Canada

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has granted its 2018 World Triathlon Grand Final to the Gold Coast and assigned its inaugural 2017 Multisport World Championships Festival to the Canadian city of Penticton, while it has become the latest sports federation to cut its ties to SportAccord.

Hawk-Eye has been appointed as the official goal-line technology (GLT) provider for the 2015 Fifa Women’s World Cup in Canada after it missed out on the same contract for the men’s edition of the national team football competition last year.

North America’s Major League Soccer (MLS) has struck a new collective bargaining agreement with its players to avert a work stoppage just two days before the start of the new season.

Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred has outlined his vision for two new franchises from outside the US to be added to the competition.

Vancouver will host a round of the World Rugby Sevens Series from 2015-16, rugby union’s global governing body has announced.

Durban is set to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games after the South African city’s only rival, Edmonton in Canada, pulled out of the bidding contest due to economic concerns.

North American ice hockey league the NHL has confirmed the World Cup of Hockey tournament will be resurrected in 2016, with the event’s return set to be hosted in the Canadian city of Toronto.

A group of leading players who had started legal action over the use of artificial turf at Canada’s 2015 Fifa Women’s World Cup have dropped their case against world football’s governing body and the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA).

A group of top female footballers have scaled back their demands in protest against Fifa’s decision to stage the 2015 Women’s World Cup on artificial turf.

The WME-IMG agency has signed a worldwide marketing and management representation agreement with rising tennis star Genie Bouchard.

Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke has stated it will be a long time before women receive the same pay as men at World Cups, dismissing as “nonsense” suggestions that the controversial use of artificial turf at the 2015 Women’s World Cup is discriminatory.

The French Football League (LFP) has announced that its Trophee des Champions will return to Montreal in 2015.

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has cancelled its new World Cup event in Montreal due to a clash of dates with other events in the Canadian city.

The World Curling Federation (WCF) and the Canadian Curling Association (CCA) have announced that the 2016 Women’s World Curling Championship is to return to the city of Swift Current in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

The Singapore Rugby Union (SRU) has reportedly clinched a four-year deal to host a leg of the International Rugby Board’s (IRB) Sevens World Series national team tournament at its new National Stadium from 2015, with Paris and Vancouver set to join as fellow new entrants on the calendar.

Jerome Valcke, secretary general of football’s global governing body Fifa, has responded to the furore surrounding the use of artificial surfaces for the 2015 Women’s World Cup by stating the men’s edition could be played on such pitches “sooner rather than later,” while France and Korea have submitted bid documents for the 2019 edition of the women’s showpiece.