How to Watch Curling in Canada in 2026-27: The Slams, the Scotties and the Brier

To watch curling in Canada this season, you need two broadcast families, not one. TSN and RDS carry Curling Canada’s championships, including the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and the Montana’s Brier. Sportsnet and CBC carry the Grand Slam of Curling and the professional Rock League. If your package or app only covers one side, you will miss roughly half the season.

The season starts next week, when the GSOC Invitational opens in Victoria on October 13. It runs until the Rock League’s final weekend in mid-April. This guide matches every major event of 2026-27 to its channel, converts draw times into your time zone, and sets out what each way of watching really costs.

The short answer

• Curling Canada’s Season of Champions is on TSN in English and RDS in French. That covers the Scotties and the Brier under an agreement that runs through the 2027-28 season. TSN showed every draw of the 2026 Scotties.
• The Grand Slam of Curling is on Sportsnet and CBC. It has five events between October 13 and December 20. Sportsnet shows three draws a day from Tuesday to Friday, CBC has the Saturday playoff games, and the Sunday finals go back to Sportsnet.
• The Rock League is on CBC. CBC says every game will be on CBC TV and CBC Gem. Select Thursday and Friday matches also air on Sportsnet, and in French on ICI TOU.TV.
• The two big dates: the Scotties in Charlottetown from February 12 to 21, 2027, and the Brier’s 100th anniversary in Saskatoon from February 26 to March 7.
• Streaming both sides means TSN+ at $249.99 a year plus Sportsnet+ Standard at $269.99 a year, about $520 in total.
• A 12-month IPTV MN plan carrying TSN 1 to 5, RDS, the Sportsnet feeds and CBC stations is $77, or $6.42 a month. The other plans are on the pricing page.

One honest caveat first. The Slams’ morning round-robin draws, Tuesday to Saturday, stream only on Rock Channel. They are not on any television channel, so no lineup can give them to you, whether it comes from cable or IPTV.

Which channel is curling on in Canada?

It depends on who runs the event, and in curling that is the whole puzzle. Curling Canada owns the national championships and sells the television rights to Bell Media, which puts them on TSN and RDS. The Grand Slam of Curling and the Rock League are run separately. In August they signed a five-year agreement with Sportsnet and CBC covering 2026 to 2030, which promises more than 300 hours of television coverage this season.

Event	English television	French	Streaming
Scotties Tournament of Hearts	TSN	RDS	TSN.ca and the TSN app
Montana’s Brier	TSN	RDS	TSN.ca and the TSN app
Grand Slam draws, Tuesday to Friday	Sportsnet, three draws a day	None listed	Sportsnet+; morning draws on Rock Channel
Grand Slam Saturday playoffs	CBC	None listed	CBC Gem and Sportsnet+
Grand Slam Sunday finals	Sportsnet	None listed	Sportsnet+
Rock League	CBC TV, every game; Sportsnet on select Thursdays and Fridays	Select matches on ICI TOU.TV	CBC Gem

The Curling Canada side is covered by an eight-year extension that Bell Media announced in 2020, naming TSN and RDS as the exclusive English and French broadcasters through 2027-28. So this season looks like last season for the Scotties and the Brier. The change is on the Slam side, where the new Sportsnet and CBC deal fixes a weekly pattern you can plan around.

Two broadcasters means two sets of feeds

Neither network is one channel. TSN runs five regional feeds, TSN 1 to 5. Sportsnet runs four regional feeds (East, Ontario, West and Pacific) plus Sportsnet One, 360 and World. Curling shares all of them with hockey from October to April, and that is where viewers get caught out.

In February, TSN’s regional feeds also carry regional NHL games for several Canadian teams. On a night when your team plays, the evening draw from Charlottetown or Saskatoon may be on a different TSN feed in your area than the one you usually watch. The NHL 2026-27 Canadian TV guide lists which teams sit on which feeds. The same split-feed problem comes up every autumn with football, and the CFL viewing guide shows how it plays out on a busy Friday.

