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France is on high security alert ahead of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, which are expected to draw millions of visitors to the country.

The Olympic Park announced this week that the athletic sports complex would remain closed for four to six months due to a fire on March 21.

The Canadian team attempting to reclaim a world para hockey championship on home ice was announced Thursday by Hockey Canada.

When combined with other settlements, US$1 billion now has been set aside by various organizations to compensate hundreds of women.

Paris mayor said she was confident water quality in the River Seine will be up to Olympic standards this summer — and that she’ll be able to prove it by swimming there.

Critics slammed the women's speed suit as sexist and needlessly revealing, while others pointed out that athletes can choose from a number of different uniforms, including shorts.

Paris has spent about 1.4 billion euros on clean-up efforts in the Seine, but latest test samples still showed “alarming” levels of bacteria in the river.

For the first time in history, Canadian Paralympic athletes will get financial rewards — like Olympic athletes do — for finishing at the podium at the Paris Games later this year.

The world junior hockey championship is returning to Alberta.

A hexagonal, polished chunk of iron taken from the iconic landmark is being embedded in each gold, silver and bronze medal that will be hung around athletes’ necks.

The inauguration of Paris' purpose-built Olympics venue represents a milestone, given the problems that dogged its construction.

Lawmakers took Air Canada's CEO to task on Monday over "shocking" and failures to accommodate passengers living with disabilities.

The club was founded in the early 1980s and currently has around 25 players on the team coming in from Lethbridge, Taber, Cardston and Raymond.

Pistorius served nearly nine years of his murder sentence of 13 years and five months for the fatal shooting of model and law graduate Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013.

The list of new officers of the Order of Canada includes the first Inuit senator in Canada, guitar-maker Linda Manzer, editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder and pollster Nik Nanos.

A Toronto teenager is a triple threat — a world class athlete, dancer and actress. She’s also living with a disability and hopes to be a role model for others.

Carla Qualtrough unveiled several measures, including a Future of Sport in Canada Commission that will hold a summit and produce two reports during its 18-month mandate.

A young sledge hockey player from New Brunswick is living his dream, playing for Canada's national sledge hockey team in front of a hometown crowd.

Advocates are urging senators not to broaden an exemption for Olympic athletes from the federal handgun freeze to include a wider range of sport shooters.

Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world.