2020
from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 4, 2020, 1:39 PM subject One hundred and seventy
Dear Justin,
Am giving donations as Xmas gifts this year. This was for my brother Aaron and his partner Karen.
When are you going to override the injunction, tell the RCMP to disband itself and sell that 4.5-billion dollar pipedream?
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From: Unist’ot’en Camp via ActionNetwork.org <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:12 PM
Subject: Thank you for your donation!
To: <dearpm@gmail.com>
christopher,
Thank you for your donation. Here is your receipt:
Unist’ot’en Camp — CAD 100.00 Action Network (tip) — 10.00 ————————-
Total — 110.00
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Subject: Contribute now! Unist’ot’en 2020 Legal Fund
Body:
Friend,
I contributed on an Action Network fundraiser to Unist’ot’en 2020 Legal Fund.
The Unist’ot’en are facing mounting legal fees in order to protect their unceded territory. Last year we raised an incredible $385K – we have come so far, we can’t stop now!
Funds are needed for upcoming legal costs. This is a crucial time and we are counting on our supporters to dig deep.
Unist’ot’en Camp, located on Dark House territory of the Gilsehyu Clan, has been a beacon of resistance for over 10 years. It is a space of Indigenous sovereignty dedicated to healing, and an active example of decolonization.
In January 2019, TC Energy/Coastal GasLink accessed the territory at gunpoint, following a court injunction, using militarized RCMP forces. The world witnessed the violence on unarmed citizens (in the presence of elders) despite the RCMP’s attempts to create an “exclusion zone” and shut out all media from the events.
The Unist’ot’en remain steadfast in their refusal to let fossil fuel infrastructure be built across the land. TC Energy continues to violate environmental regulations and destroy archaeological sites that are sacred to the Wet’suwet’en. Coastal Gaslink has no consent from the Hereditary Chiefs whose territories would be permanently desecrated by the project.
Freda Huson, Unist’ot’en House spokesperson:
“We honored the terms of the injunction…we honored all the terms of the agreements we’ve made…We are witnessing police break all of the agreements they have made with our chiefs, watching them actively protecting CGL and its contractors as they violate the Wildlife Act and the conditions of their permits, and watching the agencies responsible for enforcing these conditions do nothing…Coastal Gaslink is breaking all their own Canadian laws while we are upholding Wet’suwet’en laws and responsibilities to the land.”
Trapping is one of many cultural practices vital to the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre’s program for community members recovering from the detrimental effects of colonization. RCMP and CGL have not only physically invaded, bulldozed, and destroyed traplines; they have continued harassing and threatening violence and arrest on the Unist’ot’en, supporters, and patients. This creates an unsafe environment for occupants of the Healing Center wishing to heal out on the yintah.
Over the past ten years, it has become common practice for the colonial Canadian Judicial System to impose injunctions on Indigenous peoples protecting their territories. This process forces Indigenous leadership to conduct business within the constraints of the Canadian legal system, as opposed to the
traditional feast hall. Poverty-stricken communities are required to produce impossibly large amounts of money to engage in a legal process which ultimately favours multi-billion dollar industries.
76% of injunctions filed against First Nations by corporations are granted, while 81% of injunctions filed against corporations by First Nations are denied .
These statistics are bleak. However, due to precedent-setting legal cases (Supreme Court case of Delgamuukw-Gisda’way 1997), the Unist’ot’en are in a unique position to fight the injunctions, maintaining sovereignty over their unceded ancestral lands.
Oil and gas corporations use legal pressure and intimidation to do their dirty work. We must come together and let it be known that those defending the land will be supported. This fight is far from over. If you have witnessed the power of the land, if you have been inspired from afar, if you care about the future of this planet, Indigenous sovereignty, and human rights, please donate to this legal fund.
For support: info@unistoten.com
For more information: Unistoten.camp
Can you join me and donate to the Unist’ot’en 2020 Legal Fund? Click here:
Thanks!
from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 4, 2020, 3:45 PM
subject One hundred and seventy-two
Dear Justin,
Here is my donation to #1492landbacklane… maybe will be for my folks, haven’t decided yet… -chris
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Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:43 PM
Subject: Thank you for your donation to 1492 Land Back Lane – Legal Fund To: <dearPM@gmail.com>
Thank you for your $100.00 donation to 1492 Land Back Lane – Legal Fund Here is your donation receipt:
Donor name: DEAR PM
Donation date: December 4, 2020
Donation to: 1492 Land Back Lane – Legal Fund Donation will be received by: 1492 Land Back Lane Donation amount: $100.00
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 6, 2020, 12:14 PM
subject One hundred and seventy-three
Dear Justin,
Got some good news at VOX on Friday: my full-time contract is coming to an end, since Geneviève is coming back from her maternity leave, so I can go on chomage / EI or work 1-2 days per week until the next de-install, which might not be until late March or April. Since my monthly expenses are so much lower this is great news, as I can go
into the studio so much more and start making things again! Happy days. Also I’ll have more time to volunteer and / or protest, put my body on the line. I should just try not to get arrested.