If you hold only your regional feed, those nights are a gamble. If you hold all of them, you just scroll to the right one. IPTV MN carries TSN 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, every Sportsnet regional feed plus One, 360 and World, RDS and RDS2, and CBC stations in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver. The full lineup is on the channels list, so you can check a specific channel before paying anything.

The 2026-27 curling calendar

These are the major events and their confirmed Canadian homes. Draw times are not in this table because they are set event by event. Use the official schedules and the programme guide for the day itself.

Dates	Event	Where	On television
Oct 13–18, 2026	GSOC Invitational	Victoria, BC	Sportsnet; Saturday on CBC
Nov 3–8	GSOC Masters	Medicine Hat, AB	Sportsnet; Saturday on CBC
Nov 17–22	GSOC National	Sydney, NS	Sportsnet; Saturday on CBC
Dec 1–6	GSOC Open	Thunder Bay, ON	Sportsnet; Saturday on CBC
Dec 15–20	GSOC Players’ Cup	Kingston, ON	Sportsnet; Saturday on CBC
Jan 7–10, 2027	Rock League	Moose Jaw, SK	CBC
Jan 28–31	Rock League	Utica, NY	CBC
Feb 4–7	Rock League	Ottawa, ON	CBC
Feb 12–21	Scotties Tournament of Hearts	Charlottetown, PE	TSN, RDS
Feb 26–Mar 7	Montana’s Brier	Saskatoon, SK	TSN, RDS
Mar 13–21	World Women’s Championship	Host not yet announced	TSN in 2026; confirm for 2027
Mar 27–Apr 4	World Men’s Championship	Saint John, NB	TSN in 2026; confirm for 2027
Apr 8–11	Rock League	Red Deer, AB	CBC
Apr 15–18	Rock League championship weekend	Kalamazoo, MI	CBC

The season splits into two halves. October to December belongs to the Slams, so Sportsnet and CBC. January to April belongs to the championships and the Rock League, so TSN, RDS and CBC. All five Slams finish before Christmas and none overlaps the Scotties or the Brier. That matters if you only follow one half, because you only need that half’s channels, and a shorter plan.

Two smaller notes. TSN carried the 2026 World Men’s Championship from Ogden, Utah, but Canadian broadcast details for the 2027 worlds had not been published when this was written, so check TSN’s grid nearer the time. And one familiar fixture is gone: Curling Canada has dropped the PointsBet Invitational, which TSN carried from 2022, from its calendar.

How do I watch the Grand Slam of Curling?

Every Slam follows the same weekly pattern, and once you know it you never have to look it up again:

1. Tuesday to Friday: Sportsnet televises three draws a day. The morning draws, Tuesday to Saturday, are live-streamed on Rock Channel rather than on television.
2. Saturday: the playoff games move to CBC, with streams on the free CBC Gem service and on Sportsnet+.
3. Sunday: the championship finals return to Sportsnet.

Saturday is the free part of the week. CBC is a conventional network, so in most cities an antenna will pick up the Saturday playoffs, and CBC Gem streams them free. The weekday draws and the Sunday finals need Sportsnet. From October to December Sportsnet is also busy with the NHL, so check the listings to see which Sportsnet channel has a given draw rather than assuming your regional feed.

What changed for the Slams this season

The Slams have a new qualification path. Champions of designated Satellite events earn a place in one of the first four Slams, and points from Satellite events and Slams together set the ranking for the Players’ Cup in Kingston. Only the top 12 men’s and top 12 women’s teams play there. For a viewer, this gives the November and early December events real stakes, because teams are chasing a place in the finale. The Grand Slam’s 2026-27 schedule announcement has the venues and the qualification rules.

The first stop is the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria. Fans in Victoria get evening draws at a comfortable hour, while the same draws start late in the evening in the Maritimes. A month later the GSOC National in Sydney, Cape Breton, flips that: Atlantic time works for viewers in Halifax and sends viewers in British Columbia to the couch in the afternoon.

How do I watch the Scotties and the Brier?

On TSN in English and RDS in French, from mid-February to early March. TSN showed every draw of the 2026 Scotties on television, TSN.ca and the TSN app, and it has given the Brier comprehensive live coverage in recent years. Those are the two weeks most Canadians mean when they say they “watch curling”.

