2026 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship begins Monday

Attention on wheelchair curling in Canada is at an all-time high after Team Canada struck Paralympic gold in Italy this March.

All eyes turn now to Boucherville, Que. where the best teams from across the country will compete at the 2026 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship at the Boucherville Curling Club from April 27–May 2.

Team Northern Ontario’s Douglas Dean of Thunder Bay will return to Boucherville as the reigning champion among a competitive field including Team Québec #1’s Carl Marquis (Magog) and Team Saskatchewan’s Marie Wright (Moose Jaw).

The event will feature 12 teams: 10 provincial champions, plus additional second teams from Québec and British Columbia, which were each permitted a second entry after finishing on the podium at the 2025 championship.

For the first time since the 2024 edition of the tournament, Team Manitoba will field a team led by Billy Bridges, a four-time Paralympic medallist in para ice hockey, who made his wheelchair curling debut in Boucherville in 2025 competing in Ontario colours.

The first round of games will see Bridges’ Team Manitoba of Winnipeg take on Karl Allen’s Team Ontario from Schomberg with a full roster of athletes from Canada’s National Wheelchair Curling Program.

Round-robin play begins at 4 p.m. (all times Eastern) on Monday. All five sheets at the Boucherville Curling Club will be in use, but will leave Team Nova Scotia’s Laughlin Rutt from Sackville and Team New Brunswick’s Sarah Benevides of Saint John with a night off until they meet their first opponents Tuesday morning.

The field is divided into two pools based on the results of the previous year’s tournament.

Each team will play a five-game pool play segment beginning Monday afternoon. From there, the top three teams in each pool will advance to the Page playoffs, while the rest of the teams move on to the consolation playoffs.

The playoffs begin on Thursday, April 30 at 3 p.m. and conclude on Saturday, May 2.

For the second year in a row, the championship will take place alongside the Défi sportif AlterGo, an event that hosts nearly 6000 athletes with disabilities.

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Tickets to the 2026 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship are free of charge. For directions to the venue, click here.