from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:57 PM
subject Mulcair plaide la cause de Fahmy auprès de l’ambassadeur égyptien; The prospect of a collapsing, homicidal Trump spire did little to slow business in Toronto’s financial district
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. Survived the heat. Went to Villeneuve to get supplies to drop off at Skol, then was back home to fix up the back yard a bit. We had the trees trimmed the other day but they cleared more than we expected, and also snipped our patio lights and broke a chair (it was a cheap plastic chair but still). The guy came back today and took $25 off the bill for the chair but he says the job was done well, and that the trees will fill in again quickly. For the rest of the day I worked on Dear PM website stuff, a new brochure for the campaign, designed and ordered buttons, and finalized and gave the “good to go” for the postcards and signs. Picked the kids up a bit early and went to the pool in Jarry Park. The kids fell asleep easier tonight, it was a busy day for them. I’m still tweaking the brochure as I would like to take it with me tomorrow morning – back to Skol, a few more trinkets needed.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:07 PM
subject Péladeau pas ébranlé par les difficultés du Bloc; Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown wins byelection and a seat in the legislature
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. But that poor Syrian boy, and his mother, and his brother, are not, due in large part to indiscriminate restrictions implemented by YOUR government under YOUR watch. Under your PROVEN LEADERSHIP the number of refugee claims decreased by 50 percent and the number of accepted refugees dropped by 30 percent between 2006 and 2012. Perhaps we’ve all been lulled into stupid complacency because Syria is far away, but people are trapped, and we have to do better. I’m glad Rosemary Barton tore a heck of strip off Chris Alexander today as he tried to shift blame. Never forget Alan, Ghalib and Rehanna who perished at sea after being denied refugee status by Canada. I’ve never been more ashamed of my country than right now. I don’t even want to tell you about the rest of my day, Clément’s opening with the kids in tow, meeting up with Etienne and Femke and hitting up a trendy new taco restaurant in Chinatown, the crazy traffic delays trying to get home in the car, Clo’s meeting with the service de garde at school tonight, nothing, nada.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:57 PM
subject Harper veut filtrer les réfugiés pour assurer la sécurité; Tories can’t be faulted for missing footage of candidates prank-calling and peeing in cups
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived a hot and humid Labour Day weekend. Today we went to the pool in Outremont, and yesterday we went to Cap-Saint-Jacques. How is it I have lived in Montreal for so many years and never before went to the beach out at Cap-Saint-Jacques? It was so much fun. The kids loved it, they both love the water, lake or pool. Today poor Rose fell off the diving board, bouncing off the poolside into the water, but her reflexes were really good and she immediately swam to the edge, but she was a bit scared. Sol slipped a few days ago running in the apartment with his socks on and banged the bridge of his nose against our coffee table. The day before he got his index finger caught in a door at Roses’ school and he cried out in such pain, and his finger had such a crease in it, that for a short time I feared it was crushed as mine had been 36 years ago, and we would have matching stumps, but it turned out fine. Lucky that kids have such supple bones.
Some numbers:
3 weeks to get nomination papers in to Elections Canada.
6 weeks to the election.
I have collected 51 signatures.
I need at least 49 more signatures.
