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On today's World Curling Report we discuss really big ice cubes and provide highlights of Day 1 from the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard.

On today's World Curling Report... the world curling community arrives in Cancun for the World Curling Congress where discussions will take place on several key topics.

On today's World Curling Report we look into why the Oakville Fall Classic has become an important early season event and an Olympic gold medalist wins a mixed doubles event in Saskatchewan. 

On today's World Curling Report... Canadian men almost shutout of the Oakville Fall Classic playoffs and familiar names qualify for playoffs at mixed doubles event in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. 

On today's world Curling Report, a Korean duo dominates at New Zealand Winter Games and mixed results for new lineups at the Oakville Fall Classic.

On today's World Curling Report... China is set to host another international curling event and the reigning women's world champions begin their season with a bang.

Today on the World Curling Report we highlight some of the teams to watch at the Oakville Fall Classic this weekend and USA Curling announces that an international curling event is headed to California.

Tomorrow we will preview this weekend's curling events but today we highlight exciting news from two of curling's pre-eminent organizations.

Today's World Curing Report takes us to the British Isles and the Southern Hemisphere where mixed doubles teams from Canada, the U.S. and 7 other countries are competing in New Zealand. 

On today's World Curling Report we touch on key announcements by two of the world's major national curling federations.

Welcome to the World Curling Report, your daily two-minute recap of news and notes from the world of curling.  

This week we are joined by the winning skips from the 2019 Players Championship, Kerri Einarson (03:12) and Brendan Bottcher (08:24).  We are joined by World Champion skip Niklas Edin (15:31) and BJ Neufeld of Team Koe who reached the final at the World Championship in Lethbridge (21:39).  Our final guest this week is Olympic gold medalist Sara McManus of Team Hasselborg (30:15).

On this week's episode - 2019 World Women's champ, Alina Paetz (03:56), Price Atkinson of the Extra Extra End Podcast discusses the incident where Jamie Sinclair injured herself at the Women's Worlds (11:15), 2019 Canadian Mixed Doubles champs, Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant (17:03), Marc Kennedy discusses his decision to join Team Jacobs (27:48) and Peter de Cruz discusses his team's season a...

On this week's podcast our guests are 2019 Tim Hortons Brier champions BJ Neufeld of Team Koe (4:45) and TSN curling analyst and two-time Brier champion, Russ Howard (20:24)

In Part 2 of our 2019 Tim Hortons Brier preview we focus on Pool A.  Our guests include - Brett Gallant - CA (2:33), Kevin Koe - AB (13:53), Scott McDonald - ON (22:36), Stu Thompson - NS (29:27), Jim Cotter - BC (35:42) and Jamie Koe - NWT (43:08).

In Part 1 of our 2019 Brier Preview we focus on Pool B.  Guests include - Brendan Bottcher (2:54), Craig Savill (11:18), Reid Carruthers (20:43), EJ Harnden (29:51), Kirk Muyres (45:45).

This week's guest include - 2019 Scotties Champ, Chelsea Carey (3:47), skip of Team BC at the Scotties, Sarah Wark (11:47), 2019 World Junior champion, Tyler Tardi (19:36), Kristen Streifel who will represent Canada at the 2019 Winter Universiade (24:35), 2019 U.S. Women's champion, Jamie Sinclair (29:17) and 2019 U.S. Men's champion, John Shuster (36:13).

In part 2 of our 2019 Scotties preview - Chelsea Carey (2:58), Tracy Fleury (10:13), Emma Miskew (15:14), Krista McCarville (26:42), Sarah Wark (36:06), Jill Brothers (44:54) and Gabrielle Lavoie (53:00).

Part 1 of our 2019 Scotties preview from the people that will be participating.  Guests - Casey Scheidegger (3:01), Kerri Einarson (14:21), Jennifer Jones (20:09), Robyn Silvernagle (26:15), Kerry Galusha (32:23) and Andrea Crawford (39:03) Watch for Part 2 tomorrow with guests:  Carey, Fleury, Miskew, McCarville, Brothers and more.

This week's feature interview is with Katherine Henderson, CEO of Curling Canada.  We discuss many topics including the Olympic Trials schedule, the format for the Scotties and Brier, what Curling Canada is looking for in its next broadcasting partnership and what Curling Canada has in place to help protect athletes from abuse and harassment. (34:24). This week's other guests - Matt Dunstone fresh...

This weeks guests include 2019 Canadian Junior Champions Tyler Tardi (3:04) and Selena Sturmay (8:02).  We also chat with Tracy Fleury following her team's win at the Manitoba Scotties (14:29) and we are joined by Cathy Gauthier of TSN to discuss the Canadian Juniors, the current crop of young Canadian curlers and we also touch on what it was like to call a national final with her son playing on o...

On this week's episode - Brendan Bottcher joins us to discuss his team's first-ever Grand Slam title last weekend at the Canadian Open in North Battleford, Saskatchewan.   We also preview the 2019 Continental Cup of Curling taking place this weekend in Las Vegas. We are joined by the coaches of Team World and Team North America, David Murdoch and Jeff Stoughton, along with Jon Killoran, the local...

This week's guests - Ross Paterson fresh off his team's win at the Boost National (2:57).  Lisa Weagle joins us to discuss Team Homan's win at the Boost National and their excellent start to the season (9:43).  Devin Heroux of CBC Sports discusses some key topics and points of interest from the first half of the 2018-19 curling season (19:57).  

On this week's podcast - Marc Kennedy discusses winning the Canada Cup with Team Jacobs and also discusses the exchange of words he had with Ben Hebert during the men's final (3:44).  Coach Phill Drobnick of USA Curling joins us to recap the 2nd leg of the Curling World Cup in Omaha, Nebraska (14:29).

This week, guest contributor Kristina Frlan of the Lazy Handle Curling Show on YouTube helps us with interviews of Joanne Courtney (4:10) and Ben Hebert (12:35) as they prepared for the Canada Cup.  We also welcome Jamie Sinclair (29:25) and Tracy Fleury (34:14) who will both skip their team in the 2nd leg of the Curling World Cup in Omaha, Nebraska.  We also discuss the World Cup with curling bro...