Workers’ compensation headlines

Selected news of workplace injury, illness and compensation

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board workers vote to strike \| Businesswire (Mar. 1, 2021)
Toronto names workplaces where a COVID-19 outbreak occurs. Peel Region doesn’t. Who’s right? \| Toronto Star (Feb. 26, 2021)
BC: Friends and family still wait for criminal trial, 12 years after Sam Fitzpatrick died on the job \| CBC News (Feb. 22, 2021)
Are unionized construction sites safer? A new study shows they are \| Toronto Star (Feb. 20, 2021)
Four ways the WSIB is fighting COVID-19 \| Canadian Occupational Safety (Feb. 18, 2021)
WSIB finances remain strong despite COVID-19: Witmer \| Daily Commercial News (Feb. 16, 2021)
‘It’s just a flu’: COVID prevention rules are often ignored on Toronto construction sites, workers tell the Star \| Toronto Star (Feb. 16, 2021)
One in five farms not compliant with COVID rules, early inspections find \| London Free Press (Feb. 16, 2021)
Where do Ontario’s essential precarious workers – in transportation, food, manufacturing industries – stand in the vaccine rollout? \| Toronto Star (Feb. 15, 2021)
Ontario nurse who contracted COVID-19 cut off workers’ compensation despite experiencing ‘ongoing symptoms’ \| Press Progress (Feb. 11, 2021)
Go Public: Injured woman secretly videotaped by insurer (WSIB) then wrongly accused of fraud \| CBC News (Feb. 8, 2021)
Editorial: A welcome move to shine a light on workplace outbreaks of COVID-19 \| Toronto Star (Feb. 8, 2021)
Quebec urged to list burnout as ‘occupational disease’ in update to workplace safety laws \| CBC News (Feb. 5, 2021)
Ontario proposes changes to workplace first aid requirements: would shift responsibility from WSIB to Ministry of Labour \| Canadian HRReporter (Feb. 5, 2021)
1 in 4 COVID-19 cases found through contact tracing in Peel were those who went to work sick … \| Toronto Star (Feb. 3, 2021)
Who is an essential worker in the GTA? Millions of us, data shows \| Toronto Star (Feb. 2, 2021)
Air Canada flight attendant wins fight over COVID-19 workers’ compensation \| CBC News (Jan. 30, 2021)
Sick pay and WSIB for workers who need them most \| Niagara Falls Review (Jan. 30, 2021)
Experts push for more COVID-19 rapid tests at work \| Globe and Mail (Jan. 29, 2021)
Ont. teenager’s death sign of pandemic ‘human rights catastrophe’ , newcomer advocates say \| CTV News (Jan. 26, 2021)
Waterloo region paramedics denied WSIB claims for COVID-19: Union \| CBC News (Jan. 22, 2021)
Québec: La réforme Boulet torpillée de toutes parts cette semaine \| Le Devoir (jan. 21, 2021)
Ontario expands workplace inspections as 121 Canada Post workers test positive for COVID-19 in Mississauga \| Toronto Star (Jan. 20, 2021)
Bittersweet victory for daughter who lobbied for dad’s health benefits \| Sudbury Star (Jan. 19, 2020)
Quebec: Morneau Shepell submits recommendations on Bill 59 \| Businesswire (January 13, 2021)
‘Union safety effect’ continues on Ontario’s ICI construction sites: IWH study finds \| Daily Commercial News (Jan. 13, 2021)
What’s an essential workplace and who’s an essential worker? \| Toronto Star (Jan. 12, 2021)
RCMP launch criminal investigation into COVID-19 death tied to massive Alberta meat plant outbreak \| CBC News (Jan. 11, 2021)
Toronto is now publicizing workplace outbreaks. What does the data tell us… \| Toronto Star (Jan. 11, 2021)
COVID-19 outbreaks in the workplace \| TV Ontario (Jan. 8, 2021)
Toronto is now publicizing work outbreaks – what does the data tell us \| Toronto Star (Jan. 6, 2020)
Eight orders issued to company after worker’s injury \|Belleville Intelligencer (Jan. 2, 2021)
2020
Stronger worker safety measures and transparency around workplace outbreaks on the way as Toronto reports record COVID-19 cases \| Toronto Star (Dec. 30, 2020)
