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habsfan
04-18-2007, 02:53 PM
Found this on Cyberpresse, and thought it was too funny.

It's in french and i don'T have the time to translate! Enjoy!;)


Grave épidémie de «Calgaria»


18 avril 2007 - 06h10

La Presse

Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot

Vous avez des pertes d'équilibre, des troubles de vision et des crises d'anxiété? L'heure est grave. Vous êtes atteint de la Calgaria.

La quoi? La Calgaria, une maladie inventée par le gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Écosse afin de convaincre ses expatriés partis profiter du boom économique albertain de revenir à la maison.

«Ou du moins, qu'ils gardent la Nouvelle-Écosse dans leur plan de carrière», dit Angela Campbell, porte-parole du ministère des Communications de la Nouvelle-Écosse.

Pour séduire des travailleurs âgés entre 25 et 35 ans, il fallait une campagne de publicité qui sorte de l'ordinaire. D'où l'idée de la Calgaria, une maladie qui affligerait les Néo-Écossais de Calgary.

Les symptômes - développer un intérêt pour les bouchons de circulation, accepter de payer 350 000 $ pour une maison et le pire de tous, devenir un partisan des Flames - s'aggravent au fil des mois passés à Calgary.

Heureusement, la Calgaria n'est pas une maladie incurable. Comme l'alcoolisme, elle se traite d'abord par une intervention de ses proches. Le gouvernement a d'ailleurs mis en ligne sur son site internet une intervention (fictive) particulièrement réussie...

La campagne contre la Calgaria a eu lieu presque exclusivement sur le web. Le gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Écosse a même créé un site internet spécialement pour l'occasion (www.calgaria.ca). La campagne a pris fin vendredi dernier.

En un mois, 37 602 personnes ont visité le site internet de la Calgaria. Environ 46 % des visiteurs provenaient de l'Alberta. «Nous avons reçu beaucoup de bons commentaires même si certains Albertains (de souche) sont restés un peu surpris», dit Mme Campbell.

Le gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Écosse n'a pas inventé la Calgaria pour vexer les Albertains. La province lutte désespérément contre la migration de ses travailleurs. Selon Statistique Canada, la Nouvelle-Écosse est l'une des deux seules provinces - l'autre étant Terre-Neuve - dont la population a diminué entre le 1er octobre et le 1er janvier dernier.

Le boom économique albertain n'est pas étranger au déclin démographique de la Nouvelle-Écosse. En 2006, la province a vu 7589 de ses résidents déménager en Alberta, pour un solde migratoire entre les deux provinces de 4517 personnes en faveur de l'Alberta.

Par habitant, la migration vers l'Alberta est un phénomène six fois plus important en Nouvelle-Écosse qu'au Québec! Des 10 provinces canadiennes, c'est toutefois la Saskatchewan qui est la plus touchée par la Calgaria: 1,5 % de sa population a déménagé en Alberta en 2006.



Le Québec atteint lui aussi



Le Québec commence lui aussi à être sur ses gardes. En 2006, le nombre de Québécois ayant déménagé en Alberta a doublé, passant de 4606 à 9333.

«Ce n'est pas mauvais en soi qu'il y ait des mouvements de travailleurs en fonction des réalités économiques, dit Michel Kelly-Gagnon, président du Conseil du patronat du Québec. Mais nous sommes préoccupés qu'il s'agisse d'une tendance structurelle et non conjoncturelle. Quand Francesco Bellini (le PDG de Neurochem) décide de déménager en Alberta, ce n'est sûrement pas pour souder des pipelines! Au-delà du boom pétrolier, l'Alberta est peut-être en train de se doter d'un avantage structurel à long terme face au Québec.»

Pour l'instant, le gouvernement du Québec ne songe pas à conscientiser ses expatriés des dangers de la Calgaria. Il mise plutôt sur les négociations de l'Accord sur le commerce intérieur relatives à la mobilité de la main-d'oeuvre.

