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Ted Palys has been appointed a senior fellow at the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) at Toronto Metropolitan University. Palys is one of Canada’s leading authorities on research confidentiality. “Ted Palys’ work over two decades has highlighted the need to ensure the ethical conduct of human research becomes reality,” said James L. Turk, Director of the CFE. “We are delighted that he will be joining the CFE in a formal role as we move forward to get statutory protection for research confidentiality.”

Peter Bailey, CEO of the St. Albert Public Library has joined the Centre for Free Expression’s Working Group on Intellectual Freedom. “We welcome Peter to the groups that guides the Centre for Free Expressions work in defending and promoting intellectual freedom,” said James L. Turk, Director of the Centre.  

Katya Borrás, Manager of the Pointe-Claire (Quebec) Public Library is the newest member of the Centre for Free Expression’s Working Group on Intellectual Freedom.

Tammy Le, president of the British Columbia Teacher Librarians’ Association, is joining the Centre for Free Expression’s Working Group on Intellectual Freedom. Tammy is a Teacher-Librarian at École Salish Secondary in Surrey, B.C., and is past president of the Surrey Chapter of the BCTLA

In the third of a series of reports about the adequacy of whistleblower protection laws in Canada, the Centre for Free Expression gives Nova Scotia’s Public Interest Disclosure of Wrongdoing Act a failing grade on all major criteria. Despite the law’s intention of protecting people who speak up about potential or actual wrongdoing, the report finds there is no evidence that it has protected any whistleblowers since the Act came into force in 2011.