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David Ebner
The Globe and Mail
Journalist
Justice reporter at The Globe and Mail.
Connected Scandals
Journalist
Ontario's only maximum-security psychiatric hospital has kept severely mentally ill patients locked alone in rooms for years — one man for about 20 years — in conditions an independent reviewer found akin to what the UN "deemed to constitute torture." The Ford government was warned in 2018 and responded with a single phone call.
Covered the Ontario Court of Appeal ruling on the psychiatric assessment of a patient held in long-term isolation at Waypoint for The Globe and Mail.