MediaMentor's Photo Blog

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Syllabics Poster (front)

Syllabics Poster (front), originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

I designed this poster when I worked for the Nunavut Department of Education.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Resend: Fort Liard Young Photographers Workshop presented by the Frozen Eyes Photographic Society

Frozen Eyes in Fort Liard

http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72157622002663578/

Images taken in Fort Liard NWT, Canada during a Young Photographers Workshop presented by the Frozen Eyes Photographic Society www.frozeneyes.com/ thanks to the sponsorship of the Hamlet of Fort Liard, NWT www.fortliard.com/ - BHP-Billiton www.bhpbilliton.com and the NWT Arts Council pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/artscouncil/

Apologies for the resend due to missing URL

The Frozen Eyes Photography Workshop in Fort Liard NWT

Frozen Eyes in Fort Liard

Images taken in Fort Liard NWT, Canada during a Young Photographers Workshop presented by the Frozen Eyes Photographic Society www.frozeneyes.com/ thanks to the sponsorship of the Hamlet of Fort Liard, NWT www.fortliard.com/ - BHP-Billiton www.bhpbilliton.com and the NWT Arts Council pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/artscouncil/

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GEORGE LESSARD
Information, Communications and Media Specialist
451 Norseman Dr.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2J1, Canada

Yellowknife Land Line # (867) 873-2662
Yellowknife Cell # (867) 445-9193
SKYPE: themediamentor

Online Business Card:
http://lessardcard.notlong.com

E-mail: mediamentor@gmail.com

Home Pages: http://mediamentor.ca
My panoramic images
http://panoramas-by-george.notlong.com
My YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mediamentor
Online Activities: http://www.web.ca/~media/index.html
Photos: http://photosbygeorge.notlong.com
Photo Illustrations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72157603627797568/
Etcetera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/459582/

My Public Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/themediamentor

Member:
Canadian Association of Journalists http://www.caj.ca
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes http://www.carfac.ca/
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective http://www.carcc.ca/

NYT: Lament for a Dying Field: Photojournalism

Lament for a Dying Field: Photojournalism

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/business/media/10photo.html?_r=3&hpw

[excerpt]

"...PARIS — When photojournalists and their admirers gather in southern
France at the end of August for Visa pour l'Image, the annual celebration
of their craft, many practitioners may well be wondering how much longer
they can scrape by.

Newspapers and magazines are cutting back sharply on picture budgets or
going out of business altogether, and television stations have cut back on
news coverage in favor of less-costly fare. Pictures and video snapped by
amateurs on cellphones are posted to Web sites minutes after events have
occurred. Photographers trying to make a living from shooting the news
call it a crisis.

In the latest sign of distress, the company that owns the photo agency
Gamma sought protection from creditors on July 28 after a loss of €3
million, or $4.2 million, in the first half of the year as sales fell by
nearly a third...."

Aurora Arts Society Mural Project at the 2009 Yellowknife Old Town Ramble and Ride

Diane Boudreau gives us information about the Aurora Arts Society's mural project that she and other local artists are creating in the old Hudson Bay warehouse as part of Yellowknife's 2009 Old Town Ramble and Ride
Video ©2009 George Lessard

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Cost of water in Ft Liard

Cost of water in Ft Liard, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Cost of water in Ft Liard
See
www.fortliard.com/
For more info on the community

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Ceilidh Friends - Steve Goff

DSC_9770-m, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Steve Goff (right), musician, photographer, geologist, and storyteller, passed away very suddenly on Saturday, August 1, 2009.

Ceilidh Friends – Yellowknife
Conibear Park Family Afternoon

Hailing from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Ceilidh Friends is a four-voice group that performs traditional, modern and Northern music.

Known for vocal harmonies, the group also plays a variety of acoustic instruments including guitars, Appalachian and hammered dulcimers, recorders, percussion, tenor and five string banjos, ukulele banjo, mandolin, bowed psaltery, and autoharp.

www.celtarctic.com/ceilidh_friends_main.htm

www.rambles.net/ceilidh_yellow.html

Merv Hardi ferry crossing the Mackenzie River

Saturday, August 01, 2009

George Lessard celebrates a personal photographic milestone

GEORGE LESSARD
is very pleased to announce
that his images on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/
have, as of
August 1st, 2009,
been seen
over 100,000 times.

