WINNIPEG - The Edmonton Elks flew into town riding the high of opening their season at 2-0 for the first time since 2019. They can make it 3-0 for the first time since 2017 if they can beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Princess Auto Stadium on Thursday...

Justin Rankin believes he can do what's never been done before in the CFL. No player in league history has ever registered 1,000 yards rushing and receiving in the same season. Rankin flirted with the achievement last year, rushing for 1,013 yards whil...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Rubén Vargas and Johan Manzambi both scored to give Switzerland a 2-1 victory over Canada on Wednesday at the World Cup as both teams advanced to the knockout round. Promise David scored a late goal for ...

VANCOUVER - Canada is through to the knockout round of the FIFA World Cup despite falling 2-1 to Switzerland in their final game of the tournament's group stage on Wednesday. The result saw the Swiss win Group B and earn a round-of-32 match in Vancouv...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - Neymar arrived with Brazil and is available for the team's World Cup match against Scotland on Wednesday, another sign the superstar forward is set to make his debut at this year's tournament after missing the first two match...

TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts are adding linebacker Kevin Eiben and defensive back Carl Brazley to their all-time list. Eiben and Brazley will be inducted Aug. 22 at halftime of Toronto's game versus the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at BMO Field. Eiben, 46, o...

LONDON - Canadians Bianca Andreescu and Katherine Sebov beat the heat on Wednesday and moved within a win of a berth in the women's singles draw at Wimbledon. Andreescu, a former world No. 4 from Mississauga, Ont., cruised after a first-set setback in ...

EASTBOURNE - Montreal's Gabriel Diallo advanced to the quarterfinals of the Eastbourne Open tennis tournament with a 6-7 (11), 6-3, 6-2 over Argentina's Tomas Etcheverry on Wednesday. Diallo had 14 aces and saved the only break point he faced while con...

Something has to give Saturday night for Nathan Rourke and Vernon Adams Jr. Rourke and the B.C. Lions (0-2) face Adams and the Calgary Stampeders (0-2) at Kelowna, B.C., with both teams still looking for their first wins of the season. The contest is b...

OTTAWA - Olympic champions Camryn Rogers, Andre De Grasse, Damian Warner and Ethan Katzberg are among the decorated athletes named to Canada's athletics roster for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Commonwealth Sport Canada and Athletics Canada a...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders lost $157,005 last season, one in which the franchise captured its fifth Grey Cup championship. The deficit followed a profitable 2024-25 season in which the franchise finished $2.1 million in the black. The Roughr...

Chase Reid has tried to keep his head down and tune out the noise. As one of the top prospects heading into the NHL draft, that was always going to be an uphill struggle - especially in the social media age - with projections and opinions peppering the...

Here are the latest developments from the 2026 FIFA World Cup. All times Eastern: 4:56 p.m. Canada falls 2-1 to Switzerland, who finish atop Group B with two wins and a draw. Canada finished second in the group and will face the Group A runner-up in a ...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes have announced they'll be playing four pre-season games in September ahead of the 2026-27 regular season. Two of the games will be home dates at VisitLethbridge.com Arena - Tuesday, the 1st, against Medicine Hat and Thursday, the 10th, versus Red Deer.Puck drop, in each case, is 7 p.m.The Cane...

VANCOUVER - Midfielder Stephen Eustaquio will be on the bench to start Canada's FIFA World Cup game against Switzerland on Wednesday. Canada coach Jesse Marsch has midfielders Mathieu Choiniere and Nathan Saliba in his starting 11, and striker Jonatha...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Ottawa set to announce first national interest projects in territories: sources Ottawa is expected to announce today that it will begin the process of designating ...

VANCOUVER - Canada fans have tasted defeat for the first time at the 2026 World Cup after a 2-1 loss to Switzerland. The result means Team Canada won't be playing in Vancouver again in the round of 32, though they have reached the knockout stage of the...

MONTREAL - Jeremy-Marie Joly says his family and friends were shocked when he told them he was abandoning engineering studies to become a priest. Sports was more important than religion in his family when he was growing up in Gatineau, Que. He played ...

As thousands of Canadian soccer fans marched towards the World Cup stadium in Vancouver ahead of the team's match against Qatar last week, the air around them took on a distinctly festive colour. Thick, continuous clouds of red-tinted smoke shrouded th...

VANCOUVER - It won't just be fans feeling the joy if Team Canada advances to the next round in the World Cup. A new analysis from BMO Economics estimates about a $70-million boost to Vancouver's local economy for each additional match Canada plays. Ca...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) - Daniel Muñoz helped Colombia break through Congo's stingy defense and advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup with a 1-0 win on Tuesday night. Muñoz scored in the 76th minute after the Colombians had been...

TORONTO - On a night when Croatia's Luka Modric earned his 200th cap, his teammates made sure it was an evening to celebrate. Substitute Ante Budimir scored in the 54th minute to lift Croatia to a 1-0 victory over Panama in Group L play at the FIFA Wo...

Vision 6'9" was back, at least for one night. The Toronto Raptors selected forward Allen Graves 19th overall in the first round of the NBA Draft on Tuesday night. The six-foot-nine forward is the latest in a long line of Raptors draft picks that were a...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The Buffalo Sabres acquired the No. 4 pick in the NHL draft in a trade that sent defenseman Bowen Byram to the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night. As part of the deal, Buffalo also acquired third-year defenseman Louis Crevier, who...

TORONTO - Shane Bieber took ownership of his team's loss after a rocky season debut. The Toronto Blue Jays right-hander allowed nine hits and four runs with just two strikeouts as the Houston Astros chased him after just 3 2/3 innings in a 9-7 extra-in...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Ghana midfielder Thomas Partey, who missed his team's first World Cup match because he was denied a Canadian visa while awaiting trial on rape charges in Britain, returned to the lineup on Tuesday to an apparent snub in the pre...

TORONTO (AP) - There wasn't much open space in Panama's back line as it tried to keep its World Cup hopes alive. But just four minutes after Croatia coach Zlatko Dalić subbed on an extra forward in the second half, Josip Stanišić validat...

TORONTO - Joey Loperfido hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the 11th inning as the Houston Astros secured a 9-7 win over the Toronto Blue Jays after chasing Shane Bieber early in his season debut on Tuesday. Kazuma Okamoto drove in Vladimir Guerrero ...