from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:52 PM
subject Affaire Ashley Smith: Harper blâme les services correctionnels; Americans “frustrated” over extradition case of fugitive Canadian, detective says
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. Took Rose to an opening by Perte de signal artists at Cercle Carré via metro; she loved the train, to the point of watching a few more go by on the platform and then watching more from the bridge above, sticking her hands through the bars yelling “I want to touch it”. What a cute little weirdo. We met Clo downtown in the car which helped as it had started to rain, though we had a heck of a time finding parking. Drove to Aux Vivres afterwards, Rose ate well and then inhaled half a carrot cake, with special focus on the icing.
Halloween last night was lots of fun, did I tell you already? I could check but I’m lazy. I’m sure I sent you the Youtube link for the Spider-man video I made. Rose enjoyed her costume and was thrilled at the concept of going door-to-door and getting candy. She went with Thomas, as Kim and Jean-Michel stopped by after daycare. It all started so early on our street, and by 7pm we had handed out all our candy. We just turned off the front lights and thankfully don’t have a working doorbell.
Sarah W. stayed for supper and a little visit with Willie, did I mention recently that she is moving back to PEI and leaving us her cat Willie? She had brought over more food and his collar and some odds n ends. He still spends most of his time under the bed; I think Rose freaks him out. He comes out mostly at night and has a tendency to meow in the wee hours of the morning.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:02 PM
subject Le gouvernement canadien menacé d’une cyberattaque; Canada needs India as security and trade ally, Stephen Harper says in exclusive interview
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. Surviving the weekend. More painting touchups in the kitchen, plaster in the bathroom. Pulled off a few wall panels in the basement. Built a cabinet for the cavernous hole above the oven. Found some cupboard doors in the basement so we can replace the tacky plastic sliding doors. Clo took some major initiative and we re-organized the studio. Now I need to get off Facebook and work on some applications to Articule for a Spring offsite art event and VIVA with goalie and / or #CPC performance proposals. I cancelled my meeting with Jerry this morning because no-one else from the Papineau executive could make it (and I only spoke with Michel, the other two guys Jean-Marc and Pierre didn’t even call back). Speaking of calls Krishna called last night and we Skyped for over an hour. Looks like we won’t be able to meet up in Trinidad this december-January, but we’ll try to hook up when we go to Venice next summer.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:12 PM
subject Le NPD espère une victoire de Barack Obama; Senator wants new Canada Revenue Agency head to rein in overseas tax cheats
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. Survived more apartment renos. I forgot to ask you to download a new App to help you take better pictures ( I know you didn’t take the photo of you eating the samosa on the plane but maybe you could pass the link along to whoever did). It’s for iPhone so I haven’t actually looked at it myself. The photographer is Noel Chenier, I met him years ago in Saint John, he is a photo-journalist, worked for the TJ, I think does independent stuff now. Anyway, here’s the links:
Hey Chris
Hope you can help me out.
I’ve launched my series of photography apps that I hope you’ll share with all your friends…and maybe Stephen Harper?
They are available on the app store here: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/noel-chenier/id566645905
I had sent out invites to like my new photography apps page, but it appears facebook didn’t actually send them out to everyone…
In case you didnt get the info due to facebook being facebook….(if you already did, my apologies)
here’s my page on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/PhotographyAppsByLearnphotoca
i also have this note too with full details;
https://www.facebook.com/notes/noel-chenier/photography-assignment-generator-apps-now-available-on-the-app-store/10151095708890583
and if you dont mind, you can like the apps page on my website! www.learnphoto.ca/apps
Thanks for sharing! I’m giving out prizes too for those who share and like the pages!prizes too for those who share and like the pages!
I’m trying to throw some applications together but am tired and I could use a shower so maybe will try to do it on my lunch or during the day, we’ll see.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:21 PM
subject Accès à l’information: un député conservateur vise la SRC; Former Liberal cabinet minister Robert Kaplan dead at 75
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived another Monday. After work I finished a proposal to activate the Everyday Goalie for a full week of performances in the spring as part of an off-site special projects call for submissions from Articule. After that I went to Cote des neiges for a regional #cpc meeting, met Jerry there, and debated various amendment proposals. Here are some that passed to the next reading : “we support the principle that all parole should be earned and that statutory release be removed from the condition release act” (to move in line with minimal sentencing and thus ensuring more and more people are put and kept for longer in prison, thus justifying super-prisons? A member for Mont-Royal who works in Corrections said that prisons “are built to be double-booked”, and mentioned admiration for a dubious practice known as “warehousing”, which I am sure you are aware of. There were a bunch of other tax-related amendments, and a few anti-union ones, and some that clearly crossed the lines between federal-provincial jurisdiction. Overall a fun evening that seems to have left a film on me. Or maybe that was the Frites Alors?
