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Investigator Chronicles Ep. 5  ft. Lisa Southern

In Episode 5, Lisa Southern, a founding partner of Southern Law in Vancouver and the first Integrity Commissioner for the City of Vancouver, joins Investigator Chronicles host Christine Thomlinson to talk about her path from labour and employment lawyer to adjudicator to investigator, and what her career across hearing rooms and institutional files has taught her about running a fair, effective process.

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From Case to Practice:When must Workplace Investigators Disclose Documents from their File?

When I first started doing workplace investigations, I don’t think it ever crossed my mind that someone might someday get to see the notes I took in interviews, or anything else in my investigation file. Over time, this began to be discussed as a risk, and it certainly made me more thoughtful about what I recorded in connection with my investigation work.

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Why Neutrality Matters in Workplace Assessments

The importance of neutrality within a workplace investigation is oft-discussed and, at this point, well understood. I frequently tell participants in our Workplace Investigation Fundamentals workshop that to undertake a fair investigation they need to be capable of being open to the possibility that any person they interview – complainant, respondent, or witness – is telling them the truth.

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10 Lessons for Investigators Interviewing Children

In Episode 4 of Investigator Chronicles, I talk to child forensic interviewing specialist, Dayna Boyko, about her expertise in interviewing children. Dayna spent 25 years in the Toronto Police Service, 16 of which were spent working on the Internet Child Exploitation Team, where she became an expert in interviewing child survivors and witnesses of sexual violence.

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Investigator Chronicles Ep. 4 ft. Dayna Boyko

In Episode 4, Dayna Boyko — child forensic interviewing specialist, president of Helix Investigative Consulting Inc., and retired Toronto Police Service (TPS) investigator — joins our Investigator Chronicles host, Christine Thomlinson, to talk about how to get accurate, reliable accounts from child complainants and witnesses.

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From Case to Practice: Applying Factual Findings to the Statutory Threshold for Workplace Harassment

In the last edition of From Case to Practice, we discussed a recent decision by Arbitrator Hart which looked in-depth at the proper approach to making policy decisions in workplace investigations (Part 1).

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Investigator Chronicles Ep. 3  ft. Rupa Karyampudi

In Episode 3, workplace investigator Rupa Karyampudi joins our Investigator Chronicles host, Christine Thomlinson, to talk about designing a more accessible investigation process for participants with disabilities and neurodivergence.

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From Case to Practice: The Proper Approach to Making Policy Decisions in Workplace Investigations

We recently reviewed an arbitration decision by Mark Hart. There’s enough to say about this decision that we have divided this into two editions of From Case to Practice. This Part 1 focuses on making policy decisions.

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