Toronto Star Investigative Series on Waypoint’s Long-Term Seclusion Cases continues – Andrea Monteiro’s Assessment Report regarding Andrew Azevedo

Posted on August 26, 2026 by Anita Szigeti

On this blog you’ll find a link to all of Jacques Gallant’s Toronto Star reporting on these important issues as the articles appeared in the Star throughout April and May of 2026, here:

Jacques Gallant and the Toronto Star’s Four Part Series “20 Years in Isolation” Examining Long-Term Seclusion at Waypoint – April 23 – 28, 2026 and Five Follow-up Pieces (So Far) Apr 29 – May 28, 2026 + One Opinion Piece (June 4, 2026)

A further follow-up piece by Jacques Gallant appeared in the Star on August 26, 2026

Locked up. Alone. For years. Ontario hospital’s use of isolation akin to ‘torture,’ independent review finds

The first detailed look inside Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care since Star investigation finds the hospital is violating its own policy. 

And number perhaps 11 (?) in the series now regarding the hearing of the ORB regarding Andrew Azevedo appeard on August 27, 2026

The Star exposed his five years in isolation at this Ontario psychiatric hospital. He’s suddenly set to be released from seclusion

Andrew Azevedo’s doctor at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care attributes his improvement to a change in medication — not the public attention.

Aug. 27, 2026

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About Anita Szigeti

• Called to the Bar (1992) • U of T Law grad (1990) • Sole practitioner (33 years) • Partner in small law firm (Hiltz Szigeti) 2002 - 2013 • Mom to two astonishing kids, Scarlett (20+) and Sebastian (20-) • (Founding) Chair of Mental Health Legal Committee for ten years (1997 to 2007) * Founding President of Law and Mental Disorder Association - LAMDA since 2017 * Founder and Secretary to Women in Canadian Criminal Defence - WiCCD - since 2022 • Counsel to clients with serious mental health issues before administrative tribunals and on appeals • Former Chair, current member of LAO’s mental health law advisory committee • Educator, lecturer, widely published author (including 5 text books on consent and capacity law, Canadian civil mental health law, the criminal law of mental disorder, a law school casebook and a massive Anthology on all things mental health and the law) • Thirty+ years’ experience as counsel to almost exclusively legally aided clients • Frequently appointed amicus curiae • Fearless advocate • Not entirely humourless
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