More crypto primate madness about Bigfoot...but this time in cartoon form. Sometimes, you just have to laugh :)

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/03/12/albertas-war-room-accuses-netflix-cartoon-bigfoot-family-of-peddling-lies-about-oil-industry.html

The Alberta government’s energy war room has a new target in its crosshairs in the ongoing fight against oil and gas misinformation — a children’s movie about Bigfoot.

The film called “Bigfoot Family” launched on Netflix in late February and tells the story of an environmentally minded father who goes missing after launching a protest against a fictional oil company that plans to drop a bomb on a nearby valley.

It was the No. 1 movie on the site in multiple countries when it debuted.

But the agency officially known as the Canadian Energy centre has taken issue with how the film “peddles lies about the energy sector,” and has launched an online petition inviting signatories to tell the online streaming giant “that their attack on Canada’s energy industry is just plain wrong.”

“Brainwashing our kids with anti-oil and gas propaganda is just wrong — and Netflix needs to know that!”

As of mid-Friday afternoon, the petition had amassed just over 1,200 signatories, according to its own metrics.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney launched the war room in late 2019, fulfilling a campaign promise to make sure the province’s oilsands were no longer “a punching bag” for environmental groups.

It was initally given a $30-million annual budget for a mix of social media and traditional advertising, as well as a website that mimics a news publication about oil. When it was launched, CEO Tom Olsen said it would be used to share a “hopeful, unifying and uplifting” message about the energy sector. (In an email, Olsen said the centre’s budget is $4.7 million this fiscal year and $12 million next year.)

In the movie, the Bigfoot father is joined by protesters after he comes out in support of a local wildlife preserve that is up for oil development before mysteriously disappearing. His son, Adam, eventually tracks him down with the help of some animal friends and exposes the oil tycoon’s plans to develop oil by bomb before the hero gets a kiss from his crush.

Common Sense media notes the movie “aims to send a message about protecting wildlife and natural habitats from damaging activities like deep oil drilling.” Appropriate for ages seven and up, it also has “lots” of animated violence and features language, including “damn,” “jeez,” “suckers,” “stupid” and bathroom references.

In a message posted to its Facebook page Friday, the Canadian Energy centre said the petition was in response to a concerned parent, and so far 60 per cent of responses had been from outside Alberta.

So the $30 million came from taxpayers ?

Sadly, yes...

It all started when they spelled 'center' wrong, I'm telling you!

"Canadian Agency 'Raising Cain' Over Bigfoot"

people are easily triggered.

I wish Kenney’s War Room was the stupidest, most costly move by this government, but at $30million a year it’s not even remotely close. Heck, I wish Stephen Harper getting Albertans to pay his 24 year old son a $100,000 a year, as a “consultant” while he attends NYU, was the most glaring case of corruption. But not even close.

Kenney started out by letting corporations off the hook for $4.6billion and bet another $1.5billion on a pipeline EVERYONE already knew was going nowhere. And that’s still just a few examples among many.

Albertans should be world famous for being the stupidest political constituency in the world. Paying $30million to propagandize to yourselves isn’t even close to the dumbest thing Albertans have subjected themselves to. Kenney and Co. are trying their darnedest to rid Alberta of publicly funded Education and Health Care, for heaven’s sake. But the only thing that can get something of a protest out of Alberta’s citizens, by and large, is a mask requirement during a planet wide pandemic.

The dumb here goes way beyond the Mormon corridor, way beyond. Embarrassing us over a cartoon Bigfoot is a nice, funny joke compared to what actually takes place here.

One of my favorite indicators of human irrationality is paying a certain brand of college graduates to explain away a problem before hiring another certain brand of college graduates to actually fix the problem.

Human, YES to everything you've said. I have little hope that things will be better any time soon.

This is all very well, but does the Albertan Canadian Energy Center exist?