The 2027 Scotties Tournament of Hearts runs from February 12 to 21 at the Eastlink Centre in Charlottetown. It is the city’s fifth time hosting, a record. The defending champions are Team Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Manitoba, who beat Team Kaitlyn Lawes 4–3 in an extra end in the 2026 final in Mississauga. The 2027 winner represents Canada at the World Women’s Championship from March 13 to 21.

The 2027 Montana’s Brier runs from February 26 to March 7 at SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon. It marks 100 years since the first Brier, held in Toronto in 1927, and the event has been played every year since except 1943 to 1945. It is Saskatoon’s seventh time hosting. Manitoba’s Team Matt Dunstone are the defending champions. They beat Kevin Koe 6–3 in St. John’s last March for Dunstone’s first Brier title, after losing the final in 2023 and 2025. The 2027 world men’s championship is at TD Station in Saint John from March 27 to April 4. Curling Canada’s page for the 100th-anniversary Brier has the event details.

The Brier’s ticket packages show how busy the television week is. The opening weekend, Friday to Sunday, has two draws a day. Monday to Thursday has three draws a day. The championship weekend has six draws over three days. With the Scotties ending on February 21 and the Brier starting five days later, that is about three weeks of almost daily curling on TSN, often from morning to late evening.

That is also when the feed question matters most. An evening draw can overlap regional hockey on other TSN feeds, so a favourites list with all five TSN channels saves the hunt. If you are at work during a morning draw, the programme guide and catch-up TV that come with every IPTV MN plan let you go back to a programme you missed.

What time are the draws where you live?

Curling is played in every Canadian time zone, so the clock matters as much as the channel. The table converts three example start times, one per host city, to show the offsets. These are not the published draw times. Check those on the day.

Where you are	7:00 pm in Victoria (Oct)	2:00 pm in Charlottetown (Feb)	7:00 pm in Saskatoon (Feb–Mar)
St. John’s	11:30 pm	2:30 pm	9:30 pm
Halifax, Charlottetown	11:00 pm	2:00 pm	9:00 pm
Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal	10:00 pm	1:00 pm	8:00 pm
Winnipeg	9:00 pm	12:00 pm	7:00 pm
Regina, Saskatoon	8:00 pm	12:00 pm	7:00 pm
Calgary, Edmonton	8:00 pm	11:00 am	6:00 pm
Vancouver, Victoria	7:00 pm	10:00 am	5:00 pm

Three things are worth knowing.

• Saskatchewan moves relative to everyone else. The province never changes its clocks, so in October it matches Calgary, and from November 1, when the rest of the country falls back, it matches Winnipeg. A Brier draw in Saskatoon is on the same clock as Manitoba.
• The Brier is all on standard time. Clocks spring forward on March 14, 2027, a week after the Brier final. The men’s worlds in Saint John start after the change, on Atlantic daylight time.
• Newfoundland is half an hour off everyone. Viewers in St. John’s add thirty minutes to the Atlantic time, which turns a late Victoria draw into a near-midnight one.

A programme guide that gets all six Canadian time zones right, including Newfoundland’s half hour and Saskatchewan’s fixed clock, takes the arithmetic out of it. The coverage page explains how IPTV MN handles that.

What does it cost to watch the whole curling season?

These are current Canadian prices. TSN+ went up in April 2026, and Sportsnet+ went up from the first billing cycle on or after September 22, so last season’s figures are out of date.

Route	Price	Curling it covers	What it misses
TSN+	$29.99 a month, $249.99 a year	The Scotties and the Brier in English	Every Slam and the Rock League; RDS in French
Sportsnet+ Standard	$34.99 a month, $269.99 a year	Slam draws, Saturday playoffs and finals	The Scotties and the Brier
CBC Gem	Free	Slam Saturdays and every Rock League game	Weekday Slam draws, the Scotties, the Brier
Cable or satellite	$85 to $130 a month after the promotion	Whatever feeds your tier and region include	Often RDS outside Quebec; a contract and rented boxes
IPTV MN, 12 months, one screen	$77, which is $6.42 a month	TSN 1 to 5, RDS, every Sportsnet feed, CBC stations	Slam morning draws on Rock Channel

Following the whole season through apps means TSN+ and Sportsnet+ together: about $520 a year paid annually, or $64.98 a month paid monthly, and still no RDS. A cable package with both sports networks costs $1,020 to $1,560 over twelve months once the introductory price ends. The breakdown of a real Canadian cable bill shows where that money goes.

