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If spouting falsehoods were an Olympic sport, the No side would win gold.

Scarcely a day goes by without some group or individual making up a bunch of fake facts about Calgary’s potential bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics in an apparent effort to scare Calgarians away from supporting the bid.

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The most recent negative nellies embracing inaccuracies is the normally reliable and reasonable Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

In an admittedly clever attention-grabbing stunt, the Alberta office of the CTF announced Monday that they support the 2026 Winter Olympic bid of — wait for it — Stockholm! They went so far as to hold their news conference in front of Swedish furniture giant Ikea, holding a plate of Swedish meatballs while draped in the sky blue and gold cross of Sweden’s national flag.

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I don’t have any issue with people resorting to cheesy stunts and pranks to get attention. More importantly, everyone is entitled to their opinion. They are not, however, entitled to their own facts. Alberta director of the CTF, Franco Terrazzano, should have held his news conference in front of Burger King considering all of the Whoppers he seemed to pull out of thin air.