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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Media Advisory: Global Energy Show Canada 2025 to Convene World Energy Leaders for Critical Industry Dialogue
CALGARY, Alberta, June 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WHAT: We are pleased to share the following major events taking place during the Global Energy Show (GESC), organized by dmg events, in Calgary from June 10-12, 2025. Media interviews and photo opportunities will be available with spokespeople for the duration of the event. REMINDER: All registered media must obtain their accreditation badge from the registration area. Media accreditation must be visible at all times and cannot be shared with others. The Media Room is located on the 2nd Floor, BMO Centre and will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10 and Wednesday, June 11, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 12. WHEN: Tuesday, June 10 – Thursday June 12, 2025 WHAT: Tuesday, June 10, 2025 • 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. - Pancake Breakfast • 9:20 a.m. – Opening Plenary: Joelle Tomlinson, Journalist, Media Personality and Global Energy Show Host and Mayor Jyoti Gondek, City of Calgary • 10 a.m. – Official Exhibition Opening • 10 a.m. – Keynote with His Excellency Haitham Al Ghais, Secretary General, OPEC and conversation with Peter Mansbridge, former news anchor • 10:30 a.m. – Peter Mansbridge and Stastia West, Shell Canada President and Country Chair • Site tours ο Details here. Wednesday, June 11, 2025 • 10 a.m. – Keynote: Hon. Danielle Smith, Premier, Government of Alberta and conversation with Peter Mansbridge Tuesday, June 10 – Thursday June 12, 2025 • Executive Conference ο Full program here. ο Speaker list here. • Energy Influencer Program ο Full schedule here. ο Speaker list here. • Executive Leadership Roundtables ο Sessions here. For more information on the exhibitions, conference features and special features, please visit *Please note, schedule is subject to change. WHERE: BMO Centre at Stampede Park - Calgary Visitor Entrance: Corral Trail SE entrance of the NEW BMO Centre, 1912 Flores LaDue Parade, Calgary, Canada. For media inquiries, please contact: Shauna MacDonaldPrincipal, Brookline PR403-585-4570smacdonald@ in to access your portfolio
CTV News
4 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
New hotel coming to Calgary's Stampede Park
A hotel set to be built on Calgary's Stampede Park by Truman. (Source: CMLC) A new hotel is set to be built right on the grounds of Calgary's Stampede Park. The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) and the Calgary Stampede announced Monday that Truman will be developing a 320-room hotel in the park. The building, located on an approximately 85,000-square-foot parcel of land, will be a full-service, 13-storey boutique hotel. Stampede Park Hotel (Source: CMLC) The hotel is meant to accommodate growing demand for hotel space due to meeting and convention bookings at the expanded BMO Centre. 'Hotel development has been a key priority for CMLC and the Calgary Stampede, and we've seen development interest in the district surge with the completion of the BMO Centre expansion, the groundbreaking of Scotia Place and the opening of the new 17 Avenue S.E. extension,' said Kate Thompson, president and CEO of CMLC. It also will feature 15,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space and 14,000 square feet of food and beverage offerings, such as restaurants, a lobby bar, a coffee shop and a rooftop lounge. Stampede Park Hotel (Source: CMLC) Additionally, a south-facing 'leisure terrace' will include an activity pool, jacuzzi and outdoor bar. There will also be an indoor swimming pool and fitness club. Truman will spend approximately $330 million to build the hotel, including the land sale and development. 'This is an exceptional location for a hotel, allowing guests to just stay steps away from the action of The Culture + Entertainment District – whether it's a convention, meeting or event held in the BMO Centre, a hockey game in Scotia Place, a concert in The Big Four Roadhouse or the Calgary Stampede's annual celebration of Western heritage and community spirit each July,' said Tony Trutina, chief operating officer of Truman. Construction is expected to begin in late 2025, with completion anticipated in late 2028. CMLC said since the expanded BMO Centre opened in June 2024, it has hosted 409 events, and 205 major events are booked between now and 2032.
