During every Tim Hortons Brier final between the seventh and eighth ends, two RCMP officers bring the Brier Tankard out for everyone to see.
|Nolan Thiessen
Super Spare Laine Peters (centre) poses with teammates Greg Smyth
Calgary’s Glencoe Club and National Training Centre (NTC) know how to get into the holiday spirit: the Super Spare Silent Auction, now in its fourth year, raises money to support a local shelter for homeless and runaway youth. How? By auctioning off the services of high-performance curlers to The Glencoe’s curling members.
Team Brown (Photo Karen Mosure)|Winners of the Junior Women’s event
Jim Cotter is well known in Canadian curling circles for his precision shot-making on the ice. But a few weeks ago, he was wearing another curling hat: junior team coach and part of the organizing committee for the 14th Annual Prestige Hotels Rick Cotter Memorial Junior Classic in Vernon, B.C.
|Wade Scoffin was part of team Yukon at the 2015 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship at North Bay
Sometimes in sports we look at our most successful athletes as the true heroes. We say that the athletes standing atop the Olympic podium will go down in sporting history, and it’s true, they will. We too often forget about that team behind the scenes. We forget that the most crucial part of a team doesn’t get to stand atop the Olympic podium.
|John Morris works with the Grade 2 students at Elbow Valley Elementary School
If John Morris needed a reminder of why he plays the great game of curling, he’s been receiving it this week at Elbow Valley Elementary School, just west of Calgary.
|Brad Gushue's team from St. John's claimed the men's title at the Grand Slam Canadian Open in Yorkton
While Scotland’s Eve Muirhead was beat Ottawa’s Rachel Homan in the final of the Grand Slam of Curling’s Canadian Open in Yorkton, Sask., it was another team that took the biggest stride forward over the weekend.
|Skip Mike McEwen
Just when you thought Mike McEwen’s season was approaching inhuman levels, he goes and wins the Home Hardware Canada Cup in Camrose, Alta., over six of the best teams in the country.
Curling at this level is really hard and sometimes you get kicked in the guts.
Rocks & Rings instructor Cathlia Ward works with a young students from Summerhill School at the Gage Golf & Country Club in Oromocto
Dr. Brian Dalrymple has been sponsoring the Rocks & Rings program in Oromocto, N.B., for the past three years. Each fall, he “adopts” local schools in order to bring curling awareness to local elementary students. The Gage Golf & Country Club is using the Rocks & Rings program as a marketing tool for their curling club and especially for their Little Rocks program: they’ve taken the kids from the gym to the curling rink.
||Revolution Place in Grande Prairie
Canada’s elite curling teams will converge on Revolution Place in Grande Prairie, Alta., for two major championships during the 2015-16 season, it was announced today by the Canadian Curling Association.
Their red and orange outfits may be gaudy but it apparently is having no effect on Mike McEwen’s red-hot Winnipeg team.