The plans are $17 for one month, $27 for three, $47 for six and $77 for twelve on a single screen. Two screens for a year is $127, and three is $178. You can match the length to the half of the season you care about:

• The whole season. A six-month plan at $47 started on October 13 covers every Slam, the Scotties, the Brier and both world championships, and only runs out before the Rock League’s final weekend. The twelve-month plan at $77 covers all of it, with time to spare.
• The Slams only. Three months at $27 from October 13 covers all five Slams and the Rock League’s January opener in Moose Jaw.
• The championships only. Three months at $27 from early February covers the Rock League in Ottawa, the Scotties, the Brier, both worlds and the Rock League’s April weekends.

Payment is by Interac e-Transfer from your own bank app, in Canadian dollars. Nothing renews automatically, and the IPTV subscription page sets out exactly what you receive.

Watching curling in French

RDS holds the French-language rights to Curling Canada’s Season of Champions, so the Scotties and the Brier have a French broadcast. For the Rock League, Radio-Canada’s streaming service ICI TOU.TV carries select Thursday and Friday matches. The Slam agreement lists English-language partners only.

In practice, the problem is distribution rather than coverage. Cable and satellite packages sold outside Quebec often leave out RDS, so a francophone family in Saskatoon or Calgary may not be able to buy it locally at any price. A lineup that carries RDS and RDS2 next to TSN means you choose the language, not your postal code. Inside Quebec, the Slams are the gap. With no French broadcaster listed, fans in Montreal or Quebec City who want them need Sportsnet or CBC in English.

Five Canadian curling households

A Brier ticket-holder in Saskatoon. They have seats for the championship weekend at SaskTel Centre and want to watch every other draw from home. That means TSN for ten days straight, including the evening draws after work. See IPTV in Saskatoon.

A Manitoba family following the defending champions. Einarson’s team is from Gimli and Dunstone won the Brier for Manitoba, so a household in Winnipeg has a stake in both February championships. They also watch the Slams through the autumn. They need both broadcast families, so a twelve-month plan fits.

A club curler in Ottawa. They have Rock League tickets for one night at TD Place in February and want the rest of that weekend on CBC, plus the Scotties and the Brier afterwards. Three months from early February covers it. See IPTV in Ottawa.

A Slam fan in Calgary. The Masters in Medicine Hat is the nearest Slam, and a mountain-time viewer gets the evening draws at a sensible hour. If they care about the Slams but not the championships, three months from October covers the autumn. See IPTV in Calgary.

A farm outside Regina on fixed wireless. Rural fixed-wireless plans sometimes come with a monthly data cap. Before committing, this household should do the data maths in the next section, then test it on a real evening draw. See IPTV in Regina.

How do I get set up before the Slams start?

This is about a fifteen-minute job, and the order matters more than the choices.

1. Test it during a live draw. Ask for a 24-hour trial on the free trial page or through live chat. No card is needed. An evening draw from Victoria next week is a fair test, because evening is when the network is busiest.
2. Install a player on the main television. The installation guides cover each device. It takes about five minutes on an Amazon Fire TV Stick, and is just as quick on Android TV and Google TV sets and LG smart TVs.
3. Build a favourites list. Add TSN 1 to 5, the Sportsnet feeds, your nearest CBC station and RDS if you want the French call. Then you can switch between a Slam on Sportsnet and hockey on TSN without searching.
4. Wire the main television if you can. An Ethernet cable from the router does more than any speed upgrade, because live television has almost no buffer to hide a weak Wi-Fi signal.
5. Find the backup server before you need it. A second server address comes with every subscription, so if one route struggles in the tenth end you can switch in about thirty seconds.

