Edmonton rock station offers chance to ‘Win a Wife’

[Electric Monk]

Edmonton bachelors looking for love have the opportunity to achieve holy matrimony with a compatible Russian wife, thanks to a local radio station.

Win a Wife, on offer from 100.3 The Bear, launched Aug. 22 and more than 60 entries have been received, said station brand director Rob Vavrek.

The grand prize includes 13 nights’ accommodation, return airfare, and introduction services courtesy of A Volga Girl, a company offering matchmaking and marriage support services.

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Similar examples, said Scheyk, include wet T-shirt contests put on by Edmonton’s K-97, breast augmentation offered by 90.3 AMP in Calgary and Win a Baby for fertility treatments, which was launched by Ottawa’s Hot 89.9.

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Radio station's win-a-Russian-bride contest panned

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Sometimes those women are exploited, said Andrea Burhart, with Alberta's Action Coalition on Human Trafficking.

"I cringed when I saw it," she said. "The bottom line is that we don't know how these women are coming into this.

Employment and Immigration Minister Thomas Lukazuk found the contest so offensive, he pulled his ministry's advertising from the station.

But participant Danny Lozchuk, 27, sees nothing wrong with the contest.

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[sharp_stick]

1. It's Edmonton

how else are those ugly buggers supposed to find women willing to stay with them? ;-)

I went to school in Calgary so it had to be said.

[hifiguy]

2. So some goofball actually marries a Russian girl

and then she wants to bring her brother Ivan over and said goofball sponsors Ivan.

Goofball: So, Ivan, what is it you do?

Ivan: I BREAK LEGS!! You want demonstration??

Complications ensue to hilarious effect.

[KamaAina]

3. Ironically, Ottawa, home to Win a Baby, is also Paul Anka's home town

of "Havin' My Baby" fame (or at least notoriety :puke: ).

[KamaAina]

4. Wait a minute. The Russian wife would not qualify as "Canadian content"!

:P

[Electric Monk]

5. Winnipeg rock station has slightly less controversial contest

Grand prize =

[Xithras]

6. Lol, most of these are scams anyway.

Typically, they're just paid dating services. It's like Match.Com, only with women who are looking to emigrate and date at the same time.

They lure desperate suckers in who think that they get to "pick a wife from a catalog". When they get there, they discover that the programs offer little more than an introduction. You still have to convince her that you're worth crossing the planet for.

Oh, and the scam part? A lot of them offer compensation to the women in exchange for going on these dates (the service charges the man hundreds of US dollars for an introduction, and they'll kick the woman back $20 or so to go on the date). Many, and possibly most, of the women have no intention of leaving Russia, and just do it for the free dinner and spending money.

"Hey Katia, you wouldn't BELIEVE this Canadian moron I went out with tonight...he won our date on a radio contest, and actually thought that I was going to marry him!"

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. This is not funny