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Sherry Anderson admits she had some bubble trouble at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
The skip of Saskatchewan’s entry at the Canadian women’s curling championship told the Greg Morgan Morning Show on Monday that life in the Calgary bubble was challenging, especially at the start of the nine-day tournament.
“I don’t know about affecting the play, but it affected people mentally for sure,” Anderson said. “When you’re sitting in your hotel room for a long day and your big outing is to go get a COVID test and have the stick shoved up your nose, that’s pretty bad. You know it’s sad when that’s your excitement for the day.
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Ontario’s Rachel Homan is headed to the final at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
The three-time Canadian women’s curling champion finished first in the championship pool at the 2021 Scotties in Calgary to clinch her spot in Sunday’s final.
She’ll face the winner of Sunday’s semifinal.
That afternoon contest will pit Kerri Einarson’s Team Canada against the winner of Sunday morning’s tiebreaker between Alberta’s Laura Walker and Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones.
Homan and Einarson finished tied after championship pool action with 10-2 records, but Homan earned first place due to her victory over Einarson in the round-robin portion of the tournament.
Saskatchewan's Sherry Anderson lost her opening game in the championship pool at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts on Friday. Anderson's team from the.
Unsurprisingly, nearly all the questions in question period from the opposition New Democratic Party focused on the government’s response to COVID-19. New Democratic Party Leader Ryan Meili repeatedly asked for additional funds for a variety of different groups, from schools to more staffing for long-term care, to additional testing. He also pushed the government to do more to control the spread of COVID-19. Layoffs at Regina’s EVRAZ steel mill in excess of 500 were another source of questions. Towards the end of the session, Meili pointed out that if the government had followed the NDP’s idea of a three-week “circuit breaker,” which the NDP suggested three weeks ago, COVID-19 number may not have gotten so bad.