Apologies for duplicate posts

--
GEORGE LESSARD

Information & Media Specialist
6402135 Canada Inc.

451 Norseman Drive
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2J1, Canada

Yellowknife Land Line # (867) 873-2662
Yellowknife Cell # (867) 445-9193

Online Business Card:
http://lessardcard.notlong.com

Home e-mail media@web.net
Alternate e-mail: mediamentor@gmail.com

Home Pages http://mediamentor.ca
Online Activities: http://www.web.ca/~media/index.html
Photos: http://photosbygeorge.notlong.com
My Public Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/themediamentor

Member:
Canadian Association of Journalists http://www.caj.ca
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes
http://www.carfac.ca/
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective http://www.carcc.ca/

George Lessard celebrates a personal photographic milestone

GEORGE LESSARD
is very pleased to announce
that his images on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/
have, as of
August 1st, 2009,
been seen
over 100,000 times.

Apologies for duplicate posts

---

GEORGE LESSARD
Information, Communications and Media Specialist
451 Norseman Dr.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2J1, Canada

Yellowknife Land Line # (867) 873-2662
Yellowknife Cell # (867) 445-9193
SKYPE: themediamentor

Online Business Card:
http://lessardcard.notlong.com

E-mail: mediamentor@gmail.com

Home Pages: http://mediamentor.ca
My panoramic images
http://panoramas-by-george.notlong.com
My YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mediamentor
Online Activities: http://www.web.ca/~media/index.html
Photos: http://photosbygeorge.notlong.com
Photo Illustrations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72157603627797568/
Etcetera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/459582/

My Public Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/themediamentor

Member:
Canadian Association of Journalists http://www.caj.ca
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes http://www.carfac.ca/
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective http://www.carcc.ca/

Thursday, July 30, 2009

"Who owns the photographs?" Should poor countries do more to exploit their poverty in the media?

Should poor countries do more to exploit their poverty in the media? A
film by artist Renzo Martens asks thorny questions about photojournalists
and aid agencies.

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREqd8QYtsQ

A line of Congolese militia trudges through thick vegetation. All but a
few of them are skin on bones. "We need to show them the bodies," they
tell the cameraman following closely. They lead the way to a huge compound
dotted with a few huts. A number of swollen, fly-infested bodies lie here
and there. The Western photographers zoom in, clicking away rapaciously.
Then they kneel and reposition their camera lenses for a better shot.

Later on filmmaker Renzo Martens asks one of the photographers, "Who owns
the photographs?"

The slightly puzzled photographer replies, "Me."

"But they organised the situation," counters Martens.

"Yes, but it is me that chooses to make a picture out of the situation, so
it is mine," the photographer insists.

more at
http://www.panos.org.uk/?lid=28074

"...Exploiting poverty

This is one of the many thought-provoking scenes in Renzo Martens's
documentary-style film 'Enjoy Poverty' being screened around Europe.
Martens is a Dutch artist who uses his film to protest against the
exclusion of the Congolese people from making money from a resource that
belongs to them. This resource is poverty.

He argues aid agencies and journalists alike generate the pictures of
Africa that we see for their own benefit, but do not make any real changes
in local communities. "There is no interest in changing the structural
issues," he says, "they [NGOs] want us to see a child suffering but they
do not show us that the parent is earning four dollars a week. It is
beyond their mandate."

Martens contrast the poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the
earning power of the media who are there to capture it. We see, for
instance, the plantation worker who earns 50 cents for three days of hard
labour. He has a severely malnourished daughter, and he and his family
survive by eating manoic [cassava] leaves. A Western photojournalist, on
the other hand, could earn 300 US dollars for a photograph portraying
this.

In the film Martens convinces some Congolese wedding photographers that
they could earn similar amounts if they took photographs showing "rape,
death and malnutrition." However when they try selling their pictures to
the medical aid charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), they are rejected
because of their poor quality...."

