One week into a new job, Lisa Grouette discovered something missing come Sunday night: the sinking feeling of dread she used to experience before going to work every Monday. Groutte spent 10 years at an insurance agency with a boss whom she alleges screamed at her, slammed his hands on the desk, insulted her appearance…
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Two Alberta companies have admitted to violating provincial occupational health and safety rules over a workplace explosion that killed two men at an oil and gas site north of Edmonton in 2022. The companies have been ordered to pay more than half a million dollars in fines and penalties, with most of the money going…
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Ontario employer Bellai Brothers Construction was fined $80,000 after one of its workers was injured in the workplace. Following a guilty plea in Provincial Offences Court, Ottawa, the employer was also tasked to pay a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special…
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RESEARCHER’S DEATH EXPOSES LACK OF OVERSIGHT, TRAINING, AND NATIONAL PROTOCOLS The death of internationally renowned Arctic researcher Maya Bhatia during fieldwork on the Jakeman Glacier near Grise Fiord, Nunavut, raises significant questions about how scientific expeditions in Canada’s North are planned and regulated. Unlike other international bodies that operate in polar environments, Arctic fieldwork in…
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A foreman with Road-Ex Contracting Ltd. has been fined $20,000 after an incident that fatally injured a worker on a construction site in Caledon, Ont. Alfredo Piluso pleaded guilty to performing other work while acting as a signaller, contrary to sections 104(3) and 106(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91 and section 28(1)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. On June 1, 2022,…
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