Canadian legend Christine Sinclair announced Friday that she will retire from playing professional soccer at the end of the season. The 41-year-old from Burnaby, B.C., said in a post on Instagram that she will finish out the National Women’s Soccer League campaign with the Portland Thorns, who are scheduled to finish out the regular season … Read more
Preparations are heating up for the Paris Olympics and some countries, including Canada, are making sure their athletes remain cool during the two-week-long summer sporting event. Team Canada is among several visiting delegations that will be adding air conditioning units because the rooms in the Olympic Village where the athletes will be staying won’t have … Read more
Canada held top-ranked Argentina scoreless in the first half but conceded a Julian Alvarez goal early in the second, eventually falling 2-0 to the star-studded South Americans in the opening match of Copa America on Thursday. The 48th-ranked Canadians did not look out of place in the high-profile game. They had chances in an entertaining game … Read more
For the first time in history, Canadian Paralympic athletes will get financial rewards — like Olympic athletes do — for finishing at the podium at the Paris Games later this year. The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) made the announcement Wednesday of a new program that would see Paralympians get an equal amount of money as … Read more
For the second year in a row, Team Canada is celebrating its goals at the world junior ice hockey championship with a song from Newfoundland and Labrador. Great Big Sea’s “Ordinary Day” came blasting out of the speakers on Tuesday near the end of the first period after Canada scored its first goal of the … Read more
