Features & Analysis

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… …

By Bob Mackin | Prince George Citizen Peter Peebles vows never to drive in British Columbia again. “It’s too dangerous,” Peebles said in an interview with The Citizen. The Sherwood Park, Alta.,… …

A Nova Scotia worker has been awarded compensation after a tribunal found his respiratory symptoms were caused by exposure to hydrogen sulfide at levels that exceeded safety thresholds at a… …

Workers in warehouses, manufacturing plants and food processing facilities face ongoing heat stress risks during winter months, when indoor conditions can create dangerous exposures often overlooked by employers. While outdoor… …

By Milad Haghani For many of us, listening to music is simply part of the driving routine – as ordinary as wearing a seatbelt. We build playlists for road trips,… …

WorkSafeBC has updated its assessable payroll practice directive to clarify how employers should report tips and wage-loss benefits, effective Jan. 1, 2026. The changes to Assessment Practice Directive 5-245-2(A) aim… …

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… …

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… …