Minister Bob McLeod's Reply Re.: ITI and GNWT's NWT Arts release form and artists rights in the NWT

"... ITI would be open to again inviting CARFAC to conduct such workshops and ensuring that they are available to artists in all NWT regions. ..."
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GEORGE LESSARD
Information, Communications and Media Specialist
451 Norseman Dr.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2J1, Canada

Yellowknife Land Line # (867) 873-2662
Yellowknife Cell # (867) 445-9193
SKYPE: themediamentor

Online Business Card:
http://lessardcard.notlong.com

E-mail: mediamentor@gmail.com

Home Pages: http://mediamentor.ca
My panoramic images
http://panoramas-by-george.notlong.com
My YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mediamentor
Online Activities: http://www.web.ca/~media/index.html
Photos: http://photosbygeorge.notlong.com
Photo Illustrations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72157603627797568/
Etcetera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/459582/

My Public Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/themediamentor

Member:
Canadian Association of Journalists http://www.caj.ca
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes http://www.carfac.ca/
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective http://www.carcc.ca/

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bob McLeod <Bob_McLeod@gov.nt.ca>
Date: 2009/7/30
Subject: FW: ITI and GNWT's NWT Arts release form and artists rights in the NWT
To: mediamentor@gmail.com
Cc: Bob Bromley <Bob_Bromley@gov.nt.ca>, David M Krutko <David_M_Krutko@gov.nt.ca>, David Ramsay <David_Ramsay@gov.nt.ca>, Floyd Roland <Floyd_Roland@gov.nt.ca>, Michael Miltenberger <Michael_Miltenberger@gov.nt.ca>, Glen Abernethy <Glen_Abernethy@gov.nt.ca>, Jackie Jacobson <Jackie_Jacobson@gov.nt.ca>, Jackson Lafferty <Jackson_Lafferty@gov.nt.ca>, Jane Groenewegen <Jane_Groenewegen@gov.nt.ca>, Kevin Menicoche <Kevin_Menicoche@gov.nt.ca>, Michael McLeod <Michael_McLeod@gov.nt.ca>, Norman Yakeleya <Norman_Yakeleya@gov.nt.ca>, Paul Delorey <Paul_Delorey@gov.nt.ca>, Robert C McLeod <Robert_C_McLeod@gov.nt.ca>, Robert Hawkins <Robert_Hawkins@gov.nt.ca>, Sandy Lee <Sandy_Lee@gov.nt.ca>, Tom Beaulieu <Tom_Beaulieu@gov.nt.ca>, Wendy Bisaro <Wendy_Bisaro@gov.nt.ca>

Mr. Lessard,

Thank you for your email about the NWT Artists Database and artists' rights. Promoting arts in the NWT is very important to the Department of Industry, Tourism, and Investment (ITI).

The NWT Artists Database is an NWT Program with the goal of providing exposure and publicity to NWT artists. Ensuring that artists are paid for the exhibition and use of their photographs is important to the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT). This particular Database is a voluntary promotional program for interested artists. More than 200 NWT artists have opted in to this Program so that their art can be featured on the web site and in related publications such as "ARTISTS' NEWSLINE", a regular GNWT Newsletter for the NWT Arts Community. It is just this sort of promotion of artist's works that is contemplated and allowed by the release form as presently worded.

In the case of public exhibitions of physical works of art, ITI either purchases the work in question or provides the artist with financial compensation for its display, even in cases where images of the work have been submitted to the NWT Artists Database. In your letter, you specifically mentioned tourism campaigns as being of concern; please note that NWT tourism campaigns are generally created by NWT Tourism, an outside agency that does not have the right to use photos submitted to the NWT Artists Database according to the terms of the release form in question. Furthermore, the Tourism and Parks Division of ITI has a policy of only using pictures from their photo library (which is distinct from the NWT Artists Database) and even then, only using photos once explicit consent has been obtained.

We also appreciate you expressing concern about the importance of artists being educated about their legal rights and obligations. To this end, the GNWT invited Canadian Artists' Representation/Le Front des Artistes Canadiens (CARFAC) to the NWT to deliver CARFAC's Copyright Workshop for artists. This was done both by directly inviting CARFAC to deliver a workshop, on July 15, 2004, and by providing funding for workshops generally to the Great North Arts Festival, with which the festival paid for a CARFAC representative to deliver such a workshop. ITI would be open to again inviting CARFAC to conduct such workshops and ensuring that they are available to artists in all NWT regions.

We appreciate your concerns and thank you for your interest in the NWT Artists Database Program which aims to help promote and advertise NWT artists and their works.

