Health

Labour Pains podcast #6 : Expanding drug benefits in Ontario

November 19, 2025

This episode of the Labour Pains: an injured worker podcast series is a discussion of how (and what) prescription medication is covered in Ontario, and whether it is time to expand that coverage for injured workers. IWC lawyer host Tebasum Durrani explores …

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InjuredWorkerCast #2: Work & weather

February 13, 2025

In Episode 2 of InjuredWorkerCast, a podcast series produced by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic, IWC Lawyer Tebasum Durani talks to an injured worker, OFL President Laura Walton, and MPP Peter Tabuns about the dangers that workers who must be outside face…

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IWC submission to WSIB consultation on independent living policies phase 2

June 19, 2024

Given the far-reaching scope of the review of the Board’s Independent Living policies and their potential impact, IWC submits that they require further in-person/online consultations with stakeholders, especially injured and ill workers, who will be the ones directly impacted by these policy…

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IWC Submission re Naloxone in the Workplace Consultation

January 14, 2022

IWC welcomes and supports efforts to increase workplace safety, including access to naloxone to reduce the risk of deaths caused by opioid overdoses. The Clinic also urges that people who use opioids are not demonized in this review – many workers have…

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Experiences, impacts and service needs of injured workers in the WSIB process – research brief

November 30, 2021

The purpose of this research, led by Dr Rebecca Scharfe and funded by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic, was to describe the experiences and mental health needs of injured and ill Northwestern Ontario workers in the WSIB process, in order to promote…

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IWC Submission re PSW/DSW Coverage Consultation

April 28, 2021

The submission urges mandatory WSIB coverage for all employers of Persons Support Workers (PSWs) and Developmental Support Workers (DSWs) who, as the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, care for some the most vulnerable Ontarians. IWC has long advocated for the expansion of the…

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Letter to the WSIB President re: Black mental health and COVID-19

April 23, 2020

Letter to the WSIB President on the group’s support of the government’s Bill 178 which recognizes black mental health awareness specifically and that provision of health care service should be culturally appropriate. As such, WOI requests the WSIB to put together a…

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Letter re WSIB draft policy 17-01-10 on marijuana for medical purposes

February 7, 2019

IWC’s letter regrets the Board’s lack of consultation in the development of the cannabis policy and identifies key concerns on its restrictions that should be further considered.…

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Coalition letter re WSIB’s discrimination against workers with mental injuries

October 12, 2017

Letter by a coalition of injured workers, community legal clinics, private bar lawyers, and doctors calls on the Premier to take urgent action on the new WSIB policy on mental stress which will put workers with mental injuries in Ontario in a…

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Submissions to the WSIB Draft Mental Stress Policy Consultation

July 7, 2017

Legal clinic endorses recommendations of the Ontario Federation of Labour‘s submission, and outlines IWC’s principal concerns: overly narrow definition of “chronic mental stress” and “workplace bullying”; added discriminatory barriers to approval and access to care, that set a higher bar for…

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