As of Monday, you can sign up to get information or give your opinion on Calgary’s 2026 Winter Olympic bid. You can also email a request for a ballot on the upcoming plebiscite.
Open houses on the Olympic bid won’t start until Oct. 16. The city will hold six of them.
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But at least by then, we will know how much of the estimated $3-billion cost of the games the province is willing to pay.
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The federal government said they will contribute about $1.5 billion and the city is expected to come up with about $500 million.
The remaining key dates are Nov. 6 and Nov. 7 for the advance polls and Nov. 13 for the plebiscite.
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