Hamilton Spectator
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Yes, the Calgary Stampede is the country's biggest rodeo. But it's also a 10-day citywide party
Only in Canada is a new travel series that acts as a love letter to the bucket-list destinations and experiences in our beautiful country. Look for the Only in Canada series every week. 'Yahoo!' It's the greeting that rings through the streets of Calgary for 10 days in early July, when roughly 1.5 million attendees (about a third of them out-of-towners) turn this modern and diverse city into a festival of cowboy dress-up, with an influx of legitimate cowboys thrown in for good measure. Officially branded as 'the greatest outdoor show on Earth,' the Calgary Stampede is a celebration of what is usually described as 'Western culture,' in the form of an agricultural fair and rodeo competition. It is also a midway carnival filled with rides and various combinations of fried foods on a stick; one of Canada's largest music festivals; an occasion to swan around the city in chic Western regalia; a parade (marshalled this year by Shania Twain) that takes over downtown streets for an entire morning; plus a big ol' party where the distinction between weekdays and weekends all but disappears. Visitors will undoubtedly spot — and perhaps even take cues from — drunken revellers stumbling around in stiff cowboy boots and cheap straw hats. But beyond the partying, the non-profit organization behind the Stampede also brings a sense of family fun and community engagement. The sun sets over the 26 tipis at Elbow River Camp on Stampede Park. Initiatives include the Pop-up Neighbours campaign (to welcome new Canadians with a literal welcome wagon), respectful Indigenous programming (such as an on-site tipi camp), and daily, free pancake breakfasts at community centres throughout the city. It's a choose-your-own-adventure, and no two visitors' Stampedes will look exactly the same. Much of the Stampede's continuing allure is the combination of its reverence for history — the event dates back to 1912 — and a willingness to evolve. This involves both the official Calgary Stampede (the entertainment, rodeo, midway and exhibitions on Stampede Park) and the more generalized Stampede spirit permeating nearly every corner of the city. On Stampede Park, recent changes include the opening of the newly expanded BMO Centre, which will be home to a retail market, cultural performances and a 'relaxation zone,' as well as the relocation of the Coca-Cola Stage, a free-with-park-admission music venue that last year hosted artists from Orville Peck to G-Eazy. A performer in 'Starslingers' by Le Cirque de la Nuit, a theatrical production at the BMO Centre during the 2024 Calgary Stampede. Defying any lingering redneck stereotypes, for over a decade the on-park Nashville North concert venue has hosted a dedicated Pride Day, complete with superstar drag performances. And to add a different kind of agricultural product to the fair, the Stampede launched an international wine competition in 2024, with winning bottles served throughout the park. A growing number of Alberta businesses are also joining in the revelry. Eau Claire Distillery, for example, makes a Stampede-branded whisky with locally grown rye, now served within the Stampede grounds and at restaurants and bars around the city. 'Whisky sales soar during Stampede,' says Eau Claire's president David Farran. 'It's like another Christmas for us.' One of the biggest off-park developments over the past decade has been the proliferation of massive event tents sprinkled through the inner city. The Stampede has always had a strong musical element, with major artists playing free stages on Stampede Park and ticketed concerts at the Saddledome, but many off-park concerts were once the domain of invite-only corporate events. These days, there are publicly accessible, temporary venues such as Badlands, the Wildhorse Saloon and, the daddy of them all, the Cowboys Music Festival (expanding to a new location for 2025). They form the heart of what some have affectionately dubbed 'Cowchella,' with headliners representing rock, EDM, hip-hop and, of course, country music. These venues have the capacity to host thousands of people every night of the Stampede. 'Stampede wasn't always something that catered to everybody. But now it does,' says Jon Molyneux, vice-president of business development, sales and events at the Concorde Group. His hospitality company, which runs the Wildhorse and National Saloon tents, has booked bands like the Violent Femmes and the Strumbellas to play this summer. 'There's a lot for people not strictly into country music.' Metric performs in front of thousands of fans at the Coca-Cola Stage on Stampede Park during the 2024 Calgary Stampede. Think of the Stampede as Canada's Mardi Gras: Tradition is certainly part of the charm, but there's more to this cultural rodeo than, well, rodeo. Even if it just means traversing Calgary's other sights with the dull roar of a party in the background, there's no other citywide celebration quite like it. 'I don't think there's anywhere in the world that a whole city gets together to celebrate for this long,' Farran says. 'Calgary basically stands still, so everyone can enjoy themselves for those 10 days.' Elizabeth Chorney-Booth is a travel writer and lifelong Calgarian who long resisted the Stampede but finally fell in love with the festival.
