Profiles

(By Orlando Buonastella, IWC community legal worker and long-time fellow advocate) Many injured workers in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond have come to know Tony Mauro. He passed away and he will be remembered with pride. (Visitation for family and friends…

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Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic and the injured worker community is deeply saddened by the passing of valued community member and friend, Jim Nugent. Our thoughts and condolences go out to his partner Christine Nugent and their family. A lifelong social justice,…

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Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic and the injured worker community is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of valued IWC Board member and friend, John Rae. A social justice, disability and human rights advocate, his expertise and boundless energy contributed substantively…

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Last Friday Catherine Fenech, a long-time leader in the fight for fair workers’ compensation and better workplace safety, received the award for injured worker activism at Toronto’s Health & Safety Activist Awards event. Her powerful acceptance speech on the toll of workplace…

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The WSIB stands for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. This is the Ontario-based Board set up to support and compensate workers who get injured and/or made ill by their jobs. Eugene is a long-time injured worker activist and well-known visual artist…

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Last Friday in Toronto at an annual health and safety ceremony Sang-Hun Mun, of Injured Workers Action For Justice became the 15th recipient of the Eddie Cauchi Award for injured worker activism. [read his acceptance speech]. Recently interviewed on the Talking …

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