
LC23
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LC23
@LC23RN
Registered nurse/professor. Love to help and inform. HATE injustice. Sincerely care about people. Hate chemtrails ✈and blocked sun! Love cats! 🤗 PLEASE 🚫 DMs!


The instant you are thrust into the Canadian Corrections system you become invisible. A number. Every signature line ACCUSED or OFFENDER. Last names only; as if erasing your first name erases your personality, your opinion, your very existence. It didn’t take long after my arrest and incarceration in Ottawa for me to figure out there are two types of people who enter this profession; those who feel like they can contribute to society and make a difference, perhaps even change a life for the better, and those who were bullied in high school. I feel very lucky to have the CSO that I do. She looks at me when she speaks to me. She’s fair in her approvals for my work exemptions. I try to submit my work exemption & volunteer time exemption requests in a timely manner, ever mindful these are requests only, certainly not a given. I exist at the courts pleasure now. I understand the pecking order. I take no approval as a given nor for granted. There have been times when I have called for last minute exemptions for my exemptions. Some approved. Some denied. If my CSO is ill, away, or on her biweekly long weekend, I’m to contact whichever CSO with their own offenders to attend to, is covering. Trust me, they will ensure you’re fully aware of how busy they are with their own offenders and how inconvenient you are making their life because they had to dial 10 numbers to return your call. Let me explain. Yesterday, upon arriving at the local food bank for my court approved volunteer time, I immediately observed the workload and lack of resources. I was training a new volunteer, it was the busiest day of the week, and I had two hours. I asked the supervisor if I could call my CSO to ask for a quick email exemption to stay an extra hour or two. She gladly accepted. I called moments before lunch hour and managed to catch a nice lady whom I briefed on the situation. She informed me my CSO was on her Friday off, but that I could call back at 1pm to ask for a quick email exemption which “shouldn’t be a problem, Tamara”. She gave me a name and a direct line. I confirmed with her that I would be ok to stay past 1pm in case this woman was a few minutes late, or if should leave at 1pm and make my way home until I spoke with her. I called at 1pm. I called 5 times. I take my conditions seriously. When we connected her first statement was, of course, to impress upon me that she was busy with her own clients. Clients. Like she’s providing me a service by merely speaking at me. I apologized, of course. It’s a terrible bother, I get it, and she’s got better things to do. I know my place. I accept it. I’m not a victim. I’m in the game now and there is only one way out. “What exactly is going on here?” “Well, you see, I volunteer at the food bank 3x a week and today we are really busy and short staffed and I was hoping for an exemption to stay for an extra hour or two.” “I’m not prepared to issue an exemption on such short notice. I’m busy with my own clients. You’ll have to go home.” *issuing an email exemption - open email….tap tap tappity tap tap tap….send* “Ok.” I paused. I should have stopped here. “Why did the other lady I spoke with tell me it shouldn’t be a problem?” The second I said it I realized I used my outside voice. Too late. Here it comes. “AS YOUR ACTING CSO IN [CSO name]’S ABSENCE I AM ORDERING YOU TO GO HOME AT THE DESIGNATED TIME AND I’LL BE MAKING A NOTE FOR [CSO NAME].” You do that. There are binders and binders of notes about me. “Thank you, I’ll head home right now.” Click. I wasn’t upset about the denial. I’m an OFFENDER, after all. But she said we are clients. That implies we are receiving a service. And if you cannot provide these services (advising us reach out to the duty officer if we need anything in the absence of our respective COS’s) then you shouldn’t offer them to us, your clients. That’s just good customer service.

I’ve been called racist and islamophobic hundreds of times today for outlining Restore Britain’s policy on banning halal slaughter, the burqa, sharia law, cousin marriage and plenty more. I want to be really clear about our party’s official response. We do not give a shit.



NYC Mayor Mamdani Joins Eid al-Fitr Prayer in Brooklyn.





The media told CANADIANS that Carney was the right choice for PM. 1 year later, Canadians are at their lowest for happiness, GDP in shambles, highest food inflation in G7, and soldiers don’t have the right equipment to defend in the Arctic 🤯 To name JUST a few things 👀

Mamdani's wife posts slurs against gays, Jews and blacks that are so bad nobody will even quote them in full. Think about that: no decent person will say what she said, even to quote her. share.google/7ADgojx3vKUUa7…











