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2018 Justice Bike Ride demands action on occupational disease

May 24, 2018

Tomorrow marks the start of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups’ annual Justice for Injured Workers Bike Ride (May 25-27), focusing this year on bringing greater public attention to Occupational Disease: The Other Workplace Injury. Follow the ride and show your…

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Guide pour les médecins

May 24, 2018

Le guide Comment aider les travailleuses et travailleurs blessés, produit par l’Ontario Legal Clinics’ Workers’ Compensation Network, est destiné aux médecins en Ontario. Puisque la plupart des dossiers dépendent de la preuve médicale, sans votre aide les travailleuses et travailleurs blessés…

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Appeal Court Stops WSIB Criminalization of Injured Workers’ Recovery from Injury

May 17, 2018

Ontario’s Court of Appeal has issued its decision on three cases that were heard together challenging convictions of injured workers for failing to report a material change of circumstances (Workplace Safety and Insurance Board v. Curtis, 2018 ONCA 441 (CanLII). Injured…

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Your Ontario Election Toolkit

May 16, 2018

The 2018 Ontario Provincial Election is taking place on June 7th, less than a month away. ONIWG and the Workers’ Comp Is A Right campaign are pleased to release their 2018 Ontario Election Toolkit. The kit is adapted from the Income…

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Tip of the iceberg

May 7, 2018

In the recently published Parkland Institute study Safer by Design: How Alberta Can Improve Workplace Safety, authors Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull and Bob Barnetson offer recommendations to address the unacceptable (and underestimated) number of workplace injuries and illnesses through better preventive measures, occupational…

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Remembering Ontario’s workers

May 1, 2018

Communities across Ontario held ceremonies Friday and over the weekend to commemorate the national Day of Mourning. Injured workers speaking at these events brought home the horrendous reality behind the numbers (227 Ontario fatalities in 2017 from occupational injury or…

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Under review – work-related cancer & compensation

April 15, 2018

“Work-related cancer compensation to be reviewed by province” (CBC News, April 13, 2018) This past Friday Minister of Labour Kevin Flynn announced the launch of a review of how occupational cancers are evaluated for workers’ compensation so “the system works properly for…

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“Deeming the WSIB unfit to serve Ontario’s injured workers”

April 12, 2018

Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas rose in the Legislative Assembly Tuesday to call out the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) on practices that have had catastrophic impacts for two miners in her constituency – and that can have devastating consequences for…

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Don’t miss! Mayworks Labour Arts Awards Gala and ….

April 3, 2018

Join Mayworks this Saturday evening (April 7) for dinner, live entertainment and an exciting silent auction to celebrate the winners of the 2018 Mayworks Labour Arts Awards. Labour activists recognized this year for their creative use of arts in promoting workers’ rights…

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Injured workers and the Assembly

March 29, 2018

It’s been a busy week in Ontario’s Legislative Assembly as the province moves towards the June election. MPPs raised several issues facing injured workers: Questions in the House Deeming – on Monday Cindy Forster (Welland) again questioned why “the government continues to…

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