Councillor Vrebosch cleared after integrity review of Facebook post – BayToday.ca

Inquiry examined whether a councillor’s personal Facebook activity fell under the city’s conduct code North Bay’s integrity commissioner has dismissed a complaint against Councillor Tanya Vrebosch over a Facebook post, concluding the post fell outside the city’s code of conduct. But the 20-page report also goes beyond the individual complaint, drawing a line between municipal accountability and councillors’ private lives while cautioning against expanding integrity oversight into personal disputes unrelated to city business. In the report from May 5, Integrity Commissioner Guy Giorno found Vrebosch’s Dec. 1, 2025, Facebook post was made in a personal capacity and was not sufficiently connected to her role as a city councillor to trigger the code. “Councillor Vrebosch’s Facebook post is not subject to the Code,” Giorno wrote. “Alternatively, I find that the post did not contravene the Code.” The complaint centred on a Facebook post involving a private co-parenting dispute. The complainant argued the post “disclosed private family information” and that using a platform also used for municipal communication risked “undermining public trust in Council generally.” But Giorno repeatedly distinguished between conduct tied to public office and conduct tied to private life. “The Code is a tool of municipal accountability,” he wrote. “It
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