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Meredith hearings come to the north
“Injured workers bear ‘burden’ “ / Sandi Krasowski (Chronicle Journal, Oct. 6) Update on the latest Meredith hearing held at the Lakehead Labour Centre where injured workers and advocates voiced their...
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Meredith’s People Commission tours province to hear from injured workers
“Bringing awareness about injured workers and fighting for a just compensation system” / Ella Bedard (Rabble.ca, Oct. 28) On 100th anniversary of Justice Meredith’s landmark report which established...
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Remembering Sharon Dale Stone
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...
View ArticleOct. 3 lecture by Australian researcher Alex Collie
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...
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Upcoming Fall 2014 Bancroft discussion: healthy interactions?
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...
View ArticleUnderstanding independent medical assessments
Independent medical assessors play a key role in many workers’ compensation boards (WCBs), conducting investigations on a range of issues, from medical diagnosis and advice on eligibility for cover and...
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Bancroft discussion to focus on role of doctors
The Bancroft Institute has announced details of its upcoming May 14 Policy & Research Discussion session – “How Characteristics of Workers’ Compensation Systems Affect Doctors: A Comparative Study...
View ArticleA tale of two provinces…
Valuable new research on how the distinct workers’ compensation systems in Quebec and Ontario affect doctors in their various roles was presented to a packed room at the Spring 2015 session of the...
View ArticleWomen’s health & the workplace
Some recent discussions on the role of gender and tasks as they affect the working experiences of women… Canadian researchers Katherine Lippel and Karen Messing were among presenters at the...
View ArticleONIWG: Board’s positive spin on poverty report misplaced
On its website, the WSIB website is highlighting the key finding of a recently published Institute for Work & Health study (Final Report on Work Injury and Poverty: Investigating Prevalence...
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Register for Bancroft Research to Action Workshop on Poverty
The role of research (its use and misuse) in shaping public policy and public opinion affects injured workers in very concrete ways. It is a topic addressed in the upcoming Bancroft Institute session...
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International Women’s Day 2016 – inspiring change
The beginnings of official gender neutrality came into Ontario’s workers’ compensation system in 1982 with Bill 205, updating the long-standing term “workmen’s compensation”. At that time women made up...
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Bancroft Spring session – mental health and the injured worker
Each year approximately 31,000 Canadian workers are recognized as sustaining a permanent impairment as a result of a workplace injury – 15,000 in Ontario alone, according to WSIB data. The upcoming...
View ArticleBetter (when healed and safe) at work
With adequate time for medical recovery and job accommodation, an injured worker should be able to return to work safely and without fear of reinjury. In their letter to the Premier, the Ontario...
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Where did they go? Research Roundtable discussion
As a recent OFL letter to the Minister of Labour points out, injured workers not covered under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act are put at risk financially. What happens to those injured workers...
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Upcoming: Bancroft Institute Fall 2016 Policy & Research discussion
Barriers to Return-to-Work in a Context of Social Vulnerability is the timely topic for discussion at the Nov. 17 session of the Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury....
View ArticleRTW Research study seeks injured worker participants
A team of respected researchers from across Ontario are conducting a study about Injured Worker experience with the return to work process. The researchers, including Sonja Senthanar (University of...
View ArticleSafety in return to work
Joan Eakin, professor emerita with the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, was a recent guest on Thunder Bay’s Community Conversations. The cable channel show is hosted by Steve...
View ArticleLast chance to register! Bancroft Institute on RTW
This Thursday evening and Friday (see full agenda) the Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury tackles the challenge of Measuring Return to Work. How does the WSIB...
View ArticleInterview with researcher
Dr Agnieszka (Iggy) Kosny, well-known to the injured worker community, was a recent guest on Steve Mantis’ popular “Community Conversations” Thunder Bay cable show. A staff scientist with the...
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