All posts for the month March, 2010

Media Update for March 29, 2010

Today I lead with a story broken by Canadians for Accountability. It seems that some of our board members spotted some suspicious sole source contracts involving the Public Service Commission of Canada. An Access to Information Act request was made, which yielded documents demonstrating that not only were these contracts very juicy ($21,000 for the [...]

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WikiLeaks – A powerful resource for secure and anonymous disclosures

Of course no method is completely secure with zero risk but this service has an outstanding track record – and it has powerful bodies with unhealthy secrets worried… WikiLeaks is an internationally recognized secure service based in Iceland for anonymous whistleblowers who wish to leak sensitive “governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents,” sound recordings, and [...]

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Red Cross whistleblower Virgil Grandfield exposes modern slavery and human trafficking in the aid industry

Virgil Grandfield was featured in the national media last week when Radio Canada’s TV documentary series Enquette broke the story about extensive use of modern slave labour in the Canadian Red Cross’ rebuilding projects in 2004-tsunami-struck Indonesia. An English CBC TV report and national print media articles followed, as well as a radio magazine report [...]

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