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Nova Scotia’s Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) says more injured workers are returning to their jobs sooner, one year after a new legal duty to cooperate took effect. The rule, part… …
A Calgary plumbing contractor has been fined a total of $330,000 after a worker died in a trench collapse in 2023. Mr. Mike’s Plumbing Ltd. pleaded guilty on July 13… …
A worker was seriously injured in April 2024 when a bulk container of green split peas fell on him at a food production warehouse operated by a packaged foods manufacturer,… …
WorkSafeBC has fined 0832282 B.C. Ltd., operating as a Subway Restaurant in Quesnel, B.C., $2,500 after finding the company discouraged an injured worker from filing a claim for compensation. The… …
WorkSafeBC has fined Pro Builders Supply Ltd., operating as Home Hardware, $75,277.70 after inspectors found unsafe pallet storage racks at the firm’s lumber yard in Penticton, B.C. The penalty was… …
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) has pulled three Bird Dog aircraft from wildfire duty while it conducts a safety review. The move follows a crash involving the same aircraft… …
The Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia says its time-loss injury rate has dropped to a new low, meeting a 2030 target three and a half years ahead of schedule.… …
WorkSafeNB recorded nine workplace fatalities in 2025, down from 15 the year before, according to the Crown corporation’s 2025 annual report released July 9. The report covers the first full… …
A Quebec-based furniture manufacturer has been fined $50,000 after a worker was critically injured at its Cornwall, Ont., plant. Ridgewood Industries Ltd., headquartered in Laval, Que., pleaded guilty in the… …
British Columbia recorded 109 deaths from suspected unregulated drug toxicity in May 2026, the BC Coroners Service reported in a bulletin issued July 9. That works out to about 3.5… …
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