Winter X Games won't be coming to Calgary

CALGARY — The Winter X Games will no longer be coming to Calgary. The city had secured the rights to host the renowned extreme sports competition and festival for three years, starting in 2020, but with $13.5 million in provincial funding committed by the previous NDP government cut in the recently released UCP budget, those plans were put in jeopardy. Tourism Calgary said plans were being pushed back a year, to 2021, so they could work on securing financing, but Mayor Naheed Nenshi announ