Tag Archives: Sports

Sarah Mills says a full motorcade with a police escort for the FIFA president is unnecessary, but it shows that the organization governing the World Cup hasn't stepped far from its old, corrupt self. ...

"How are you doing?" That's the question University of Saskatchewan Huskies quarterback Anton Amundrud has been asked the most over the past six months after he was diagnosed with T-cell non-Hodgkin's...

OTTAWA - Canada Soccer's plan to build a national training centre has received a major funding boost. The federal government announced Friday it will contribute $9.8 million from the new Build Communi...

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...

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...

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...

TORONTO - Police presence in Toronto during the World Cup may be "stronger than we've ever seen at any event," the force said Wednesday as the federal government announced up to $145 million for secur...

Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood says he's not a fan, and other season ticket holders might feel the same way. Mu...

TORONTO - To Davis Schneider, his older brother Steven was "kind of like a Superman." "He worked as a nurse up until he died. He worked every single day to help people in need," the Toronto Blue Jays ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is adding $755 million in sport funding as part of its spring economic update. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the money's purpose is to expand access...