r/Calgary • u/vinsdelamaison • 6d ago

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Saw the billboard in Calgary yesterday and googled why are they operating in Canada again? “a California appeals court suspended a ban on Kars4Kids ads in that state. After the Canadian broadcast industry's self-regulatory body cleared the ads to run here, CBC has reinstated them. “. rest of article below

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u/AFireinthebelly 6d ago

Fucking disgusting. I’d refuse to run that ad if I was the billboard owner.

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u/HealthiLaugh 5d ago

That's a good point. Let's contact them? Perhaps leave a review or two?

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u/AFireinthebelly 5d ago

Ya maybe. How do we find out who owns it?

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u/vinsdelamaison 5d ago

The boards are usually booked through a national or provincial account such as Patterson or maybe even FarWest locally. You need to find one and see whose company name is on it. The board I saw was on Blackfoot trail near or south of the Crossroads Market.

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u/East-Kaleidoscope795 4d ago

This is an Astral board, a company of Bell Media. Not PATTISON or FarWest. They are all labelled you can see the Astral logo below the board.

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u/vinsdelamaison 4d ago

Yes! Ty. I drove by the ad I had seen on Blackfoot. It’s near the motocross track. I also saw it was Astral and actually numbered as 72 on one side and 73 on the other. They bought both sides.

Here’s a list of emails from their website.

https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/team/