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KELOWNA, B.C. —  Team Canada doesn’t know who it will be playing; it doesn’t know when it will be playing.

KELOWNA, B.C. — Mixed curling can be tough on relationships, but Team Canada continues to buck that trend at the 2018 Winn Rentals World Mixed Curling Championship.

KELOWNA, B.C. — A world championship is being contested at the Kelowna Curling Club this week, but there’s a logo on the wall at the away end that is a vivid reminder of Kelowna’s biggest-ever curling event, half a century ago.

You can tell the curling season is in full swing when one event starts before the last one ends. While some of the top men’s teams were still playing the finals in Portage la Prairie, Man., another event got underway in China featuring two of Canada’s top teams.

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.

KELOWNA, B.C. — A slow start proved costly for Team Canada on Sunday afternoon at the 2018 Winn Rentals World Mixed Curling Championship.

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.

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.

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 Classic; an event they’ve won the past two years.

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 new team to be “successful.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 started to scratch their head and wonder how, or if, that was going to work. Out of the gate, it appears that it works.