Canadian Tire Centre (French: "Centre Canadian Tire" ) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located in the western suburb of Kanata.
 It opened in January 1996 as The Palladium and was also known as Corel Centre from 1996 to 2006 and Scotiabank Place from 2006 to 2013.
Cheryl Bernard (born June 30, 1966) is a retired Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.
 She represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the team's skip, winning the silver medal in women's curling after falling to Sweden in the final.
 Her first major tournament win came at the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Edmonton, Alberta.
The Horizon Laser Vision Center Curling Classic was an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that took place at the Tartan Curling Club in Regina, Saskatchewan.
 The tournament, started in 2009, and was held in a round-robin format with twenty-four teams.
 The tournament was sponsored by the Horizon Laser Vision Center (sic), a local eye care centre.
 It was a part of the Canadian Team Ranking System, which dealt with qualification to the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials.
The qualification event for the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, known and advertised as the Capital One Road to the Roar, will be held from November 5 to 10 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex in Kitchener, Ontario.
 The Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex, colloquially known as "The Aud," has previously been host to major curling events, most recently the 2003 Scott Tournament of Hearts.
 The top two finishers of the men's and women's events will qualify to participate in the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials.
The 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials will be held from December 2 to 10 at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.
 The event is also known and advertised as the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings.
 The winners of the men's and women's events were chosen to represent Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
The Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, known as the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings since 2005 for sponsorship reasons, occur every four years, in the year preceding the Winter Olympic Games.
 They are held to determine the men's and women's representatives at the next year's Olympic Games.
 The system of qualification for the Curling Trials varies for each event, and can be quite complicated.
 One main reason for an Olympic qualifying event apart from the national championships (The Brier and the Scotties) is that provincial residency rules do not apply to the Olympic team.
 Curling was added to the Olympic programme in 1998, and a Canadian Olympic Trials have been held the year prior since 1997.
The Red Deer Curling Classic (formerly the Meyers Norris Penny Men's Cashspiel and The Community Savings Ladies Classic) is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the Red Deer Curling Centre in Red Deer, Alberta.
 The tournament is held in a triple-knockout format.
 The men's tournament, started in 1998, and the women's tournament, started in 2004, are both part of the World Curling Tour and have both been held every year since.
 Curlers from Alberta have dominated the event on both sides since its inception.
 The event counts toward the Canadian Team Ranking System, which hands out points based on performances at CTRS events and deals with qualification to the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials.
The Capital One Canada Cup of Curling is a major men's and women's curling championship in Canada.
 It is organized by the Canadian Curling Association and is one of its major events on its "Season of Champions".
 The event is sometimes used as a qualifier for the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials and the Continental Cup.
The Players' Championship is one of the final events on the World Curling Tour (WCT) and is a part of the Grand Slam of Curling.
 From 2007 to 2009, it was a qualifying tournament for the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, and had barred foreign teams from entering (unlike the other Slams).
The Cloverdale Cash Spiel is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament on the men's and women's World Curling Tour, that takes place at the Cloverdale Curling Club in Cloverdale, British Columbia (in Surrey).
 The tournament is held in a round-robin format.
 The tournament was established in 2011 as one of the first events of the season.
 The event counts toward the Canadian Team Ranking System, which hands out points based on performances at CTRS events and deals with qualification to the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials.

Question: When did the arena that hosted the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials open?
Answer: January 1996