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After two exciting weeks on tour, it seems that it’s already time to take a break.

The boys are back for another rendition of the Men of Curling calendar, featuring curlers from four countries across the globe and benefitting numerous charitable efforts – including Curling Canada’s philanthropic programs that support and develop youth programs across the country.

As if a chance to qualify for the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings weren’t enough, the 14 teams who will contest the 2019 Home Hardware Canada Cup, presented by Pioneer, Nov. 27-Dec. 1 in Leduc, Alta., will be playing for a purse that will see the winning men’s and women’s teams pocket $40,000 apiece — a staggering 185 per cent boost over last year.

Toronto’s John Epping has won the AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic.

If there was any doubt prior to this week, it’s now officially curling season.

One of Canada’s most popular curling championships will continue its relationship with a longtime partner, it was announced today by Curling Canada.

Covering the walls of the Oakville Curling Club are a number of championship banners sporting the name “John Epping.” Until this weekend, however, it had been a long time since he’d won an event in that building, on that ice.

A valuable and beneficial partnership between the World Curling Federation and Curling Canada has been extended for the long-term after reaching an eight-year agreement, it was announced today at the World Curling Congress in Cancun, Mexico.

It happens every year. Before you’ve put the golf clubs away, finished your slo-pitch softball season or put away your camping gear, curlers from around the world are hitting the ice in World Curling Tour events, and often in unfamiliar combinations of players.

Keith Parry, manager of the Comox Valley Curling Club in Courtney, B.C., says that in recent years, Friday nights were “dark”, unless the club was hosting a bonspiel. Something had to change. “So I partnered with a local craft brewery to start a Friday Fun League running in five-week rounds,” Parry says. “It’s popular and has expanded to three draws.”

Some of Canada’s up-and-coming curling athletes will get a little financial breathing room after being named recipients of the 2019 Curling Canada For the Love of Curling scholarships, Curling Canada announced today.

They’re recent national junior and university champions, but it’s not about what these athletes have accomplished in the past; it’s about their potential of providing excellence to Canadian curling for years to come.

When Matthew Paul became Director of Marketing for the Mayflower Curling Club for the 2018-19 curling season, his first goal was to explore how to get more potential members through the door – members who could bring some of the local youth culture to the well-established Halifax curling centre.

“I went to a Burger & Beer event at Delta Thistle and fell in love with curling,” says Patrick Prade about his introduction to the sport at Delta Thistle Curling Club in Delta, B.C., five years ago. “My first question was ‘How do I sign up and when does it start?’”

We’re in an era of change and adaptability in the curling industry, and in many ways it can be summed up in two words: craft beer.