I need to raise a shit-ton of money to pay for those signs and postcards and buttons and my deposit with Elections Canada…. yikes
Also also yikes, you haven’t been having much luck lately with candidates having some weirdness in their pasts, have you? Twitter has been having a field day with the peeing candidate.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:52 PM
subject Qui paiera pour les réfugiés syriens au Canada? Second woman fights to have face covered during citizenship ceremony
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I’m up to 75 signatures, as I wandered around the neighbourhood in the sticky heat this afternoon asking strangers to sign. I find I have much better luck approaching people on the street or their porch than actually knocking on doors. Had a fight with Clo tonight because she came home two hours earlier than expected and there were still some breakfast dishes in the sink. I had run into Kim after school and daycare and invited her and Thomas over, we were talking about the campaign and debate, and I just didn’t have time to wash every last dish. Am I in the wrong here? And I’m down to 500 emails remaining to be processed and formatted. The group show opens in Toronto a week from Thursday, but I still have a number of years to upload to the new website. It’ll be tight.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:28 PM
subject Les publicités négatives prennent d’assaut l’internet; Liberal candidate steps down after pro-marijuana Facebook posts
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived a parent-teachers meeting at Rose’s school tonight, which was really informative and helpful. Rose often forgets, or is unable to recall, exactly what she does in the run of a day, so this was a good opportunity to see how their days are structured. I feel she is in a really good environment, and that the school is really putting on a brave face and doing the best they can despite our trou de cul of a Premier and his austerity measures. You so-called “low-tax, trickle-down, small government, no regulation ‘economists’ should all just take a collective walk off a really, really high cliff. Seriously, cutting education? Where the goal is to socialize our children and have them learn about the world, you want to rob the system of resources towards the benefit of what, exactly? Maybe I’m just stupid, but I don’t understand it at all. In other news, I’ve collected 103 signatures so far, and found a CRA, though it might cost us close to $1000. Also, the rental of Eastern Bloc is going to run us close to $1000 as well. On the plus side, I put up a few more signs today, and I spotted folks taking pictures of them. I launched my Facebook page last night and it has 334 Likes already. Just to compare, the EDA Papineau ACE page that I created in April of 2012 has 93 Likes. Luisa came over tonight to watch the kids and apparently they went to bed like little angels, which was certainly not the case with Sol last night, he had a fit because I went out to put up signs with Clark.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:33 PM
subject Jean Chrétien plonge dans la campagne électorale; ‘I’m one of the luckiest people you will ever find’: Syrian refugee reflects on her new life in Vancouver
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived the weekend, and also having my bag stolen on Friday. I had gone to Peter’s for coffee and to drop off a campaign sign, and I decided to add a few more to Jean-Talon and it was from there, from under my ladder as I affixed a sign to a pole, that my bag was taken. In my bag were some campaign postcards, buttons, my wallet, my phone and of course my 122 signatures for Elections Canada. Needless to say I kind of freaked out a bit, walking up and down the street and checking the car and backtracking in disbelief, then cancelled my bank and credit cards, and then went home and located my phone using Find my iPhone. My phone had moved to Cote des Neiges, corner of Victoria and Bouchette, and after filing a police report (which is about all the police do after a theft – file paperwork, presumably to expedite insurance claims), I went there myself, knocking on apartment doors, looking for my “lost bag”. I left huge hand-written signs in the lobby and outside on the street in the desperate hope that the bag would be found or the thief would feel he could safely return it – I was offering a reward – and lo! and behold at 10pm Clo got a call from a young Pakistani couple who had found the bag in the dumpster and I went back and retrieved it and I was so happy and the couple and their baby were so happy that I was happy, and I left happy but exhausted both mentally and physically and only feel recovered by tonight. We had part of the AC gang over for a simple supper, and yesterday Clo was KO all day preparing for the Oboro opening, which I dropped in on with the kids in tow, bad idea as both Rose and Sol were over-tired and attempted to maul Claudine during her speeches, with a good 250 sweltering onlookers as the Rebecca Belmore show is awesome, so I zipped the kids back home asap and we watched Harry Potter 2, again, Roses’ choice. We had been to the opening at Skol earlier, but the kids just watched videos while I talked up my campaign to anyone who would listen, and shared potential new locations for Skol with Alexis. We have a board meeting coming up, but my week is already starting to fill up: I did a quick telephone interview with CBC radio today, have a possible interview with Infoman tomorrow, Vice still on for Wednesday, and I need to meet Alex, a potential DJ for my bug fundraising Party sans Parti at Eastern Bloc on October 17, the rental details I still need to iron out, and I need to get my letter from the CRA who will audit my campaign, AND develop my official campaign launch, speeches and Ordre du Jour for next Saturday, and finish copying and uploading the remainder of 2013, all of 2014 and all of 2015 Dear PM letters to the website in time for the opening in Toronto on Thursday – oh yeah, and drive to Toronto on Thursday, shoot Everyday Goalie footage there Friday morning and come back in time for The Orb at le SAT Friday night. Oh, and send letters to a printer in Halifax for the I am NSCAD exhibition and a campaign sign to Third Space for the Gala-Vant fundraiser. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. How would I ever have managed to do even a fraction of this if I still had a day-job?
