Health Care

Difficulties accessing medical marijuana

July 13, 2018

“Ontario injured workers shut out of medical pot coverage – told to take opioids instead” / John Lancaster (CBC News, Jul. 12, 2018) A CBC Toronto investigation reveals the dilemma many injured workers face in Ontario when denied coverage for medical marijuana…

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Guide pour les médecins

May 24, 2018

Le guide Comment aider les travailleuses et travailleurs blessés, produit par l’Ontario Legal Clinics’ Workers’ Compensation Network, est destiné aux médecins en Ontario. Puisque la plupart des dossiers dépendent de la preuve médicale, sans votre aide les travailleuses et travailleurs blessés…

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“Deeming the WSIB unfit to serve Ontario’s injured workers”

April 12, 2018

Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas rose in the Legislative Assembly Tuesday to call out the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) on practices that have had catastrophic impacts for two miners in her constituency – and that can have devastating consequences for…

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Women and workplace health

March 7, 2018

Women workers make up 48% of Ontario’s employed workforce and represent 35% of allowed high impact lost time compensation claims (Schedule 1), 50% of Schedule 2 claims, according to WSIB 2016 statistics. However in their study “Falling Through the Legal Cracks”…

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Study: How workplace violence affects Ontario hospital workers

November 28, 2017

Following the release of a member poll on workplace violence earlier in the month that revealed more than two out of three healthcare workers had been physically assaulted at least once in the past year, a new study by Jim Brophy, Margaret…

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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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Ontario healthcare workers subjected to increased aggression

November 6, 2017

“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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Progress on accessing hearing devices?

October 11, 2017

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s (WSIB) policy on hearing devices was raised again in the House last Thursday by Sarnia-Lambton MPP (PC), Robert Bailey. Referring to patients’ difficulties accessing the hearing aid that works best for them, he noted …Just one…

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Access to medical marijuana unchanged

May 14, 2017

On April 13 the Canadian government introduced its proposed Cannabis Act to legalize marijuana, intended to come into effect July 2018. Based on recommendations of the Task Force for Marijuana Legalization and Regulation, the government proposes to keep in place the current…

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Keeping healthcare workers safe

March 14, 2017

“Health-care workers face ‘epidemic of violence'” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star, Mar. 13, 2017) & Editorial The hazards faced by Ontario’s nurses and personal support workers, including musculoskeletal disorders from client handling and disease exposures, make health-care sector injuries the second highest…

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