Kelly Donovan is a Canadian police whistleblower, who chose to speak out in 2016 about the way police were (or were not) investigating themselves for domestic violence. She faced immediate reprisal for speaking out, and resigned in 2017. Kelly made it her mission to change Canada’s laws to protect future police whistleblowers. To try to silence her, the police service has continued to retaliate against her since her resignation. Stay tuned to find out why the police have spent over half a million dollars to try to silence her.
Public Enemy No. 1: The Police Whistleblower
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Kelly Donovan is a Canadian police whistleblower, who chose to speak out in 2016 about the way police were (or were not) investigating themselves for domestic violence. She faced immediate reprisal for speaking out, and resigned in 2017. Kelly made it her mission to change Canada’s laws to protect future police whistleblowers. To try to silence her, the police service has continued to retaliate against her since her resignation. Stay tuned to find out why the police have spent over half a million dollars to try to silence her.
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Recent Episodes
January 11, 2024
Season 2, Episode 2 - The price of inadequate whistleblower laws
Kelly was unsuccessful in her attempt to force the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to hear her multiple requests to dismiss the police service's case against her. This has only meant that the battle to try to hold them accountable continues, at an extremely high cost to the public.
November 29, 2023
Season 2, Episode 1 - The sad state of Canadian whistleblower laws
Out of 60 countries, Canada has the worst whistleblower protection laws. Kelly takes listeners through a recent case that only came to light because of the persistence of a police whistleblower, and how our current laws are not offering any protection to municipal police officers who choose to do the right thing.
August 18, 2023
Season 1, Episode 7 - We can all get behind truth
Finishing off Season 1, Kelly explains issues she has identified in the legal profession, and why things have to change so that self-represented litigants are not marginalized. Kelly hopes to unite a divided society to demand truth, transparency and accountability from government.
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