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:06 AM
subject Ottawa doit financer le 375e de Montréal, dit le Bloc; Toronto will not bid to host the 2024 Olympics, Mayor John Tory set to announce
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived another Monday, 5 weeks to go until the election. I feel an intense race against time now. I met the Returns Officer this afternoon and he went over my application in detail, explained many of the intricacies of becoming a candidate, how they score the signatures, and asked for some clarification regarding some details, notably the story surrounding my stolen bag. I need to include a statement on it as part of my application. In other news I had a request to do an interview with Infoman which was pushed to tomorrow, and I did a phone interview with La Presse about election signs, and am meeting a reporter from 24 heures demain matin pour faire une entrevue devant un des mes pancartes. Ça bouge maintenant! And I still have 2014 and 2015 Dear PM letters to assemble and then a bunch of years to upload, month by month, to the website in time for the show opening on Thursday. I don’t think I have time to sleep until then. Yikes! And a video to make, and info to add to the Indiegogo site…and screenprints to order, or make, good grief.
Congratulations on balancing the budget…timing of this is odd, since I thought it was already announced back in the spring, remember how you delayed the budget so you could cash in on the GM sale?
It could be your new campaign slogan, instead of “Protecting the Economy” it could be, “vote for us and every six years we’ll balance the budget, in between recessions, because we have no long-term vision for our country”. Something like that?
“Vote for us so we can stay in power”
“Just Because”
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:16 AM
subject Alberta: Harper accuse Rachel Notley d’avoir aggravé la récession; Amber Alert for missing Alberta toddler called off after human remains found
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived interviews this morning with 24h and Infoman, and more Dear PM letters (I have exactly 1 years to go – less than 200 letters), searching for more signatures (the returns officer called me and I have 87 out of 120 that are considered “1”s, meaning with 13 more solid signatures it will pass incontestable. I’m hoping Clark can come with me tomorrow morning to witness. I wrote the returns officer with a declaration about the lost bag situation. I cycled to Skol for an afternoon board meeting. Cycled home, bathed the kids while Clo made supper, we drank a bottle of wine (which improved our moods) and then it was bedtime, and now it is definitely bedtime for me. I have 3 more signatures to get in the morning while also getting a bank draft for my $1000 bond and I still have to fill out the forms, I had best email Mr. Lake and tell him I will be a bit late. Hopefully right about now Rickie-Lee is working on animating the graphic that I can use in the promotional fundraising video for IndieGoGo. Oh, and the Urbania interview is out already, has been on newstands for a week or more already, they forgot to tell me! I need a shower before bed.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:01 AM
subject Lloyd Axworthy prône la démilitarisation de l’Arctique; Murder charges against Crowsnest Pass man confound residents
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I am officially a candidate as of today! I’d love to go into more detail but as you can see it is 4am and I just now finished getting my letters completely up-to-date, but I still have almost 10-years worth to upload to the website. I’ve hired Miles to come work from my computer tomorrow while I’m driving to Toronto. I hope it all works out! I did a long video interview with La Presse + this afternoon which will be released on Saturday, just before my official campaign launch. I need to make another flyer or something with the upcoming dates on it, like the debate. Too much to do!
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 12:24 AM
subject Le Bloc juge «grotesque» d’être comparé au Front national; Yukon roadkill, prostitution and gold: How Canada played a role in building the Trump family empire
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived the rapid aller-retour to Toronto, leaving Thursday after setting Myles up on my computer so he could finish uploading the bulk of the letters to the new website, and stopping by the bus station to drop off the sign for the Third Space Gala-vant event (it arrived just in time, btw). I picked up a hitchhiker in St. Zotique, Hoël from France, and we talked politics the whole way. I dropped him off along the Don Valley; he is sleeping in the park. The exhibition at Lisa’s space on Dundas looks really slick, and the opening was fun, I met a bunch of new Toronto folks and talked about politics probably way too much. Lisa put me up for the night and then in touch with a friend of hers (another Lisa) who lent me her 5D and a tripod on Friday morning so I could get my Everyday Goalie Toronto shot. It took a bit longer than I had expected to find a good spot, settling for a bit of a park and a bit of the Gardiner Expressway in the background, and the CN