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SORT Reports

Here are all of the Special Ombudsman Response Team’s published reports since its inception in 2005. For updates on these cases and all SORT investigations that did not result in a published report, go to the SORT investigations page.

• 10/08/2010 - The LHIN Spin

  Ombudsman finds the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN closed several meetings to the public for the purposes of “education” illegal.

• 30/09/2009 - A Vast Injustice

  Ministry decision to restrict cancer drug “verges on cruelty” - Ombudsman finds cap on Avastin funding unreasonable and wrong.

• 25/08/2009 - Too Cool For School Too

  Ontario Ombudsman urges stricter controls on colleges: Cambrian college left students unqualified; Ministry “abdicated responsibility”

• 14/07/2009 - Too Cool For School

  Ontario Ombudsman André Marin today urged the province's Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities to get tougher on unscrupulous private career colleges.

• 29/04/2009 - The ABCs of Education and Training

  Investigation into the City of Oshawa, Development Services Committee Special Meeting of May 22, 2008.

• 27/04/2009 - Pirating Our Property

  Investigation into the City of Oshawa’s apparent failure to co-operate.

• 30/09/2008 - Oversight Unseen

  Investigation into the Special Investigations Unit’s operational effectiveness and credibility.

• 03/06/2008 - Building Clarity

  Investigation into how the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services represents its relationship with Tarion Warranty Corp. to the public.

• 26/02/2008 - A Test of Wills

  Investigation into Legal Aid Ontario’s Role in the Funding of the Criminal Defence of Richard Wills.

• 26/03/2007 - A Game of Trust

  Investigation into the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s Protection of the Public from Fraud and Theft.

• 27/02/2007 - Adding Insult to Injury

  Investigation into the treatment of victims by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board.

• 09/08/2006 - It's All in the Name

  Investigation into the complaint of the Family Responsibility Office's ineffective enforcement using a Writ of Seizure and Sale.

• 31/05/2006 - Losing the Waiting Game

  Investigation into unreasonable delay at the Ministry of Community and Social Services' Ontario Disability Support Program's Disability Adjudication Unit.

• 28/03/2006 - Getting it Right

  Investigation into the transparency of the property assessment Process and the integrity and efficiency of decision-making at the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation.

• 27/09/2005 - The Right To Be Impatient

  Investigation into whether the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has failed to properly administer newborn screening in Ontario.

• 01/09/2005 - From Hope to Despair

  Investigation into the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's refusal to fund the drug Cystagon for treatment of Batten's Disease.

• 20/05/2005 - Between A Rock and A Hard Place

  Investigation into parents of children with special needs being forced to relinquish custody of their children to obtain necessary residential care.