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.
March 27, 2023
Ombudsman to investigate cases of people with developmental disabilities who are inappropriately housed in hospitals
Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé today announced a new investigation into the plight of adults with developmental disabilities who are inappropriately housed in hospital due to a lack of supports and...
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...