical Society of Canada to commemorate the late Dr Lise Manchester’s abiding interest in using statistical methods to study matters of relevance to society. The award recognizes excellence in statistical research that helps guide public policy in Canada.

The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award is presented each year by the Statistical Society of Canada to the author(s) of an article published in the journal, in recognition of the outstanding quality of the methodological innovation and presentation. This year’s winner is the article entitled “Doubly sparse regression incorporating graphical structure among predictors”. (Volume 47, no. 4, pp. 729–747) by M. Stephenson, R. A. Ali and G. A. Darlington.

This year’s recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Paul Gustafson. This prestigious award is bestowed upon a person who has made outstanding contributions to statistics, or to probability, either to mathematical developments or in applied work. It is intended to honor current leaders in their field.

This prize recognizes the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics defended at a Canadian university in a given year.

The 2020 recipient of the Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work is W. John Braun, professor in the Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, University of British Columbia Okanagan. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by a member of the SSC in collaborative research and applied work, the importance of which derives primarily from its relatively recent impact on a subject area outside of the statistical sciences, on an area of application, or on an organization.