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 A Winter Book A Winter Book is a collection of twenty short stories by Finnish author Tove Jansson, published by Sort Of Books in 2006. The stories, some of which had not previously been published in English, were selected by Ali Smith, who also wrote the book's introduction and had previously reviewed "The Summer Book" for "The Guardian". Thirteen of them are from Jansson's first book for adults, "Sculptor's Daughter" (1968), and the remaining seven are from four of her other works. Five were included in her 1998 Swedish language collection "Messages" ("Meddelande"), including the title piece, a partially fictionalised