Thanksgiving Day Classic

The Alouettes' permanent hosting of Thanksgiving remained in place after Ottawa returned to the league in 2014.

[3] The league scheduled the Classic for the 2020 CFL season, with one game being played on Thanksgiving Day.

[4] However, due to financial issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the entire 2020 CFL season was cancelled and this game was not played.

In late 2017, a proposal emerged to move the start of the CFL season to five or six weeks earlier than it begins in the present day, so that the Grey Cup would have been held on the third weekend of October, as opposed to the fourth Sunday in November as it stands as of 2024.

If the proposal had taken effect, Thanksgiving Day weekend would have overlaped with the CFL's division championship games.