Has everyone recovered from watching the second Grand Slam event of the season?

Plus Blue Jays baseball? And perhaps some NHL hockey?

If you thought this would be a typically relaxing Monday with no curling events on tap, think again.

The Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials are underway today in Wolfville, N.S. There are eight women’s and eight men’s teams competing for the last two berths into next month’s Canadian Olympic Trials in Halifax.

These 16 squads qualified based on their ranking on the 2024-25 CTRS standings, and had to meet the same eligibility requirements as the teams who have qualified for the upcoming Trials.

The women’s teams are skipped by Beth Peterson (Winnipeg), Kayla MacMillan (Victoria), Danielle Inglis (Ottawa), Krista Scharf (Thunder Bay, Ont.), Selena Sturmay and Myla Plett (Edmonton), plus Ashley Thevenot and Nancy Martin (Martensville, Sask.).

Scharf, of course, was known as Krista McCarville in recent years.

The men’s entries are led by Jordon McDonald and Braden Calvert (Winnipeg), Sam Mooibroek (Whitby, Ont.), Scott Howard (Navan, Ont.), Mark Kean (Woodstock, Ont.), Jayden King (London, Ont.), Jean-Michel Ménard (Quebec) and Owen Purcell (Halifax).

It’s a full eight-team round robin for each gender with the top three teams making the playoffs.

Top three… that’s a throwback to an old Brier and Scotties era, isn’t it?

The second- and third-place teams will play a sudden-death semifinal on Oct. 24. But now things get really interesting.

The semifinal winner then battles the first-place team in a best-of-three final series.

This change was made in an attempt to confirm the best possible team to represent Canada at the Olympic Games.

If a third and deciding game is necessary in either or both women’s and men’s play, the super-final goes on Sunday, Oct. 26.

How can you watch?

Most round-robin games are being livestreamed on the Curling Canada YouTube page, and TSN will roll into town to cover both the women’s and men’s best-of-three finals.

Surely that’s all for this week, right?

Wrong.

The last-ever Pan Continental Championship is also underway today, this time on the “Iron Range” in Minnesota (if you know, you know).

The Championship will not be a part of the World Curling schedule starting next year; the new quadrennial has brought a raft of changes, and the death of the PanCon is one of them. But for now, teams need to finish somewhat high up in the standings in order to clinch world championship berths for their countries.

Canada is represented by the Rachel Homan and Brad Jacobs squads. Homan won yet another Slam yesterday in Nisku, Alta. and immediately jetted stateside while Jacobs skipped that Slam in order to prepare for Minnesota.

The U.S. hosts are repped by the John Shuster and Tabitha Peterson squads.

So how can you watch that one?

It’s all available on World Curling’s The Curling Channel, which we have written about before (it was once known as Recast).