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Get to know the teams competing at this year's Scotties Tournament of Hearts

The 2025 Scotties Canadian women's curling championship begins on Friday in Thunder Bay, Ont., and runs through Feb. 23. Get to know who will be vying to become this year's national champions.

Multi-province bid pitched as a way for Canada to host Commonwealth Games

Canadian bids for a Commonwealth Games have died by provincial government disinterest, so multiple provinces sharing reduced costs is the pitch by Olympic and Commonwealth Games artistic swimmer Claire Carver-Dias.

Jack Crawford, Cam Alexander aim to carry Kitzbuhel momentum into alpine worlds

Jack Crawford and Cam Alexander bring a combination of confidence and hunger to the world alpine ski championship after recent medal performances in Kitzbuhel. Action begins Tuesday at the Austrian resort in Saalbach-Hinterglemm.

Flames acquire Frost, Farabee in trade with Flyers

Calgary general manager Craig Conroy confirmed that left-wingers Andrei Kuzmenko and Jakob Pelletier and a pair of draft picks were traded to the Philadelphia Flyers for centre Morgan Frost and left-winger Joel Farabee.

Canada's women claim World Cup speed skating sprint gold, Stolz completes hat trick

Canada's sprinters ensured the host team didn't leave Calgary's speed skating World Cup without a medal, while American star Jordan Stolz completed his hat trick at the Olympic Oval on Sunday.

Stolz victorious again, Ghiotto sets world record at speed skating World Cup in Calgary

American speed skating star Jordan Stolz stayed undefeated this World Cup season with a victory in the men's 1,000 metres in Calgary.

Denny Morrison gives Olympic silver medal to speed skating teammate Gilmore Junio

Canadian speed skater Denny Morrison has given his Olympic silver medal to Gilmore Junio. Junio vacated his spot in the men's 1,000 metres in the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, so Morrison could race it.

Curling and teen life collide in Canadian documentary 'Curl Power'

The combination of teenagers and curling might seem an odd pairing for a documentary, but "Curl Power" weaves rocks and rings into a coming-of-age story.

'I want to prove I'm back': Olympic freestyle ski champ Cassie Sharpe combines motherhood and halfpipe

2018 Olympic gold medallist and 2022 silver medallist in women's halfpipe Cassie Sharpe thought she might retire when daughter Louella was born in 2023. The yearning Sharpe felt watching her friends and rivals drop into the pipe in Aspen, Colo., confirmed the freestyle fire still burned within her.

On thin ice: Canadian speed skaters fear loss of ice at Calgary's Olympic Oval

The fastest ice in the world is on borrowed time. Calgary's Olympic Oval is a legacy of the 1988 Winter Games in the city and the oldest of three covered speed skating ovals in Canada. The building that turns 38 years old this year has been a centre of international, university and community sport well past its expected life cycle.