{"id":2185,"date":"2025-09-04T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/pranorth\/?page_id=2185"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T15:43:53","slug":"hope-in-the-city-calgary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/pranorth\/events\/hope-in-the-city-calgary\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope in the City Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hope in the City Calgary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Calgary Hope in the City returns on Thursday, November 12, kicking off The Salvation Army\u2019s 2026 Christmas season of giving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrate Grey Cup week with CFL Commissioner Stewart Johnston as our featured speaker, alongside returning emcee Tara Nelson, longtime reporter, producer and anchor with CTV Calgary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than two decades, Gerry Wood’s generosity and leadership helped bring hope to individuals and families across Calgary. At this year’s Hope in the City Calgary, we will honour Gerry’s remarkable impact and celebrate the difference that community partners can make. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funds raised at Hope in the City are used to support our year-round programs and services in Calgary, which help provide basic necessities, such as hot meals, Christmas hampers, food programs, summer camps, school supplies, toys, homelessness prevention programs, housing resources, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information please email events.ab@salvationarmy.ca<\/a> or call 587-643-3107<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time:<\/strong> 12 p.m.
Location:<\/strong> Hyatt Regency Calgary, AB<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Featuring:<\/strong> Stewart Johnston, CFL Commissioner <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Stewart Johnston has served as the 15th Commissioner of the Canadian Football League since 2025. The foundations of his tenure were formed through a childhood spent watching the legends of the game with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Born in Toronto and raised in Ottawa, Johnston went on to graduate from Queen’s University with a degree in business. In 1997, his passion for sports led him to TSN, where over the next two-and-a-half decades, he advanced through the ranks of Canada\u2019s Sports Leader to become President, while steadily growing the company into a world-renowned sports media juggernaut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


By 2024, Johnston had risen to the post of Senior Vice-President, Content and Sales at Bell Media \u2013 a position that allowed him to translate a successful career\u2019s worth of knowledge gained through every facet of the sporting landscape into content development across Bell Media’s wide range of assets and platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


With an in-depth familiarity with sports business, and the unique dual perspective as an industry leader and as a passionate fan, Johnston has developed a strategic plan to modernize the game, enhance entertainment value for fans, and strengthen ties to the grassroots and amateur levels. In 2026, the first pillar of his plan came to fruition after he successfully negotiated the largest media rights agreement in CFL history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Through innovative rules changes, a revamped playoff format, key partnerships, significant technological advances, and tentpole events, including the largest annual single-day sporting event \u2013 the Grey Cup championship \u2013 and the LA28 Olympic Games, Johnston forges ahead to realize his bold vision for the future of professional Canadian football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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