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CALGARY - The Western Hockey League has announced that its regular season will open on Jan. 8, 2021. The WHL said in a statement that players will report to their respective WHL Clubs following the Ch...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators avoided arbitration with Nick Paul, signing the forward to a two-year contract with an average annual value of US$1.35 million on Wednesday.It marks the first one-way cont...

Saskatoon police are searching for a woman whom they say pointed a gun at a taxi driver early Wednesday morning. In a release, police say just before 3 a.m., Patrol officers responded to a call in whi...

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has suspended play in both of its Quebec-based divisions until at least Oct. 28 because of COVID-19. The league will continue play with five of six teams in the M...

The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) has declared an outbreak of COVID-19 in the community of Red Earth. It comes following an increasing number of confirmed cases, with a contact tracin...

Montreal Impact midfielder and designated player Saphir Taider has been transferred to Saudi Arabia's Al Ain FC. The 28-year-old Algerian international had four goals and six assists in 11 games for M...

Marc Bergevin and his counterparts believed they had a pretty good grasp on how NHL free agency was going to pan out. With the league's salary cap staying at US$81.5 million because of the COVID-19 pa...

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Jets have signed defenceman Nelson Nogier on a two-year, two-way contract. The deal carries an average annual value of US$725,000 in the NHL. Nogier, 24, played 58 games for th...

Saskatchewan reported 25 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the ninth straight day with a double-digit total of new cases. There have been 231 cases in that span. So far in October, there have been 2...

GUELPH, Ont. - Canadian wrestler Korey Jarvis, who won a gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, announced his retirement Wednesday. Jarvis, from Elliot Lake, Ont., defeated India's Rajeev Tomar in...