4 h. ago City of Winnipeg honours lost workers on National Day of Mourning

Canada's National Day of Mourning, marked annually on April 28, commemorates workers who have died or suffered injury on the job.

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5 h. ago 'It rips a hole': Calgary unions lay wreaths for workers who died on the job

The ceremony for the National Day of Mourning comes after 203 Albertans died on the job in 2024 — an all-time high, according to the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta

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5 d. ago ‘Vestige of their memory’: Hudson’s Bay war memorials need to be saved, lawyer says

A Toronto lawyer says he wants displays commemorating Bay and Simpsons workers who died in the Second World War at two stores to be saved.

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5 d. ago Lawyer wants to save war memorials at Hudson’s Bay stores in Toronto, Calgary

TORONTO — A Toronto lawyer is hoping to find a way to preserve war memorials at two Hudson’s Bay stores. E. Patrick Shea, who also sits on the senate of the 48th Highlanders of Canada and is the RCAF Foundation’s secretary, said he wants the displays commemorating Bay and Simpsons workers who died in the […]

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2 w. ago B.C.'s Curtis Sagmoen, jailed for attacks on sex trade workers, has died

Sagmoen was charged and found guilty in connection to an attack on a sex worker near his family's Shuswap-area farm

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3 w. ago Tennessee safety agency says workers killed in flooding were given time to evacuate

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Workers at an East Tennessee plastics company who died in flooding from last year’s Hurricane Helene had time to evacuate, albeit by “makeshift routes,” according to an investigation from the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration released on Wednesday. “It was found that Impact Plastics, Inc. exercised reasonable diligence to dismiss […]

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