Temp workers, the unsung pandemic heroes who make and deliver our goods, should not be losing sleep – or their lives – over $14 an hour \| Toronto Star (Dec. 28, 2020)
Ontario shutdown won’t stop COVID-19 spread in workplaces, health experts say \| Globe and Mail (Dec. 22, 2020)
Ontario lockdown doesn’t do anything to help warehouse workers, says advocate \| CBC Radio (Dec. 22, 2020)
Five Ontario construction deaths in one week \| Daily Commercial News (Dec. 21, 2020)
Thousands of workers got COVID-19 on the job. But the Ministry of Labour has fined just one employer \| Toronto Star (Dec. 19, 2020
The paid sick days conundrum: pandemic revives debate over who should foot the bill \| Globe and Mail (Dec. 17, 2020)
Amazon’s speed shouldn’t come at the expense of workers \| Toronto Star (Dec. 16, 2020)
COVID long-haulers and the plight of unproductive bodies \| Canadian Dimension (Dec. 15, 2020)
Proposed workplace safety legislation will stabilize WSIB premiums, avg industrial wage: province \| Law Times (Dec. 14, 2020)
Can employers make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory? The law isn’t clear \| CBC News (Dec. 11, 2020)
Amazon warehouse workers in Canada saw injury rates double. Then COVID hit. Inside a hidden safety crisis \| Toronto Star (Dec. 10, 2020)
Stakeholders relieved MOL to protect employers from WSIB premium spike \| Daily Commercial News (Dec. 10, 2020)
CLAC: Open letter to Doug Ford: WSIB coverage is desperately needed for all healthcare heroes \| GlobeNewswire (Dec. 9, 2020)
Spread of COVID-19 in Brampton linked to systemic factors, experts say \| St Catharines Standard (Nov. 29, 2020)
Bitter harvest: the pandemic has created serious risks for the migrant workers … \| CBC (Nov. 29, 2020)
Our essential workers are burning out. Advocates say a lack of basic job protections is to blame \| Toronto Star (Nov. 28)
UWindsor study reveals toll of COVID-19 on Ontario health-care workers \| CBC News (Nov. 24, 2020)
Workplace compensation claims reflect toll COVID-19 has taken on Canada’s workers \| CBC News (Nov. 23, 2020)
California’s gig worker battle reveals the abuses of precarious work in Canada too \| The Conversation (Nov. 22, 2020)
Newfoundland & Labrador: A bureaucratic system forgot I was the human being on the other side. I want change \| CBC News (Nov. 22, 2020)
Alberta: Bill 47 Pt. 2 – Less compensation for work-related injuries \| Parkland Institute (Nov. 12, 2020)
Ontario increasing services to workers and small businesses (WSIB In Transition operational review report) \| Ontario News Release (Nov. 6, 2020
British Columbia: New NDP government challenged by damning report on mistreatment of injured workers \| The Tyee (Nov. 6, 2020)
Adequacy of COVID infection control and PPE linked to workers’ mental health: study \| At Work (Nov. 4, 2020)
Advocate and art lover Judy Kondrat always saw those who’d been overlooked by others \| Globe and Mail (Nov. 3, 2020)
Quebec tables long-awaited bill to reform workplace safety law \| Montreal Gazette (October 28, 2020)
This cancer survivor was harassed, taunted and sprayed with Lysol by colleagues. But a tribunal says she can’t sue her workplace \| Toronto Star (Oct. 25, 2020)
WSIB claims from LTC workers could be tip of the iceberg, union says \| CBC News (Oct. 24, 2020)
What new Ontario-led research says about mesothelioma \| TVOntario (Oct. 22, 2020)
A spin class became a superspreader event. Why are fitness instructors excluded from workers’ compensation if they fall ill on the job? \| Toronto Star (Oct. 16, 2020)
Safety statistics reveal ‘disappointing’ trends of workplace fatalities, injuries \| OHS Canada (Oct. 13, 2020)
Public health won’t tell us which employers have COVID-19 outbreaks. But we obtained WSIB data to help paint a picture \| Toronto Star (Oct. 11, 2020)
