From: chris lloyd Mailed-By: gmail.com
To: pm@pm.gc.ca
Cc: Andy Cook
Date: Sep 26, 2006 1:35 AM
Subject: Surplus reaches $13.2 billion; Lisette Lapointe briguera bel et bien l'investiture péquiste dans Crémazie
Dear Stephen,
I have good news and good news and bad news. The good news is that the extended Apple warranty for the logic boards still applies to my computer, and it should be repaired by Wednesday. Which is good because the sooner I get it back and working the sooner I can finish final reports and get money for the next wave of projects for the gallery. The other good news is that we should be able to send Jasper's work back to Amsterdam from the airport here in Saint John. I guess it all depends on who you talk to; the previous times I was dealing with Air Canada Cargo they told me that the crate was too large for the planes that fly into Saint John. The guy here didn't seem to think there would be a problem. The bad news is the cost of shipping the crate, which is going to be easily double what I had estimated, because I had thought we had already paid it. Fun. At least it is easier getting the crate to the airport here than trying to find a truck to Halifax. I don't suppose you could get DFAIT to pitch in a little on this one, for old times sake?
Spent the rest of my day meeting with Jud to discuss a possible sound-art radio show for CFMH, putting up posters for the movie nights, checking email, catching up on projects, washing laundry, reading the newspaper and making supper. Tonight we screened Napoleon Dynamite to a small but appreciative crowd. Maybe we could have attracted more people if I had send the email earlier than today.
Tonight Claudine and I worked a bit on editing my mini movies for the Continental Drift special screening this Sunday. The deadline for submissions is Friday, in case you have anything you'd like to send. The email address is on the cdrift website, I believe. That's www.cdrift.ca.
Did you read John Polanyi in the weekend Globe? He is a Nobel laureate and member of the Department of Chemistry at the U of T. He wrote about how backwards the US is in its plan for stamping out poppy crops in Afghanistan. This is, by extension, part of what Canada is hoping to achieve there. He makes a strong case, as does the Senlis Council, for promoting a way to legalize the opiate trade towards the production of legal painkillers, such as morphine and codeine, of which there is a global shortage. In fact, according to the INCB-International Narcotics Control Board-the richest countries in the world consume almost all the opiates, leaving over 80 per cent of the global population without. Additionally, according to prices set by Afghan drug lords, it would cost $600 million to buy the entire Afghan illicit drug crops, which is $180 million less than the US spent on trying to eradicate it last year. Or $50 million less than the recent renovations at the MoMA. So wouldn't it make more sense to encourage farmers to grow a legal crop than punish them for doing what they've always done under the Taliban? Maybe that could cut down on the suicide bombings, and the locals might view the UN force as an entity that is bringing constructive change to the country, and not as invaders. Could you look into this please?
-chris
To: pm@pm.gc.ca
Cc: Andy Cook
Date: Sep 26, 2006 1:35 AM
Subject: Surplus reaches $13.2 billion; Lisette Lapointe briguera bel et bien l'investiture péquiste dans Crémazie
Dear Stephen,
I have good news and good news and bad news. The good news is that the extended Apple warranty for the logic boards still applies to my computer, and it should be repaired by Wednesday. Which is good because the sooner I get it back and working the sooner I can finish final reports and get money for the next wave of projects for the gallery. The other good news is that we should be able to send Jasper's work back to Amsterdam from the airport here in Saint John. I guess it all depends on who you talk to; the previous times I was dealing with Air Canada Cargo they told me that the crate was too large for the planes that fly into Saint John. The guy here didn't seem to think there would be a problem. The bad news is the cost of shipping the crate, which is going to be easily double what I had estimated, because I had thought we had already paid it. Fun. At least it is easier getting the crate to the airport here than trying to find a truck to Halifax. I don't suppose you could get DFAIT to pitch in a little on this one, for old times sake?
Spent the rest of my day meeting with Jud to discuss a possible sound-art radio show for CFMH, putting up posters for the movie nights, checking email, catching up on projects, washing laundry, reading the newspaper and making supper. Tonight we screened Napoleon Dynamite to a small but appreciative crowd. Maybe we could have attracted more people if I had send the email earlier than today.
Tonight Claudine and I worked a bit on editing my mini movies for the Continental Drift special screening this Sunday. The deadline for submissions is Friday, in case you have anything you'd like to send. The email address is on the cdrift website, I believe. That's www.cdrift.ca.
Did you read John Polanyi in the weekend Globe? He is a Nobel laureate and member of the Department of Chemistry at the U of T. He wrote about how backwards the US is in its plan for stamping out poppy crops in Afghanistan. This is, by extension, part of what Canada is hoping to achieve there. He makes a strong case, as does the Senlis Council, for promoting a way to legalize the opiate trade towards the production of legal painkillers, such as morphine and codeine, of which there is a global shortage. In fact, according to the INCB-International Narcotics Control Board-the richest countries in the world consume almost all the opiates, leaving over 80 per cent of the global population without. Additionally, according to prices set by Afghan drug lords, it would cost $600 million to buy the entire Afghan illicit drug crops, which is $180 million less than the US spent on trying to eradicate it last year. Or $50 million less than the recent renovations at the MoMA. So wouldn't it make more sense to encourage farmers to grow a legal crop than punish them for doing what they've always done under the Taliban? Maybe that could cut down on the suicide bombings, and the locals might view the UN force as an entity that is bringing constructive change to the country, and not as invaders. Could you look into this please?
-chris
posted by Chris Lloyd at mardi, septembre 26, 2006
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