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Add your story on Dryden Mill RB4

January 5, 2023

Dyrden occupational disease townhall January 31, 2023Between 2002 and 2004, Dryden Weyerhaeuser Paper mill built Recovery Boiler #4 as part of reducing air emissions from their mill. Weyerhaeuser had already completed pretty much the same project at their mill in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where they installed manifolds on…

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Filed Under: Injured workers, Occupational disease

ONIWG turns to the courts for fair cost-of-living adjustment for injured workers

December 14, 2022

Inflation was not an issue when the workers’ compensation system was introduced back in 1915. But by the 70’s and 80’s injured workers saw their benefits being swallowed up by rising prices and increased cost-of-living. Annual indexing is supposed to protect injured…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Benefits, Deeming, Injured workers

Calling on injured workers to take part in Human Rights Commission survey on poverty

November 18, 2022

The Ontario Human Rights Commission is doing a survey of people who are experiencing poverty, or have experienced poverty in the past, and also family members, friends or service providers who know someone who has experienced poverty. This is part of a…

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Filed Under: Injured workers, Poverty, Research

University of Waterloo seeks injured workers for study on retirement & poverty

October 17, 2022

University of Waterloo LRI benefits study recruitmentA University of Waterloo-based study focused on injured worker poverty in retirement years would like to hear from injured workers who have engaged with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s Loss of Retirement Income (LRI) benefits. As a part of their investigation,…

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Filed Under: Age, Benefits, Poverty, Research

Tony Mauro: the passing of a long time fighter for injured workers

October 12, 2022

Fighting works poster - Antonio Mauro with Minster at LLegislative Assembly announcement of change in the law for older worker pension supplements(By Orlando Buonastella, IWC community legal worker and long-time fellow advocate) Many injured workers in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond have come to know Tony Mauro. He passed away and he will be remembered with pride. (Visitation for family and friends…

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Filed Under: Injured workers, Profiles

Training for injured workers on accommodation law

July 11, 2022

ODRT-ONIWG training registration formThe OFL Prevention Link program is offering the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) free virtual training on The Principles of Accommodation Law. This workshop will increase participants’ understanding of human rights legislation in the area of disability and employment. The…

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Filed Under: Education, Employment

Remembering Jim Nugent

July 7, 2022

Invitation to memorial service for Jim Nugent July 17Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic and the injured worker community is deeply saddened by the passing of valued community member and friend, Jim Nugent. Our thoughts and condolences go out to his partner Christine Nugent and their family. A lifelong social justice,…

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Filed Under: Injured workers, Profiles

ONIWG continues to speak out on key issues facing injured workers

June 15, 2022

In two recent communications, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) continues to raise its voice on issues of long-standing concern to the injured worker community. Claims suppression, non-reporting and abandoned claims A letter to the President and CEO of the…

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Filed Under: Benefits, Employer premiums, Injured workers

Remembering John Rae

April 13, 2022

John Rae presenting at Meredith Conference on Workers Compensation, 2013Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic and the injured worker community is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of valued IWC Board member and friend, John Rae. A social justice, disability and human rights advocate, his expertise and boundless energy contributed substantively…

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Filed Under: Injured workers, Profiles

Free COVID-19 home tests and KN95 masks for the injured worker community

April 8, 2022

COVID masks and test kitsInjured Workers Community Legal Clinic has received some COVID-19 home test (rapid antigen) kits and KN95 masks at no charge from the Red Cross for sharing with our community. If you would like to receive some of these please fill out the…

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Filed Under: Covid-19

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