WSIB holds premium rates for Ontario businesses \| Canada Newswire (Oct. 1, 2020)
Industrial bakery facing prosecution over death of temp agency worker Enrico Miranda \| Toronto Star (Sep. 25, 2020)
COVID-19 rates higher among racialized and low wage workers \| WHSC News (Sep. 24, 2020)
Ontario to hire nearly 100 new health and safety inspectors to tackle workplace COVID-19 risks \| Toronto Star (Sep. 23, 2020)
COVID-19 infections among Canadian health-care workers are above global average \| Huffington Post (Sep. 20, 2020)
Workplace linked to 1 in 5 COVID-19 infections in Ontario \| HRReporter (Sep. 3, 2020)
Slapping down farmers’ objections, court restores public health order protecting ‘exceptionally vulnerable’ migrant workers \| Toronto Star (Aug. 27, 2020)
British Columbia: New government-commissioned report recommends cultural shift at WCB to better support workers \| CBC News (Aug. 26, 2020)
What research can do: estimating the role of workplaces in COVID-19 transmissions \| At Work (Aug. 25, 2020)
British Columbia: Harry Bains: Improvements to Workers’ Compensation Act long overdue \| The Province (Aug. 24, 2020)
Under-reporting of injuries related to awareness of hazards, IWH report finds \| Daily Commercial News (Aug. 24, 2020)
Workplace safety claims now being approved for miners who got sick from inhaling McIntyre Powder \| CBC News (Aug. 14, 2020)
More than 180 workers at this Toronto bakery got COVID-19 — but the public wasn’t informed. Why aren’t we being told about workplace outbreaks? \| Toronto Star (Aug. 10, 2020)
Better recognition of occupational cancers can aid prevention too, report \| WHSC News (Aug. 6, 2020)
Report urges WSIB to improve evidence-based decision-making in workplace cancer claim \| Law Times (Aug. 5, 2020)
The PBO report on universal basic income and the taxation of WSIB benefits (Part 1) \| Workersomplaw.ca (Jul. 28, 2020
A Jamaican migrant worker suffered catastrophic injuries on the job, then was told he could work as a ‘shoe shiner’ and had his workers’ compensation cut off \| Toronto Star (Jul. 25, 2020)
WSIB and government must act now on occupational cancer claims: Steelworkers \| Businesswire (Jul. 24, 2000)
Explainer: Implementing paid sick days and paid sick leave \| Broadbent Institute (Jul. 20, 2020)
Roughly 13,000 health care workers file workplace injury claims tied to COVID-19 \| Globe & Mail (Jul. 15, 2020)
British Columbia: Proposed changes to labour laws would increase workers’ compensation limits, make COVID-19 claims easier \| CBC News (Jul. 14, 2020)
Proposed Bill presuming WSIB coverage for COVID-19 claims quietly passed first reading \| Mondaq (Jul. 13, 2020)
Claims system for workers with cancer outdated: study \| Globe and Mail (Jul. 10, 2020)
Ontario’s ability to identify workplace cancer risk is ‘grossly inadequate,’ study finds \| Toronto Star (Jul. 9, 2020)
The Ontario government says migrant workers have equal rights and access to benefits, but do they? \| Toronto Star (Jun. 27, 2020)
New program will address opioid addiction, Ontario says \| Globe & Mail (Jun. 19, 2020)
How workers’ comp fanned the flames of the opioid crisis \| Globe & Mail (Jun. 18, 2020)
Compensation system hides the real toll of industrial disease: This series examines where Canada falls short protecting workers from job-related illnesses \| Waterloo Region Record (Jun. 13, 2020)
Laws have little impact if companies aren’t afraid of the consequences: occupational disease kills more Canadians than any other work-related injury, accident or disorder \| Waterloo Region Record (Jun. 6, 2020)
‘It took the pandemic to shake us up’: What COVID-19 has taught us about the nature of the way we work, and what we must do to fix it for the safety and betterment of us all \| Toronto Star (Jun. 3, 2020)
