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Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- René Paredes resumed his reliability for the Calgary Stampeders with game-winning field goals in the team's two comeback wins to start the [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada voted in favour of a controversial gender policy announced this week by the world governing body of swimming. In a policy that went [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS The world governing body of swimming's exclusion of transgender athletes is creating waves in Canada. FINA adopted Sunday a 'gender inclusion policy' that went [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian government has put Hockey Canada under the microscope. Sports Minister Pascale StOnge has ordered a financial audit of an out-of-court settlement involving [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada's sports minister expects a rush of complaints when the new Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner starts its mandate later this month. The [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian government has put Hockey Canada under the microscope. Sports Minister Pascale StOnge has ordered a financial audit of an out-of-court settlement involving [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Dick Pound held almost every International Olympic Committee job there was except president during his 44 years as a member. Having reached his mandatory [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- The Calgary Flames produced the keys to beating the Dallas Stars in their playoff series. They'll try to improve on what they [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada's top athletes are willing to repair breaches in trust with those who manage them, say their leaders, but the question is how. In [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Maybe the name 'Own The Podium' was a problem. Canada has posted some of its biggest medal hauls in Olympic Games over the past [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Hockey Canada executed an uncomplicated succession plan in its leadership, naming Scott Smith the next chief executive officer to replace the retiring [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Hundreds of Canadian athletes, active and retired, are cataloguing the ways in which the national high-performance system has failed them. Athletes overseen by Gymnastics [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE -- With international curling medals more elusive for Canada than they once were, Kerri Einarson claimed bronze Sunday at the women's world [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. -- A playoff berth snugly in her pocket before the last draw of the preliminary round, Canada's Kerri Einarson felt bullish [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Caught at the finish line for the regular-season title, the Toronto Six can still claim the Premier Hockey League's ultimate crown and hoist the [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE -- Playing lighthearted bred wins and those wins in turn have Kerri Einarson's curling team feeling composed as the race to the [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. -- Canada's Kerri Einarson cleared a tall hurdle in her bid for a women's world curling championship with a 10-8 win [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Kerri Einarson got run support from her lineup in an 8-4 doubling of Denmark at the women's world curling championship Monday. Canada improved to [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. -- Kerri Einarson's curling team didn't let the ice fool them a second straight game at the women's world championship with [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Kerri Einarson's team spent the back half of their four years together curling through a pandemic, and posted some of their greatest successes during [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- The Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames have demonstrated support for Ukraine and its struggle to repel Russia's invasion, but how far will [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS A gaping gender gap in Winter Paralympic Games continues with Canada's team reflecting that imbalance. The International Paralympic Committee trumpeted a record number of [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS International sport sanctions against Russia involve Canada on multiple fronts. International sport federations barring Russia from events in response to its invasion of Ukraine [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS BEIJING -- Laurent Dubreuil held up two fingers for his young daughter Rose back home in Canada when he stepped onto the Olympic podium [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS BEIJING -- Three different Canadian women joined forces on a journey to Olympic gold four years ago. Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valerie Maltais [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS BEIJING -- Another chapter in a decadeslong duel is about to be written in Beijing. Canada and the United States clashing for Olympic women's [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS BEIJING -- Permission to make mistakes gave players on Canada's women's hockey team the freedom to exercise their offensive creativity. Canada continued to air [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian women's hockey team was pushed out of its comfort zone in pre-Olympic preparation. The players didn't always like it. Regular games against [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead The Canadian Press predicts 26 medals for Canada's team at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, with a breakdown of eight gold, eight [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Lead The first time Sarah Fillier played for Canada's women's hockey team, she found herself looking across a hotel room at her [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Lead Marie-Philip Poulin and Rebecca Johnston will represent Canada in Olympic women's hockey for a fourth time in their careers after winning [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON -- Lead An NHL scouting job came to Brigette Lacquette at a time when she needed it. She's the first Indigenous woman to [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON -- Lead Connor Bedard's four goals propelled Canada to an 11-2 win over Austria at the world junior men's hockey championship on Tuesday. [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON -- Lead A broader Canadian audience finally gets to see why Owen Power is a standout among his hockey peers. The 19-year-old defenceman [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON -- Lead Owen Power's hat trick lifted Canada to a 6-3 win over the Czechs to open the world men's under-20 hockey championship [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead Ottawa 67's general manager James Boyd was bouncing potential coaching candidates off his long-time friend Dave Cameron when Boyd took a flyer. 'All [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead Olivier Michaud's got some stories to tell the three goaltenders on the Canadian junior men's hockey team. Two decades after he tended Canada's [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Lead The half-dozen who played for the Canadian junior men's hockey team at age 16 is sprinkled with names like Gretzky, Crosby [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS LAKE LOUISE, ALTA. -- Lead Sofia Goggia was in a class by herself in the season-opening women's World Cup downhill Friday. The Italian's winning [...]