34 interviews, zero names disclosed, and a finding that still stands

A school superintendent whom Alberta's whistleblower commissioner found responsible for a culture of fear wanted to know who her anonymous accusers were. The province's highest court has now ruled that investigators never had to name them.

In a decision dated June 1, 2026, the Court of Appeal of Alberta allowed the Public Interest Commissioner's appeal and reinstated his report, which concluded that Mary Lynne Campbell, the former superintendent of the Sturgeon School Division, had grossly mismanaged employees. The panel of Justices Jolaine Antonio, William T. de Wit and Joshua B. Hawkes overturned a lower court that had thrown the report out.

A disclosure and 34 interviews

The case began in May 2021, when a whistleblower filed a disclosure under Alberta's Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act, alleging Campbell had grossly mismanaged employees through a pattern of conduct relating to bullying, harassment or intimidation. The complainant's identity was withheld from Campbell from the start.

An investigator interviewed 34 current and former employees of the Division, a public school authority north of Edmonton, asking general questions about workplace culture without telling them Campbell was the person under investigation. The summaries that followed reported that thirty-one witnesses described the culture as one of fear, and that nineteen described her management style as...

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