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We are happy to announce that Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic (IWC) is launching a new monthly hybrid meeting (in person and on zoom/telephone) that will combine the educational aspects of our Know Your Rights sessions with the social aspects, peer support,…
Update: claims deadline for Oxy addiction class settlement extended
Do you know someone who was on OxyContin or OxyNEO?
There is a Canadian class action on behalf of people who were prescribed OxyContin or OxyNEO anytime between January 1, 1996, and February 28, 2017 and became addicted.
A $20 million settlement…
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Watch public hearings on Bill 149 changes to workers’ compensation
The Ontario Government has recently introduced Bill 149, which it calls the Working for Workers Four Act, 2023. It is proposing changes to a number of labour laws, including the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, which makes the rules for how…
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Peterborough remembers a history of industrial hazards
The Peterborough Occupational Disease Action Committee (PODAC) is leading the charge to raise funds for a memorial monument that will honour the lives of workers who succumbed to occupational diseases. “We want to ensure the legacy of occupational disease is not soon…
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Remembering Dr Ron Ellis
As we move into the new year, the legal and injured worker community continue to honour the memory and achievements of engineer, labour lawyer, arbitrator, teacher and legal scholar Dr Ron Ellis. His lifelong work promoting fairness in administrative justice and workers’…
Legal clinics receive health & safety award
Injured Workers Community Legal Aid Clinic (IWC) was the co-recipient of the Ontario Federation of Labour’s Prevention Link Health and Safety Award, which was shared with the staff of IAVGO Legal Clinic.
The award, which was given out…
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Opportunity for experienced practitioners to participate in survey on work-related suicide
Researchers at the University of Ottawa have begun a study of work-related suicide among Canadian workers. Many of us in the injured worker community have met workers who have contemplated taking their own lives or know people who have done so. The…
Migrant worker deeming case celebration
In a landmark decision Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) recently ruled that the WSIB’s practice of ending compensation to migrant farm workers after 12 weeks, sometimes less, without regard for their individual circumstances was inappropriate. The Tribunal reinstated loss…
A new resource for B.C.’s injured workers
IWRAP (Injured Workers Research & Advocacy Project) has just launched a new website (https://wcbadvocacybc.ca/) for injured workers, their advocates and a better compensation system in B.C. Spearheaded by lawyer and workers’ compensation expert Janet Patterson and endorsed by the B.C.…
A serious anniversary on Halloween : 110 years of workers’ compensation law
On October 31st, while our children and grandchildren trick or treat, injured and ill workers will be remembering Chief Justice William Meredith’s report to the Ontario Legislature that created our workers’ compensation system. This was the first piece of social legislature, preceding…
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