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June 27, 2017

Ontario ombudsman investigates cases where drivers miss notice of licence suspension (The Star)

Ombudsman cites “weak links” at transportation ministry in cases when drivers not notified their licences have been suspended.
June 27, 2017

It looks like change is finally coming to the Family Responsibility Office (TVO)

Ontario ombudsman Paul Dubé’s latest report includes the usual litany of problems at the agency that’s supposed to enforce child support payments. Still, Dubé says things are getting better.
June 27, 2017

10 notable cases from the Ontario ombudsman's annual report (QP Briefing)

Paul Dubé on Tuesday released his annual report into the 21,328 complaints his office received in 2016-17.
June 27, 2017

Les Ontariens veulent un secteur public responsable et imputable, dit l'Ombudsman (Radio-Canada)

L'ombudsman de l'Ontario, Paul Dubé, affirme que les Ontariens ont « une soif de responsabilisation » et qu'une surveillance accrue du secteur public permettra d'améliorer les services aux citoyens. C...
June 24, 2017

Rôle et fonction de l’Ombudsman de l’Ontario : finalement démystifiés!

Discours de l’Ombudsman de l’Ontario, Paul Dubé, aux délégués au 38e congrès annuel de l’AJEFO, Canada 150 : Nos foyers et nos droits, à Ottawa, le 24 juin 2017.
June 7, 2017

The Role of the Ombudsman (OPC Register)

Working with school boards to resolve complaints
June 2, 2017

Ombudsman nominated as one of Canada’s most influential lawyers

Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé is among the nominees for Canadian Lawyer magazine’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada.
June 1, 2017

Newsletter - Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé releases 2016-2017 Annual Report

May 31, 2017

Ombudsman Strategies for Getting to Yes and Beyond: Acceptance and Implementation of Recommendations

The role of an ombudsman is to promote accountability, transparency, and fairness in the public sector. This mandate is fulfilled by receiving citizens’ complaints about a branch of government or a...
May 31, 2017

Ombudsman finds municipality’s trespass order against councillor unjust and excessive

Barring a councillor from the local town hall for more than two years is “excessive and unjustly punitive,” Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé has found in his first investigation of a complaint about a...
May 24, 2017

Ombudsman to investigate communication of driver’s licence suspensions and reinstatements

Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé today announced an investigation into how the province communicates licence suspensions and reinstatements to drivers who were suspended for unpaid fines, in the wake of...
May 15, 2017

Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities keynote speech

On May 11, 2017, Ontario Ombudsman, Paul Dubé, gave a keynote speech at the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities' 57th annual conference, in North Bay.
May 1, 2017

Newsletter - Ombudsman to investigate communication of driver’s licence suspensions and reinstatements

April 24, 2017

It’s high time to track and reduce the use of solitary confinement: Editorial (The Star)

Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé’s report last week on solitary confinement found a ministry that literally doesn’t know how many prisoners are being held in it for how long.
April 24, 2017

Ontario prisons use solitary confinement too often, and for the wrong reasons (TVO)

ANALYSIS: Ombudsman Paul Dubé says the province's segregation practices need serious revision — and that the government has long been aware of systemic problems
April 20, 2017

‘Serious problems’ in use of segregation in prisons, Ontario ombudsman reports (The Star)

Paul Dubé calls on provincial government to better track and monitor use of solitary confinement.
April 20, 2017

Ombudsman calls for clear new law, strong oversight of inmate segregation

Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé today called on the province to reform its flawed system of placing and tracking inmates in solitary confinement, after his latest investigation revealed numerous issues...
April 20, 2017

'Unreasonable, wrong, oppressive': Segregation tracking system a failure, ombudsman reports (Ottawa Citizen)

An Ottawa jail inmate with apparent mental health issues and a diminished cognitive ability that made it difficult for him to carry on a conversation spent more than a year in segregation, an...
April 20, 2017

Ontario's solitary confinement tracking system 'wrong ... oppressive': ombudsman ‘We probably tracked livestock better than we do human beings’ — ministry official (iPolitics.ca)

After a shocking case of solitary confinement in one Ontario prison was exposed last fall, the province’s ombudsman has revealed a system that fails to track how long inmates remain in segregation and...
April 20, 2017

Ontario routinely flouts solitary-confinement rules: report (The Globe and Mail)

Following a six-month investigation, Ontario’s Ombudsman has found that the province routinely flouts its own rules around solitary confinement in prisons, regularly losing track of how long prisoners...
April 20, 2017

Ontario ombudsman slams segregation use (Canadian Press)

TORONTO — Vulnerable inmates are being put at risk due to Ontario's highly flawed system of segregation, the province's ombudsman said Thursday.