Todd Humber

Canada’s Building Trades Unions has unanimously passed a resolution to harmonize national safety certification standards for construction workers, aiming to eliminate interprovincial barriers that prevent tradespeople from moving between provinces… …

WorkSafeBC will maintain its average base premium rate at $1.55 per $100 of assessable payroll in 2026, marking the ninth consecutive year without change to the rate employers pay for… …

Manitoba has introduced new traffic rules designed to protect highway workers and cyclists following the Jan. 1 implementation of the Highway Traffic Amendment Act. The legislation establishes minimum distances drivers… …

Ontario will require defibrillators on large construction sites and mandate the posting of washroom cleaning records under new workplace safety regulations taking effect Jan. 1, 2026. Construction sites with 20… …

Nova Scotia’s Workers’ Compensation Board will implement sweeping changes to the Workers’ Compensation Act on Jan. 1, 2026, extending cancer coverage to more firefighters and giving workers three times longer… …

The Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia will launch a new provider network in 2026 designed to reduce assessment and treatment wait times for workers injured on the job. Under… …

An Alberta labour board has overturned occupational health and safety penalties against a rural property owner, finding an inspector lacked evidence to prove the location was actually a work site… …

An OHS officer failed to properly analyze whether a pipefitter resigned or was terminated after raising safety concerns about equipment, prompting Alberta’s labour board to send the case back for… …

A miner operator died last Monday following a fall of ground incident at the Mosaic K3 potash mine near Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. Tyrone McLeod, a member of Unifor Local 892, was… …