Jess and I had a date-night on Friday that involved us playing an
online video game with her friends and chatting through Discord the whole time and drinking a bottle of whiskey. Saturday we had planned to take mushrooms and have a spiritual trip but she was hung-over so we watched videos all day and night, going from youtube book reviews to Mean Girls to 3/4 of the entire Twilight movies – we have about an hour to go in the last one, but today is a work day for Jessica and I
am going to read and putter, need to get a refill of my meds so might just head to the studio and set up some things there.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 7, 2020, 12:00 PM
subject One hundred and seventy-four
Dear Justin,
Today is a studio / independent project work day. I have to pick up some armoire doors from François that I will use to make a closet shelving system, plus then re-cut the odd shapes of the doors into MDF to be painted white (the current ones are made of a stained plywood).
I am also making an entryway shoe shelf / key dropoff / bookshelf. I
am not terribly enthused about this project, mostly because I am still
quite busy at VOX this week. I am supposed to install Juan’s
inflatable tomorrow and then start the washroom demo with Mohanad, and turn it into the equipment / clean storage area. And I get the kids
Friday. I guess a lot of my evenings will be spent after work at VOX working on this other project.
I signed up for 2 years of MacKeeper tech help to improve performance of my mac mini, $24/month but had to pay all upfront, then granted remote access for almost twelve hours as they performed a deep clean. I hope it isn’t a scam, but they did clear out close to 50G of space
and the computer does seem to be running quicker, so they must be legit. Or maybe just very nice hackers, who actually do what the service purports to do while also stealing your identity. Who’s to say?
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- ° Chris Lloyd
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 9, 2020, 11:33 AM
subject One hundred and seventy-five
Dear Justin,
I had dreams about the WC renovations at Vox as and the Defund the Police protest planned for this afternoon in front of city hall. I
can’t go, it is happening at the same time as the Vox AG, which is annoying. There is also a live webinar about shutting down canada happening today which I am hoping to at least listen to while I am working. I have to cut a bunch of Plexiglas strips to complete the
panels that will be used as an educational tool for Juan’s show. The giraffe installation went well so the shows are all finally done, and
are getting documented today. I miss the kids and am hoping that
school will be cancelled even earlier, like maybe as of Monday. I’d
love to spend the week at home with them. I’m so much looking forward to being off for a few months in the new year to work in the studio, I might even go on EI after the WC and workshop renos are done.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 15, 2020, 11:46 AM subject One hundred and seventy-six
Dear Justin,
I’d like to get at least half a years’ worthletters to you before the end of the year – 187.5 – but I rarely find the time lately. Too much spare time playing online scrabble haha!
I’ve had the kids since Friday and it’s been so nice. I forgot to go
get their own OPUS cards for the STM on the weekend so we shall continue to “defraud the system”, as the super-bitchy attendant accused me of a couple weeks ago. I’m sorry for my belief that public transit should be more affordable, and that children travelling with their parents should not have to pay their own fare. I am sad that all poor, working class folks are not more united in solidarity against a broken, racist, neo-liberal system.
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- ° Chris Lloyd
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 16, 2020, 8:45 AM
subject One hundred and seventy-seven
Dear Justin,
Oh, this correspondence with Conrad Black is getting good! It can’t possibly be him, but the fact that whoever answers his emails is writing this stuff is pure gold!
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From: CMB Letters <cmbletters@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: Conrad Black
To: DEAR PM <dearpm@gmail.com>
I don’t have a lot of time for you either, brother. I have millions of readers mainly in the US, of my columns in that country and I try to deal with all civilized correspondence. and Idon’t write for a
living-I have real work to do. if I were you, I wouldn’t try to make
the anti-Macdonald argument. He deserves great homage as the founder of the country and the man who guided it foir its first 25 years. Regards, Conrad Black (le seul et unique)
On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 23:34, DEAR PM <dearpm@gmail.com> wrote: >
- > To be honest, I simply don’t have the time to do this work on my own.
- > Your feeble arguments have already been refuted – time and time again.
