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London company fined $75K for safety incident
Great Lakes Copper Ltd. pled guilty in provincial court to a violation of the Occupational Health & Safety Act that led to the injury of a worker.
Construction workers among phase 2 populations for COVID vaccine
Construction workers could start to receive their COVID-19 vaccines in June after a classification of essential workers who cannot work from home was expanded to include construction.
Lafarge fined $140,000 for water act violation
Effluent from sewage works at the company’s Brockville Quarry was found to include double the concentration of total suspended soils. The sewage works ultimately discharge into the St. Lawrence River.
Worker death leads to $200K fine for Chelmsford contractor
The incident occurred in September 2018 when a worker was struck by a telephone pole that was being loaded onto a truck.
RESCON pre-budget submission calls for feds to focus on vaccines, PPE and municipal funding
Topping the council’s list of requests is the need for Canada to receive more COVID-19 vaccines and at a faster rate, and to maintain PPE supply chains throughout the remainder of the pandemic.