Tower of course. Then it was navigating through traffic and construction (it was nice to see that Montreal isn’t the only city to rip up huge sections of the roads that lead one out of the city). The 401 blows my mind, just how many cars and trucks there are, all the time. And there always seems to be an accident. Despite the show start I made good time and was home by 8, stopping along Jarry to throw up a few signs, what the heck. Luisa came for 9 as Clo and I had tickets to see The Orb at le SAT but they didn’t go on until midnight and we were both exhausted and went home about 40 minutes into the set. We’d decided earlier on it wasn’t going to be a big party night, as today was the official campaign launch. Clo took the kids to their respective dance and gymnastics courses while I ran errands, collecting the BBQ needs and loading the car, then unloading in about 5 trips from the car to the gazebo in the park. FOFA gallery is hosting an Indian artist named Nikhil Chopra who is inhabiting the gazebo for the weekend for a 57-hour durational drawing performance. He is painting a landscape using different shades of red lipsticks. There was often a large and silent crowd watching him work while I talked about my platform with friends and visitors to our more raucous gathering; my kids hadn’t napped, and were running around a tad on the wild side. The BBQ was cut short a bit as the rain started up around 4:30, but both Clo and I feel it was a success: good turnout, lots of people from the riding, good questions, and all just across the way from a much larger NDP corn boil. I went back to the park in the pouring rain to retrieve the BBQ after the kids had fallen asleep, before 9pm which is amazing. Tonight I launched the Indiegogo campaign (so it will end on October 19 – I can’t accept donations after the election), but I’m not ready to publicize it heavily just yet. Rickie-Lee made an animation for me to use in a promo video, and Clark said he would help me edit the video together, hopefully we’ll do that this week.
-chris
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date Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:31 PM
subject Harper croit que les chantiers maritimes débordent, Québec sursaute; Trudeau fights for his general in battleground Orléans
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived another Monday – 4 weeks to election day! I contacted The Print House in Halifax and created an account so I could send them all 15 years worth of letters (3087, to be exact, I finally counted!). They either delivered them to NSCAD this afternoon or will do so first thing tomorrow morning. The I am NSCAD exhibit opens next week. Have you heard that last Friday the board agreed to sell off the Historic Properties? Bad move in my humble opinion. In other news I started digging through my tool/junk room downstairs, and found my old SD Hi8 digital tapes, and in going through some managed to find footage from my Trafic performance in Rouyn-Noranda ten years ago, which is good because Katja had asked for a clip to use in the second issue of Persona Studies. Unfortunately I couldn’t connect my camera to my iMac – the firewire cable is outdated – and I chose Stacy’s old G4 iBook to record a short three-minute clip of me making and tossing paper airplanes at Jean Chrétien, and of course it takes hours to compress the footage into a Quicktime file. Still working away it is. 88 minutes to go yeah right. Speaking of videos I really need to get the campaign animation into a video file but I’ll try to get Clark or Spencer to help me as it will go much faster and yield better results. I’m going to go to bed early and have Clo rub that pinched nerve on my back out with some sort of A535. It’s been driving me batty all week. Speaking of batty, Kim and I need to narrow down our debate questions for Optica by Wednesday, but that morning I am doing the Vice interview and another Everyday Goalie perf. Guess how much time is remaining on my video compression? Still 88 minutes.
-chris
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date Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:11 AM
subjec Harper a été «un adversaire de la culture», accuse Trudeau; The sentient debate: Animal legal rights at centre of recent court cases
Dear Stephen,
Still alive. Tired. Spencer came over tonight to help with my campaign fundraising video. The kids were in bed and asleep relatively early but only because Thomas had come over for a playdate while Kim and I worked on the questions for the debate. The kids ran around like miniature wild animals. Before picking them up I was interviewed by a PHD student for an online magazine called Trahi, and before that I had been working on some basement organisation. But now, my feet smell, I could really use a shower. Tomorrow is the Vice interview and Everyday Goalie shoot, I rented the canon 5D from Oboro, we plan to go to the Dome. Not the Orange Julep, the other one. Speaking of orange, I just sent a donation to Matt Masters Burgener, the NDP candidate in your riding, so I could write my own message on one of his sendharperamessage.ca lawn signs. I wrote “Hi from Dear PM in #papineau sorry I tricked you” I would have said more but there was a 50-character limit.