- > Maybe you just don’t read the right books? You’ve been granted the
- > luxury and a pulpite from which to pontificate your own biased
- > opinions. And as opinions, I suppose they don’t get fact-checked. I
- > guess you do your own editing? >
- > I am, however, impressed that you responded – if indeed you are Conrad
- > Black, and this wasn’t a form letter. I’ll find some time this week to
- > refute your claims – I do have a job, 2 kids and a couple other side
- > projects, but I’ll try to work you in. I’m sure you understand, you
- > probably juggle a gazillion things as well, right? >
- > Sincerely, >
- > chris lloyd
from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 18, 2020, 11:21 AM
subject One hundred and seventy-eight
Dear Justin,
I am enjoying being off work, and spending the days in with the kids. We are making holiday cards in between their online school sessions and video games. I went out yesterday afternoon to meet the plumber at VOX who called while I was en route to reschedule in the new year – fine by me! Am enjoying online scrabble.
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- ° Chris Lloyd
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 20, 2020, 10:59 PM
subject One hundred and seventy-nine
Dear justin,
I got the kids back today shortly past noon and they help Jessica with the second batch of cupcakes before we met my parents and brothers through zoom to watch Rose and wrap her birthday presents. Since my ex has the kids for Christmas this year we were celebrating her birthday early with me. Rose really liked her gifts and it was actually quite nice to talk with and see my family over zoom, the call lasted quite a while as well. I guess there is no 40 minute limit on free accounts anymore. Also, it Snowed today which Rose was thrilled with and we went for a walk and visited a couple of the nearby parks. She hurt her ankle again going down one of the slides as the fresh snow made a fast slide even faster and she shut off the end of it about 5 feet. It is the same angle, it wasn’t sprained this time but it did swell a little bit and it was tender. She Hass to be extra careful on it but that is something that is so hard to keep at the forefront of an 11-year-old mind. Tomorrow is the solstice and we celebrate you all and have an early Christmas morning with the kids on Tuesday.
Dictated, not corrected
Sent with positive vibes from my super-duper hand-held computing device.
from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 23, 2020, 4:48 PM subject One hundred and eighty
Dear Justin,
We had such a lovely early Xmas morning, following a Yuletide evening of roasted vegetables and an outside walk to light sparklers and snowball fight. Rose loved the cat tarot deck Jess got her for her birthday and took copious notes. The kids let us sleep until 7am, Sol played Santa, we each opened one gift then ate breakfast, then the
rest of the morning was gifts, and being together. Rose read our
tarots, and mine was about having a creative block, and working through it, and last night I dreamed about making text-based oil paintings in the studio with Rose, but being unhappy with the results
– the colours were not blending right, too smeary, and my brushes wouldn’t get clean – kept streaking blue tones. And why were we painting in oils anyway? Now that the kids are back with their mom I miss them, but started in on a Minecraft world last night to distract myself and built a huge flat double surface on a mountain and then dug a hole through the mountain to the edge of the world – fell out once – and am now working on developing a nice staircase while making a leek and potato soup IRL, and listening to Sandy and Nora’s last podcast of the shitshow that is 2020. One excellent, optimistic takeaway is that everything that’s been laid bare this year can’t really be unseen –
BLM, defund the police, the stark inequity of capitalism – the very fakeness of it – we can’t go back, even though you and CEOs and stupid politicians will try to enforce a return to normalcy, too many of us
have seen how many things are wrong with normal, with the status quo. We have to keep making the new normal.
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- ° Chris Lloyd
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 24, 2020, 9:49 PM
subject One hundred and eighty-one
Dear Justin,
Happy Merry Xmas Eve. We’ve been inside all day, did some basic grocery shopping yesterday, and have been cooking delicious meals and playing Minecraft. Kind of like being home and alone with each other. Reflecting a bit on the past year – finalizing the divorce, setting up
my own place, meeting Jess and moving in together, all amidst Covid. 2021 will be different, as we come to grips with new realities. I’m itching to get into the studio, but also want to take my time, and
enjoy a bit of time for myself. Not just for Minecraft or Stardew
Valley, but for reading – Take back the fight and The warrior life
arrived today, and I ordered The new politics of the Handmade – and planning a year of more direct engagement with local politics, getting the defund the police message out, keeping Indigenous issues front and centre. And mostly just being present for the kids, who are growing up so quick and turning into amazing people.
I did hear some disturbing info that my Ex has been to an underground party a couple weeks ago, which is against Covid restrictions but more importantly puts herself, our kids and then by extension me, Jess, and people I am in contact with – many of whom are imuno-comprimnised. I have to write her a stern email, but I will wait until after the Zoom
call tomorrow while the kids open their Ninetendo Switch.