Care providers are not asking, what caused the disease? \| Waterloo Region Record (May 30, 2020)
COVID-19 and proposed amendments to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 \| Employment and Human Rights Law in Canada (May 27, 2020)
ONIWG: UN highlights the unique challenges faced by Disabled Injured Workers during COVID-19 \| GlobeNewswire (May 19, 2020)
The WSIB COVID-19 adjudicative approach and statistics to date-July 2020 update \| Workerscomplaw.ca (May 12, 2020)
Ontario urged to follow B.C. with presumptive workers’ compensation for COVID-19 \| OurWindsor.ca (May 11, 2020)
The Uncounted: Occupational disease is killing Canadians \| Toronto Star/Waterloo Region Record (May 8, 2000)
WSIB study finds link between use of McIntyre Powder in Ontario mines and risk of Parkinson’s \| CBC News (May 7, 2020)
Gates: Give heroic frontline workers the WSIB coverage they deserve \| Toronto Sun (Apr. 27, 2020)
Open letter to Workplace Safety Insurance Board regarding COVID19, workers compensation and migrant farm workers (Ontario) \| Harvesting Freedom (Apr. 17, 2020)
Coronavirus: The risks to essential workers with hidden health conditions \| The Conversation (Apr. 15, 2020)
Canada: cross country survey of changes to workers’ compensation system in response to COVID-19 \| Littler Insight (Apr. 14, 2020)
WSIB expands options during COVID-19 pandemic \| OHS Canada (Apr. 7, 2020)
‘Them plants are killing us’: Inside a cross-border battle against cancer and pollution \| Environmental Health News (Apr. 7, 2020)
Province urged to make workers’ compensation automatic for essential employees diagnosed with COVID-19 \| Toronto Star (Apr. 6, 2020)
Why the ‘invisible workers’ cleaning up COVID-19 need better labour protection \| CBC Radio (Apr. 3)
Strains, sprains leading cause of workplace injury in Ontario \| OHS Canada (Feb. 28, 2020)
Ontario to reward safe employers \| Canadian Metalworking (Jan. 22, 2020)

Selected news of workplace injury, illness and compensation

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board workers vote to strike \| Businesswire (Mar. 1, 2021)
Toronto names workplaces where a COVID-19 outbreak occurs. Peel Region doesn’t. Who’s right? \| Toronto Star (Feb. 26, 2021)
BC: Friends and family still wait for criminal trial, 12 years after Sam Fitzpatrick died on the job \| CBC News (Feb. 22, 2021)
Are unionized construction sites safer? A new study shows they are \| Toronto Star (Feb. 20, 2021)
Four ways the WSIB is fighting COVID-19 \| Canadian Occupational Safety (Feb. 18, 2021)
WSIB finances remain strong despite COVID-19: Witmer \| Daily Commercial News (Feb. 16, 2021)
‘It’s just a flu’: COVID prevention rules are often ignored on Toronto construction sites, workers tell the Star \| Toronto Star (Feb. 16, 2021)
One in five farms not compliant with COVID rules, early inspections find \| London Free Press (Feb. 16, 2021)
Where do Ontario’s essential precarious workers – in transportation, food, manufacturing industries – stand in the vaccine rollout? \| Toronto Star (Feb. 15, 2021)
Ontario nurse who contracted COVID-19 cut off workers’ compensation despite experiencing ‘ongoing symptoms’ \| Press Progress (Feb. 11, 2021)
Go Public: Injured woman secretly videotaped by insurer (WSIB) then wrongly accused of fraud \| CBC News (Feb. 8, 2021)
Editorial: A welcome move to shine a light on workplace outbreaks of COVID-19 \| Toronto Star (Feb. 8, 2021)
Quebec urged to list burnout as ‘occupational disease’ in update to workplace safety laws \| CBC News (Feb. 5, 2021)
Ontario proposes changes to workplace first aid requirements: would shift responsibility from WSIB to Ministry of Labour \| Canadian HRReporter (Feb. 5, 2021)
1 in 4 COVID-19 cases found through contact tracing in Peel were those who went to work sick … \| Toronto Star (Feb. 3, 2021)
