CFE WhistleblowingNewsletter

Welcome to the first of the Centre for Free Expression's Newsletter with updates on our whistleblowing initiatives.

News and Updates on Centre for Free
Expression's Whistleblowing Initiatives

John O'Connor awarded the 2021 Peter Bryce Prize for Whistleblowing

O'Connor's reports, starting in 2006, of an unexpected number of cancers and other health problems among the residents of the remote northern Alberta community of Fort Chipewyan were rebuffed by authorities and led to an ongoing fifteen year struggle for the health rights of this largely Indigenous community and others downstream from the Alberta oil sands.

Announcement & Presentation of Inaugural Award

CFE Presentation to Alberta Standing Committee on Whistleblower Protection

CFE Senior Fellows, David Hutton and Ian Bron met with Alberta Legislature's Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship as part of its review of the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act.

The made a presentation, which included PowerPoint slides, as well as shared the CFEWI Criteria for Evaluating the Protection of Whistleblowers, and presented the CFEWI Evaluation of Alberta's current Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act.

Two Eminent Canadian Whistleblowers Join CFE Whistleblowing Initiatives Steering Committee

Michèle Brill-Edwards and John O'Connor are joining the CFE Whistleblower Initiatives Steering Committee which guides the Centre for Free Expression's many whistleblowing initiatives. Other members include Sandy Boucher, Ian Bron, David Hutton, Peter Jacobsen, Anna Myers, Amélie Perron, Edgar Schmidt, James L Turk, and David Yazbeck.

Peter Bryce Prize for Whistleblowing

Earlier this year, the CFE introduced Peter Bryce Prize to honour individuals who serve the greater good by courageously speaking up about wrongdoing and abuses of public trust. The Prize will be awarded annually by the Centre for Free Expression.
Click here to submit your nomination for the 2022 recipient.

Featured Resources

The Whistleblowers Ordeal

By David Hutton

The typical experience of whistleblowers: how they find themselves compelled to speak out, and the consequences for them – and for the rest of us...read more

Video: Legal Protections for Whistleblowers: What is needed in Canada?

Panelists: Ian Bron, Tom Devine, Anna Myers,
Moderator: David Hutton

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