All roads to the 2026 Winter Olympics will go through the province of Nova Scotia, it was announced today by Curling Canada.
All three major qualifying events that will lead to the determination of Canada’s four-player and mixed doubles team for the 2026 Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, will be played in Nova Scotia:
- The Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials will be played Dec. 30, 2024-Jan. 4, 2025, at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool, N.S.
- The Canadian Pre-Trials, deciding the final qualifiers for the Canadian Curling Trials, will be played Oct. 21-26, 2025, at the Andrew H. McCain Arena in Wolfville, N.S.
- The Canadian Curling Trials to decide Canada’s men’s and women’s four-player Olympic teams will be played Nov. 22-30, 2025, at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax.