What we do
We take the records public bodies already publish — tribunal decisions, court files, oversight reports, budgets — read them completely rather than selectively, extract them into structured datasets, join them to what happened next, and publish both the findings and the data. Every figure carries its unit, its source and its review date.
Why "OnionSkin"
Onion-skin paper is what carbon copies were typed on: the thin sheet that proved what the original said. It is also what you get when you keep peeling a record apart — layers, each one thinner and closer to what actually happened.
What we will not publish
Success rates presented as merit rates. League tables without denominators. Untested allegations against named individuals. Any figure we cannot show the working for. The full list is on the Method page, along with our corrections policy and our rules on the use of AI.
Funding and independence
OnionSkin is non-commercial and carries no advertising, no sponsorship and no paywall. It has no institutional affiliation with any tribunal, police service, government body or law firm named in its work.
Standing on prior work
Province-wide analysis of tribunal dismissal and abandonment trends has been led since 2020 by Tribunal Watch Ontario. The 2012 Ontario Human Rights Review is our baseline for what this system looked like when it worked. Our contribution is respondent-level relational data and court-record joins.