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MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department says the Montreal Canadiens have made a request to increase capacity during home games at the Bell Centre. It said in an emailed statement Friday the request is b...

CALGARY - Canada's top speedskaters have started getting back to normal after a double-whammy winter of a pandemic and no ice in Calgary's Olympic Oval. The reinstalled ice, after a hiatus of almost n...

LONDON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II has used her birthday honors list to celebrate those at the forefront of the U.K.'s rapid rollout of COVID-19 vaccines over the past few months, which has been credite...

Saskatchewan residents have been receiving more second doses of COVID-19 vaccines than first shots over the past two weeks. On Friday, the provincial government announced it was speeding up its second...

WINNIPEG - The season ended with his team being swept in the second round of the NHL playoffs, but Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice says he's proud of the job the Jets coaching staff did this season w...

The number of active COVID-19 cases being reported in Saskatchewan has fallen below 900 for the first time since early November. The Ministry of Health said Friday there were 899 active cases in the p...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) - A commercial lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod on Friday morning said he thought he was going to die. Michael Packard, 56...

Canada headed to Haiti on Friday, looking to minimize its time in Port-au-Prince ahead of Saturday's World Cup qualifier. The two teams meet again Tuesday in suburban Chicago with the series winner ad...

TORONTO - Canada named its first Olympic skateboard team on Friday. Andy Anderson of White Rock, B.C., Matt Berger of Kamloops, B.C., and Micky Papa of Vancouver will represent Canada when skateboardi...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors say forward Pascal Siakam will miss approximately five months after he underwent surgery last week to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder. The Raptors said in a rel...