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Dented Canadian team gears up to chase gold in Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
A slightly dented Canadian team geared up Thursday to chase Olympic gold medals, while the Canadian Olympic Committee's chief executive officer warned the country's large medal hauls in winter sport s...
Feb 05, 2026 Canadian Olympic Committee CEO and Secretary General David Shoemaker, second left, speaks as COC President Tricia Smith, from left to right, COC Chief of Sport Eric Myles and Team Canada Chef de Mission Jennifer Heil listen during a COC news conference ahead of the opening of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, in Milan, on Thursday, February 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Three Nova Scotia youths on hockey team face sexual assault charges after hazing
HALIFAX - Three youths are facing sexual assault charges after Nova Scotia RCMP received a complaint about a hockey team's hazing ritual last fall, prompting an investigation that is expected to lead ...
Feb 05, 2026
Will this be Vancouver's first snow-free winter in 43 years?
VANCOUVER - Vancouver is entering February without any snow having officially been recorded at its airport weather station, potentially putting the city on track for its first snow-free winter in 43 y...
Feb 04, 2026
Saskatoon Mamba: Saskatchewan's CEBL team drops Rattlers brand ahead of 2026 season
The Saskatchewan Rattlers are now the Saskatoon Mamba. The Canadian Elite Basketball League team, which is under new ownership, announced the new name and logo at Merlis Belsher Place in Saskatoon on ...
Feb 04, 2026 CEBL president Ty Mazereeuw (centre left) and Mamba owner Jason Ribeiro (centre right) announced the team’s rebrand on Wednesday at Merlis Belsher Place in Saskatoon, where the team now known as the Mamba will play several games each season. (Scott Roblin/650 CKOM)
Alberta government to review intersection where 3 junior hockey players died in crash
The Alberta government says it will review an intersection where three junior hockey players died in a car crash while heading to practice. The crash happened Monday at a highway entrance to Stavely, ...
Feb 04, 2026 The intersection where three junior hockey players were killed in a vehicle crash at Stavely, Alta., Feb. 3, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Larry MacDougal
Alberta hockey team to play benefit game after 3 members die in crash
STAVELY - An Alberta junior hockey team is set to take the ice this weekend for a memorial game honouring three of its players who died in a highway crash. The Southern Alberta Mustangs are set to tak...
Feb 04, 2026
'Hitting everybody so hard': Alberta town remembers 3 hockey players killed in crash
STAVELY - Tributes across Canada and the hockey community have embraced a small Alberta town, where three junior hockey players died in a car crash trying to cross a divided highway to get to morning ...
Feb 03, 2026
Murray Wood: Riders kicker Brett Lauther deserved better
Murray Wood says cuts happen in the CFL, but the timing seemed a bit suspect as the Riders released kicker Brett Lauther. Wood says the decision might even come back to haunt the Green and White. Murr...
Feb 03, 2026
English soccer union wants fewer headers for pros, and none for kids, to protect players' brains
BOSTON (AP) - The union representing English soccer players has created the first comprehensive protocol for preventing the brain disease CTE, expanding the heightened concern over concussions to incl...
Feb 03, 2026 Miami Fusion's Tyrone Marshall (15) assists Kansas City Wizards' Scott Vermillion after the two collided while going up for a header in the first half of a soccer match Aug. 29, 1999, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, File)
Funny, unstoppable, magnetic: 3 Alberta hockey players killed in crash remembered
Three players with the Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey team in Stavely, Alta., were killed Monday while heading to practice in the town south of Calgary. RCMP say the small vehicle they were i...
Feb 03, 2026
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