Who is an essential worker in the GTA? Millions of us, data shows \| Toronto Star (Feb. 2, 2021)
Air Canada flight attendant wins fight over COVID-19 workers’ compensation \| CBC News (Jan. 30, 2021)
Sick pay and WSIB for workers who need them most \| Niagara Falls Review (Jan. 30, 2021)
Experts push for more COVID-19 rapid tests at work \| Globe and Mail (Jan. 29, 2021)
Ont. teenager’s death sign of pandemic ‘human rights catastrophe’ , newcomer advocates say \| CTV News (Jan. 26, 2021)
Waterloo region paramedics denied WSIB claims for COVID-19: Union \| CBC News (Jan. 22, 2021)
Québec: La réforme Boulet torpillée de toutes parts cette semaine \| Le Devoir (jan. 21, 2021)
Ontario expands workplace inspections as 121 Canada Post workers test positive for COVID-19 in Mississauga \| Toronto Star (Jan. 20, 2021)
Bittersweet victory for daughter who lobbied for dad’s health benefits \| Sudbury Star (Jan. 19, 2020)
Quebec: Morneau Shepell submits recommendations on Bill 59 \| Businesswire (January 13, 2021)
‘Union safety effect’ continues on Ontario’s ICI construction sites: IWH study finds \| Daily Commercial News (Jan. 13, 2021)
What’s an essential workplace and who’s an essential worker? \| Toronto Star (Jan. 12, 2021)
RCMP launch criminal investigation into COVID-19 death tied to massive Alberta meat plant outbreak \| CBC News (Jan. 11, 2021)
Toronto is now publicizing workplace outbreaks. What does the data tell us… \| Toronto Star (Jan. 11, 2021)
COVID-19 outbreaks in the workplace \| TV Ontario (Jan. 8, 2021)
Toronto is now publicizing work outbreaks – what does the data tell us \| Toronto Star (Jan. 6, 2020)
Eight orders issued to company after worker’s injury \|Belleville Intelligencer (Jan. 2, 2021)
2020
Stronger worker safety measures and transparency around workplace outbreaks on the way as Toronto reports record COVID-19 cases \| Toronto Star (Dec. 30, 2020)
Temp workers, the unsung pandemic heroes who make and deliver our goods, should not be losing sleep – or their lives – over $14 an hour \| Toronto Star (Dec. 28, 2020)
Ontario shutdown won’t stop COVID-19 spread in workplaces, health experts say \| Globe and Mail (Dec. 22, 2020)
Ontario lockdown doesn’t do anything to help warehouse workers, says advocate \| CBC Radio (Dec. 22, 2020)
Five Ontario construction deaths in one week \| Daily Commercial News (Dec. 21, 2020)
Thousands of workers got COVID-19 on the job. But the Ministry of Labour has fined just one employer \| Toronto Star (Dec. 19, 2020
The paid sick days conundrum: pandemic revives debate over who should foot the bill \| Globe and Mail (Dec. 17, 2020)
Amazon’s speed shouldn’t come at the expense of workers \| Toronto Star (Dec. 16, 2020)
COVID long-haulers and the plight of unproductive bodies \| Canadian Dimension (Dec. 15, 2020)
Proposed workplace safety legislation will stabilize WSIB premiums, avg industrial wage: province \| Law Times (Dec. 14, 2020)
Can employers make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory? The law isn’t clear \| CBC News (Dec. 11, 2020)
Amazon warehouse workers in Canada saw injury rates double. Then COVID hit. Inside a hidden safety crisis \| Toronto Star (Dec. 10, 2020)
Stakeholders relieved MOL to protect employers from WSIB premium spike \| Daily Commercial News (Dec. 10, 2020)
CLAC: Open letter to Doug Ford: WSIB coverage is desperately needed for all healthcare heroes \| GlobeNewswire (Dec. 9, 2020)
Spread of COVID-19 in Brampton linked to systemic factors, experts say \| St Catharines Standard (Nov. 29, 2020)
Bitter harvest: the pandemic has created serious risks for the migrant workers … \| CBC (Nov. 29, 2020)
Our essential workers are burning out. Advocates say a lack of basic job protections is to blame \| Toronto Star (Nov. 28)
UWindsor study reveals toll of COVID-19 on Ontario health-care workers \| CBC News (Nov. 24, 2020)
