York United Football Club is at a crossroads. The Canadian Premier League (CPL) club declined to extend the contract of head coach and technical director Jim Brennan after he led the team to its first franchise playoff appearance this season. Brennan, who was the club’s first manager since it... Read more
Cricket is now officially a part of Ontario’s physical education curriculum. The Ontario Schools Cricket Association (OSCA) has provided equipment and teacher training to 50 schools that will implement the sport in their curriculum this fall. The provincial government announced in September that it is officially adding cricket to... Read more
France squeaked by Spain with an 80th-minute goal from Kylian Mbappe securing a trophy for ‘Les Bleus.’ “Honestly, I don’t think they should’ve won, I think Spain should’ve won but that’s how soccer is,” says ‘La Roja’ soccer fan, Enrique Domingo, of Valencia, Spain. The Nations League is a... Read more
FIFA officials were in Canada over the past few weeks to check out two potential host cities for the Canadian matches during the 2026 World Cup, Toronto and Edmonton. The 2026 tournament will be hosted across three countries: Canada, Mexico and the United States, with Canada expected to host... Read more
James Toland from Scotland has reached the highest possible division in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team by using the controller with his feet. Toland was born with Thrombocytopenia-absent radius (TAR) syndrome, a rare disorder that is present at birth. It is a disorder characterized by low levels of platelets in... Read more
Podcast: Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together… already? Thomas Hall and Devin Heroux talk back-to-back Olympics
CanadaInternationalNewsPodcastSports Nov 24, 2021
For the first time since the Summer and Winter Olympics began alternating every two years in the 1990s, the athletic world is set to have two Games very close together as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic pushing back Tokyo 2020 to this past summer. Those Olympics just wrapped... Read more
The Toronto Argonauts have clinched the top position in the eastern division of the CFL. The Argos defeated rivals the Hamilton Tiger-Cats by 31-12 at BMO Field on Friday, Nov. 12 to win a playoff birth. They finish their regular season with a 9-5 record. Up next, the Argos... Read more
The 2021 Canadian Premier League regular season was another strange one for the fledgling soccer league, in just its third year. After the 2020 season was shortened to a month-long tournament-style format in a bubble in PEI, the league was committed to delivering a full season this year, and... Read more
