Injured workers

Sign open letter – restore funding to injured workers groups

May 26, 2026

Hamilton & District Injured Workers Group (HDIWG) is calling on individuals and organizations to sign an open letter requesting that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and Government of Ontario reverses the decision to cut funding to the Injured Workers Outreach Services…

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A call for closer scrutiny of Bill 105’s changes to workers’ compensation

April 28, 2026

Some of the proposed changes to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (WSIA) in schedule 9 of omnibus Bill 105, Protecting Ontario’s Workers and Economic Resilience Act, are ringing alarm bells. The Bill could pass very quickly – the injured worker community…

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“All of a sudden at 65 they no longer care..” Brian’s story

March 12, 2026

In the second of The Rights Don’t Retire videos, Brian tells of his experience running up against the WSIB’s age-related rules. A mason for over 40 years, he was 63 years old when he got injured on the job in a fall…

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Research study on family impacts of work injury/illness seeks participants

January 26, 2026

The Thunder Bay Injured Workers is partnering with Lakehead University to document the experiences of family members of injured workers following work-related injury or illness. The study is looking for family members of injured workers who are (or have been) off work…

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Meredith Act, 2025 (Bill 86) introduced in the Legislature

December 10, 2025

Injured workers gained the attention of the public Monday with the 34th annual December rally held in in Toronto and Thunder Bay, followed in the afternoon with the tabling of Bill 86 in the Legislative Assembly by MPP Lise Vaugeois (NDP- Thunder…

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Labour Pains podcast on WSIB’s age discrimination

October 9, 2025

IWC is pleased to share the newest episode of their Labour Pains injured worker podcast. In this episode, titled “WSIB’s Age Discrimination”, Tebasum Durani interviews legal experts (and co-workers) John McKinnon and Chris Grawey about one of the ways WSIB policies and…

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Release of the Meredith Act, 2025

February 12, 2025

This past Monday advocates from Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group (TBDIWSG) released The Meredith Act, 2025, proposed legislation to replace the current Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. Developed by the TBDIWSG over the past year together with the…

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What’s really going on? Rebates and government ‘largesse’

December 2, 2024

The recent announcement that Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board will be distributing $2 billion of ‘surplus’ rebates to businesses in February 2025 was met with shock and anger by the injured worker community. In response, Steve Mantis (Thunder Bay & District…

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Who killed Sir William?

July 1, 2024

The recently released Who Killed Sir William delivers an engrossing, frank appraisal of a community-university research alliance (CURA) project, the Research Action Alliance on the Consequences of Work Injury (RAACWI) from its origins in 2003 to completion in 2012. The collaborative project,…

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Age discrimination in Ontario’s workers’ compensation

June 24, 2024

In an op-ed in Hamilton Spectator (June 24) Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic caseworkers Tebasum Durrani and Chris Grawey note that while the province celebrates June as Seniors Month, older injured workers continue to be at increased risk of poverty. Under the…

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