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Whistleblower Laws Fall Woefully Short, Says Longtime Advocate Federal and provincial laws designed to protect whistleblowers are woefully inadequate, says an advocate who has worked for stronger whistleblower protection for over a decade. David Hutton, a senior fellow at Ryerson University’s Centre for Free Expression Whistleblowing Initiatives (CFEWI), says the federal Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (PSDPA) has numerous significant problems. “It’s just loaded with loopholes,” Hutton said in an interview. “It’s like a car that doesn’t have wheels and has no transmiss...

Posted: Feb 16, 2021 9:30 AM MT | Last Updated: February 16 Alberta's public interest commissioner, Marianne Ryan (centre in this archive photo), told a legislative committee earlier this month that the province's whistleblower protection act needs to be expanded and strengthened.(Jason Franson/The Canadian Press) Alberta's whistleblower protection law should apply to more public entities and those who contract with the province, and should be strengthened to protect complainants from being sued, the public interest commissioner told a legislative committee earlier this month. On. Feb. 4, com...

International Civil Society Letter to President Zelensky re. Draft Law #3450 OPEN LETTER SENT BY EMAIL AND POST TO: Mr. Zelensky, President of Ukraine 16th February 2021 Dear President Zelensky, We, the undersigned organisations join our voices to this letter from the Board of Trustees of the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN) to urge your leadership to defend the integrity of the law that protects those who risk their careers to fight corruption and block proposed draft Bill which undermines effective protection for public interest whistleblowing in Ukraine.  In December 2019, Ukrai...

Article content There’s a process quietly unfolding in the legislature which will affect the health, safety and financial security of Albertans and will affect the government’s ability to root out damaging incompetence and corruption within the public service. It’s a review of the province’s whistleblower protection law — the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act (PIDA) . This is important because decades of research have shown that whistleblowers are the single most effective source of information to uncover wrongdoing within organizations — more effective tha...

2 February 2021 The low-tech Flexipump is easy and intuitive to operate. Using Solid Edge software, the designer was able to refine the design and optimise it for injection moulding. The Flexipump line assembly. The final product weighs 2.5 kg compared to an original weight of 4.5 kg. With an initial design which resembled an oversized bicycle pump with a piston and two valves, David Hutton created the  Flexipump , a highly productive irrigation pump for farmers in the developing world. Specialised software later helped him refine and optimise his design. David Hutton is...