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:48 AM
subject À Ottawa, Mulcair salue la victoire d’Obama; Obama claims second term in White House
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived the 2012 US Presidential Election. Watched the results at Le Pourvoyeur with Karen. When we left Obama had been declared winner with 275-203 Electoral College Votes. It might be 290 now. I might also be a bit drunk.
I looked in on Rose and she awoke, repeating four times “je veux le chocolate après la dodo”.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:36 PM
subject Marijuana: le Canada et les États-Unis prennent deux caps opposés; American fiscal cliff puts Canada’s economy on precipice, politicians say
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. Exhausted, but still alive. Lots of emails flying around today about the upcoming TD exhibition, modifications to floorplans, meetings about timelines, revised quotes, etc. etc.
Booked November 18 as a movie night to have a kind of wrap party for the Ryoji show. Made a Doodle with the following 5 films as choices: Tron, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Back to the Future.
What would you choose?
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:50 PM
subject Le mérite importe plus que le bilinguisme chez les juges, dit le ministre; A.Y. Jackson canvas showing Canadian mine that fuelled atomic bomb emerges at auction
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived another Monday. I survived the weekend; Rose visited with Femke two days in a row, there was an opening at Oboro with tons of old friends in attendance, there was Frites Alors, there was some driving lessons with Etienne and a trip to Laval to get a futon for $50. I just spent the whole evening putting the futon back together, as of course I put it together somewhat backwards the first try. Now I’m beat. Rose is still awake, she is on a sugar-high from the brownie I let her eat after daycare. That little girl cannot handle her chocolate!
-chris
PS wow, art makes headlines with Canada.com (well, Group of Seven art anyway)
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:08 PM
subject Les médias ethniques étudiés aux frais des contribuables; Flaherty update shows fiscal conservatism in retreat
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived another day of work. I also finally paid a bunch of parking tickets. Here is the start of an exchange I am having with someone from the municipal courts:
Hi there! Just paid three parking tickets for a grand total of $211, plus some additional random administration (mafia?) fees of $6.52 (plus an additional .98$ tax on top of the additional fees), and I just wanted to say how great it feels to be a citizen of Montreal. Bridges falling apart, corrupt municipal elected officials, corrupt construction contracts, construction everywhere, cops that assault peacefully-demonstrating students...wow, it's so great to live here! Why am I still living here? GOOD QUESTION! Well, I just thought I'd write to let you know I'm growing less and less attached everyday. Keep up the good work Montreal! You're sure to continue to attract young and dynamic families to move to within your boundaries and pay higher and higher taxes for the luxury of being ticketed, taxes, fined and taxed again, fo the utter luxury of living here, on this island of corruption. BRAVO!
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Hi,
Sir please note that They are no corruption at the Municipal court of ville de Montréal.
Yours truly
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Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse rapide. Malheureusement, je ne crois pas que la culture de corruption s’arrête à la cour. Même si vous n’êtes pas corrompu, vous êtes le véhicule, la main droite pour forcer les gens à payer des amendes stupides pour des lois municipale ridicules.
-chris
Monsieur,
Veuillez être aviser que les employés de la cour n’émettent pas de constat d’infraction et que les règlements ne sont pas adoptés par eux. De plus, c’est le gouvernement du Québec qui a adopté les lois entourant la contestation de constat d’infraction.
Bonne journée
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:52 PM
subject Raids sur Gaza: le Canada assure Israël de son soutien; How a rich restaurant deal raised a thrifty politician’s eyebrow
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived another day of work. TD responded to a couple emails with one line : ok ok. Then later with a few more in-depth comments, but still I found that “ok ok.” to be quite funny.
I am working on a VIVA! proposal. Actually, I am downloading the short film Los Palmas and trolling Facebook and trying to bend my right knee. My knee is still fucked from paintball.
Rose has currently pulled out the spare mattress from under her bed and piled it with her animals and blankets and pillows and is sleeping next to the tents we made in her room last night.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:40 PM
subject PLC: Martha Hall Findlay dans la course; Defamation trial exposes viper’s den that is municipal politics
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. Feeling depressed (seeing too many pictures of burned and exploded Palestinian infants and toddlers, perhaps?). Missed the Perte de Signale 15th anniversary party at the Phi Centre tonight because I just couldn’t be bothered to arrange for a babysitter. I enjoy being at home with Rose even though sometimes the routine, and just being at home in general, gets me more down. Despite falling asleep with her, I managed to get up in time to clean the kitchen and send off a hastily-written proposal to perform the Everyday Goalie as part of Viva in 2013. Next up: another CC grant application perhaps? Just have to finish my travel grant report from 2011….
