Advisor
Gary Rubie
the story
About me
I served as a Police Officer in the Province of Ontario for 25 years. I retired with 33 years of credited service. During my career I spent 19 years working in “Special Services”, Undercover and Investigative. I enjoyed many successes in my career, being recognized 64 times with letters of appreciation from the public, police commendations, and awards. In my 25th year of Policing I suffered career ending job related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I began the healing journey.
I was the first officer in my Police Service to receive a full disability pension from the W.S.I.B. for job related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, under the old legislation, after a long 6 year battle that included a number of appeals. After receiving my WSIB award, I retired in 2017.
Overview And Experience
Honored to be part of Badge of Life Canada
THERE IS NO MAGIC PILL – Recovery is hard work & requires a daily commitment to self care.
In retirement I became a strong advocate to enact Presumptive Legislation with changes to the WSIB Act, 1987 at a Provincial and Federal level.
I volunteered weekly for 3.5 years with the Homewood Health Center in Guelph, Ontario. I helped co-facilitate the “Uniform Professionals Group” which was formed for Police, Canadian Military (DND) and Corrections, dealing with concurrent disorders, addictions and PTSD.
In 2016 I founded and ran THE PHOENIX PTS SUPPORT GROUP for ALL first responders dealing with OSI/PTS. The group met weekly on Thursday evenings from 7-9pm until 2022. And as I like to say “the magic of rotation” was completed and it was time for others to develop and run their own groups with my support.
I was a part of Badge of Life Canada from 2014 – 2018 and proud to say that, once again, I am a part of this great organization as an Advisor.