De toute façon, même si la campagne contre la Calgaria a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, elle n'a pas eu l'effet escompté, pense Michel Kelly-Gagnon.

«Je trouve cette campagne de publicité cute et attachante, dit-il. Toute personne garde toujours une trace de sa terre natale dans son coeur. Mais d'autres facteurs influencent davantage nos choix, comme le type d'emplois disponibles, le salaire et le taux d'imposition.»

MolsonExport
04-18-2007, 03:23 PM
Merci Habsfan.

habsfan
04-18-2007, 03:23 PM
Merci Habsfan.

Pas de Problème!:cheers:

WHISTLERINMUSKOKA
04-18-2007, 03:34 PM
Hah!, Well I have to say that the worste side effect they mention is becoming a Flames fan ;)

harls
04-18-2007, 03:37 PM
One of my old roomates got a case of banffitis a couple of years ago. I think it became inoperable, he never came back.

stamps
04-18-2007, 03:52 PM
Isn't the average price for a home in Calgree over $400,000(if that's what is being said)? WE WE CANADIANS!!!!!

ScottFromCalgary
04-18-2007, 04:08 PM
Write it in American, that's all we understand.;)

skrish
04-18-2007, 04:36 PM
This is the translation google gave:
Serious epidemic of “Calgaria”

April 18, 2007 - 06h10

The Press

Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot

You have losses of balance, eye trouble and crises of anxiety? The hour is serious. You are reached of Calgaria. What? Calgaria, a disease invented by the government of News-Scotland in order to convince its expatriates left to benefit from the boom economic albertain to return to the house. “Or at least, that they keep News-Scotland in their plan of career”, known as Angela Campbell, spokesman of the ministry for the Communications of News-Scotland. To allure old workers between 25 and 35 years, one needed a publicity campaign which left the ordinary one. From where the idea of Calgaria, a disease which would afflict theScottish one with Calgary. The symptoms - to develop an interest for the stoppers of circulation, to agree to pay 350.000 $ for the house and worst of all, to become a partisan of Flames - worsen with the wire of the months spent to Calgary. Fortunately, Calgaria is not an incurable disease. Like alcoholism, it is treated initially by an intervention of its close relations. The government put besides on line on its Internet site an intervention (fictitious) particularly successful… The countryside counters Calgaria took place almost exclusively on the Web. The government of News-Scotland even created an Internet site especially for the occasion (www.calgaria.ca). The countryside ended last Friday. In one month, 37.602 people visited Internet site of Calgaria. Approximately 46% of the visitors came from Alberta. “We received many good comments even if if unquestionable Albertains (of stock) remained a little surprised”, known as Mrs. Campbell. The government of News-Scotland did not invent Calgaria to upset Albertains. The province fights hopelessly against the migration of its workers. According to Canada Statistics, News-Scotland is one of the two only provinces - the other being Newfoundland - whose population decreased between on October 1 and last on January 1. The economic boom albertain is not foreign with the demographic decline of News-Scotland. In 2006, the province saw 7589 of its residents moving in Alberta, for a migratory balance between the two provinces of 4517 people in favour of Alberta. Per capita, the migration towards Alberta is a phenomenon six times more important in News-Scotland than in Quebec! Of the 10 Canadian provinces, it is however Saskatchewan which is touched by Calgaria: 1,5% of its population moved in Alberta in 2006. Quebec reached him too Quebec also begins him to be on its guards. In 2006, the number of Québécois having moved in Alberta doubled, passing from 4606 to 9333. “They are not bad in oneself that there are movements of workers according to economic realities, known as Michel Kelly-Gagnon, president of the Council of the employers of Quebec. But we are worried that it is about a tendency structural and nonof the economic situation. When Francesco Bellini (the chairman of Neurochem) decides to move in Alberta, it is not surely to weld pipelines! Beyond the oil boom, Alberta is perhaps obtaining a structural advantage in the long run vis-a-vis Quebec.” For the moment, the government of Quebec does not think of conscientiser its expatriates of the dangers of Calgaria. It setting rather on the negotiations of the Agreement on the domestic trade relating to the mobility of labour. In any event, even if the countryside counters Calgaria made run much ink, it did not have the discounted effect, thinks Michel Kelly-Gagnon. “I find this publicity campaign cute and attaching, he says. Any person always keeps a trace of her native soil in her heart. But of other factors our choices influence more, like the type of employment available, the wages and the tax rate.”

