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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Alberta OHS consultation foreshadows weaker safety rules

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Alberta is undertaking another consultation about its Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) laws. The OHS Act was last overhauled in 2017, m...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Shaming OHS violators reduces violations and injuries

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An interesting article out of the US suggests shaming employers for egregiously violating occupational health and safety laws increases com...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Labour & Pop Culture: Superstore Season 5

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This year, the comedy Superstore once again canvassed a bunch of labour-related issues. At the end of the fourth season, Cloud9 was being u...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Labour & Pop Culture: The English Game

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Earlier this spring, I watched a mini-series on Netflix called The English Game . The story is set mainly in northern England in 1879 and (...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

AU plays the victim card… again

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Athabasca University (AU) is in the midst of a multi-year campaign to bust its faculty association . Its latest effort is using its power to...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Research: COVID anxiety and cannabis use at work

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The Institute for Work and Health (IWH) does some really excellent research. They also do an excellent job of making that research accessib...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

COVID and PSE: Do as I say, not as I do

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Watching bricks-and-mortar post-secondary institutions cope the suspension of the winter 2020 semester has been very humbling. Many of my co...