2015 Tim Hortons Brier
| 2015 Tim Hortons Brier | |
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| Host city | Calgary, Alberta |
| Arena | Scotiabank Saddledome |
| Dates | February 28 – March 8 |
| Attendance | 151,835 |
| Winner |  Canada |
| Curling club | Glencoe CC, Calgary |
| Skip | Pat Simmons |
| Third | John Morris |
| Second | Carter Rycroft |
| Lead | Nolan Thiessen |
| Alternate | Tom Sallows |
| Coach | Earle Morris |
| Finalist |
 Northern Ontario (Brad Jacobs) |
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The 2015 Tim Hortons Brier was held from February 28 to March 8 at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The winners earn the honour of representing Canada at the 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Halifax.
For the first time, the event was expanded to include an entry from Nunavut, which has previously not participated in the Brier. Another notable change is having separate entries for the Yukon and Northwest Territories, which have historically competed as a single entry.
Starting with the 2015 tournament, the top ten teams automatically qualified to the main tournament, which was a competition between twelve teams as in years past. An eleventh team was the defending champions from the previous Brier who will play as Team Canada. The four remaining unqualified teams played in a pre-qualifying tournament to determine the twelfth team to play in the main tournament.
It was the first time in the history of the Brier that a Team Canada will partake, which essentially allows the defending champions direct re-entry into the event. The skip of the previous year's winning team, Kevin Koe, formed a new team in the off-season and was not be part of Team Canada. Koe won the 2015 Boston Pizza Cup with his new team and represented Alberta at the 2015 Brier. Koe's former teammates recruited John Morris to skip the first ever edition of Team Canada at the Brier. Morris was the runner-up from the previous year.
Similar changes were also implemented for the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, meaning that for the first time the Canadian men's and women's curling championships will be conducted using identical formats. Previous versions of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts differed from the Brier in that they included a Team Canada entry, but did not include a separate entry from Northern Ontario.
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