CALGARY – Did you get fooled by any of the following outrageous April Fools’ Day pranks?
Nenshi buys the Calgary Sun
The paper’s front page story on April 1st claimed that Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi was the Calgary Sun’s new boss, thanks to some help from cycling enthusiasts and public art supporters.
The story detailed new roles for staff, including Rick Bell’s brand new restaurant review column called ‘The Dinner Bell.’
Also included in the bogus article were Nenshi’s plans to create his own political party called the ‘Purple Rose Party’ – with current Wildrose leader Danielle Smith serving as his deputy.
Is Scott Fee doing the weather?
Some Global Calgary viewers were confused to see Global Calgary’s Scott Fee presenting the weather when they tuned into the Morning News on April 1st — and Amber Schinkel doing traffic.
Then Leslie Horton and Jordan Witzel started reading the news.
Don’t worry! The changes aren’t permanent – your favorite personalities were just ‘fooling around’ for April Fools’ Day.
SAIT builds weather-correcting dome
Officials sent out a news release on Tuesday, outlining plans for the so-called ‘SAIT Dome Project’ which would see a giant weather-correcting dome built over all 96 acres of campus.
The release claimed the dome would be a solution for Calgary’s severe winter weather conditions, and would stop the temperature on campus from dropping below 15°C, or climbing higher than 26°C.
Students would have loved if the project was real – especially the proposal of a simulated beach at The Cohos Commons.
WestJet switches to metric time
The Calgary-based airline is known for partaking in April Fools’ Day pranks – and this year is no exception.
On Tuesday, the airline supposedly announced plans to change the way it displays its flight schedule, switching from using “a.m.” and “p.m.” to metric time.
In 2012, the company pranked their patrons by saying they’d be offering ‘Kargo Kids’ – a program which allowed travellers to take child-free flights.
Provincial political pranks
Even provincial politicians got in a little April Fools’ Day fun by distributing phony news releases.
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith supposedly announced her candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party, saying her platform was based on moving the Legislature to High River and re-purposing the Legislature grounds as a feral horse sanctuary.
Meanwhile, the Alberta Liberal Party claimed that Loblaws – who owns the President’s Choice grocery brand – was suing the Progressive Conservatives over use of the ‘PC’ abbreviation.
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