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

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.

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 us to play in from a visibility standpoint and the ex

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