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- ° Chris Lloyd
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 25, 2020, 11:02 AM subject One hundred and eighty-two
Dear Justin,
Had a weird cinematic Tom Cruise post-apocalyptic time-travel dream last night, about dolphins that flooded Earth ninety years from now. Both Jess and I had difficulty falling asleep – I was seeing Minecraft caverns when I closed my eyes.
Am reading about deep reading, and article Robert posted – I checked my Facebook for the first time in about a week – and this quote from neuroscientist Richard Cytowick grabbed me:
We ask our stone-age brains to sort, categorize, parse, and prioritize torrential data streams it never evolved to juggle, while in the background we have to stay ever vigilant to change in every sensory channel….Screens of all sorts serve up rapidly changing images, jump cuts between scenes, erratic motion, and non-linear narratives that spill out in fragments….Is it any wonder people today complain of mental fatigue? Fatigue makes it even harder to sort the trivial from the salient and navigate the glut of decisions modern life throws at us.
Makes me want to slow down more, take on fewer tasks, focus on fewer projects and do better with the projects I take on.
Having a birthday / christmas zoom with the kids in about a half hour. Should grabbing some breakfast first.
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- ° Chris Lloyd
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 26, 2020, 12:14 PM subject One hundred and eighty-four
Dear Justin,
I’m at Vox for the moment – first time out of the house in three days. Might be a personal record. Cutting panels for François’ hallway cupboards and entryway boot / bookcase. Plan to hit the studio on the way home – if the building is open. I don’t have my exterior key card yet.
Had weird adventure movie-like dreams again last night. This time it was a mix of Terminator 2 and the wedding of Charles and Diana – but that could be because Jess and I watched a couple episodes of the Crown before bed.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 27, 2020, 1:04 PM
subject One hundred and eighty-four
Dear Justin,
Had a much longer day at Vox yesterday than I expected. Set up a workshop in the gallery to cut pieces for François’ doors and entryway shelves. Assembled the shelving unit, I need to go in today to patch holes, sand and prime. Assembled and painted shelves for Jess when I came home. Also started downloading then deleting videos from my iCloud, which was full and Apple wants another $4/month to increase storage; I have 5G that should be plenty. I’ve continued that work all morning, and have gone back to spring of 2017. Found a couple pics of my Ex that I had missed or left on purpose before that I was able to expunge.
Weird dreams last night about Spider-man, being robbed of gold wafers, fooling the robbers, weird architectural hangar like the Institute
from Buffy, and the Intel squad were young hippy-millennials who didn’t use Google for research but walls and walls of old vinyl
records.
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- ° Chris Lloyd
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 28, 2020, 11:53 PM subject One hundred and eighty-five
Dear Justin,
Got the kids today, but Rose went to visit her friend Fleur for the afternoon, which turned into a sleepover, so it has mostly been Sol and I playing Super Mario Cart on their new Switch. It’s fun! After he went to bed I’ve been playing around on the settings, figuring out how it all works, and downloading a few new games. He wants Animal Crossing but it costs $80 – and I just spent $25 for Minecraft and $6 for Among Us, and probably will buy Stardew Valley for $16, I think that is plenty for now. And lots to do on the Switch. It was a good gift, and we’ll play it lots this week!
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- ° Chris Lloyd
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Dec 30, 2020, 4:47 PM subject One hundred and eighty-six
Dear Justin,
Took the kids to Vox yesterday so I could work for a bit on François’ doors and shelf, they really liked Juan’s exhibition and we did the mediation games which they really liked as well. They played some Nintendo Switch I played through a projector, did some Dance Dance, I bought fries from Montreal Pool Room, then home for Parks and Recreation – not enough time for a movie. Today has been a mix of Switch – they really like a fun Japanese drumming game – and some outside play. I am making that fancy Ottolenghi rice dish tonight, and we’re hoping to start re-watching the whole Toy Story series tonight – but it might just be the Switch instead. Should the Switch just be
called a Crutch? We’ll bring it to the studio tomorrow night for the New Year’s party, and all dance together, bringing 2021 in with some fun and optimism.
Note to self: weird dreams all week. Art and espionage Amy Adams dream a couple nights ago, last night all about Winnipeg, a collapsing
building, police shoot-out, helping a disabled person into a
hovercraft, playing basketball, decrying the building of a sports
arena downtown, and a crummy billiards bar where patrons smoke inside, don’t wear masks and play pool on a grimy carpeted floor. Are these vivid dreams a result of the full moon and great conjunction? Who’s to say?
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- ° Chris Lloyd
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DEAR PM 