Category Archives: Sports

VICTORIA - B.C. will receive $100 million from the federal government for World Cup security, but the provincial public safety minister says the final price tag won't be known for weeks as security ar...

MADRID (AP) - Atletico Madrid and Arsenal drew 1-1 in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals on Wednesday. It was a gritty encounter in Madrid between the clubs trying to return to the final...

TORONTO (AP) - A request for FIFA President Gianni Infantino to be given a police escort while in Vancouver, British Columbia, for FIFA meetings has been denied, the Vancouver Police Department said W...

OTTAWA - Football Canada appointed Eva Havaris as its chief executive officer Wednesday. Havaris will assume her new role June 8. She joins amateur football's national governing body with over 20 year...

DENVER (AP) - Scott Wedgewood tends to notice just about everything happening around him, no matter the task. That traffic pattern five lights ahead while driving? He's already planned for it. The peo...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Wednesday it's her "understanding" that Iranian soccer officials saw their permission to enter Canada revoked ahead of the FIFA Congress in Vancouver...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - David Pastrnak embraces what comes from being the face of the Boston Bruins, heavy as the responsibility might be. With their season on the line, leave it to the 12th-year forward...

Canadian sport has been given a boost and a bridge, says the country's Secretary of Sport. In the federal government's spring economic update, $755 million more over the next five years, and $118 mill...

NEW YORK - Tampa Bay's Andrei Vasilevskiy, Ilya Sorokin of the New York Islanders and Boston's Jeremy Swayman were named finalists for the Vezina Trophy on Wednesday. The award is given out annually t...

TORONTO - He went first overall in the CFL's global draft Wednesday, but the Ottawa Redblacks will have to wait for South African punter Aidan Laros. That's because the six-foot-two, 218-pound Laros s...