An Indigenous inmate told us he had not been able to smudge regularly at his facility, and he wasn’t allowed traditional medicines such as cedar, sage, sweetgrass and tobacco.
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Investigation into parents forced to place their children with severe disabilities in the custody of Children’s Aid Societies to obtain necessary care.
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The Ombudsman received a complaint alleging that council for Loyalist Township contravened the Municipal Act ’s open meeting requirements on July 8, 2019, related to an in camera vote. The complaint also raised concerns about the amount of information that council shared in ...
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The Ombudsman received a complaint suggesting that five council members for the City of Greater Sudbury contravened the open meeting rules in the Municipal Act, 2001 when they attended a meeting held by the Flour Mill Community Action Network on April 8, 2024. The Ombudsman...
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The Ombudsman received a complaint about the August 8, 2018 closed meeting of the board of directors for the Owen Sound Downtown Improvement Area.
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New units will handle oversight of child protection and French language services.
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Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé has been named this year’s winner of the Ontario Bar Association’s Tom Marshall Award of Excellence for Public Sector Lawyers, honouring his contributions to public sector law in Ontario.
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Equivalent service in French and a positive experience for Francophones often lacking in 2020-2021, Kelly Burke reports
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Niagara Region implemented all 16 recommendations from J. Paul Dubé’s report
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More than four years after a scathing report cited “neglected” provincial officer training as a factor in fatal shootings, the Ontario ombudsman is blasting the “glacial” pace of police reform as the province has still not fixed central problems he identified.
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