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:12 PM
subject Harper aimerait que Washington accorde plus d’attention au Canada; Media a pivotal player in libel suit against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived another Monday It was also the first day of the de-install. I was also terribly hung over from the screening the night before I hosted at the gallery of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It turned into an epic pillow fight and we smashed apart one of the plinths for fun (they were coming apart today anyway. And yes, I removed the gear from the plinth before we smashed it). The group of us (22 for the film, about a dozen stayed for the Youtube videos and pillow fight) polished off 68 beer and a bottle of whiskey. I think it is because i am a parent that I was able to work today. Oh, and the metro was delayed for a half hour on the way too work. That was when I was the queasiest. Claudine left for work at 7:30am waking me up as she left. I had passed out in my clothes in Roses’s room when I went in to check on her once I got home. When she work up she immediately wanted crêpes.
Sorry I didn’t write over the weekend, I was ripping apart and starting to repair the drywall on the ceiling in the basement. Also I went to see Looper and Cloud Atlas in the theatres and watched Millennium and Super 8 at home on Netflix. It was a bit of a sci-fi weekend, as Clo had taken Rose to visit her dad. Also, I’m feeling depressed again, the typical musing about whether what I am doing in my life has any value, etc. etc.
Now I really need to get some sleep.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:35 PM
subject Les conservateurs visent Justin Trudeau, en pleine ascension; Feds demand RCMP put forward plan to combat gender bias
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. We received a parking ticket today because we forgot to change sides. I’ll dispute this ticket because from all appearances the street cleaner never came, or it it did it did a lousy job: there are still leaves and garbage strewn throughout the street. At least this is just a ticket and $52 and maybe a day in court, nothing compared to what our friends Tracy and Rolando are going through. I won’t get into all the details at the moment suffice to say that the DPJ (the Département de la Protection de la Jeunesse, not the Democratic Party of Japan) is making their life a living hell. My hatred for the stupidity, brutality and corrupt nature of Québec’s various governmental departments is growing more and more.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:41 PM
subject Fwd: The Artist’s Resale Right
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: CHRIS LLOYD <dearpm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:40 PM
Subject: The Artist’s Resale Right
To: justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca, James.Moore@pch.gc.ca, minister.industry@ic.gc.ca, paul.calandra@parl.gc.ca,LakeM@parl.gc.ca, communications@carfac.ca, dearpm@gmail.com
Justin Trudeau,
This is an important and easy addition to make to the Copyright Act.
As one of your constituents, I ask you to support CARFAC’s proposal to add the Artists’ Resale Right to The Copyright Act. You can find the full proposal on their website: http://www.carfac.ca/carfacwp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Artists-Resale-Right-Proposal-CARFAC-Final-Nov-2012.pdf.
The Artist Resale Right would entitle artists to 5% from the resale of their work. This is important because the full value of an artwork often isn’t realized on the initial sale. It is common for visual art to appreciate in value over time, as the reputation of the artist grows. For example, acclaimed Canadian artist Tony Urquhart sold a painting, The Earth Returns to Life in 1958 for $250. It was later resold by Heffel Fine Art auction house in 2009 for approximately $10,000.
Once established in Canada, artists would be able to benefit from reciprocal arrangements with the 67 other countries where the Artist Resale Right exists. Canada’s European partners specifically requested that Canada adopt the Artists’ Resale Right during negotiations for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. Canada’s Aboriginal artists in particular are losing out on the tremendous profits being made on their work in the secondary market.
Thank you,
CHRIS LLOYD
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:18 PM
subject Ottawa s’opposera à un nouveau statut pour la Palestine à l’ONU; Redford says she didn’t direct government business to ex’s-husband’s law firm
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived the weekend, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Survived a visit to Baie d’Urfé to visit Tamara and Jordyn. Survived a visit to Ikea on the way back; Rose really, really enjoyed the playroom and especially the balls. I survived a visit to see Felix, his grandma and aunt while Tracy and Rolando met with their lawyer. I brought paté chinois. They have an important meeting tomorrow, which hopefully goes well. Already the DPJ have allowed Tracy to spend the day at home, which helps as she is still breast-feeding little Samuel.
I survived the first half of a week of install. We had professional builders come in to construct the wall in G1. They finished yesterday. I survived the annual tech-team Xmas card photo shoot. We did it in the cinema space at the Phi Centre. Apparently former PM Jean Chrétien has been there since Monday filming a documentary. I never tried to say hello. I think it could prove to be too embarrassing for the both of us.
-chris
DEAR PM 