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Heartbreaking cycle for those with developmental disabilities needs to end (Toronto Sun)

Christina Blizzard , Queen’s Park Columnist Toronto Sun August 24, 2016 7:49pm The stories are horrific. Patrick, 24, had cerebral palsy and couldn’t speak. He was placed in a local nursing home because his mother could no longer cope with his aggressive outbursts. So a young man whose brain was …
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Ottawa jail in the top three for complaints, despite fewer inmates (Ottawa Citizen)

Andrew Seymour Ottawa Citizen November 2, 2016 The Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre remained among the three most complained about jails in Ontario, a dubious distinction it earned despite being the only jail in the top five that housed fewer than 1,000 inmates. There were 394 complaints about the …
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Family Responsibility Office received 1,000+ complaints last year, needs 'urgent change' (CBC Toronto)

Kate McGillivray CBC News Nov 04, 2016 A Toronto mother says she's been in bureaucratic limbo for more than six months after filing an application with the Family Responsibility Office (FRO) in order to retrieve missing child support payments. Simone Dadoun filed her application with the help of …
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Agency that enforces child support generates most complaints: Ombudsman (Canadian Press)

Keith Leslie The Canadian Press November 2, 2016 TORONTO - Ontario's Family Responsibility Office, which enforces court-ordered child and spousal support payments, tops the list of provincial government organizations generating complaints to the ombudsman's office. Ombudsman Paul Dubé said his …
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Ontario ombudsman investigating province's use of solitary confinement (The Globe and Mail)

Joe Friesen The Globe and Mail December 2, 2016 Ontario’s Ombudsman has launched an investigation into the way the province tracks and reviews the placement of prisoners in solitary confinement. The review will examine how the system logs segregated prisoners and counts the amount of time they have …
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Ontario Ombudsman has had more than 500 complaints about use of solitary confinement (The London Free Press)

Randy Richmond The London Free Press December 2, 2016 Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dube is adding his voice to the growing questions about segregation in the province’s jails, launching a probe into the controversial practice. The probe comes amid several high-­profile cases and heightened attention to …
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Ontario ombudsman announces review of process of placing prisoners in solitary (The Star)

Rob Ferguson Queen's Park Bureau The Star December 2, 2016 A dramatic rise in complaints about inmates in segregation — including murder suspect Adam Capay at the Thunder Bay jail — has prompted Ontario’s new ombudsman to launch an investigation. Paul Dubé said Friday he will probe “how the …
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'Unreasonable, wrong, oppressive': Segregation tracking system a failure, ombudsman reports (Ottawa Citizen)

Andrew Seymour Ottawa Citizen April 20, 2017 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 investigation by the province’s ombudsman found. The Ottawa …
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Province commits to releasing all past and present SIU reports as recommended in police review (CBC News)

John Rieti CBC News Apr 06, 2017 Ontario will publish the details of every police-involved fatality dating back to 1990 — when the Special Investigations Unit was established — following a major report into police oversight in the province. Attorney General Yasir Naqvi made that commitment and …
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Ontario's solitary confinement tracking system 'wrong ... oppressive': ombudsman ‘We probably tracked livestock better than we do human beings’ — ministry official (iPolitics.ca)

Ainslie Cruickshank iPolitics.ca April 20, 2017 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 largely ignores policies meant to ensure …
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Ontario routinely flouts solitary-confinement rules: report (The Globe and Mail)

Patrick White The Globe and Mail April 20, 2017 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 have spent in the restrictive cells as well as why …
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Ontario prisons use solitary confinement too often, and for the wrong reasons (TVO)

John Michael McGrath TVO.org April 24, 2017 The most important thing to know about last week's report from provincial Ombudsman Paul Dubé isn’t that he's highlighted the terrible state of Ontario’s correctional centres, their over-reliance on solitary confinement (officially known as segregation), …
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Ontario ombudsman slams segregation use (Canadian Press)

Colin Perkel The Canadian Press April 20, 2017 TORONTO — Vulnerable inmates are being put at risk due to Ontario's highly flawed system of segregation, the province's ombudsman said Thursday. In a hard-hitting report, Paul Dubé says no one is properly tracking how long inmates are kept in solitary, …
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It’s high time to track and reduce the use of solitary confinement: Editorial (The Star)

The Star April 24, 2017 In Ontario prisons, the shameful reality is that inmates are sometimes tossed into solitary confinement and then forgotten, for years, by the province. We have long known this. Yet despite having studied the problem for years, Queen's Park has done little about it. A …
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‘Serious problems’ in use of segregation in prisons, Ontario ombudsman reports (The Star)

Kristin Rushowy The Star April 20, 2017   Paul Dubé calls on provincial government to better track and monitor use of solitary confinement. The use of segregation in Ontario jails is full of “serious problems,” including a lack of accurate tracking and monitoring of prisoners, says the province’s …
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The Role of the Ombudsman (OPC Register)

Peggy Sweeney Photography by Ethan Horst Mitchell and Stefanie Neves OPC Register   The Ombudsman Act provides the Office of the Ombudsman of Ontario with the authority to oversee and investigate the provincial government, including provincial ministries, Crown corporations, tribunals, agencies, …
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Ontario ombudsman investigates cases where drivers miss notice of licence suspension (The Star)

Rob Ferguson Queen's Park Bureau The Star June 27, 2017   Ontario’s ombudsman is investigating “weak links” to find out how drivers whose licences have been suspended or reinstated have missed important notifications from the Ministry of Transportation. Mailing systems and computer problems are …
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It looks like change is finally coming to the Family Responsibility Office (TVO)

John Michael McGrath TVO June 27, 2017   The Family Responsibility Office is one of the perennial nightmare cases in the provincial government. The agency responsible for enforcing child- and spousal-support payments is never going to be the soil out of which good-news stories grow. Still, it’s …
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10 notable cases from the Ontario ombudsman's annual report (QP Briefing)

Sabrina Nanji Posted with permission from QP Briefing June 27, 2017   Ontario ombudsman Paul Dubé on Tuesday released his annual report into the 21,328 complaints his office received in 2016-17 - his first full term with an expanded mandate that now covers municipalities, universities and school …
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The Ontario Ombudsman’s Top 10 Things to Know for 2016

A year-end Top 10 list is an annual tradition here at the Office of the Ontario Ombudsman. As we wrap up our milestone 40th year and welcome an historic expansion of our mandate on January 1, Acting Ombudsman Barbara Finlay has designed this year’s list to help Ontarians get to know us better. …
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