Manitoba while additionally in the top 3 women's national champions, as well as multiple world champions in the sport. The province also hosts the world's largest curling tournament in the MCA Bonspiel. The province is regular host to Grand Slam events which feature as the largest cash events in the sport such as the annual Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic as well as other rotating events. Though not as prominent as hockey and curling, long track speed skating also features as a notable and top winter sport in Manitoba. The province has produced some of the world's best female speed skaters
A Winter Book the book. Stories in "A Winter Book" include "Squirrel", in which a woman's isolated life on an island is shared for a time with a squirrel, and the last story, "Taking Leave", in which two women realise that they have become too frail to spend their summers on the island they love. "A Winter Book" is arranged in three sections, "Snow", "Flotsam and Jetsam" and "Travelling Light". Introduction by Ali Smith Snow Flotsam and Jetsam Travelling Light Afterword by Phillip Pullman A Winter Book A Winter Book is a collection of twenty short stories by Finnish author Tove Jansson, published