From: George Lessard [mailto:mediamentor@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:39 PM
To: YT CARFAC
Cc: Carla Wallis; Peter Vician; Bob Bromley; Bob McLeod; David M Krutko; David Ramsay; Floyd Roland; Michael Miltenberger; Glen Abernethy; Jackie Jacobson; Jackson Lafferty; Jane Groenewegen; Kevin Menicoche; Michael McLeod; Norman Yakeleya; Paul Delorey; Robert C McLeod; Robert Hawkins; Sandy Lee; Tom Beaulieu; Wendy Bisaro; Boris Atamanenko

Subject: Re: ITI and GNWT's NWT Arts release form and artists rights in the NWT

Mario Villeneuve

National President
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes
P.O.Box 31256
Whitehorse, Yukon
Y1A 5P7
867-393-4515
Website: http://www.carfac.ca
carfac.yukon@hotmail.com

Mario,

Thanks for your interest in this issue here in the NWT.... as a long time member of Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes and the Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective, this issue, the lack of payments to artists by the Government of the Northwest Territories for their exhibition rights and the lack of education for artists on all of their artistic rights is of great concern to me, especially as the government's Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment is mandated to assist our artists in the development of the arts sector in the territory

"... Building on partnerships, our vision is to foster a diversified economy that provides all communities and regions of the NWT with opportunities and choices.

The Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment is working to meet this vision by: promoting development that reduces regional and community disparities; working with regional business corporations and other partners to identify new economic opportunities; Advancing alternative energy initiatives and supporting the development of sustainable local economies through small businesses and community-based sectors such as tourism, agriculture, arts and crafts, and the traditional economy. ..."
http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/about-iti/

"... A valued reflection of the culture and history of the NWT's Aboriginal people, the production of traditional arts and fine crafts is also an important element of the Northwest Territories' economy.

This vibrant cottage industry is one of the key areas in which the Government of the Northwest Territories is working to promote economic activity in smaller communities and to expand and diversify sectors like tourism and the traditional economy.

The Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment supports the arts and crafts industry with a variety of programs and services developed and guided by the NWT Arts Strategy. Read more... ..."
http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/artscrafts/

A little background....

About four years ago, when I lived in Fort Smith NWT, The Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment (ITI) http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/artscrafts/ held its first (I believe) public workshop concerning its NWT Artists Database http://www.nwtarts.com/NWTArtist.aspx and during that workshop it became clear that they required a release for any images images an artist would contribute to their own entry in the database that would release it, automatically, for any use by any sector of the territorial government. See the text of the release here
http://www.nwtarts.com/pdf/Releaseformpackage.pdf

The lady presenting this workshop was / is Carla Wallis Manager, Arts & Fine Crafts... CARLA_WALLIS@gov.nt.ca (867) 920-6130 who also is listed as serving as NWT Film Commissioner (867) 920-8793 in the governments phone directory at
http://directory.gov.nt.ca/utility/directory/index.html

When I queried this provision of the release, pointing out that would automatically remove any potential for licensing (and realizing income from) these submitted images to any NWT government department (especially the tourism campaigns run by their department) I was told that their lawyer had told them that this was the only way that they could do this and if I had a problem with it I should talk to their lawyer... I did do this and the lawyer simply said... in effect, that I did not know what I was talking about, and as a lawyer, this person knew more than I did and I had the choice of not participating... but the release could not change because it represented the requirements of the law.

I suggested to the group that they should go to the CARFAC and Copyright Collective websites to learn about their rights as artists.

About a year ago, here in Yellowknife, Ms Wallis gave a very similar presentation and the same release form with the same conditions attached was included in the package of information and I brought up the same question concerning the apparent rights grab by the territorial government... this time there were several other artists in the audience who were also equally concerned with the "license" and the potential loss of revenue to the submitting artists.... The reception our queries received was as frigid as an Arctic night in February and we were once again told the same platitudes expressed to me in Fort Smith.... One individual was even motivated to bring it to the attention of CARFAC as I had also done..

This brings me to the most recent ITI presentation at the Great Northern Arts Festival...
Well... four years later... same old same old... no change... still the same rights and income grab from a government department that is supposed to be helping artists with the same defensive attitudes of the department's position.

Any help you and CARFAC can offer to the artists of the Northwest Territories to protect their rights and incomes against what seems to me as a rip-off, would, I'm certain, be welcome by the artists... and any understanding / implementation of policies recognizing / protecting these rights you and CARFAC might be able to help ITI and the GNWT with would, I'm also certain, be greatly appreciated by the artists and their heirs.