jeffwhit
04-18-2007, 06:37 PM
Here's a bit from the cbc website last month on it in English. link: (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/03/26/calgar-novascotia.html)

Nova Scotia offers prescription for Calgary "ailment"
Last Updated: Monday, March 26, 2007 | 5:30 PM MT
CBC News

The Nova Scotia government has launched a poster campaign in Calgary that promises to help former residents deal with a mock condition called "delusional calgaria."

The campaign is a humorous attempt to convince Maritimers they're missing out on a better quality of life back home. The posters direct people to a website where they can get tips on how to cure themselves of the "ailment."

Delusional calgaria, according to the website, is "an affliction that affects four out of five Nova Scotians living away from home in Calgary."

"Symptoms include loss of balance, blurry vision and separation anxiety," the website says. "Sufferers may show signs of acceptance of high costs in Calgary, lack of awareness of new opportunities to have a better life back home in Nova Scotia, and occasional upset stomach."

The website even includes a mock intervention video featuring a guy named Jim and his concerned family and friends back home. They ask him to actually name a player on the Calgary Flames and tell Jim he can have two homes in Nova Scotia for the price of one in Calgary.

"Delusional calgaria can be beaten. If you know someone who is suffering, don't let another day pass. Start the healing process today," the video pleads. that's about half the article.

They had put posters for this campaign all over Calgary, especially above urinals in bar bathrooms, but no one seems to be talking about it, except of course, the Calgary Sun.

mersar
04-18-2007, 06:43 PM
And they were since forced to drop part of the name, after complaints from the mental health community, so its now simply 'Calgaria'

Wooster
04-18-2007, 06:43 PM
If you ask me, not the best strategy to essentially call people stupid for their decision. Not the most prudent way to get people to return.

habsfan
04-18-2007, 07:26 PM
If you ask me, not the best strategy to essentially call people stupid for their decision. Not the most prudent way to get people to return.

Excellent point. I just thought it was funny. Nova scotia must really be desperate to stoop this low in its tactics.

srperrycgy
04-18-2007, 07:35 PM
The ads with the smiley families pushing Saskatchewan that I've seen on the CTrain are starting to get on my nerves as well.

CCF
04-18-2007, 07:37 PM
The ads with the smiley families pushing Saskatchewan that I've seen on the CTrain are starting to get on my nerves as well.

Because you know you'll never have that in Alberta? ;)

someone123
04-18-2007, 07:52 PM
Nova scotia must really be desperate to stoop this low in its tactics.

Yes. In a last ditch attempt to stem the flow of people out of the province, the great central authority brought out the big guns and paid to have infantile ads placed above urinals in Calgary.

...

What actually happened was that some mediocre, uncreative marketing group got paid way too much (probably because it included somebody's cousin) to come up with a stupid ad campaign. Maybe these were the same people who came up with the "Come to Life" slogan, which is quite possibly the worst I have ever heard.

It's also probably a mistake to market Nova Scotia as a cheap place to live. It's really not.

Xelebes
04-18-2007, 10:34 PM
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heh...

I can't read french. :(

Jay in Cowtown
04-19-2007, 12:12 AM
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heh...

I can't read french. :(

heh...

I can't read french. :)

Boris2k7
04-19-2007, 12:14 AM
You can't, but Google Language Tools can! :banana: :D

http://www.google.com/language_tools

(See skrish's translation for more)



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