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Alberta tourism campaign uses English beach photo
Apr. 24 2009
The Canadian Press
EDMONTON -- Alberta cabinet ministers say there's nothing embarrassing or misleading about using a photo of an English beach as part of a $25 million campaign to improve the province's global image. But Albertans are speaking out in anger and frustration over the decision not to use pictures of Alberta in the campaign, which is now being openly ridiculed by some.
NDP Leader Brian Mason says "it was just sloppy" that the government allowed its rebranding campaign to use an image from another country. Mason says Albertans should be insulted that the province had to resort to using an image from Northumberland, England instead of some of the famous landscapes in Alberta.
Tourism Minister Cindy Ady is a little perplexed that the campaign chose a picture of a foreign beach, especially when Travel Alberta has 25,000 photos in its archives. Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett says he can think of a multitude of vistas that could have been used in the campaign, but he adds that it's not his problem to fix.
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SpursFan1902
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Weird...why would pick a picture of somewhere else to promote your city? Someone dropped the ball big time on this one. Nice picture though...  |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| They must have just taken it from a stock-photo album - and would have had to pay a good few hundred for the privilege. |
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SpursFan1902
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Someone's head is gonna roll! |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I just heard that Alberta doesn't even have a coastline, so this project was doomed from the start - haha |
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German tourist rescued from self-dug hole on Spanish beach
22 Sep
thelocal.de/society/20100922-30013.html
click here to watch video
Spanish firefighters saved a 23-year-old German tourist from being buried alive on a Tenerife beach on Wednesday after a tunnel he built in the sand collapsed. The young man had apparently planned to connect two holes more than two metres deep with a tunnel, but the sand collapsed around him, trapping him up to his neck for almost two hours. His girlfriend called emergency services, who rushed to the scene in a helicopter and managed to pull the man out uninjured with the help of other nearby beachgoers.
"He had built a three-metre (10-foot) deep hole when the sand buried him," a Tenerife fire department spokeswoman told news agency AFP, adding that five vehicles and 15 fire fighters were involved in the rescue. Spanish newspaper Diario de Avisos charged the vacationer with stupidly endangering himself and forcing the massive rescue operation. “Foolishness cost the Canary Islands taxpayers €20,000,” the paper wrote.
In July a 12-year-old Swiss boy died after a tunnel he dug in sand dunes with his two brothers at a beach at Castello d'Empuries in northwestern Spain collapsed around him, AFP reported.
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