The HC offensive: we should use the medias to fight back

[leGeddy]

We need to get the medias involved. The general public must know what HC is illegaly doing.

As much as I would like to believe otherwise, writing to our PMs is a futile exercise in elections time (or any other time for that matter!). Since the parliament has now been dissolved, there is nothing a PM can do at this time and I doubt that vapers losing their nic suppliers would be high in his priorities.

So let's contact our local/regional/national news people and convince them this abomination is newsworthy.

buy adds in major newspapers.

Go manifest in front of HC offices, maybe it could make the evening news.

Hell, even have Rick Mercer rant about it if it's what it takes!

We need visibility folks. Jo Public has no idea what vaping is and what HC is doing to us so he has no opinion on the matter. Let's give him one... ours!

cheers

 

[sit.happens]

I wish I lived in Ottawa, I would be picketing in front of Health Canada.

 

[JayTheVapingGuy]

if anyone wants to email the Canadian Media... follows is a list of media contact emails that i got from CanLaw:


jgadd@globeandmail.ca
letters@macleans.ca
marnoon@halifax.cbc.ca
mediatv@mail.north.net
mirror@fc.babylon.montreal.qc.ca
national@toronto.cbc.ca
NEWSDAY@ottawa.cbc.ca
news_ed@canoe.ca
politics@toronto.cbc.ca
radio@edmonton.cbc.ca
sunletters@ppress.wimsey.com
tabtips@ppress.wimsey.com
city_desk@freepress.mb.ca
wreport@toronto.cbc.ca
almanac@mindlink.bc.ca
cairn@musicm.mcgill.ca
fifth@toronto.cbc.ca
info@lifenet.ca
kixx@foxnet.net
mainstreet@halifax.cbc.ca
marc@web.apc.org
news@ctv.ca
newsroom@globeandmail.ca
promo@chez106.com
pulse@citytv.com
radionet@edmonton.src.ca
radionews@toronto.cbc.ca
sjinfoam@saintjohn.cbc.ca
talk640@wic.ca
timesc@interlink.bc.ca
tips@utvnews.com

Hope this helps... i sent everyone in the above list the email i sent to harper and the other leaders... hopefully something will take.

 

[manc2000]

Hell, even have Rick Mercer rant about it if it's what it takes!

I can imagine it. Rick in a rowboat with an ecig in his mouth rowing across Lake Ontario with a sh..load of boxes. Right up his street.
Row on guys. BTW. does anyone have a rough estimate of how many people are using ecigs in Canada?

 

[JayTheVapingGuy]

i actually did email Rick mercer.

LOL GMTA!

 

[AlbertaClipper]

Damn, Jay, you are SERIOUS. lol

Good job!

 

[sabyrock]

we should get greenpeace involve too.
check there mission statement: Mission | Greenpeace Canada
Greenpeace is an independent, nonprofit, global campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and their causes. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and educating and engaging the public. Greenpeace’s goal is to ensure the ability of Earth to nurture life in all its diversity.

Greenpeace seeks to:

Protect biodiversity in all its forms;
Prevent pollution and abuse of our oceans, land, air and water;
End nuclear threats; and
Promote peace and global disarmament.

just an idea, i'm not a great writer but anything could help at this point. i will drop them a line.

 

[leGeddy]

Nice job Jay!

BTW, aren't you the one who was in contact with a CBC journalist? If so, any chance you could interest him with this story?

And yeah, picketing! That is the word I was looking for! So who's with me?

cheers

 

[Pipeous]

I can't say publicly yet, but am working on something myself. Let's just say I have a good in, just a matter of if he wants another good fight so soon or not ...

 

[IanK1968]

Jay, did you get any responses yet?

 

[Mike..P]

I think media attention would be good , especially with an election in progress

 

[viglnt2000]

With all due respect, but getting an organization like greenpeace involved will turn a lot of people off. But, we do have to get involved using the various social media spots that attract media attention.

 

[labradorlost]

if anyone wants to email the Canadian Media... follows is a list of media contact emails that i got from CanLaw:


jgadd@globeandmail.ca
letters@macleans.ca
marnoon@halifax.cbc.ca
mediatv@mail.north.net
mirror@fc.babylon.montreal.qc.ca
national@toronto.cbc.ca
NEWSDAY@ottawa.cbc.ca
news_ed@canoe.ca
politics@toronto.cbc.ca
radio@edmonton.cbc.ca
sunletters@ppress.wimsey.com
tabtips@ppress.wimsey.com
city_desk@freepress.mb.ca
wreport@toronto.cbc.ca
almanac@mindlink.bc.ca
cairn@musicm.mcgill.ca
fifth@toronto.cbc.ca
info@lifenet.ca
kixx@foxnet.net
mainstreet@halifax.cbc.ca
marc@web.apc.org
news@ctv.ca
newsroom@globeandmail.ca
promo@chez106.com
pulse@citytv.com
radionet@edmonton.src.ca
radionews@toronto.cbc.ca
sjinfoam@saintjohn.cbc.ca
talk640@wic.ca
timesc@interlink.bc.ca
tips@utvnews.com

Hope this helps... i sent everyone in the above list the email i sent to harper and the other leaders... hopefully something will take.

I sent a email to Mr.Harper and cc to all above media contacts, including the other parties. What a great list, I sure hope more people follow suit. The more media attention the better. I would like to see this list stickied.

 

[labradorlost]

As a educated environmentalist, a realist and the proud owner of the warmest, waterproof, sealskin boots. I have to agree with viglnt2000, Greenpeace would turn a lot of people off.