• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Injured Workers Online

Injured Workers Online

Working Together for Justice

  • Blog
  • Sign Up
  • About
  • Twitter
Working Together for Justice
  • Workers’ Compensation
    • History
    • Law Reform
    • Workers’ compensation bills
    • Chronic Pain Victory
    • Research and Education
    • Bancroft Institute
    • Meredith Conference: “No-Half Measures”
    • RAACWI
  • Issues
    • Appeals
    • Benefits
    • Cost of living adjustments
    • Deeming
    • Pre-existing conditions
    • Experience Rating
    • Funding
    • Mental Health
    • Poverty
    • Return to Work
    • Stigma and surveillance
    • Universal Coverage
  • Community
    • Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG)
    • Workers’ Comp Is a Right campaign
    • Injured Worker Groups
    • IW Speakers School
    • Injured Workers’ Stories
    • Arts & social justice
  • Events
    • Calendar View
    • RSI Awareness Day
    • Day of Mourning
    • Injured Workers Day
    • Women of Inspiration Vigil
    • Labour Day – a workers’ festival
  • Media
    • Press Releases
    • Fact Sheets
    • Headlines on workers’ compensation
    • Videos
  • Resources
    • Law and Policy Submissions
    • Reports, Articles & Papers
    • Practical guides & booklets
    • IWHP Bulletins
    • Library
    • Find Legal Help
    • Links
Home / Blog / Communication

Communication

New study on language barriers in workers’ compensation

December 5, 2019

A Summary and Reflection on Language Barriers and Workers’ Compensation Access in Ontario and Quebec / Stephanie Premji, Momtaz Begum, Alex Medley, Ellen MacEachen, Ron Saunders. Hamilton: McMaster University. School of Labour Studies, 2019 Oct. Established in the 1900s, the purpose of…

Continue Reading New study on language barriers in workers’ compensation

Filed Under: Claims, Communication, Research

Research study seeks participants

September 27, 2018

A group of researchers from McMaster University (Stephanie Premji), the University of Toronto (Agnieszka Kosny),  and the University of Waterloo (Ellen MacEachen) are conducting a study on the return to work experiences of injured workers who have problems with English. They are…

Continue Reading Research study seeks participants

Filed Under: Communication, Employment, Injured workers, Research

New issue of JFIW newspaper is here!

September 25, 2018

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups’ newspaper  Justice for Injured Workers has been reporting to injured workers and their allies on the current state of Ontario’s workers’ compensation system since 2012. Issue no. 14 (August. 2018) of ONIWG’s must-read newspaper is…

Continue Reading New issue of JFIW newspaper is here!

Filed Under: Communication, Injured workers

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…

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

Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Communication, Education, Injured workers

Radio driving change

February 12, 2018

While Canada’s claim to have the first radio station to broadcast in the world (Montreal experimental station XWA  in 1919) is still debated, what is certain is that today the country’s  approx. 950 radio stations  reach deep into our communities, listened to…

Continue Reading Radio driving change

Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Communication

What the papers say … research & reporting

November 16, 2017

Announcing details of the upcoming (Dec. 4) Bancroft Institute workshop: What the papers say: Research and reporting on workers’ compensation in the precarious economy. The half-day session (1:00 – 4:30 p.m.) will feature Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star), Katherine Lippel (University of Ottawa),…

Continue Reading What the papers say … research & reporting

Filed Under: Communication, Research

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…

Continue Reading Latest issue of JFIW newspaper now available

Filed Under: Communication, Injured workers

“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…

Continue Reading “Being creative is also therapeutic”

Filed Under: Communication, Injured workers

ONIWG has added a new Facebook page

April 30, 2017

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups has added a new Facebook page  for ONIWG as an organization – do check it out and be sure to LIKE and SHARE it!   The new page lets ONIWG take advantage of Facebook features for…

Continue Reading ONIWG has added a new Facebook page

Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Communication

Media making a difference

March 23, 2017

Congratulations! For their investigative reporting on A Workers’ Compensation System in Crisis, Toronto Star labour reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh and her team (Melissa Renwick, Paul Watson, Cameron Tulk, Kelsey Wilson, Frances Kelly) have been awarded a well-deserved 2017 Canadian Hillman Prize honourable…

Continue Reading Media making a difference

Filed Under: Communication

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Categories

Monthly Archives

Copyright © 2025 Injured Workers Online
  • Accessibility
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy

The information in this website is for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for legal advice. For legal advice, see Find legal help