Workplace compensation claims reflect toll COVID-19 has taken on Canada’s workers \| CBC News (Nov. 23, 2020)
California’s gig worker battle reveals the abuses of precarious work in Canada too \| The Conversation (Nov. 22, 2020)
Newfoundland & Labrador: A bureaucratic system forgot I was the human being on the other side. I want change \| CBC News (Nov. 22, 2020)
Alberta: Bill 47 Pt. 2 – Less compensation for work-related injuries \| Parkland Institute (Nov. 12, 2020)
Ontario increasing services to workers and small businesses (WSIB In Transition operational review report) \| Ontario News Release (Nov. 6, 2020
British Columbia: New NDP government challenged by damning report on mistreatment of injured workers \| The Tyee (Nov. 6, 2020)
Adequacy of COVID infection control and PPE linked to workers’ mental health: study \| At Work (Nov. 4, 2020)
Advocate and art lover Judy Kondrat always saw those who’d been overlooked by others \| Globe and Mail (Nov. 3, 2020)
Quebec tables long-awaited bill to reform workplace safety law \| Montreal Gazette (October 28, 2020)
This cancer survivor was harassed, taunted and sprayed with Lysol by colleagues. But a tribunal says she can’t sue her workplace \| Toronto Star (Oct. 25, 2020)
WSIB claims from LTC workers could be tip of the iceberg, union says \| CBC News (Oct. 24, 2020)
What new Ontario-led research says about mesothelioma \| TVOntario (Oct. 22, 2020)
A spin class became a superspreader event. Why are fitness instructors excluded from workers’ compensation if they fall ill on the job? \| Toronto Star (Oct. 16, 2020)
Safety statistics reveal ‘disappointing’ trends of workplace fatalities, injuries \| OHS Canada (Oct. 13, 2020)
Public health won’t tell us which employers have COVID-19 outbreaks. But we obtained WSIB data to help paint a picture \| Toronto Star (Oct. 11, 2020)
WSIB holds premium rates for Ontario businesses \| Canada Newswire (Oct. 1, 2020)
Industrial bakery facing prosecution over death of temp agency worker Enrico Miranda \| Toronto Star (Sep. 25, 2020)
COVID-19 rates higher among racialized and low wage workers \| WHSC News (Sep. 24, 2020)
Ontario to hire nearly 100 new health and safety inspectors to tackle workplace COVID-19 risks \| Toronto Star (Sep. 23, 2020)
COVID-19 infections among Canadian health-care workers are above global average \| Huffington Post (Sep. 20, 2020)
Workplace linked to 1 in 5 COVID-19 infections in Ontario \| HRReporter (Sep. 3, 2020)
Slapping down farmers’ objections, court restores public health order protecting ‘exceptionally vulnerable’ migrant workers \| Toronto Star (Aug. 27, 2020)
British Columbia: New government-commissioned report recommends cultural shift at WCB to better support workers \| CBC News (Aug. 26, 2020)
What research can do: estimating the role of workplaces in COVID-19 transmissions \| At Work (Aug. 25, 2020)
British Columbia: Harry Bains: Improvements to Workers’ Compensation Act long overdue \| The Province (Aug. 24, 2020)
Under-reporting of injuries related to awareness of hazards, IWH report finds \| Daily Commercial News (Aug. 24, 2020)
Workplace safety claims now being approved for miners who got sick from inhaling McIntyre Powder \| CBC News (Aug. 14, 2020)
More than 180 workers at this Toronto bakery got COVID-19 — but the public wasn’t informed. Why aren’t we being told about workplace outbreaks? \| Toronto Star (Aug. 10, 2020)
Better recognition of occupational cancers can aid prevention too, report \| WHSC News (Aug. 6, 2020)
Report urges WSIB to improve evidence-based decision-making in workplace cancer claim \| Law Times (Aug. 5, 2020)
The PBO report on universal basic income and the taxation of WSIB benefits (Part 1) \| Workersomplaw.ca (Jul. 28, 2020
