British Columbia is amending the Residential Tenancy Act to give supportive housing operators new tools to remove weapons, restrict building access and hold expedited eviction hearings when tenants or staff… …
British Columbia is expanding workers’ compensation cancer coverage for firefighters, adding eight cancers to the existing list of presumptive occupational diseases under the Workers Compensation Act. The province will amend… …
British Columbia is introducing a mandatory crane licensing and permitting program through WorkSafeBC, responding to seven worker fatalities involving cranes over the past five years. The provincial government tabled legislation… …
By Isaac Phan Nay | The Tyee More than 13 years after one pipe layer was killed and another injured while replacing a Burnaby storm sewer, their employer is in court for a… …
Musculoskeletal injuries remain the most common workplace injury in British Columbia, accounting for about 30 per cent of all time-loss claims filed with WorkSafeBC. Over the five-year period from 2020… …
By Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon Eight months before the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, OpenAI knew something was wrong. The company’s automated review system had flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT account for interactions… …
A tree planter suffered serious injuries after a bear attacked her twice in a remote British Columbia logging cutblock in July 2023, a WorkSafeBC investigation has found. The worker, who… …
A form wall at a highrise construction excavation site collapsed in February 2023, trapping a worker beneath it and causing serious injuries, a WorkSafeBC investigation has found. Workers were spraying… …
William Laird Cronk has been appointed chair of WorkSafeBC’s board of directors for a three-year term, effective Feb. 26, 2026. The appointment was made by Jennifer Whiteside, B.C.’s Minister of… …
By Bob Mackin | Prince George Citizen A BC Review Board tribunal decided to keep a man in custody for another 12 months due to his “fragile brain and risk of… …
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