Canada

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) has bolstered its sports portfolio with the acquisition of the Toronto Argonauts Canadian Football League (CFL) club.

Major League Baseball (MLB) has reorganised its leadership team, with Dan Halem and Tony Petitti appointed as the North American league’s new deputy commissioners.

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has today (Monday) announced the launch of a Mixed Relay Series, with two new events to be held next year.

Outgoing U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati has claimed that a 2026 Fifa World Cup co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico would be the most commercial successful edition of the national team tournament to date.

Canada’s Sports Minister Kent Hehr has backed plans for Calgary to bid for the 2026 winter Olympics, citing the legacy of the city’s staging of the event in 1988 as a reason to press ahead with the proposal.

The English city of Birmingham will not find out whether it has been successful in its bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games until at least December 6 after the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) confirmed it has received “updates” from other parties interested in staging the multi-sport event.

The City of Calgary has voted in favour of committing up to C$2m (€1.3m/$1.6m) in additional funding for a study over a potential bid from the Canadian city to host the 2026 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The City of Calgary has voted to continue with plans over mounting a bid for the 2026 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, with further funding for the effort set to be assessed next week.

World football’s governing body Fifa has issued a guide to the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup, stating the revamped procedure is designed to ensure the process cannot be open to “even one iota of doubt”.

Major League Soccer (MLS) has today (Monday) extended and expanded its deal with Fanatics through an agreement in which it will also reportedly invest in the online sports apparel and merchandise retailer.

Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens has said the Canadian city would be interested in hosting future Fina events after revealing that the organisation’s 2016 World Swimming Championships (25m) generated over C$32m (€21.4m/US$25m) of “economic activity” for the city.

The Calgary Bid Exploration Committee (CBEC), a group formed to assess the viability of the Canadian city bidding for the 2026 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, has wound up its operations ahead of a final decision by city council.

Slovenian biathlete Teja Gregorin has today (Thursday) been named as the sole athlete that tested positive for banned substances at the 2010 winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, following re-analysis of samples taken during the sporting spectacle.

Super League Triathlon has announced the formation of a second-tier series that is designed to introduce a promotion and relegation system to its championships.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that only one athlete was found to have used banned substances following re-analysis of samples taken during the 2010 winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

The man behind Toronto Wolfpack, the world’s first transatlantic rugby league club, has said he is in talks to launch two more teams in North America, with Boston and Hamilton reported to be in contention for the new franchises.