The metric system is used to measure the length, mass or capacity of an object. Length is measured in millimetres (mm), centimetres (cm), metres (m) or kilometres (km).

On Tuesday, the Telegraph newspaper reported that the British Weights and Measures Association had been receiving requests from shopkeepers who wanted to ditch the use of metric measurements such ...

Some have argued that reverting to the metric system would help to facilitate trade with our US cousins. But the US system of measurement is not the same as the UK’s imperial system.

Since 2000, EU rules required Britain to give the metric system priority over the old Imperial system — although both types of measurements are still permitted.

The change from imperial to metric measurements started when the UK joined the European trading bloc in 1973, but it wasn’t until 2000 that shops, market stalls and supermarkets faced ...

In 2007, UK Metric Association (UKMA) urged then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to phase out imperial measurements by 2009.

I am proud to say that I can write, converse, read, think and even dream in both metric and imperial measurement systems. The problem is that I'm not completely functional in either.

By 1977, all Canadian weather reports used metric measurements. "The strategy of going to the weather service first and getting them involved really paid off," said Phillips.

Metric appeared poised to stay. Or was it? Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government formed the Metric Commission in 1971, after industries called on Canada to ditch Imperial measures.

Answer:In general, we measure things using imperial measures. We measure volume in quarts, cups, tablespoons and teaspoons, and measure weight in ounces and pounds. Our home economists have worked ...

And in 1974 British schoolchildren began to be taught metric - metres, litres and kilometres - rather than the old imperial measurements of pounds and ounces, pints and miles.

(Midday/CBC Archives) Child said she was familiar with metric measurements from the days when she had lived in France and she learned the advantages of it. "It's so much easier," Child said.