Curling Canada News

KELOWNA, B.C. — An early loss was one thing, but an early TWO losses would have been entirely another for Team Canada at the 2018 Winn Rentals World Mixed Curling Championship. So Mike Anderson and his team from the Thornhill, Ont., Curling Club took that scenario out of the equation ... read more

KELOWNA, B.C. — A slow start proved costly for Team Canada on Sunday afternoon at the 2018 Winn Rentals World Mixed Curling Championship. Canada’s Mike Anderson team, representing the Thornhill, Ont., Curling Club, did not have first-end hammer for the first time in the 2018 championship, and Norway’s Ingvild Skaga ... read more

KELOWNA, B.C. — Expectations were high for the home team, and the opening day did nothing to dampen those expectations at the 2018 Winn Rentals World Mixed Curling Championship. Mike Anderson’s Canadian team, representing the Thornhill, Ont., Curling Club rolled to a pair of victories Saturday at the Kelowna Curling ... read more

KELOWNA, B.C. — It had been a long wait to put on the Maple Leaf, but it was worth it for Mike Anderson’s Canadian mixed curling team. Almost a year after earning the right to represent Canada at the 2018 Winn Rentals World Mixed Curling Championship, Anderson’s team from the ... read more

Fresh off a win in Toronto, Reid Carruthers looks to defend a different title this weekend in Portage la Prairie, Man. Carruthers (with Mike McEwen, Derek Samagalski, and Colin Hodgson) won the Stu Stells Toronto Tankard on Monday, but are back in Manitoba trying to win the Canad Inns Men’s ... read more

When Kerri Einarson’s Gimli, Man., foursome won their first couple of World Curling Tour events this season, it quickly answered the questions of whether four skips could make a successful team. When they won their third, it was obvious that they were ready to redefine what it meant for a ... read more

Team Canada will have home-ice advantage for the first time when the 2018 Winn Rentals World Mixed Curling Championship gets underway on Saturday at the Kelowna (B.C.) Curling Club. Mike Anderson’s team from Thornhill, Ont. (vice-skip Danielle Inglis, second Sean Harrison, lead Lauren Harrison, national coach Jim Waite) with a ... read more

While the turn of the calendar from September to October usually indicates curling season is entering full swing, the weather outside Calgary’s Curler’s Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic decided to make it blatantly clear that it was time for everybody to get on the ice. Record-breaking snowfall in Alberta has ... read more

Curling Canada will give more young curlers the opportunity to compete for national championships when it expands the fields for the New Holland Canadian Junior Under-21 and Canadian Under-18 curling championships, beginning in the 2020-21 season. That was one of the outcomes of the 2018 National Curling Congress, which concluded ... read more

Although the World Curling Tour season has been underway for six weeks already, something about this weekend’s event makes one feel that it is now officially curling season. Thus far, there have been many events across Canada and around the world featuring most – if not all – of the ... read more

When Kerri Einarson and Val Sweeting announced they’d be teaming up for the 2018-2019 season, most curling fans thought that would be a formidable back-end combination, regardless of who skipped. When the announcement also mentioned they’d be bringing on two more skips to play front end, those same curling fans ... read more

This week’s World Curling Tour schedule is a tale of two Granite Clubs, and two Fall Classics. While Winnpeg’s Granite Club is hosting the Mother Club Fall Curling Classic, the KW Granite Club in Waterloo, Ont., is hosting its own version: the KW Fall Classic. Winnipeg’s event features 16 men’s ... read more

Canadian curling stars were big winners at the 2018 Canadian Sport Awards on Thursday night in Ottawa. The 41st edition of the CSA — an event that was held for the first time since 2012 — honours the top Canadian athletic performances over the past 12 months, in addition to ... read more

Canada’s acclaimed elementary school curling program is excited to announce that Canadian egg farmers are extending their support of the Rocks & Rings program through to 2022. This announcement comes as Egg Farmers Rocks & Rings presented by Curling Canada prepares to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the program in ... read more

Canada returned to the international curling stage in grand fashion on Sunday. Canada’s men’s, women’s and mixed doubles teams pulled off historic feats at the Curling World Cup. Each team won its corresponding final to become the first-ever winners of each event. It will also go down in history as ... read more