<![CDATA[Public Enemy No. 1: The Police Whistleblower]]> https://www.policevswhistleblower.ca/ 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.

]]> RSS.com 2026.320.183334 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:05:24 GMT en 195ea100-9fc8-5da3-a394-3997c7a1275b https://media.rss.com/policevswhistleblower/20230724_110740_5e9e3e3da964c7f8cf5dfe112c3e859c.jpg Public Enemy No. 1: The Police Whistleblower https://www.policevswhistleblower.ca/ yes Kelly Donovan 2023 Kelly Donovan Kelly Donovan true episodic podcast Ontario, Canada <![CDATA[A decade of retaliation]]> After a break from podcast episodes, Kelly updates listeners on how the legal saga continues. The police service has now spent over $816,000.00 on these legal matters and have not given up in their fight to silence Kelly.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2649332 10666d86-1a1a-4203-89db-d64cc4fa5cc1 885 full 3 3 1 1 false Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:38:47 GMT <![CDATA[The price of inadequate whistleblower laws]]> Kelly was unsuccessful in her attempt to force the human rights tribunal to hear her multiple requests to dismiss the police service's case against her.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2308595 bcd609c7-0876-4b1b-a92e-b035dadeb79c 1463 full 2 2 2 2 true Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:01:58 GMT <![CDATA[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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2308588 6b1d8e33-a0b0-4ec8-a538-ce75440afa47 1588 full 2 2 1 1 true Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:01:52 GMT <![CDATA[We can all get behind truth]]> Kelly explains issues she had identified in the legal profession, and why things have to change so that self-represented litigants are not marginalized.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2308580 dcb74647-7c82-437f-9531-d3c927926824 1282 full 1 1 7 7 true Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:01:49 GMT <![CDATA[Did not buy my silence]]> It's one thing to agree to be silences by an NDA, but Kelly explains that she had always refused to be silenced by the police service, yet they continue to try to enforce an agreement against her, claiming that when she speaks publicly, she is violating an agreement.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2308574 be5355a0-3618-4001-b655-1d41842458b4 1951 full 1 1 6 6 true Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:01:45 GMT <![CDATA[Surveilled, persecuted and abandonned]]> Kelly reminds listeners what started all of this and made her Public Enemy No. 1. Learn why most police associations don't help women who make a "blue on blue" complaint, and what almost pushed Kelly over the edge at Christmas, 2022.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2308570 53dc7445-c3d6-4913-884d-062a5c6a29a1 1514 full 1 1 5 5 true Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:01:40 GMT <![CDATA[It was all a bad dream]]> In this episode, Kelly provides more detail about the two human rights cases, and goes back to the Court of Appeal for the second time.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2308562 ee4ea5e4-65b4-4cb5-baea-81b4b1f8ebbc 1842 full 1 1 4 4 true Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:01:35 GMT <![CDATA[Second kick at the can]]> While the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario cases slowed to a halt, Kelly pushed on with her civil lawsuit, in hopes to have her day in court against the police service and police chief.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2308556 e1243b87-74ef-4fae-8607-924239b0c5cb 1740 full 1 1 3 3 true Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:01:31 GMT <![CDATA[Whistleblower retaliation]]> Kelly resigned from policing in June, 2017, but because was advocating for protection for police whistleblowers, she continued to face retaliation at the hands of her former police service.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2308545 d9e00539-ad9a-4248-8e08-1e9c64fe9e1a 1982 full 1 1 2 2 true Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:01:28 GMT <![CDATA[Where it all began]]> In this introductory episode, Kelly Donovan explains why protecting police whistleblowers is so important and she shares her story of what happened to her when she chose to report to the police services board what she believed were abuses of power when police investigate themselves for domestic violence.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/policevswhistleblower/2308531 2868787b-9c58-4773-a6c7-15e029b35c40 1821 full 1 1 1 1 true Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:57:10 GMT