Pro rugby to hit the field in Ottawa in 2021

Ottawa will be home to a new professional rugby team in 2021 that will play half its games at TD

Italian sport to take place without fans until April 3 due to virus outbreak

All sporting events in Italy will take place without fans present for at least the next month due to the

No concentration camps in China just ‘vocational training centres,’ says envoy

Detention camps housing perhaps as many as one million ethnic Uighurs in western China are nothing more than «vocational training

It’s time for Canada’s version of March Madness

They don’t have nearly the caché of the American ones, but Canada’s national university basketball championships still deliver some quality

Greek and Turkish police fire tear gas as migrants try to cross into Greece

Greek and Turkish riot police deployed on their shared border fired tear gas on Wednesday as hundreds of migrants tried

No lead is safe as jaw-dropping shots making for memorable Brier

Just when you thought you watched the best shot of the Brier, another best shot of the Brier appears. That’s

Isles’ Boychuk ‘fine’ after 90 stitches to repair cut from skate to face

New York Islanders defenceman Johnny Boychuk needed 90 stitches to his eyelid after being hit in the face with a

Despite coronavirus, IOC unwavering on Tokyo Olympics starting in July

Despite worldwide concern and speculation about whether the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak will affect the Tokyo Olympics, the International Olympic Committee’s

New James Bond film release postponed amid coronavirus outbreak

No Time to Die, the latest James Bond film and one of the major tentpole releases of the global movie

Gushue clinches Brier playoff spot after win over P.E.I.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Brad Gushue has clinched a spot in the championship round of the Tim Hortons Brier. Gushue’s team

NHL monitoring coronavirus situation as crisis widens, commissioner Bettman says

The NHL has banned its employees from business travel outside North America in response to the widening new coronavirus outbreak.

Several people still unaccounted for after Tennessee tornadoes

Putnam County officials in Tennessee said Wednesday that 21 people remain unaccounted for in the jurisdiction, with about 40 per

Canadian men must wait as FIBA postpones 3×3 Olympic qualifier over coronavirus

The FIBA 3×3 Olympic qualification tournament that was scheduled to take place in India later this month has been postponed

Canadian Kia Nurse’s last-minute winner propels Canberra to 2nd straight Australian women’s basketball title

Canada’s Kia Nurse hit the game-winning shot to lift the Canberra Capitals to their second consecutive Australian women’s basketball league

Mikael Backlund’s resurgence has been key to Flames’ playoff hopes

Mikael Backlund is a happy guy these days for reasons greater than his recent torrent of goals and assists for

Risk to public ‘low’ after freight train derails in Kingston, Ont., city says

Police in Kingston, Ont., say several cars of a cargo train left the tracks west of the city’s core Wednesday

Cargo train derails in Kingston, Ont., no injuries reported

Police in Kingston, Ont., say several cars of a cargo train left the tracks west of the city’s core Wednesday

Undetected stress cracks led to natural-gas pipeline explosion near Prince George, TSB finds

A fiery pipeline explosion near Prince George, B.C., happened after the line’s operator improperly delayed a scheduled hazard management inspection,

Mike Bloomberg drops out of presidential race, endorses Joe Biden

Mike Bloomberg dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for president on Wednesday, one day after failing to

Senators fire new CEO Jim Little

Just two months after hiring him, the Ottawa Senators have dismissed CEO Jim Little for «conduct inconsistent with the core

She was excited for her transplant, but ‘absolutely terrified’ for donor sister

When Lexie Libby wheeled herself into her sister’s hospital room, she saw how frail Emma was and couldn’t hold back

‘Host City Contract’ gives IOC much leeway to cancel Tokyo Olympics

Japanese Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto suggested in Parliament this week that the Tokyo Games could be postponed by a few

U.S. strikes Taliban forces in first hit since peace deal

The U.S. conducted its first airstrike against Taliban forces in Afghanistan since signing an ambitious peace deal with the militant

B.C. judge clears driver who said he was speeding to get away from semi-trailer

A driver who was ticketed for speeding on the Malahat Highway near Langford, B.C., has been cleared, after arguing he