Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... China's foreign minister Wang Yi set to meet Carney, Anand today China's foreign minister Wang Yi is in Ottawa today, the first such visit in a decade. He is in C...

CHARLOTTE - Canada is set to unveil its roster for the FIFA World Cup today. Head coach Jesse Marsch invited 32 players to a training camp in Charlotte, N.C., this week and he plans to narrow that group to 26 tonight. Captain Alphonso Davies is expect...

RALEIGH - The Montreal Canadiens are fighting for their playoff lives tonight as they take on the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 5 of the NHL's Eastern Conference final. The Canadiens enter the game in Raleigh down 3-1 in the best-of-seven series after th...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Victor Wembanyama had 28 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks and the San Antonio Spurs sent the Western Conference finals back to Oklahoma City for Game 7, routing the Thunder 118-91 on Thursday night. Game 7 is Saturd...

Victor Wembanyama looked different in Game 6. In every way. There was the long robe that the San Antonio star wore to his home arena on Thursday night, done to celebrate an Islamic holiday but also reminding some of his look last summer a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Shrey Parikh felt the pressure of arriving at the Scripps National Spelling Bee as a favorite, but his confidence showed every time he got a word he knew. And when it all came down to a lightning-round tiebreaker against Ishaan Gupta,...

Federal prosecutors have indicted ex-Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier on additional charges in connection with a sports gambling sting, alleging he took a hefty bribe to exit a game early in March 2023. Rozier, 32, was charged Thursday in a superseding i...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Alex Smalley was right back in a position to win at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial two weeks after the third-round leader at the PGA Championship settled for second place. Smalley, still seeking his first PGA Tour vic...

BALTIMORE (AP) - Yohendrick Piñango drew a bases-loaded walk from Anthony Nunez in the eighth inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 2-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night. George Springer led off the eighth with a double, then was bun...

Complex, but necessary, is what the general managers of the Professional Women's Hockey League's four new teams say about the expansion process. The PWHL held a seven-round expansion draft last year when it added teams in Vancouver and Seattle. But thi...

CHARLOTTE - Alfie Jones knows he could be in for a long night on Thursday. The centre back is one of the 32 players at Canada's pre-World Cup training camp in Charlotte, N.C., this week. He's hoping to hear his name called Friday when head coach Jess...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Former Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy called it "upsetting" in a podcast Thursday that he can't interview with other clubs after Vegas management declined reported requests by Edmonton and Los Angeles. "There were two teams that as...

The Professional Women's Hockey League Players Association began publicly listing salaries this week on its website, doing so after the union's leader said members voted to approve the disclosure. PWHLPA executive director Malaika Underwood called it t...

PARIS - Canadian tennis stars Félix Auger-Aliassime and Victoria Mboko each came back from a set down to win their second-round matches Thursday at the French Open. Auger-Aliassime, the men's fourth seed posted a 4-6, 6-0, 7-5, 6-1 win over Argentina's...

Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players' association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting the sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and perhaps ...

VANCOUVER - Former Vancouver FC head coach Afshin Ghotbi and SixFive Sports & Entertainment, the ownership group behind the Canadian Premier League team, say they've settled a lawsuit tied to a disputed $500,000 loan. Court filings alleged Ghotbi l...

TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says temporarily blocking entry for people coming from Ebola-affected countries is necessary to reduce the risk of importing the disease, despite the World Health Organization's recommendation against travel...

MONTREAL - Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion and once one of the NHL's most infamous antagonists, has died at the age of 60. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that deputies responded shortly after 3 a.m. to an apparent...

Martin St. Louis has been in this situation before - and he knows there's a way out. The Hall of Fame winger was a member of three separate teams that rallied from 3-1 deficits in best-of-seven series to advance in the Stanley Cup playoffs. More than a...

The first two rounds of the NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs are the most-watched in the U.S. in league history. Women are the primary driver of that growth. TNT Sports reported female viewership is up 66% and ESPN reported a 106% increase, with plenty of th...

FRIBOURG - Jet Greaves made 34 saves as Canada blanked the United States 4-0 in quarterfinal action Thursday at the world hockey championship. The Americans pressured at different points, including early in the third period, but Greaves turned them asi...

PARIS (AP) - Overwhelming favorite Jannik Sinner is out of the French Open in the second round. The top-ranked Sinner struggled with the heat and lost to 56th-ranked Juan Manuel Cerundolo 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 after wasting a chance to ...

KELOWNA - All eyes were already on Everett Silvertips defenceman Landon DuPont as the marquee name at this year's Memorial Cup. Now everyone is waiting to see whether the projected top prospect for the 2027 NHL draft will play in Friday's semifinal aga...

TORONTO - Commissioner Stewart Johnston wanted a new TV deal in place before the start of the 2026 CFL season. On Thursday, the former TSN executive delivered the league's biggest broadcast agreement ever. The league announced it has signed a six-year ...

TORONTO - CFL signs six-year broadcast agreement with Bell Media, DAZN and YouTube. More coming. The Canadian Press

EDMONTON - When quarterback Cody Fajardo looks at the wide receivers on the Edmonton Elks roster this season, he has to smile at least a little at the upgrade made in the off-season. The Elks lost one of its key wide receivers, Kurleigh Gittens Jr., to...

MONTREAL - Shayne Gostisbehere readily admits the Carolina Hurricanes don't play the most entertaining brand of hockey. The veteran defenceman also doesn't care. The Hurricanes have watched opportunities to reach the Stanley Cup final swiftly vanish in...

MONTREAL - On NHL playoff nights in Montreal, the wood-fired oven at St-Viateur Bagel keeps burning - even if the lineups at the counter get a little shorter. At the flagship location of the Mile End bakery, employees say they have noticed a familiar p...