Dec 10, 2025: This season, stand with those who disclose wrongdoing. See our holiday appeal here.
June 30, 2025: Call for papers. Please note details here. The French version is here: En Francais. Whistleblowing Canada is collaborating with University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) and University of Ottawa (U of O) to organize a Research Conference on Whistleblowing for May 27 - 28, 2026 at UQAM in Montreal. Please share with academics and independent researchers you may know who might be interested in participating in a Canadian Whistleblowing Research Network.
June 19, 2025: This article by IM's Julien Garon-Carrier is a great summary of the status of the PSDPA - the law that wants to protect federal public servants, "The Whistleblower Protection Act Must be Improved says Whistleblowing Canada". Read Here.
June 18, 2025: Watch Luc Sabourin’s powerful message of gratitude—but it's really us who should be thanking him. His courage in exposing national security threats at the CBSA deserves our attention and respect.
June 18, 2025: Read our newest Policy Brief, "The Damage Done to Whistleblowers’ Brains" written by Jennifer Fraser PhD with Pamela Forward, MA, GCCR. Understand how psychological abuse can cause visible physical damage to the brain. Whistleblowers can suffer repeated harm for speaking out. And if the body is protected from physical harm by criminal laws, the brain should also be protected from harm.
June 14, 2025: Check out the YouTube video for our latest webinar from June 11, 2025 titled "Corruption Knows No Borders, Harming Whistleblowers. The International Office of the Whistleblower - A global solution". You can also access all our past webinar through the Knowledge and Learning Centre here!
May 25, 2025: Don't forget to sign up for our next webinar on June 11, 2025 with speaker Aris Danikas, the Founder and CEO, Liberty of Speech, Greece. Aris talks about cross-border limitations for whistleblowers and how to overcome them. Click HERE to RSVP!
Key points you will learn about:
👉Global corruption is the new pandemic, so a universal approach is required.
👉 Cross-border legislation conflict compromises the safety of whistleblowers.
👉 A proposal for an International Office of the Whistleblower and for an international whistleblowers’ Visa to evacuate whistleblowers in distress.
April 20, 2025. Please sign our Change.org petition to Ban Retaliation Against Whistleblowers: Fix our weak laws and unsafe workplace cultures. The action of governments to fix this major problem is critical to defending our democratic institutions. Please sign here.
March 24, 2025. Today is Whistleblower Awareness Day. See our Press Release to mark the occasion. In these tumultuous times we need them more than ever.
March 23, 2025. Our next Webinar brings us an update from Whistleblowers UK on their amazing work, "A New Framework for Effective Whistleblowing in the Uk: The Office of the Whistleblower". Join us on April 23, 2025 at 12 noon EDT and hear Georgina Halford-Hall. founding member and CEO tell us the details. You will learn about how the Office of the Whistleblower will:
👉 Protect whistleblowers and the public interest
👉 Ensure concerns are registered & investigated
👉 Hold those responsible for wrongdoing to account
👉 Provide leadership, education and support
Feb. 6, 2025. Today we are announcing a new way to participate in the work of Whistleblowing Canada. Please see our page "Friends of Whistleblowers" for simple ways to contribute that could have a big result. Click here for more information.
Jan. 29, 2025. Don't miss our next Webinar on "Whistleblower Mental Health - The Toxic Tactics of Retaliation" with Jacqueline Garrick, Founder of Whistleblowers of America. Joint us on Feb. 19, 2025 at 12 noon ET to learn more about:
- the whistleblower mindset
- the features of retaliation that can cause moral and psychological injury
- interventions and practices that enable restorative justice and healing.
December 10, 2024. Our Advisory Board Member, Caroline Hunt-Matthes announces new book - , “We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the United Nations,”. Hunt-Matthes, lawyer and former United Nations investigator is a whistleblower herself. The book contains the stories of six UN whistleblowers. See Press Release here.
Nov. 28, 2024. Today Whistleblowing Canada released results of Survey of Ontario Lawyers on access to justice for whistleblowers. See Press Release here.
November 15, 2024. Discover Your Rights as a Whistleblower in Ontario. Thinking of speaking up but unsure about your rights? Watch two new videos we've developed with Justin A. Villeneuve, lawyer with WVGB Law Group and get a quick overview of whistleblowing protections in Ontario's public and private sectors. Learn about the laws, options, and safeguards in place to support you. Watch both videos here and gain the knowledge you need. Also download a copy of the List of Laws that could help you. This work was made possible with a grant from The Law Foundation of Ontario.
September 20, 2024. Our website has been reorganized. A lot of information you may be looking for has moved under the Knowledge and Learning Centre. Don't forget to check it out.
