Category Archives: Sports

Following the lead of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the NHL has added meldonium to its list of banned substances. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly confirmed the addition in an email to The Associated Pre...

EDMONTON - One of Canada’s Olympic medallists is calling out Alberta’s Opposition leader for a comment about physically assaulting Premier Rachel Notley. “It drives me nuts,” J...

MONTREAL - Nashville Predators defenceman P.K. Subban admits he’s disappointed at not making the Canadian team for the World Cup of Hockey, but says he had no control over the decision to omit h...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Tessa Virtue couldn’t find one adjective to describe her and ice dancing partner Scott Moir’s return to competition after two years away from the sport. So she used fou...

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Jets have named forward Blake Wheeler as their new captain. Wheeler fills the void left by former captain Andrew Ladd, who was dealt to Chicago in February. The six-foot-five, ...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Two months before competing in his first international event of the season, Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan still isn’t ready to name a new coach. That suits him just fin...

SASKATOON - Hockey legend Gordie Howe is coming home. A Saskatoon official says the city has received permission from the province to inter the cremated remains of Howe and his wife, Colleen, at the b...

TORONTO - Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and kicker Rene Paredes of the league-leading Calgary Stampeders and receiver Terrence Toliver of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats have been named the CFL’s top per...

Ricky Ray returns just in time for a crucial stretch for the Toronto Argonauts. Ray will start Wednesday night when Toronto (4-4) hosts the B.C. Lions (6-3) at BMO Field. Ray missed three starts recov...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Switzerland’s supreme court has dismissed Russia’s request to compete at Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. More coming. The Associated Press 2016 The Canadian Press