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 about the August 8, 2018 closed meeting of the board of directors for the Owen Sound Downtown Improvement Area.
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The Ombudsman found that Council for the City of Niagara Falls held an illegal meeting on October 8, 2013. The matter discussed did not fit within any permissible exceptions to the open meeting requirements, and no public notice of the closed session was provided.
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The Ombudsman received complaints alleging that council for the Town of Amherstburg violated the open meeting rules found in the Municipal Act, 2001 when it held in camera meetings on August 8, September 13, November 8, and November 16, 2021. The Ombudsman found that t...
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Jill Anzarut - a thorn to government, a champion to breast-cancer activists - is to start Herceptin on Friday for a half-centimetre tumour that was once deemed too small to treat.
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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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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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