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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Investigation into the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services’ implementation of the decision to close custody and detention programs at Creighton Youth Centre and J.J. Kelso Youth Centre.
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ONTARIO OMBUDSMAN HISTORY The Office of the Ombudsman was established by the Ontario legislature in 1975. Arthur Maloney was sworn in as the province’s first Ombudsman on October 30 of that year, after the Ombudsman Act was passed on May 22 and given royal assent on J...
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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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the Ombudsman and team Message from the Ombudsman Paul Dubé, Ombudsman Barbara Finlay, Deputy Ombudsman Carl Bouchard, French Language Services Commissioner Organizational Structure PAUL DUBÉ, OMBUDSMAN Born in Calgary, Alberta, Mr. Paul ...
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Ombudsman’s Message - Essential Lessons from a Pandemic Year At this time last year, reporting on the impact of the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic on Ontario public services, I observed that in mid-March 2020, “everything changed.”
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An inmate who was 29 weeks into a high-risk pregnancy contacted us in fear that she would lose her baby due to lack of care. She complained of delays in being referred to prenatal appointments, in being taken to hospital, and in accessing her health record.
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An inmate who had been in segregation for nine months – because the facility had concerns about his and others’ safety and security – complained to our office that it was harming his mental health and he needed to see a psychiatrist.
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An inmate with diabetes who needed to take insulin before his meals complained to our office that correctional staff could only give it to him after meals.
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