-chris
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date Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:21 PM
subject Un déficit puis des surplus pour le Bloc; Niqabs and pipelines: Mulcair will be the main punching bag in French debate
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived the Vice squad, coffee, interview, microphone technical problems, fastening my stepladder to a pole atop a garbage can to get a campaign sign up above one of Justin’s (near the metro – good visibility), then a drive down to the CBC tower to shoot Everyday Goalie. I changed location after hearing that the CBC plans to sell off all its properties. That sounds like a bad plan to me, so in steps the goalie to try to save it. Justin scored a few times but I made a few average stops, a little rusty as it’s been a year already! Can you believe it? Where has the time gone? Since last October, my marathon drive from Lethbridge to Fort McMurray while in AB for MST? My kids are another year older and we’re all that much closer to death. In lighter news, Luisa came over to watch the kids while Clo and I met at the Forum to see the Reflektor Tapes, which is a dreamy, somewhat spacey visual collage of footage from the last album. It was OK, but didn’t add much to our overall appreciation for the band. I had prepared supper for the kids before picking them up so they played a good 45 minutes in the park before suppertime, and Luisa said it was a real easy evening: baths, desert, stories and then bed, Rose asleep at 8 (!) and Sol at 8:30 (!!!). Now I’m dumping goalie footage and refining debate questions before bed. Oh, we’ve decided (my official agent and I) to cancel the Party sans Parti dance Party. Too much work, too much expense for an uncertain gain. Best to concentrate on the debate and the Election party, still planning to rent Eastern Bloc if the price is right. I have to try to stop hemorrhaging money on this campaign. Spencer will come over Friday to finish the video and then the Indiegogo campaign can be shared, and hopefully that will bring in some $.
Es-tu prêt pour le débat demain soir? Je serai au Belgo pour animer une soirée, on va projeter le débat dans le lobby de Skol puis je commenterai pendent. C’est une soirée Belgo, faut faire qq chose.
-chris
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date Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:56 PM
subject Thomas Mulcair promet 2500 emplois dans l’industrie forestière; Borutski charged three times with assaulting ex-wife, never convicted
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived the French language debate, watching and commenting while projecting it in the hallway outside Skol. I was streaming from an older MacBook so the video was a bit choppy but the sound was good. Clear enough to capture all the bickering. You really did well, saying your little bits and then retreating to let the others tear each other to bits. Talk about a divided opposition! Way to keep the niqab going as a major distraction. Today Spencer came over in the morning and whipped the campaign video into shape, I was able to share the Indiegogo funding page by early afternoon and it is getting some traction, though I don’t think Friday afternoon is the best time to send out fundraising requests. When is the best time? Sunday evening perhaps? Again Monday morning? All the time? I’m not going to let Facebook run my evening, I’m alone with the kids as Clo is in Toronto, and tomorrow morning is gymnastics and hip-hop dance classes for the kids. It’s also Journée de la culture demain, and we are planning to go to the Mile-End and hang with Kim, Margot and Thomas, and there are 4700 activities happening in Montreal tomorrow, so lots to choose from. All that to say I’m not staying up all night reading this article or that about how bad the TPP is, or whether our Charter needs to choose between religious freedoms or enforcing equality, or whether a woman can freely choose to wear a niqab if she wants and that is empowering, or whether it is a man telling her to do so. How do we parse the debate without resorting to knee-jerk reaction? And what about the TPP – are you planning to sign at all costs, the Canadian auto and dairy industries be damned? And wouldn’t this be a perfect time to make a phrase such as “it’s the environment, stupid” a game-changer in politics? Wishful thinking, I suppose.
-chris
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date Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:34 PM
subject Un sondage place les libéraux en tête; Montrealers waiting on a wave — and they don’t care if it’s an orange wave or a red one
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived the weekend with the kids, taking them to their gymnastics and hip-hop dance classes, then to Pied Carré to see some exhibitions but mostly to hang out with Kim and Thomas and Margot. D. Kimm was next door manipulating little transparencies on an overhead projector to a couple older ladies reading Petit chaperon rouge et blanche neige, donc les enfants ont aimé ça. And sometimes a simple trip to the Provigo can provide endless entertainment: the angled magnetic-locking escalators, the long, wide aisles for running and hiding, the self-serve checkout and climbing apparatus. Rose fell asleep before the end of Harry Potter #5, and after the kids were in bed I got sucked into watching Interstellar backwards. Luisa had been watching it when she babysat for us during the Orb show, but was fifteen minutes shy from the end. I watched from that point on and was completely baffled by the behind the bookshelf scenes, so kept going backwards in 15-20 minute intervals, until I had watched the movie more or less in accordance with the laws of Memento. It sure reinforced for me the desire to be an even better father and role-model for Rose, and to not ever take a job that takes me away from my family for decades, especially flying a spacecraft to Saturn. We tried to wake her up tonight to see the blood moon but she is fast asleep.
