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Back in June I made a guest appearance on CBC Sports’ online series “Trackside,” to discuss the implications of Grand Slam Track cancelling their season finale. The task: don my sports business reporter hat, and help the hosts and audience unravel GST’s corporate spin regarding the premature end to the league’s rookie season.

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Every Olympic host city or region has a specific type of culture that is woven into the Olympic Games. There are elements of food, language and art that are so cherished and beloved that they are proudly showcased for the world to see. 

There is no stopping Canadian ski cross racer Reece Howden, whether he’s nervous or performing on tired legs.

The Toronto Raptors are learning to play basketball like two different teams: one that has Jakob Poeltl, and one that doesn't.

Payton Pritchard had a double-double with 33 points and 10 assists as the undermanned Boston Celtics topped the Toronto Raptors 112-96 on Saturday.

Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic and Toronto's training staff are closely monitoring two injured players.

Click on the video player above to watch live coverage of the PWHL match between the Montreal Victoire and the Vancouver Goldeneyes.

Reece Howden won gold at a ski cross event in Innichen, Italy, on Saturday for his second consecutive gold-medal result on the World Cup circuit.

Almost four years ago at the inaugural competition for mixed team aerials at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, three Canadians took home bronze medals.

Skate Canada’s move as the first sports federation to announce it will no longer hold national- and international-level events in Alberta due to the province’s legislation on transgender people's participation in sports did not come as a surprise to some who know the organization well. 

Steven Rajewsky realized Savannah Sutherland belonged at the world level when he watched her become the youngest-ever Canadian to reach an Olympic track final and perform well against the best female hurdlers.

Kids banged on the glass and cheered every drill and shot the pros made inside Scotiabank Centre, hoping to catch a player’s eye and maybe even a puck.

Skate Canada says it is unable to host events in Alberta while maintaining its standards for safety and inclusivity.

Toronto Raptors guard-forward RJ Barrett is set to begin return-to-play activities this week, the team announced Monday.

Just five years ago, the idea of Kalle Eriksson competing for Canada at the Paralympics would have been unthinkable.

Hilary Knight scored twice, including an empty-netter, to lead the United States to a 4-1 win over Canada in a women's hockey Rivalry Series game Saturday.

When a teenaged Chloe Primerano made her debut on the Canadian women’s hockey team last season, Jocelyne Larocque was often the steady force beside her on the blue line.

The Vancouver Canucks announced Friday that they have traded captain Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild.

Canada's Kevin Drury battled his way to a gold medal that left him in tears at a World Cup ski cross event on Friday in Val Thorens, France.

Soccer fans have accused FIFA of a "monumental betrayal" after latest prices for World Cup tickets began to circulate on Thursday.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is “disappointed” that the main arena slated to host ice hockey at February’s Olympics isn’t yet completed with less than two months to go before the Games are scheduled to be played.

A two-year suspension from competitive swimming has forced Penny Oleksiak to answer questions about drug use, train by herself in public pools and defend her legacy as Canada’s most decorated female Olympian.

Hockey, one of the premier events at the Winter Olympics and one that is welcoming NHL players back for the first time in more than a decade, will take place on ice shorter than NHL-regulation size.

Canadian swingman RJ Barrett isn't returning to the Toronto Raptors lineup for at least a week.

Summer McIntosh capped swimming’s U.S. Open with the event record in the women’s 200-metre butterfly on Saturday in Austin, Texas.

Some bronze medals are worth their weight in gold. Valerie Grenier's third-place finish in women's giant slalom at the Mont-Tremblant World Cup certainly fits that category.

Montreal is exploring a return of Major League Baseball, with entrepreneurs and fans showing interest as the city eyes a possible new team.

The men’s World Cup draw in Washington D.C. was going well for Canada until Pot 4.

Jonathan Mogbo is embracing whatever role he's given, whether it's with the Toronto Raptors or Raptors 905 and in whatever position either team needs him to fill on the floor.

Rookie wing Kon Knueppel scored 21 points, including five three-pointers, as the Charlotte Hornets blew out the Toronto Raptors 111-86 on Friday.

The draw for the 2026 World Cup takes place Friday at 12 p.m. ET at the Kennedy Center in Washington, for the purpose of dividing the 48-team field into 12 groups of four. Once the tournament starts, 32 teams will advance from those preliminary groups to the single-elimination knockout rounds.

The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., buzzed with activity and speculation on Thursday in advance of Friday’s all-important draw for the 2026 men’s World Cup. 

By the time the management group for the Canadian men’s national hockey team emerges from marathon meetings on Tuesday, as much as 80 per cent of the roster going to Italy next February should be written in pen.

As a centre, Jakob Poeltl isn't usually expected to pick up the slack when a wing is hurt. But with Canadian swingman RJ Barrett still out for the Toronto Raptors, Poeltl is finding his role expanding.

Canada’s ski mountaineering athletes have their Olympic dreams on the line this weekend at a World Cup event in Solitude, Utah.

Some fans brought signs supporting Golden Knights goalie Carter Hart, and the Vegas crowd generally welcomed him from the moment he skated onto the ice.

Back-to-back losses aren't the end of the world, but the Toronto Raptors weren't going to let their skid stretch to three games.

Goalie Carter Hart, one of five 2018 Canada world junior hockey players acquitted of sexual assault in July, will make his first NHL appearance in nearly two years when he starts in goal Tuesday night for the Vegas Golden Knights, who host Chicago.

Scottie Barnes scored 28 points — including 13 in the second quarter — as the Toronto Raptors held off the Portland Trail Blazers 121-118 on Tuesday.

Scottie Barnes was named the NBA's Eastern Conference defensive player of the month for October-November on Tuesday.

The Canadian women’s hockey team will bring back plenty of familiar faces for its final pre-Olympic games in Edmonton next week.

Ottawa Charge head coach Carla MacLeod has been diagnosed with breast cancer, the team announced Sunday.