Whistleblowers Create Transparency

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A simple description of a whistleblower is: an employee of an organization who reports abuse, fraud, corruption, theft, conspiracy and/or dangers to public health and safety. 

The Centre for Free Expression, launched in 2015, is a non-partisan platform focused on freedom of expression

The Centre for Free Expression, launched in 2015, is a non-partisan platform focused on freedom of expression – the human right to express one’s views, to be heard, and to participate in political, artistic, and social life. It also includes the ‘right to know’: the right to seek, receive, and share information through any media. CFE works in collaboration with academic and civil society organizations across Canada and internationally and is based in the Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).

Prominent Canadian Whistleblowers

Whistleblowers are people, often employees, who reveal information about activity within private or public organizations or institutions that they feel is illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe, fraudulent, or otherwise harmful. Current laws and policies to protect whistleblowers in Canada are weak, if not entirely ineffective.

Links to famous events initiated by USA Whistleblowers

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What I learned:

Whistleblowers are defamed, abused, tortured, murdered for "trying to or telling the truth".