As a guide, budget 8 to 12 Mbps per screen for HD, 15 to 20 Mbps for Full HD and 25 to 40 Mbps for 4K. Add the figures together if two screens are watching different things. If the picture stutters, work through the buffering fixes guide in order. The cause is usually the home network, not the source.

Who this is not for

An honest guide has to say when the answer is no.

• You only want Slam Saturdays and the Rock League. CBC is free with an antenna in most cities, and CBC Gem streams both free. You don’t need to pay for anything.
• You want the Slams’ morning draws. They stream only on Rock Channel. No television lineup carries them.
• Your internet is slow or unsteady. Below about 15 Mbps of steady speed per screen, live sport struggles. A connection that drops during video calls will drop during a draw too.
• You are on a tight data cap. Each Mbps of streaming uses about 0.45 GB an hour, so HD at 10 Mbps is about 4.5 GB an hour. Count a draw as three hours of television, and two draws a day across the Brier’s ten days comes to about 270 GB. Most Canadian plans are unlimited, but some rural and fixed-wireless plans are not.
• You want one regulated Canadian bill for television, phone and internet. That is a fair preference, and cable suits it better.

For a wider view of what separates a good provider from a cheap one, the best IPTV in Canada page sets out the standard to hold any service to, including this one.

Is watching curling this way legal in Canada?

The technology is legal, and it is what Canadian carriers use for their own television. Bell Fibe TV and Rogers Ignite TV are both IPTV, so internet delivery is the normal method here, not a fringe one. The what is IPTV page explains how it works.

What matters legally is the licensing of the content a service carries, not the delivery method. IPTV MN supplies network access and reseller services and does not host, record or broadcast any media itself. Subscribers are responsible for making sure their own viewing complies with the Copyright Act and the Broadcasting Act of Canada. The full position is set out in our disclaimer.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is curling on in Canada?

It depends on the event. Curling Canada’s championships, including the Scotties and the Brier, are on TSN in English and RDS in French. The Grand Slam of Curling is on Sportsnet from Tuesday to Friday and on Sunday, with Saturday’s playoff games on CBC. The Rock League is on CBC TV and CBC Gem.

When and where are the 2027 Scotties and Brier?

The Scotties Tournament of Hearts runs from February 12 to 21, 2027 at the Eastlink Centre in Charlottetown. The Montana’s Brier follows from February 26 to March 7 at SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon, marking 100 years since the first Brier in 1927. Both are on TSN and RDS.

Can I watch the Grand Slam of Curling for free?

Partly. Each Slam’s Saturday playoff games air on CBC, which an antenna picks up in most cities, and stream free on CBC Gem. The weekday draws and Sunday finals are on Sportsnet, and the morning draws stream only on Rock Channel.

What is the Rock League, and where can I watch it?

The Rock League is a professional league of six mixed-gender franchises, now in its second season. In 2027 it plays five weekends between January 7 and April 18, including a stop at TD Place in Ottawa. CBC says every game will be on CBC TV and CBC Gem, with select Thursday and Friday matches on Sportsnet and on ICI TOU.TV in French.

How do I watch curling in French?

RDS holds the French-language rights to the Scotties, the Brier and the rest of Curling Canada’s Season of Champions. For the Rock League, ICI TOU.TV streams select Thursday and Friday matches. Outside Quebec, RDS is often missing from cable packages, so you may need a lineup that carries it.

How much internet do I need to stream curling?

Budget 8 to 12 Mbps per screen for HD, 15 to 20 Mbps for Full HD and 25 to 40 Mbps for 4K. Steady speed matters more than peak speed, so a wired connection to the main television helps most. If you have a data cap, allow about 4.5 GB an hour for HD.

Ready for the first stone

Curling in Canada is two seasons sharing one winter. The Slams run on Sportsnet and CBC through the autumn, then the Scotties, the Brier and the worlds run on TSN and RDS from February. Most frustration comes from having one side and not the other, or the right network on the wrong feed.

The first Slam starts in Victoria on October 13, so there is time to test before it matters. Take the free trial during an evening draw, check the channel lineup for the feeds you need, and look at the plans and prices when you have decided. If it cannot be made to work on your setup, the refund policy gives you seven days to get your money back.