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?
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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?
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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
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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.