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Study on emotional impacts of McIntyre Powder seeks participants

Danielle Aubin, a Laurentian University student in the master’s program in interdisciplinary health, would like to interview miners for her study “After the dust settles”. The former Elliot Lake resident is investigating the emotional impacts on underground miners required to breathe in…

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Ontario healthcare workers subjected to increased aggression

“Violence against health-care workers ‘out of control,’ survey finds.” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star, Nov. 5, 2017) A poll of hospital front-line workers across Ontario starkly reveals the unsafe and hostile workplace environment which the province’s nurses and personal support workers all…

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Registration open – Bancroft Institute session on pre-existing conditions

The 2017/2018 season of the Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury gets underway  Tuesday week on October 3rd. The first session is a full-day event to share the latest information from both health care and legal perspectives on…

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GE Peterborough claims review: “just the start”

Following a long and active campaign seeking fair compensation for occupational disease claims (detailed in the Toronto Star’s investigative report “Lethal Legacy”), retired General Electric Peterborough workers, their families, occupational health & safety and workers’ compensation advocates learned this week that…

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