CBC
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Calgary Expo Parade of Wonders thrills thousands
Join us for all the action as the Parade of Wonders weaves its way through downtown Calgary on a new route this year, marking the start of the annual Calgary Expo weekend. Organizers say it's Canada's biggest cosplay parade, "celebrating all things pop culture and creativity in the heart of Calgary." The event starts at the Victoria Park Fan Zone at First Street S.W. and 13th Avenue. Beyond the fan zone, the parade heads south on Centre Street, then east on 17th Avenue S.E, landing at the BMO Centre's Grand Staircase at Stampede Park. Scheduled to appear at this year's expo are: Michael J. Fox, Nicholas Hoult, David Boreanaz, John Boyega, Dafne Keen, Christopher Lloyd, Tyler Hoechlin, Helen Hunt, Catherine Tate, Heather Locklear, James Marsters, Adam Savage, and many others. Mayor Jyoti Gondek cosplayed as Lady Thor, walking alongside the first dog mayor of Calgary, Loki. "I like to delegate some authorities to him [Loki the dog] like making sure the park is good for everybody," she said. "I'm such a huge fan of everything," said Lucas Grabeel, known for his role as Ryan Evans in the High School Musical films, as he made his way down the parade route. "I'm loving the Marvel Universe, the Star Wars, the Ghostbusters, the [Teenage Mutant Ninja] Turtles, the Jurassic Park – I'm in for all of it," he said. "These costumes are amazing, the city is amazing. I'm just so happy to be here." Adam Savage, special effects designer and fabricator best known as the former co-host of MythBusters, told Jenny Howe he's most looking forward to meeting the fans and "seeing their beautiful costumes, and talking, and geeking out with them about how they were made." The four-day Calgary Expo wraps Sunday at 5 p.m. Here's a curated selection of images from the parade:
CBC
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Watch the Calgary Expo POW! Parade right here!
Join us for all the action as the Parade of Wonders weaves its way through downtown Calgary on a new route this year, marking the start of the annual Calgary Expo weekend. Organizers say it's Canada's biggest cosplay parade, "celebrating all things pop culture and creativity in the heart of Calgary." The event starts at the Victoria Park Fan Zone at First Street S.W. and 13th Avenue. Beyond the fan zone, the parade heads south on Centre Street, then east on 17th Avenue S.E, landing at the BMO Centre's Grand Staircase at Stampede Park. Scheduled to appear at this year's expo are: Michael J. Fox, Nicholas Hoult, David Boreanaz, John Boyega, Dafne Keen, Christopher Lloyd, Tyler Hoechlin, Helen Hunt, Catherine Tate, Heather Locklear, James Marsters, Adam Savage, and many others. Mayor Jyoti Gondek cosplayed as Lady Thor, walking alongside the first dog mayor of Calgary, Loki. "I like to delegate some authorities to him [Loki the dog] like making sure the park is good for everybody," she said. "I'm such a huge fan of everything," said Lucas Grabeel, known for his role as Ryan Evans in the High School Musical films, as he made his way down the parade route. "I'm loving the Marvel Universe, the Star Wars, the Ghostbusters, the [Teenage Mutant Ninja] Turtles, the Jurassic Park – I'm in for all of it," he said. "These costumes are amazing, the city is amazing. I'm just so happy to be here." Adam Savage, special effects designer and fabricator best known as the former co-host of MythBusters, told Jenny Howe he's most looking forward to meeting the fans and "seeing their beautiful costumes, and talking, and geeking out with them about how they were made." The four-day Calgary Expo wraps Sunday at 5 p.m. Here's a curated selection of images from the parade:
