Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

Every time we fuel up at the pumps, we get our tax cut there because we maintain that provincial sales tax.

And the business community has got a savings in corporate taxes and also in rollbacks of the WSIB premiums.

The province also announced the Ontario Competitiveness Tax Cut, a component of Ontario's multi-year tax action plan leading to $8 billion in provincial tax relief.

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The ATU says there's been a documented rise in violence on public transit across North America, with driver safety impacting not only those employees, but also passengers on board.

The province says lower premiums are coming at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.

Starting January 1st, the average premium rate will drop to $1.18 per $100 of insurable payroll, and that's down from $1.23 in 2026 and $2.35 in 2018.

Minister of Labor, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Trevor Jones says over 80% of businesses will receive a rate cut when they get their 2027 statement starting next month.

We talk about any factor that keeps you from being in the workplace.

We're talking about the leaves of absences, the mental health leaves, the WSIB leaves.

And we just look at it as we have a lot of physical tools that have been put in place, power stretchers, new lifting devices to help us physically.

even though our benefits for that are abysmal.

Oh, we often like, I mean, those people at the station will talk about the person you meet when they're first hired versus even two years later, it's, it's a different person.

They've, uh, they've suffered trauma.

They, like even our profession under WSIB, it's presumed that you have PTSD after day one.

That's the presumptive.

And he already had a clinic where he was operating on workers who had workers safety insurance.

I don't remember what it's called in BC, but the WSIB here in Ontario.

And the governments decided that they couldn't they couldn't allow this.

They couldn't allow people to go outside of the public system and get fixed, get back to work, not not be in pain any longer and get get that done in B.C. instead of going to Arizona or something like that.

That's something

to tell WSIB.

It's okay.

It grew back.