By Isaac Phan Nay | The Tyee More than 13 years after pipe layer Jeff Caron was crushed to death while replacing a Burnaby storm sewer, a B.C. Supreme Court judge… …
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Mental Health & WellbeingWorkplace Safety
Mental health at work no longer optional: What the 2025 Peel Halton Employer Survey reveals
By Kezia Royer-Burkett | Burlington Local-News.ca Mental health and wellness have moved from the margins to the centre of workplace conversations, according to the newly released 2025 Peel Halton Employer Survey from the Peel Halton… …
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By Andrew Bates | Telegraph-Journal WorkSafeNB says it’s investigating after an alleged workplace death involving a 58-year-old man in Sussex last week. On Friday, the agency posted to social media that there had… …
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Features & AnalysisWorkplace Safety
Woman who stabbed shelter worker in Prince George, B.C., to spend another 50 days in jail
By Bob Mackin | Prince George Citizen Judge Michael Brecknell sentenced a 23-year-old woman Nov. 28 to another 50 days in jail for stabbing a man at the front desk of… …
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OHS FinesWorkplace Safety
Drilling company fined after 2021 worker death at Shasta Mine in northern B.C.
By Bob Mackin | Prince George Citizen A Yukon company that pleaded guilty in Prince George Provincial Court to violating the Mines Act after one of its workers died at a… …
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OHS LawWorkplace Safety
Probation and bans from two shelters in Prince George, B.C., for woman who assaulted workers
By Bob Mackin | Prince George Citizen A 37-year-old woman guilty of assaulting workers at two Prince George homeless shelters was sentenced to time served and one-year probation on Nov. 6… …
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Features & AnalysisOHS FinesWorkplace Safety
B.C. government fined in connection with death of Norfolk firefighter
By J.P. Antonacci | The Hamilton Spectator Zak Muise died while trying to help. The 25-year-old wildland firefighter from Norfolk County in Ontario was killed in a vehicle rollover in July 2023 while battling the Donnie… …
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Features & AnalysisWorkplace Safety
‘If I’m not safe, my patients aren’t safe’: Nurses plead for protection after HSC assault
By Steven Sukkau | Winnipeg Sun Violence against front-line health-care workers continues to escalate in Manitoba, with the latest incident at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) leaving a health-care aide choked and… …
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Features & AnalysisWorkplace Safety
WCB shows consistent numbers for first eight months at Saskatchewan school board
By Michael Oleksyn | Prince Albert Daily Herald The number of workplace incidents causing injury in the Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division remains consistent year over year during the first eight… …
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Features & AnalysisWorkplace Safety
Canada’s tax agency may be the key to driving dangerous truck operators off Peel’s roads
By Peter Uduehi | Mississauga.com Unsafe truck drivers and companies will continue to operate on Peel Region’s roads if existing tax laws are not enforced by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA),… …



