National Sports

CALGARY — The door opened a crack on arena talks in Calgary as the city and the Flames have re-established contact.

Halifax Regional Council received a private briefing Tuesday from the company hoping to bring a CFL team to the Maritimes. Mayor Mike Savage confirmed councillors met with representatives of Maritime Football Ltd.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Two wins, eight goals and almost certainly a place in the knockout stage for first time since the Soviet era.

TORONTO — Alex Anthopoulos sat in the visiting dugout at Rogers Centre and glanced up at the banners hanging in centre-field.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The general manager of a Western Hockey League team in Alberta says a player who has been in an induced coma since he was seriously burned by a campfire is making progress.

Canadian tennis veteran Daniel Nestor has no regrets about his decision to retire later this season. The 45-year-old from Toronto, who announced his retirement plans last year, has struggled in his final campaign on the ATP World Tour.

OTTAWA — Sports Minister Kirsty Duncan says national sporting organizations will lose their federal funding if they don't immediately disclose to her office any allegations of abuse or harassment that occur within their ranks.

VANCOUVER — Prior to last week, the biggest crowd Alphonso Davies had ever spoken in front of was a soccer team.

TORONTO — Newly married and focused on her four-year plan into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Melissa Bishop had planned to put kids on hold.

Following last week's explosive revelations concerning his partner's alleged cyberbullying of Ottawa captain Erik Karlsson's wife, it was hard to envision a scenario where Senators forward Mike Hoffman could remain in the nation's capital.