FYI .... I am CCing this to INDUSTRY, TOURISM & INVESTMENT's Ms Wallis and

ITI Minister......................Bob McLeod................ (867) 669-2388 BOB_MCLEOD@gov.nt.ca
ITI Deputy Minister...............Peter Vician............ (867) 920-8048 PETER_VICIAN@gov.nt.ca
and the MLAs of the NWT.

I am also releasing this e-mail to the NWT media and Artists organizations.... four years is too long for this issue to have remained hidden and for NWT artists to have been treated in this deplorable way by their government.

Yours truly,

GEORGE LESSARD
Information, Communications and Media Specialist
451 Norseman Dr.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2J1, Canada

Yellowknife Land Line # (867) 873-2662
Yellowknife Cell # (867) 445-9193
SKYPE: themediamentor

Member:
Canadian Association of Journalists http://www.caj.ca
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes http://www.carfac.ca/
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective http://www.carcc.ca/

Online Business Card:
http://lessardcard.notlong.com

E-mail: mediamentor@gmail.com

Home Pages: http://mediamentor.ca
My panoramic images
http://panoramas-by-george.notlong.com
My YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mediamentor
Online Activities: http://www.web.ca/~media/index.html
Photos: http://photosbygeorge.notlong.com
Photo Illustrations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72157603627797568/
Etcetera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/459582/

My Public Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/themediamentor

2009/7/21 YT CARFAC <carfac.yukon@hotmail.com>

Thanks (...),
I will look into this, it is a bit of a broad request of rights. An other case of people just put legal jargon on a for without knowing what it means. I will get in touch with George via e-mail tonight, to see what we can do.
Thanks again for the head-up.
later
Mario

C/O Yukon Representative
National President
Mario Villeneuve
P.O.Box 31256
Whitehorse, Yukon
Y1A 5P7
867-393-4515
Website:www.carfac.ca

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Fwd: 2009 Banff Adventure Photography Workshop - Application Deadline extended

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	Mountain Culture and Environment

2009 Banff Adventure Photography Workshop

Note: The application deadline has been extended

to August 15
Workshop Dates: September 25 – 28, 2009

Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre and the National Geographic Expeditions Council offer you the opportunity to work alongside National Geographic photographers Gordon Wiltsie and Bill Hatcher, and award-winning adventure photographer, Alec Pytlowany, in both outdoor and classroom sessions during the upcoming Banff Adventure Photography Workshop.

Intense and interactive seminars will be interspersed with fieldwork and critique. A maximum of 25 participants will be accepted to the workshop.

Friday, September 25: Welcome reception; orientation to the program

Saturday, September 26: Lectures and fieldwork

Sunday, September 27: Fieldwork; Critique of field performance

Monday, September 28: Critique of field performance; screening of the "best of the workshop"

In order to limit this seminar to photographers with an existing knowledge of the fundamentals of photography, applicants will need to submit a portfolio of 5 images for review. Please visit our website for information on submitting your portfolio.

Please Note:
All participants are expected to bring digital cameras and laptops with appropriate software to manage their digital images. There will be no film processing available on campus.

Full Workshop Registration includes:

3 nights private accommodation at The Banff Centre

Three meals daily

All sessions and fieldwork activities

Transportation to/from field work sites

Models participating in a range of mountain activities for you to capture digitally

CDN$1200* Apply Now!

*Discounted rate available for Workshop Only (CDN$990), and shared accommodation (CDN$1100).

We invite you to submit your portfolio for review for the 2009 Banff Adventure Photography Workshop.

Best Wishes,
Christine Thél
Workshop Coordinator

Above photos, left to right: Laszlo Podor (2008 workshop participant); Kilian O'Donoghue (2006 workshop participant); Sam Ramadan (2008 workshop participant)
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Re: ITI and GNWT's NWT Arts release form and artists rights in the NWT

Mario Villeneuve
National President
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes
P.O.Box 31256
Whitehorse, Yukon
Y1A 5P7
867-393-4515
Website: http://www.carfac.ca
carfac.yukon@hotmail.com

Mario,

Thanks for your interest in this issue here in the NWT.... as a long time member of Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes and the Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective, this issue, the lack of payments to artists by the Government of the Northwest Territories for their exhibition rights and the lack of education for artists on all of their artistic rights is of great concern to me, especially as the government's Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment is mandated to assist our artists in the development of the arts sector in the territory

"... Building on partnerships, our vision is to foster a diversified economy that provides all communities and regions of the NWT with opportunities and choices.

The Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment is working to meet this vision by: promoting development that reduces regional and community disparities; working with regional business corporations and other partners to identify new economic opportunities; Advancing alternative energy initiatives and supporting the development of sustainable local economies through small businesses and community-based sectors such as tourism, agriculture, arts and crafts, and the traditional economy. ..."
http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/about-iti/

"... A valued reflection of the culture and history of the NWT's Aboriginal people, the production of traditional arts and fine crafts is also an important element of the Northwest Territories' economy.

2009/7/21 YT CARFAC <carfac.yukon@hotmail.com>

Thanks (...),
I will look into this, it is a bit of a broad request of rights. An other case of people just put legal jargon on a for without knowing what it means. I will get in touch with George via e-mail tonight, to see what we can do.
Thanks again for the head-up.
later
Mario

C/O Yukon Representative
National President
Mario Villeneuve
P.O.Box 31256
Whitehorse, Yukon
Y1A 5P7
867-393-4515
Website:www.carfac.ca

Canadian Copyright Consultations & webcasts

Town halls will be held in Montréal and Toronto. Canadians will be able to participate in these important discussions in person, or live over the Internet via interactive webcast.

The Government of Canada is hosting a nationwide consultation on copyright modernization.

This website http://copyright.econsultation.ca/ will help Canadians find important resources about copyright and the modernization process to date. It will record the progress of these consultations so that you can follow the major issues shaping the conversation. You can stay in touch by following our RSS Feed. http://copyright.econsultation.ca/rss?lang=en

You can participate in a few different ways:

The online submission centre: This gives you an opportunity to respond to a few specific questions on copyright. You can also submit your own paper or report to us so that other people can view your work.
The online discussion forum: This interactive venue gives you a forum to talk to the government and to each other online.
The multimedia centre: This will hold the audio and video transcripts of the round tables and town hall meetings. (Check back soon!)
In a city near you: Minister Clement and Minister Moore will be hosting two town hall meetings (one in Montréal and one in Toronto) later this summer. There is limited space available for members of the public — but even if you can't be there in person, you can still participate via web streaming.

Schedule of Events

Remaing events
July 29: Gatineau - Round Table
July 30: Montreal - Town Hall
August 5: Winnipeg - Round Table
August 27: Toronto - Town Hall

Consultations website:

http://copyright.econsultation.ca/ [3]

Consultation sur le droit d'auteur

Les assemblées publiques auront lieu à Montréal le 30 juillet et à Toronto le 27 août. Les Canadiens pourront participer à ces discussions importantes en personne ou en direct sur Internet, par le biais d'une webémission interactive.

Calendrier des événements
20 juillet : Vancouver - Table ronde
21 juillet : Calgary - Table ronde
29 juillet : Gatineau - Table ronde
30 juillet : Montréal - Assemblée publique

5 août : Winnipeg -- Table ronde
27 août : Toronto -- Assemblée générale

Inscrire à l'assemblée publique qui aura lieu à Montréal :
https://secure.brentmoore.com/ei/cm.esp?id=81&pageid=_2P90NWZ68 [4]

Inscrire à l'assemblée publique qui aura lieu à Toronto :
https://secure.brentmoore.com/ei/cm.esp?id=81&pageid=_2PC0PF5PN [5]

Site-web des consultations :

http://droitdauteur.econsultation.ca/ [6]
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GEORGE LESSARD
Information, Communications and Media Specialist
451 Norseman Dr.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2J1, Canada

Yellowknife Land Line # (867) 873-2662
Yellowknife Cell # (867) 445-9193
SKYPE: themediamentor

Online Business Card:
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Google Street Car In Yellowknife

Google Street Car 1, originally uploaded by Jason Simpson.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Inuvik's pretty painted houses...

DSC_8320_V2, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Inuvik Igloo Church

Inuvik Igloo Church, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Inuvik Igloo Church
Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church

Photo © 2009 George Lessard

Designed by Brother Maurice Larocque and Father Joseph Adam. Two years to build and opened in 1960

For more information about Inuvik NT, please visit
http://www.inuvik.ca/

For a full sized view of this large panorama, please visit
http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=28369

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Images of Inuvik's Great Northern Arts Festival 2009 by George Lessard

Artist's Pass for the 2009 Great Northern Arts Festiva

2009_GNAF_Artist_Pass_George_Lessard, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.