Research

Upcoming Fall 2014 Bancroft discussion: healthy interactions?

September 23, 2014

In the third of the Bancroft Institute’s Policy and Research Discussion series, to be held Friday October 31, keynote speakers Beth Kilgour and Agnieszka Kosny will discuss findings from their qualitative literature review of interaction between injured workers and their insurers in…

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Oct. 3 lecture by Australian researcher Alex Collie

September 3, 2014

Dr Alex Collie, Chief Research Officer of Australia’s Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research, will be speaking in Toronto in the CIHR Research Chair in Gender, Work & Health Speaker Series. His topic: “Complexity and adaptation in workers’ compensation systems: observations…

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Remembering Sharon Dale Stone

July 14, 2014

A Celebration of Life is being organized shortly to commemorate the life and achievements of the late respected academic activist, Dr Sharon Stone, Chair of the Dept. of Sociology at Lakehead University. Dr Stone was well-known to the injured worker community…

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Meredith’s People Commission tours province to hear from injured workers

October 28, 2013

“Bringing awareness about injured workers and fighting for a just compensation system” / Ella Bedard (Rabble.ca, Oct. 28, 2013) On 100th anniversary of Justice Meredith’s landmark report which established Ontario’s workrs’ compensation system, Professor Robert Storey and postgraduate student Carol Elston have…

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Meredith hearings come to the north

October 8, 2013

“Injured workers bear ‘burden’ ” / Sandi Krasowski (Chronicle Journal, Oct. 6, 2013) Update on the latest Reconvened Meredith hearing held at the Lakehead Labour Centre where injured workers and advocates voiced their thoughts on the state of workers’ compensation in Ontario.…

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