The ad they don't want you to see.

-

Dogwood Initiative
Larry,
Unreal! The ad we booked to run in Helijet magazine has just been denied!

This is the ad both Helijet and their in-flight magazine publisher approved last week.

Dogwood-Helijet-ad-full-bleed-325x420.jpg


So why are they backing out now?
According to a representative speaking on behalf of Helijet, my e-mail to you about the ad was “reckless”. He even went so far as to suggest I should apologize to Premier Clark.

Sure I will. As soon as she apologizes to British Columbians for putting our health and safety at risk by approving Kinder Morgan’s massive pipeline project.  

Donate $25, $50 or $100 right now and we’ll blast through this attempt to keep our ad under wraps by pushing it even harder -- we’re going to put a billboard right where Clark lives in Vancouver, and another one on the road to her office in Kelowna.

Trying to kill our ad at this point is just plain weird. Before my e-mail to you on Monday, we had Helijet’s stamp of approval.

But Helijet’s in-flight magazine publisher told us they didn’t want to publish anything that could "target and antagonize the airline’s political clientele”, many of whom are “senior decision-makers in business and government, including politicians and staffers from all political parties.”

Huh. You don't say?

It turns out Helijet is a long time donor to the BC Liberals, having given $56,000 to Clark’s party since 2005. Is this a knee-jerk attempt to protect their relationship with their pal the Premier?

To me this feels like yet another case of people with money and power who want to control a situation they don’t like. But I know the strong and dedicated British Columbians who make up the Dogwood community will NOT be silenced.


I did have a fact wrong in my previous e-mail message to you. According to Helijet, Christy Clark does not fly privately on their service. Apparently anyone with an extra $610 bucks can book a flight from Vancouver to Victoria and back with the chance of sharing an aircraft with our Premier. My mistake and I apologize.

But it’s safe to say I will not be one of the folks sitting next to Clark, or any other “senior decision-maker”, on a Helijet flight anytime soon because I, like many of you, don’t have an extra $600 for 70 minutes of air travel.

But for a cause I believe in, I do have $50, and I’m willing to spend it right now to help expose Clark for the corrupt political climate she nurtures by taking donations from Big Oil.

British Columbians have a right to know there is a dark, money-filled cloud hanging over Kinder Morgan’s approved pipeline. The health and safety of my family and yours depends on it.

For the coast,

Christina

P.S. Taking a crack at Christy Clark in Helijet magazine was a sassy idea we were ready to run with, but since they have now refused to print it, we’ll put it somewhere even more visible: on a billboard in our Premier’s own riding and another where she lives in Vancouver. Donate right now to make sure these billboards stay up where Christy Clark and tens of thousands of voters will see them. Now’s the time to get loud.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Conservative MP Absent From a Child Poverty Forum in Southwestern Manitoba.

-
Image
Are hungry kids a priority for the Harper government? by Larry Powell The forum (for the riding of Dauphin - Swan River - Neepawa) was sponsored by the Mission and Services Committee of the Neepawa United Church. It drew about 80 people to the church on Wednesday. But only four of the five candidates (see below) took part in the debate -  Ray  Piché  (Liberal),   Kate Storey (Green Party),  Inky Mark (Ind.) and  Laverne Lewycky (NDP) . The 5th candidate, the sitting Conservative MP for the area, Robert Sopuck (represented by the empty chair on the right), did not attend. His office manager in Neepawa, Christine Waddell, said he was in Inglis, a small community in the western part of the riding for the evening. She did not elaborate. But she did explain that a campaign worker was mistaken when he told forum organizers earlier that Mr. Sopuck would, in fact be there. Piché , the Liberal candidate, said the MP's absence showed “disrespect” for the rest of the candidates
Read more

A Candidate's Forum on Child Poverty Touches a Nerve in Manitoba.

-
Image
by Larry Powell Planet In Peril has sorted through some of the confusion surrounding the absence of Robert Sopuck (above), the Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa,  from a candidates' forum on child poverty in Neepawa on Wednesday.  About a month ago, his office told forum organizers that he would be attending.  But his office manager in Neepawa, Christine Waddell, later announced he could not attend due to "scheduling conflicts." She said the night of the event, he was in Inglis, a small town in the western part of his riding.  This morning, however, Sopuck himself told PinP he had actually been in Roblin, a larger town just north of Inglis. A newspaper ad indicated it was a "meet and greet" affair. But that was in the morning in Roblin, a town within a 3-hour drive of Neepawa. So it's still not clear what the event in Inglis was which took priority over a candidate's forum. The MP bristled at my suggestion th
Read more

The Bio of Larry Powell - publisher of this blog.

-
Image
Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of  Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating  the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in          Winnipeg entitled Holding
Read more