Here’s a response I made on the campaign facebook page tonight: No need to panic, Worried Chihuahua! For sure, running as an Independent changes my game plan a whole lot from when I was running as a faux-con. The NDP candidate herself has expressed those vote-splitting fears to me. However, the particularities of #papineau and our skewed first-past-the-post electoral system almost guarantee that the worst-case scenario is that Justin retains his seat. I would love to see Anne Lagacé Dowson and the NDP take it, but at the same time, to me our democracy should be much more than choosing between team A, B or C. Partisan politics is killing true participatory democracy in this country. I want to provide a choice to my co-citizens that they can vote for a candidate who actually lives in the riding and will work only for the constituents, not their party first. For those worried that I am going to split the vote, I have this to ask: how can you be so certain that my voters would have voted NDP? There are 3 confirmed independents in this riding and 5 candidates representing parties that sit to the left of the political spectrum to the conservatives. Danny Polifroni and the Green Party could very well represent the difference in votes between the Liberal and the NDP; should he stop campaigning? Come to the debate on October 5 at the William Hingston Auditorium on St. Roch and we can discuss further!
-chris
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date Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:48 PM
subject Débat Munk: lumière sur de profondes divergences; Four views of the leaders’ foreign policy debate
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived an near-sleepless night, as Sol was up almost ever hour from 1am onwards with a cough and tight throat. He sounded asthmatic, and at around 4 we tried to get him to inhale a bit of Roses’ pump, but we have misplaced her tube and mask, so we tried to fashion one from a brown paper bag, then a water bottle, but he was having none of it. I kept him home with me for the day and bought a proper tube from Jean Coutu, it is still hard to have him breathe from it but we managed. It was a good reminder that I need to update with RAMQ the status of our family that we no longer have any private health insurance. I hung with Sol for the day which made doing anything else a bit of a challenge; an interview from the car while he slept, but otherwise it was a bit of housecleaning and then we played in a park for the rest of the afternoon, kicking a tiny soccer ball around until it began to rain. Picked up Rose, got the kids fed and bathed before her piano lesson, but missed the Munk debates because Sol was so tired I thought he would go to bed early but that didn’t really happen, in the end he fell asleep on the carpet below Rose’s elevated bed, with a pillow and blanket and a plastic tractor. The rest of the evening a blur, I responded to some emails, I’m up to $995 in the Indiegogo campaign but Clo suggests I ease off all the re-posting for a moment, then while dismantling a section of shelving in the basement I clocked myself in the forehead real good with a chunk of wood, so now have a bit of a headache. It’s time for bed anyway.
-chris
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date Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:07 PM
subject Des ambassades du Canada ne sont pas assez sécuritaires; Candidates’ personal convictions fall victim to election campaigning
Dear Stephen,
I am still alive. I survived a second day home with Sol, who has croup, we have learned. Claudine took him to the hospital at 4am, after his breathing became more and more raspy. She didn’t see a doctor, but the triage nurse was quite confident with her diagnosis. Amazing isn,t it, our health care system. She called 811 and spoke to a nurse before we decided to go to the hospital, which was our first visit to the new Children’s at the massive mega CHUM site, which she circled a few times as finding the ER in the dark is difficult. And of course the emergency room had about twenty cases in front of her and one doctor. One should be enough for a city of almost 2-million right? Anyway, Sol and I hung out all day, I did another interview from the car on my phone while he slept, then picked up posters announcing the debate next Monday, which I took to the William Hingston complex and postered outside as well as distributed to various community organizations inside once he woke up. There are now ten confirmed candidates in Papineau, and five confirmed for the debate: Maxime Claveau for the Bloc confirmed for the debate, and the tenth candidate is Tommy (Tom) Gaudet, for the Rhinoceros Parti. He just accepted my friend request on Facebook, declined the debate on October 5 as he has a weekly show on Monday nights at a bar in Rosemont, and asked me to appear on his show the 12th or 19th. I have no idea what it’s all about but sounds like fun! Possibly a podcast? His campaign videos are hilarious, and his slogan is “Je divise le vote pour Justin”.
-chris
DEAR PM 