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EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers online 50/50 raffle has hit another record and had to close early after it reached the server provider's maximum allowable tickets sales. The Oilers Entertainment G...

Canadian middleweight Marc-Andre (Power Bar) Barriault is blaming a positive drug test on tainted supplements. And the mixed martial artist is getting help from the UFC. Barriault (12-4-0) said he was...

Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly says he and his teammates are in Matt Dumba's corner as he protests against racial injustice during the NHL's return to competition. However, that doe...

A friendly east-west rivalry between Canada's top PGA Tour golfers has been renewed the past two Tuesdays before being set aside for the event itself. Nick Taylor, Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Hadwin and Co...

TORONTO - The bulk of the CFL's $30-million, interest-free loan request from the federal government is to cover the operation of a shortened season. A source with knowledge of the situa...

TORONTO - Two months of missed payroll. Star players facing eviction notices. What little staff left wondering about their future. The Toronto Wolfpack, currently a rugby league team in limb...

TORONTO - Sports fans can't pack into arenas this summer, but a new Toronto drive-in theatre hopes to get them a bit closer to the action. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment has partnered with&n...

TORONTO - Peter Rakobowchuk, a journalist with Canada's national news agency whose high energy delivery was instantly recognizable to decades of listeners, has died. More widely known by his radio mon...

TORONTO - Mike Hoffman and Brian Boyle scored 2:07 apart in the opening minutes of the third period, and the Florida Panthers avoided elimination with a 3-2 win over the New York Islanders in Game 3 o...

NEW ORLEANS - Shirley Ann Grau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer whose stories and novels told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South, has died. She was 91. Grau died Monday ...