I link below an excellent piece on whistleblowing in Canada – one that speaks to that part of the Canadian psyche which dislikes dissent and those who make waves – no matter how much wave-making might be needed. The author is quite blunt: A lot of the people I have spoken with seem to feel [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/06/09/story-of-day-canadians-still-don%e2%80%99t-like-whistleblowers/
I’ve included an old (and colourful) blog posting by the Government Accountability Project on Brad Birkenfeld, the whistleblower who exposed massive tax evasion in the U.S. – and was thanked by the U.S. government with a 40-month jail term. The charge: stealing company documents from the bank UBS. Not one of the tax evaders was [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/01/16/media-update-for-january-16-2010/
News Summary and Comment: Once again, the big accountability and whistleblowing story is WikiLeaks’ release of U.S. diplomatic documents. This release has been fascinating to most people, but hasn’t really revealed anything that informed observers didn’t already know. Even officials admit this. What explains the hysterical calls of treason and demands for execution and assassination, [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/12/02/media-update-for-december-2-2010/