Call it a last-chance dance for Canadian curlers hoping to take in the experience of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Article content

It’s the 2025 Home Hardware Canadian Curling Pre-Trials, which get underway Monday at Andrew H. McCain Arena in Wolfville, N.S. — the first step in a long, tough journey for 16 teams not yet qualified for next month’s national curling trials to determine the nation’s representative for the Olympics in Italy. Article content Article content

With so much at stake, dreamers — not wallflowers — should take to the pebbled ice of pre-trials.

“Oh … we can see it, and we want it, for sure,” said Ontario’s Danielle Inglis, of a dream to play in the 2026 Milano-Cortina Games in February.

“Even just playing in the Olympic trials would be an incredible event for u

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