Injured workers

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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Celebrating injured worker activism

June 3, 2024

Saturday communities around the province gathered in solidarity on June 1st for the 41st time to raise public awareness of the ongoing fight for injured worker justice that delivers the fair and humane treatment Meredith Royal Commission envisioned for Ontario’s new workers…

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June 1st is Injured Workers’ Day – Let’s Make it Official!

May 16, 2024

On June 1, 1983, over three thousand injured workers forced a government committee looking at major changes to Ontario’s workers’ compensation system to conduct a public hearing on the steps of the Legislature, because there wasn’t enough room inside! Every year since,…

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Monthly injured workers’ meetings at IWC

April 8, 2024

We are happy to announce that Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic (IWC) is launching a new monthly hybrid meeting (in person and on zoom/telephone) that will combine the educational aspects of our Know Your Rights sessions with the social aspects, peer support,…

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Peterborough remembers a history of industrial hazards

January 21, 2024

The Peterborough Occupational Disease Action Committee (PODAC) is leading the charge to raise funds for a memorial monument that will honour the lives of workers who succumbed to occupational diseases. “We want to ensure the legacy of occupational disease is not soon…

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Migrant worker deeming case celebration

November 13, 2023

In a landmark decision Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) recently ruled that the WSIB’s practice of ending compensation to migrant farm workers after 12 weeks, sometimes less, without regard for their individual circumstances was inappropriate. The Tribunal reinstated loss…

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A serious anniversary on Halloween : 110 years of workers’ compensation law

October 30, 2023

On October 31st, while our children and grandchildren trick or treat, injured and ill workers will be remembering Chief Justice William Meredith’s report to the Ontario Legislature that created our workers’ compensation system. This was the first piece of social legislature, preceding…

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