Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sara Mojtehedzadeh
Publication Date: March 17, 2025 - 07:00
Ontario regulator seeks larger fine for Amazon for workplace safety violation
March 17, 2025
Ontario’s workers’ compensation board is pushing for a harsher penalty for Amazon after a court fined the company $30,000 for failing to report a warehouse accident on time, in a rare move that reflects the workplace regulator’s close scrutiny of one of the province’s major employers.The Globe and Mail obtained over 6,000 pages of Workplace Safety and Insurance Board records related to Amazon’s recent conviction through a Freedom-of-Information request. The documents detail the dispute, along with several other disagreements between the retail behemoth and the WSIB, offering a window into the company’s fractious history with the regulator.
RCMP have confirmed that a second set of human remains found in the search of a Winnipeg-area landfill are those of Marcedes Myran, one of four Indigenous women who were victims of a serial killer in 2022, the province said in a Monday bulletin.
March 17, 2025 - 14:52 | | CBC News - Canada
The Tla’amin First Nation and forestry giant Domtar have reached an agreement for the nation to reacquire a large portion of a historic village site along the B.C. Sunshine Coast.The nation and Domtar issued a joint statement saying the two sides took part in a ceremony to sign the agreement that was the result of years of work.
March 17, 2025 - 14:51 | | The Globe and Mail
Police say a 12-year-old girl has died after a house fire in Oshawa, Ont., last week that also left her mother and nine-year-old sister dead.Emergency officials were called to the scene on McGrigor Street just after 8 a.m. on Wednesday, where crews found all levels of the house in flames.Three people were removed from the home and two of them – a 46-year-old woman and her nine-year-old daughter – were pronounced dead.
March 17, 2025 - 14:47 | | The Globe and Mail
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