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Support groups like Peel Injured Workers Group offer a lifeline

July 8, 2021

As injured worker activist Catherine Fenech notes in the Brampton Guardian this week, work injury and illness can severely affect mental health in addition to the physical impacts. For workers with permanent injuries in particular, depression, social isolation and loneliness are all…

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Survey to help shape federal Disability Inclusion Action Plan

July 6, 2021

According to the most recent Canadian Income Survey 13.5% of persons with a disability lived below the poverty line in 2019. On June 22, shortly before Parliament rose for the summer, the Minister of of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion introduced…

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Upcoming COVID-19 vaccination clinics for essential workers, migrants

June 25, 2021

Vaccination clinics for essential workers, migrants without OHIP and others facing barriers in accessing vaccines will be held in two downtown Toronto locations: Bob Abate Community Centre, 485 Montrose Ave (Bloor & Christie – Christie subway) Sat. June 26 from 12 –…

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Life & work after work injury – register now for the June 8 Bancroft Institute session

June 5, 2021

The first 2021 Bancroft Institute session will take place (online) Tuesday June 8 from 1 to 4 p.m. The injured worker community has long sought further study of the experiences of permanently injured workers after they are no longer active with the…

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Coming up! Injured Workers’ Day & the Vigil

May 28, 2021

We hope you’ll join us next week for the annual Vigil (Monday at 4 p.m.) organized by the Women of Inspiration and Injured Workers’ Day (Tuesday at 11 a.m.) organized by the Workers’ Comp Is A Right campaign (WCIAR). June…

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Let’s reach as many injured workers as possible for the CIWA survey on COVID-19

May 13, 2021

A message from the Canadian Injured Workers Alliance (CIWA) urging injured workers to fill in the survey and share the survey link through their contacts and personal social media sources: The WSIB denied injured workers a supplement to assist with extra costs…

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CIWA survey on COVID-19 impact on Canadian injured workers (deadline extended to May 28)

April 19, 2021

The Canadian Injured Workers Alliance and its team of researchers are looking for Canadians who have had a workplace injury to take part in a study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this study you will be asked to complete…

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

March 30, 2021

A recently published article “Dust versus Dust: Aluminum Therapy and Silicosis in the Canadian and Global Mining” (Canadian Historical Review, 102(1) Mar. 2021: 1-26) provides a thorough, if disturbing, examination of the forces in play behind the development and widespread adoption of…

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Ontario injured workers bring concerns again to the UN

March 23, 2021

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is holding a general discussion on the Convention’s Article 27, which addresses the right of persons with disabilities to work and employment. The aim of the discussion is to…

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Amazon’s workplace safety under scrutiny

December 14, 2020

In a Toronto Star investigation reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh has thrown new light on Amazon’s record of worker injury and illness in Canadian warehouses. The newspaper has confirmed at least 25 COVID-19 cases in Amazon’s Brampton warehouses alone. Documents received through Freedom of…

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