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What were you doing from July 19th to the 22nd?

If you are a correctional officer, primary worker, or health care professional that started working at CSC six months to one year ago, we want to hear from you, especially if yo

For one week every January, CSC puts the spotlight on a group of volunteers that bring the community’s perspective to federal corrections: the members of Citizen Advisory Commit

When Janice Blenkhorn, an aboriginal liaison officer at Nova Institution for Women, saw a man pushing a shopping cart down the side of the highway on her way to work, she wanted

When Robert Rittwage, Alvin Ma and Stephane Brisson were given the opportunity to participate in career development programs through the Canada School of Public Service, they di

On an international level, how should you address the specific needs of women offenders when they only comprise between 2-to-9 per cent of your prison population? 

* A note to readers: Citizen Advisory Committees (CAC) bring a valuable community perspective to federal correctio

A note from the editor: Jacqueline would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank a number of managers here at CSC who have supported her through the dif

This year’s World Interfaith Harmony Week event speaker challenged the theme of the February 28, 2017 event.

In the late 1990s, the Kenora Prison Outreach began an outreach ministry at the Kenora Provincial Jail in Ontario. Each month, the outreach group would travel to Stony Mountain Institution (SMI) in Manitoba to follow up with inmates who transferred from Kenora to SMI to serve their sentence. It was during one of these visits that the idea for a hockey game was born.

Every generation has its leaders.

Aboriginal Liaison Officer Kelsey Charlie, who works at Kwìkwèxwelhp Healing Village in Harrison Mills, attended the 2017 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) in Toronto from

My time at CSC started in January 2016 when I was employed through the Federal Student Work Employment Program (FSWEP) for two days a week.

* A note to readers: Citizen Advisory Committees (CAC) bring a valuable community perspective to federal corrections.

Tracey Robinson started her career as a Parole Officer at Willow Cree Healing Lodge eight years ago.

When I sent out my message about the newly formed Steering Committee for Workplace Mental Health Injuries at CSC in October 2015, I made it clear that addressing this topic in a

Offenders at Mission Institution, as part of their vocational training, grow vegetables in the garden located on institutional grounds.

Commissioner Head has taken it upon himself to spend time with frontline employees at CSC by working shifts with them.

Two years ago we held our first-ever Hackathon aimed at developing a tool to help parole officers do their work. This October, we held our second Hackathon.

In an effort to improve the living environment of Indigenous offenders at Archambault Institution, and to make it more conducive to healing, the Aboriginal Initiatives team in the Quebec Region sought the services of Ms. Megan Whyte, an Indigenous artist and art therapist. During summer 2018, Ms. Whyte worked at the institution’s Indigenous Intervention Centre (medium security) to create a mural.

Perry William Kelly has faced a lot of fights in his many years of competing in karate, but perhaps his biggest one will happen this August when he represents Canada at the 2017

Over the course of my time with Let’s Talk Express (LTE) I have interviewed hundreds of employees about their work.

Never let up, focus on your goal and pace yourself to reach the finish line.

I am pleased to present to you the April 2016 edition of Let’s Talk Express.