A Jamaican migrant worker suffered catastrophic injuries on the job, then was told he could work as a ‘shoe shiner’ and had his workers’ compensation cut off \| Toronto Star (Jul. 25, 2020)
WSIB and government must act now on occupational cancer claims: Steelworkers \| Businesswire (Jul. 24, 2000)
Explainer: Implementing paid sick days and paid sick leave \| Broadbent Institute (Jul. 20, 2020)
Roughly 13,000 health care workers file workplace injury claims tied to COVID-19 \| Globe & Mail (Jul. 15, 2020)
British Columbia: Proposed changes to labour laws would increase workers’ compensation limits, make COVID-19 claims easier \| CBC News (Jul. 14, 2020)
Proposed Bill presuming WSIB coverage for COVID-19 claims quietly passed first reading \| Mondaq (Jul. 13, 2020)
Claims system for workers with cancer outdated: study \| Globe and Mail (Jul. 10, 2020)
Ontario’s ability to identify workplace cancer risk is ‘grossly inadequate,’ study finds \| Toronto Star (Jul. 9, 2020)
The Ontario government says migrant workers have equal rights and access to benefits, but do they? \| Toronto Star (Jun. 27, 2020)
New program will address opioid addiction, Ontario says \| Globe & Mail (Jun. 19, 2020)
How workers’ comp fanned the flames of the opioid crisis \| Globe & Mail (Jun. 18, 2020)
Compensation system hides the real toll of industrial disease: This series examines where Canada falls short protecting workers from job-related illnesses \| Waterloo Region Record (Jun. 13, 2020)
Laws have little impact if companies aren’t afraid of the consequences: occupational disease kills more Canadians than any other work-related injury, accident or disorder \| Waterloo Region Record (Jun. 6, 2020)
‘It took the pandemic to shake us up’: What COVID-19 has taught us about the nature of the way we work, and what we must do to fix it for the safety and betterment of us all \| Toronto Star (Jun. 3, 2020)
Care providers are not asking, what caused the disease? \| Waterloo Region Record (May 30, 2020)
COVID-19 and proposed amendments to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 \| Employment and Human Rights Law in Canada (May 27, 2020)
ONIWG: UN highlights the unique challenges faced by Disabled Injured Workers during COVID-19 \| GlobeNewswire (May 19, 2020)
The WSIB COVID-19 adjudicative approach and statistics to date-July 2020 update \| Workerscomplaw.ca (May 12, 2020)
Ontario urged to follow B.C. with presumptive workers’ compensation for COVID-19 \| OurWindsor.ca (May 11, 2020)
The Uncounted: Occupational disease is killing Canadians \| Toronto Star/Waterloo Region Record (May 8, 2000)
WSIB study finds link between use of McIntyre Powder in Ontario mines and risk of Parkinson’s \| CBC News (May 7, 2020)
Gates: Give heroic frontline workers the WSIB coverage they deserve \| Toronto Sun (Apr. 27, 2020)
Open letter to Workplace Safety Insurance Board regarding COVID19, workers compensation and migrant farm workers (Ontario) \| Harvesting Freedom (Apr. 17, 2020)
Coronavirus: The risks to essential workers with hidden health conditions \| The Conversation (Apr. 15, 2020)
Canada: cross country survey of changes to workers’ compensation system in response to COVID-19 \| Littler Insight (Apr. 14, 2020)
WSIB expands options during COVID-19 pandemic \| OHS Canada (Apr. 7, 2020)
‘Them plants are killing us’: Inside a cross-border battle against cancer and pollution \| Environmental Health News (Apr. 7, 2020)
Province urged to make workers’ compensation automatic for essential employees diagnosed with COVID-19 \| Toronto Star (Apr. 6, 2020)
Why the ‘invisible workers’ cleaning up COVID-19 need better labour protection \| CBC Radio (Apr. 3)
Strains, sprains leading cause of workplace injury in Ontario \| OHS Canada (Feb. 28, 2020)
Ontario to reward safe employers \| Canadian Metalworking (Jan. 22, 2020)

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