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Latest issue of JFIW newspaper now available

August 27, 2017

The Justice for Injured Workers’ Newspaper Issue No 13 (August. 2017), the must-read newspaper of the Ontario Network for Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG), is now available. Find details about ONIWG’s Provincial Organizing Campaign, Workers’ Compensation is a Right! and the three main…

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A right to compensation – and to answers

August 22, 2017

Last week saw some good steps forward in the fight for justice for the Ontario miners – some 10,000 between 1943 to 1979/80 – who, at the start of their shifts, were required to inhale the aluminum dust known as McIntyre Powder…

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Low income among Canadians with a disability

August 12, 2017

A new Statistics Canada study underscores that having a disability is an important factor that increases the risk of being in low income. Although persons with a disability accounted for approximately 20% of the population aged 25 to 64 in 2014, they…

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“Being creative is also therapeutic”

August 7, 2017

So says Eugene LeFrançois, well-known visual artist and injured worker activist, in a recent profile of his work – “The Art of Eugene LeFrançois” / Duncan Weller (Art on the Edge, Aug. 3, 2017). In the article he speaks also of the…

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Update on Bill 148 and injured workers

July 26, 2017

Two weeks of public hearings around the province by the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs considering Bill 148 , the”Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017“, wrapped up last Friday. While welcoming its measures to improve working conditions for the…

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Defending the rights of injured workers – making common cause

July 26, 2017

In the current issue of Canadian Dimension Aidan Macdonald, a community legal worker with Injured Workers’ Consultants CLC, explains why the struggle against poverty wages and for universal workers’ compensation coverage are inextricably linked. The injured worker movement, with a decades-long history…

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Women workers speak out on need for universal coverage

July 20, 2017

Women of Inspiration is a group of activists who come together and have built ties around their shared experiences of being survivors of workplace injuries and the Ontario Worker’s Compensation System. A fight that many of us in our group hold close…

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Bancroft schedule – save the dates!

July 18, 2017

The fall session of the Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury will be held October 3 with a full-day session: “Pre-existing or Related? Workplace Chronic Health Conditions”. Keynote speakers Becky Casey and Peri Ballantyne discuss findings from their…

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A question of evidence

July 18, 2017

Cutting benefits in spite of the evidence – IAVGO Community Clinic’s recently released report, No Evidence: The Decisions of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, is a strong indictment of the Board’s “bad faith decision-making”. The analysis of the Appeals Tribunal…

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Seeking justice for current chronic mental stress claimants

July 5, 2017

“Lawsuit seeks relief for injured workers struggling with mental illness.” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star, July 5, 2017) While a recent amendment to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (Bill 127) extended entitlement to compensation for workers with chronic mental…

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