This past July I wrote two posts on Sylvie Therrien, the government employee suspended because she leaked documents that revealed federal investigators were told to find $485,000 of Employment Insurance fraud every year. An update on her fate, published in today’s Star, reveals that she has been fired. The alleged
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Politics and its Discontents: More On The E.I Whistleblower
The other day I wrote a post on Sylvie Therrien, the government employee suspended because she leaked documents that revealed federal investigators were told to find $485,000 of Employment Insurance fraud every year. The “fraud quotas” were just one aspect of an office culture that encouraged cutting benefits from as
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Cancer, E.I., and Government Hypocrisy
The Faces Of Common Humanity Without doubt, to battle cancer must be a grueling and depleting experience. But to face rebuke and betrayal at the hands of one’s government because of the circumstances of that battle must be almost as traumatic. Such is the almost unbelievable tale of Jane Kittmer,
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