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McIntyre Powder & Parkinson’s study – what does it mean for occupational disease claims?

May 12, 2020

...of McIntyre Powder in Ontario mines and risk of Parkinson’s” Kelly, Lindsay. 2019 Oct. 2. “Researchers delve deep into the fine details of McIntyre Powder.” Northern Ontario Business Martell, Janice....

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“A disregard for workers’ environmental & health concerns”: lessons of the McIntyre Powder program

March 30, 2021

...of the forces in play behind the development and widespread adoption of McIntyre Powder. Facing a silicosis crisis as the disease ravaged the lungs of underground miners exposed to the...

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McIntyre Powder – making the link

April 7, 2017

“Fifth Estate: Ontario health agency finds ‘concerning’ rate of ALS in miners exposed to McIntyre Powder” / Lisa Mayor (CBC News) In 1979 the investigative TV program Fifth Estate (Powder...

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Supporting FOI request for WSIB’s McIntyre Powder Project documents

February 27, 2018

...policy on neurological disorders and occupational aluminum exposure, but also asking for FOI records related to her McIntyre Powder Project work. Although their legal services are provided pro bono, Janice...

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Study on emotional impacts of McIntyre Powder seeks participants

February 12, 2018

...is investigating the emotional impacts on underground miners required to breathe in the aluminum dust McIntyre Powder before each shift, a practice believed to protect them from the lung disease...

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Fifth Estate follows up the Powder Keg

February 2, 2016

...Jim Hobbs was required to inhale a fine aluminum dust, known as McIntyre Powder. He was just one of many underground miners who, between 1943 and 1979, in Canada and...

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A right to compensation – and to answers

August 22, 2017

...shifts, were required to inhale the aluminum dust known as McIntyre Powder as an antidote to silicosis. The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) scrapped its Occupational Aluminum Exposure policy...

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Victory of injured workers

March 6, 2022

In January 2022, the Ontario government announced that Parkinson’s Disease will formally be recognized as an illness caused by McIntyre Powder (an aluminum powder), which was involuntarily inhaled by thousands...

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Profits over people

March 6, 2022

...disease from McIntyre Powder exposure. The MPP is a voluntary registry to document miners’ health issues and experience with McIntyre Powder treatments. The two articles written by Janice Martell and...

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2018 Justice Bike Ride demands action on occupational disease

May 24, 2018

...Elliot Lake every day to support his family,” said Janice Martell of the McIntyre Powder Project. “On May 26th, we ride for him, for the McIntyre Powder miners, and all...

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