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August 13, 2026. Press Release

New Report Finds CBSA Oversight Law Passed in 2024 Still Not in Force, and Enduring Vulnerabilities in Canada's Public Administration: Legal analysis of a 31 year CBSA and military veteran's case lands after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that laws shielding government decision from court review are unconstitutional.

Click here to see full Press Release. Click here to see Whistleblower Analysis Report.

May 14, 2026. Update. See Canadian Whistleblowing Research Network Conference Final Program available here.

March 30, 2026. See Conference Program Preview. The Program Preview for the Canadian Whistleblowing Research Network Conference in Montreal, May 27 - May 28, 2026 is available. Click here to see Program.

February 24, 2026. We are happy to announce that the website is up for the Canadian Whistleblowing Research Network Conference at UQAM in Montreal, May 27 - 28, 2026. The title is Collaborating to Explore the Evolving Landscape of Whistleblowing in Canada. If you have had an experience with whistleblowing in the public interest, you will be interested in this. Register Here.

Feb. 21, 2026. NB. Whistleblowing Canada endorses submission to UN's Human Rights Committee on the topic of whistleblower protection in Canada by Canada's University of British Columbia's- Peter A Allard Law School - International Human Rights Clinic. The "shadow brief" by the authors takes place on March 2, 2026 in Geneva . Our highest praise and esteem goes to the authors of this in-depth document. We wholeheartedly endorse it and were privileged to review it in advance. This is a "shadow briefing" which allows for civil society members to weigh in on what whistleblower protection looks from the perspective of those "on the ground". It takes place one day prior to the UN's Human Rights Committee's Periodic Review of Canada's performance in upholding the International Covenant on Civic and Political Rights taking place March 3 and 4, 2026. See document here. You can watch the March 3rd and 4th review by UN members here: https://webtv.un.org/en/schedule.

Jan. 20, 2026: Read our latest blog post, What Canada’s AI & Whistleblowing Study Reveals About Employee Trust, from author, Shannon Walker, founder of WhistleBlower Security Inc. (WBS) and executive VP of Thought Leadership and Strategy at Case IQ. Organizations often struggle to understand their employees' perception of their whistleblowing program, particularly when artificial intelligence (AI) becomes integrated into the framework. To better understand employee sentiment regarding this integration, Case IQ conducted a research study encompassing five different countries. Click here to read the findings.

Dec. 22, 2025: We were happy to answer questions on effective whistleblowing policies and reporting systems from two reporters this month one from The Hamiltonian, Read Here and the other from The Burlington Post. Read Here.

Sept. 20, 2025. Letter to Prime Minister Carney on the subject of protecting whistleblowers. We are calling on the Prime Minister and the Leaders of the opposition parties to collaborate on rewriting the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (PSDPA) the law with the intent of protecting whistleblowers but in practice does not protect them. Read Here.