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Alberta’s CFL players could become the first in the nation eligible for workers’ compensation.

Earlier this year, the provincial government convened an independent, three-member panel to take a look at Alberta’s workers’ compensation legislation, and the CFL Players Association has asked it to recommend extending coverage to professional football.

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Association president and former Edmonton Eskimo Brian Ramsay hopes a positive decision in Alberta will pave the way to WCB coverage for players across Canada.

Members of the public were invited to give their opinions to the panel over the summer.

With two clubs in Alberta, the players’ association jumped at the chance.

The timing was ideal, Ramsay said, partly because the Alberta review comes in the wake of a recent B.C. court decision which found that players’ post-career medical claims are an integral part of collective bargaining, therefore need to be resolved through labour relations.