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FAIR Monthly Headlines: April 2011 A selected list of articles added to the FAIR website last month. These are about whistleblowing, whistleblowers, and the types of misconduct that they typically expose. http://fairwhistleblower.ca/news_digest/2011/04

The Donner Prize encourages and celebrates excellence in public policy writing by Canadians, on topics of great importance to Canadians. Ron Ellis is an administrative law lawyer, teacher, academic, arbitrator, and former chair and CEO of a major

Canada's Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, Mario Dion, has a USA counterpart, Caroline Lerner of the Office of Special Counsel in Washington D.C. Like Dion, Lerner is charged with protecting government whistleblowers and investigating their

Josh Hicks June 5, 2014 The Office of Special Counsel is investigating allegations that the Department of Veterans Affairs retaliated against 37 whistleblowers, including some who tried to report actions related to the agencys recent scheduling

James Ball June 5, 2014 The Guardian has launched a secure platform for whistleblowers to securely submit confidential documents to the newspapers reporters. The launch comes a year to the day since the Guardian posted the first of a series of

James McLeod May 7, 2014 The government finally feels ready to take the plunge and enact whistleblower legislation, after leaving it sitting on the sidelines for years, Public Engagement Minister Steve Kent said. Kent unveiled the 11-page bill to

The following are selected extracts Mike De Souza May 1, 2014 A newly released internal e-mail from TransCanada Corp. is raising fresh questions about whether its managers attempted to undermine the credibility of a former employee who questioned

Jason Contant May 12, 2014 The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is one step closer to passing whistleblower legislation, after Bill 1 received second reading in the House of Assembly on May 6. Under Bill 1, An Act Respecting Public

Australia Public Service News Online April 15, 2014 Public sector integrity in Canada is in crisis with whistleblowers demanding the Government dump its second consecutive Integrity Commissioner after two damning audits of his office. The Auditor

Jacqueline Ronson April 23, 2014 Proposed whistleblower protection laws could do more harm than good if they are not strengthened, according to Yukons ombudsman. I dont feel that the legislation thats being proposed is strong enough to protect

The CSA Group, formerly known as the Canadian Standards Association, is set to develop a best practices guideline for whistleblowing arrangements within an organization. This is aimed at public and private, as well as NGOs and voluntary

The Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) Annual Review includes a four-page analysis of Canada's weak and ineffective attempts to protect whistleblowers. Written by David Hutton, the piece explains how the current federal system has

Transparency International Canada's fourth 'Day of Dialogue' will be taking place in Toronto on 3rd June. This stimulating event is TI-Canada's annual conference, and covers various aspects of corruption. This year the whistleblowing session

Allan Cutler April 21, 2014 Gross Mismanagement. These are not my words, but the words used of Auditor General Michael Ferguson in his recent report on the Office of the Integrity Commissioner. We found that the actions and omissions of PSIC

This problem deadly antimicrobial resistant 'superbugs' being bred by use of antibiotics in the food industry was one of the issues that Health Canada whistleblowers Dr. Shiv Chopra and his colleagues Margaret Haydon and Gerard Lambert were

Kyle Duggan April 21, 2014 Health Canada is moving to phase out antibiotic drugs for growth promotion in livestock over the next three years due to concerns over antimicrobial resistance. A Health Canada notice to stakeholders on April 10 said

Rose Simone April 19, 2014 Bruce McClure has pretty much seen it all during his years as a house inspector, including a missing septic system. "It was a large property on a big valley down near Paris and when I walked out to the back of the

April 17, 2014 Shortly after a bustling sawmill was flattened by fire in northern British Columbia, a concerned worker at another operation phoned the province's safety watchdog with fears that his workplace would meet a similar fate. The

A selected list of articles added to the FAIR website last month. These are about whistleblowing, whistleblowers, and the types of misconduct that they typically expose. Groups call for dismissal of Integrity

The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the highest accolade in US journalism, winning the Pulitzer prize for public service for their groundbreaking articles on the National Security Agencys surveillance activities based on the leaks

April 8, 2014 Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away, because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating, former National Security Agency contractor Edward

April 13, 2014 Canadas Information Commissioner believes police should look into evidence of systemic interference with access to information requests by three Conservative political staffers, but says she has no power to call them herself. The

Jennifer Ditchburn April 10, 2014 The information commissioner of Canada has found evidence of systemic interference with access to information requests by three Conservative staff members, and suggests bringing in police to investigate. But

Cameron French March 27, 2014 Canada's largest capital markets regulator is pushing for an amendment to the country's Criminal Code that would allow investigators to use wiretaps to investigate insider trading. Such a step would give Canadian

Chris Cheadle April 15, 2014 Whistleblower protection groups are demanding the Harper government fire its second public service integrity commissioner after two damning audits of his office. The auditor general has found what he calls gross

Giuseppe Valiante April 15, 2014 Several watchdog groups have called for Canada's integrity commissioner to be fired after the auditor general accused him of gross mismanagement in the handling of two government whistleblower files. Mario Dion is

Media Release For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 15, 2014 Groups call for dismissal of Integrity Commissioner given Auditor Generals new reports of gross mismanagement... Today, in response to the federal Auditor General's new report that found

Daniel Leblanc April 9, 2014 Quebecs anti-corruption unit has raided the home of a former municipal bureaucrat who was once heavily promoted by the federal government to take over the Montreal Port Authority. The provinces permanent

March 18, 2014 A former staffer for a Conservative senator was charged Monday with fraud and breach of trust for payments the RCMP discovered during an investigation into fees linked to the renovation of the West Block of Parliament Hill. Hubert

Today, the Make It Safe Coalition (MISC) marks the 25th anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA), the primary law ensuring freedom of speech and accountability in the federal workplace, and the model for occupational free speech

Rajeev Syal March 24, 2014 MPs have criticised Britain's leading tax official after HM Revenue & Customs used powers meant to catch terrorists to hunt down an employee who exposed a secret multimillion-pound "sweetheart" deal with Goldman

Marcia L. Narine April 3, 2014 As regular readers of this blog may know, I sit on the Department of Labor's Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration, a division of the Department of Labor, may

Noam Cohen April 6, 2014 The Ridenhour prize for truth-telling will be given to Edward J. Snowden and Laura Poitras, the filmmaker and journalist who helped Mr. Snowden disclose his trove of documents on government surveillance. The award, named

The following are selected extracts Mike De Souza April 13, 2014 Management at TransCanada Corp. were dismissive to employees who raised concerns in recent years about the safety of the companys existing and brand new North Americanpipeline

Josh Hicks April 10, 2014 A co-author of the 1989 Whistleblower Protection Act plans to create a new Senate caucus dedicated to upholding the federal-workforce legislation, which became law 25 years ago to the day. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa)

Jordan Thomas - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 After the revelation in 2008 that Bernard Madoffs wealth management business was actually a colossal Ponzi scheme, Madoffs victims and the public immediately asked: Who else in the Madoff organization

March 21, 2014 An insulation industry member was told "not to rock the boat" when he warned Australian government bureaucrats about the safety risks inherent in its home insulation scheme. Insulation Council of Australia and New Zealand (ICANZ)