May 4, 2023
‘Excruciating delays’ at Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board: Ombudsman report (Global News)
A backlog of cases at Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board has grown to 38,000 and it is taking an average of seven or eight months — sometimes up to two years — for a hearing to be scheduled, the...
April 13, 2023
Urgent Action Needed: Child Welfare Organizations Must Implement Changes to Protect Vulnerable Indigenous Children (NetNewsLedger)
Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé has released a report titled “Missing In Inaction, Misty’s Story”, which details how multiple child welfare organizations failed to ensure the safety of an Indigenous girl...
April 13, 2023
Ontario ombudsman slams foster care company, child welfare agencies for failing Indigenous girl (Global News)
When a 13-year-old Indigenous girl repeatedly went missing from foster care in southwestern Ontario, the company looking after her kept assuring police it had no safety concerns.
December 20, 2022
'A situation of chronic neglect:' Ombudsman releases scathing report after boy found malnourished and living in squalor (CP24)
A 10-year-old boy was found malnourished and living in squalor in October 2018 but the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto refused to take him into their custody, prompting “horrified” police officers...
April 27, 2022
Ombudsman report details failures by province in handling closure of youth detention facilities (TBnewswatch.com)
The Ontario Ombudsman released a report that includes 16 recommendations after finding the provincial government’s plan and implementation to close two Northern Ontario youth custody and detention...
April 26, 2022
Ontario ombudsman's report details flawed closures of youth justice programs in northwest (CBC)
The government was wrong and unreasonable in how it closed custody and detention programs at youth justice facilities in Ontario's northwest region last year, the provincial ombudsman has concluded.
April 26, 2022
Ontario’s ‘secrecy’ when closing youth jails hurt Indigenous teens, ombud finds (The Star)
Provincial government officials “deliberately avoided transparency” when they abruptly closed two youth jails in northern Ontario last year, leaving staff in the dark while failing to consider the...
March 31, 2022
Laurentian neglected obligations under French Language Services Act, says language commissioner (CTV)
A new report says Laurentian University, the Ministry of Francophone Affairs and the Ministry of Colleges and Universities neglected their obligations under the law when French language programs were...