Canada’s mixed doubles curlers face tough road to 2026 Games

On the day Laura Walker spoke with the Toronto Star it was a statutory holiday in Alberta and that, she said, meant “I kind of have the day off.”

She’s an elite curler trying to get to the 2026 Olympics in mixed doubles, a mortgage broker and a mother of two young kids, with a husband who is a member of Brad Gushue’s foursome, which has Olympic ambitions of its own, and he travels even more than she does.