National Sports

TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows added international experience Thursday by signing veteran Irish back Noel Reid for the 2023 Major League Rugby season.

CALGARY — Hockey Canada says it has become a full signatory to Abuse-Free Sport, the new independent program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport in Canada.

BASEL, Switzerland — Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime is on to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament. The third-seeded Montreal native dispatched Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic 6-1, 6-0 at the hardcourt event.

TORONTO — The Canadian swim team has picked up where it left off after a strong 12-month stretch marked by success at the Summer Olympics, world championships and Commonwealth Games.

Veteran flanker Karen Paquin and Canada face the U.S. for the second time in a week Saturday at the Rugby World Cup. But this time it's win or go home as the North American rivals meet in quarterfinal play in Auckland, New Zealand.

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators and centre Mark Kastelic have agreed on a two-year contract extension, the team announced Thursday.

Bryan Trottier didn't want to go back. It was December 1972 and his junior team — the Swift Current Broncos — was set to resume its schedule following the Christmas break.

TORONTO — The CFL's '22 Touchdown Atlantic generated more than $12.7 million in economic benefit to regions of Nova Scotia according to a study commissioned by the league. Touchdown Atlantic was held in Wolfville, N.S.

NHL players choosing their own goal songs is trending in a sport that's historically emphasized team and downplayed the individual.

Canada's Rob Thomson has guided the Philadelphia Phillies on an improbable journey to the World Series. The native of Sarnia, Ont., took over as manager of a sub-.