TD Canada is ending its sponsorship of Calgary’s free fare transit zone between the City Hall and Downtown West/Kerby CTrain stations after three years, casting doubt on the future of the program.

Tess Abanto, senior leader of service design for Calgary Transit, said the original deal was for a five-year term that started in November 2022 and was slated to end in November 2027.

“The deal with TD and the City of Calgary is really for a naming rights agreement,” Abanto said. “It’s the first of its kind actually in Canada because the normal naming rights agreements are really for sports facilities, recreational facilities or even commemorative naming for parks, spaces or roads.”

Mick Ramos, senior manager of corporate and public affairs for the TD Bank Group, said in a statement that the d

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