JOHN MORRIS, KAITLYN LAWES, AL CAMERON

By Marty Hastings

Milano Cortina 2026

Team Canada media attaché Cameron to work fifth Olympic Games

Jan 21, 2026 | 5:32 PM

KAMLOOPS — Kamloops resident Al Cameron shared a video of his walk with John Morris and Kaitlyn Lawes following their gold-medal victory in mixed doubles curling at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in South Korea. 

He celebrated with them while they exhaled and reveled in one of the greatest accomplishments of their lives, a victory that brought joy to a country. 

In the clip, Morris makes it clear Cameron is invited to imbibe with his Canadian teammates. 

“Those kinds of experiences stand out,” Cameron said. “And being able to wear this jacket on the world stage is pretty cool.” 

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The Milano Cortina Games next month in northern Italy will mark Cameron’s fourth Olympics working as a curling media attaché for Team Canada.  

His job requirements include helping team members deal with media and arranging interviews with journalists from across the world. 

The duties are similar to what he performs in his fulltime gig working as media relations and communications director for Curling Canada, but there is at least one notable difference. 

“I’m allowed to cheer,” Cameron said. “When I’m at a Montana’s Brier or a Scotties, I’m there working on behalf of Curling Canada and wishing every team equal success. When I’m at an Olympics or world championship, I’ve got a horse in the race and I’m cheering hard and living and dying with every shot.” 

Cameron, 60, has worn many hats in his media career. 

The Cariboo College graduate was a journalist for 26 years, including five as sports editor for the Kamloops Daily News. He covered curling at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics for the Calgary Herald. 

“As many people may recall, Cheryl Bernard had two shots to win the gold medal at those Games and missed them both,” Cameron said. “A piece of me was ripped out because I was inwardly cheering for them, but the grace and poise of that team in defeat when they were addressing the media is such a vivid example of what makes Canadian curling so great.” 

The curling events in 2026 will take place in Cortina d’Ampezzo, a mountain town in the Italian Dolomites. 

“I think back to the four Games I’ve been to and none of them has been in a traditional winter city,” Cameron said. “In Vancouver, it was raining all the time. I was staying in Richmond. In Sochi, we were walking around in shorts all day. There were palm trees. We were in an Oceanside resort town in South Korea and Beijing was misery because it was Covid and we were locked up in hotels and couldn’t walk around the city. Cortina is going to be exciting. I’m really looking forward to being in that kind of winter vibe in a city with so much Olympic history.” 

Rachel Homan and Brad Jacobs will represent Canada in women’s and men’s action, respectively. Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman will don the Maple Leaf in mixed doubles. 

“We do have to kind of readjust how we think about Canadian curling,” Cameron said. “It’s not a given that we’re going to win anymore. Let’s aim for podiums and let’s celebrate those successes and let’s hear those cheers.”