Education

Free workshop on financial supports

November 17, 2017

Is there financial support you could be receiving? The Toronto Public Library, in partnership with the WoodGreen Community Services Financial Empowerment Program, is holding another free workshop November 29th on Benefits, Supports and Tax Credits available to persons living with a disability…

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Register now for free CIWA webinar on living with pain

November 14, 2017

The Canadian Injured Workers Alliance is offering a free online educational session next Monday November 20, 2017, from 12-1 p.m. The webinar “Creating A Way Forward, Approaches To Living Well And Working With Persistent Pain” is intended for helping/health professionals, workers’ advocates,…

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Interview with researcher

March 7, 2017

Dr Agnieszka (Iggy) Kosny, well-known to the injured worker community, was a recent guest on Steve Mantis’ popular “Community Conversations” Thunder Bay cable show. A staff scientist with the Institute for Work and Health and participant in the Research Action Alliance on…

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Not alone in his despair

March 1, 2017

“Mental health issues prominent among injured workers: Brantford group gives injured workers a voice” / Colleen Toms (Brant News, Feb. 28, 2017) A three-storey fall left highrise window cleaner Wes Mahoney severely injured and in constant pain. It also left him battling…

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Around the injured worker community

February 24, 2017

February is proving a busy month… On February 11th members of the Chinese Injured Workers Group (CIWG) were active participants in the Chinese New Year celebration organized annually by the Chinese Interagency Network of Greater Toronto’s Labour Committee. Two members acted as…

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Chinese delegation discusses workers’ comp with IWC

January 23, 2017

In 2016, a representative of The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security for the People’s Republic of China contacted Injured Workers Consultants to arrange a meeting with government representatives. Mr. Wang Yufei, Deputy Director of the Department of Work Insurance brought…

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Taking stock: OFL / ONIWG Joint Conference on workers compensation

October 23, 2016

The upcoming 2016 Joint Conference (Nov. 3 & 4) of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) and Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) presents two days of presentations and discussion on key concerns of injured workers and current developments…

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Keeping up with social (justice) media

September 7, 2016

For those who haven’t already discovered him, LabourStart’s Derek Blackadder writes a regular WebWorks column in the excellent Our Times magazine that is always worth checking out. The Spring 2016 column has tips for those of us who are guilty of the…

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Bancroft Spring session – mental health and the injured worker

April 22, 2016

Each year approximately 31,000 Canadian workers are recognized as sustaining a permanent impairment as a result of a workplace injury – 15,000 in Ontario alone, according to WSIB data. The upcoming session in the Bancroft Institute’s Policy & Research Discussion series…

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Celebrating Injured Worker Speaker School success

April 20, 2016

Monday was Graduation and Speech night at Toronto’s Injured Workers’ Speakers School (IWSS). Fellow injured workers, colleagues, and clinic staff celebrated with 2016 Spring graduates: Ruben, Seeta, Julie, Mark, Jenny, Heidi. Organizing the event were IWSS facilitators Kate and Heather, Aidan and…

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