August 15, 2024. Sam Cooper at The Bureau today published Part 2 of the story of CBSA whistleblower, Luc Sabourin. It included an hour long video interview which was shocking, explosive and powerful. The disclosures call for immediate attention by political and law enforcement authorities - an independent investigation. The interview can be viewed here.
April 30, 2024. Today, the Toronto Star published our Op Ed entitled Whistleblowers Once Again Prove Their Worth: no whistleblowing, no election interference inquiry. The legal precedent dictating that exposing wrong-doing is not a breach of the duty of loyalty is almost 200 years old, dating back to 1856. Read the article here.
April 7, 2024: Watch the video recording here of our latest webinar from April 3rd The Chinese Communist Party's Global Hybrid War: How Canada Became a "Useful Idiot" presented by Dean Baxendale, CEO of Optimum Publishing International and the China Democracy Fund, and moderated by Professor Paloma Raggo.
February 2024: Watch the video recording of our webinar on The Politics of Unity with Marianne Cerilli, change agent in Community Development for health, sustainability and peace here.
September 6, 2023: Whistleblowing Canada was recently awarded a grant from The Law Foundation of Ontario to support and develop resources for whistleblowers in Ontario. Read additional details in our press release here.
May 27, 2023: Watch the video recording of our latest webinar on Achieving Social Justice for South African Whistleblowers with Tina Uys and Ugljesa Radulovic here.
April 20, 2023: Bill C-290 OGGO hearing - Former CBSA Officer, Luc Sabourin, tells Parliamentarians what bosses did to him for refusing illegal/criminal orders. Read our submission to the Operations and Estimates (OGGO) Committee here.
April 19, 2023: See Video. Whistleblowing Canada testified at Parliamentary hearings at the OGGO Committee in support of MP Jean-Denis Garon's private members Bill C-290 to amend the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act.
December 24, 2022: See news story by the Canadian Press Whistleblower group criticizes federal review of wrongdoing disclosure regime regarding why Whistleblowing Canada cannot support the Task Force to Review the Public Servant Disclosure Protection Act (PSDPA) - recently announced by the Minister responsible, President of Treasury Board. This story has been picked up by 30 and counting news outlets across Canada. Read the full details in the letter to the Minister responsible.
December 16, 2021: Whistleblowing Canada releases the third in the series of six policy briefs on whistleblowing and drug safety. Learn what happens to the whistleblower when she tries to do her job. And why she decided it was necessary to resign to warn Canadians about the harm that would occur.
Law, Culture and Reprisals: Whistleblowing and Health Canada's Drug Approval Process - How Reprisals Occur?
Read the Policy Brief
Hear the Trailer
November 10, 2021: Whistleblowing Canada releases the second in the series of six policy briefs on whistleblowing and drug safety. Learn why it became necessary to blow the whistle in this case which challenged Health Canada's drug approval process.
Law, Culture and Reprisals: Whistleblowing and Health Canada's Drug Approval Process - Why Blow the Whistle?
Read the Policy Brief
Hear the Trailer
October 13, 2021: Whistleblowing Canada is proud to announce our first in a series of six policy papers on exposing why we have up to 22,000 Canadians die each year from legally prescribed prescription drugs.
Law, Culture and Reprisals: Whistleblowing and Health Canada's Drug Approval Process - The Case Overview
Read the Policy Brief
Hear the Trailer
Sept. 13, 2021: Canada has been called on to answer to the Human Rights Committee (HRC), Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, for ". . . legislative or other measures it has taken to enhance protection of whistleblowers". See paragraph 22, "List of Issues Prior to Reporting" related to how Canada has been fulfilling commitments to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which Canada signed on to in 1976. See Whistleblowing Canada's letter to the HRC on this matter prior to finalizing the list of issues.
August 31, 2021: Florian Martin-Bariteau and his team at the University of Ottawa today announced the new Portal which is a step ahead in the whistleblowing world in Canada. This portal aims to present in clear language the diverse legal protections available across Canada to whistleblowers, in other words the individuals making public interest disclosures about wrongdoing collected here in one place.
The site provides an important Tip: "With the uncertainty surrounding the legal framework, whistleblowers’ best protection relies on their anonymity." Good advice when protective legislation does not protect!
This should be a great resource for those interested in helping whistleblowers.
June 23, 2021: In celebration of World Whistleblower Day, we're announcing our partnership with the UK's newly launched charity, Parrhesia. View our Press Release.
June 23, 2021: Parrhesia, a new whistleblowing research charity launches its website on World Whistleblower Day. View their Press Release.
June 23, 2021: Read the latest Whistleblowing Canada newsletter here.
May 16, 2021: News Alert! Threats to National Security - the consequences to Canadians of governments ignoring truth-tellers and Project Sidewinder some thirty Years ago. Click here to go to our new "Consequences" page for more details and a preview of Sam Cooper's new book on the subject.