The 2017 Recharge With Milk Men's Tankard, better known as the Ontario Tankard was the 2017 edition of the Ontario men's provincial curling championship to determine who will represent the province of Ontario at the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier, the national curling championship of Canada.
[1] Ten teams[2] played a round robin competition, followed by a page playoff to determine the tournament champion.
A 54 year old Glenn Howard led his team to win his 17th career provincial championship, qualifying himself for a record 17th Brier.
The top two southern Ontario teams in the CTRS standings (as of December 4[4]) will also qualify.
The provincial qualifiers are preceded by four regional qualifiers in which at least three teams qualify for the provincial qualifiers, plus the teams ranked 3-10 on the CTRS standings[5] December 17–18, at the RCMP Curling Club, Ottawa Teams entered:[6] Brackets:[7] December 17, at the Oakville Curling Club, Oakville Teams entered:[8] Brackets:[9] December 17–18, at the Barrie Curling Club, Barrie Teams entered:[10] Brackets:[11] December 17–18, at the Chatham Granite Club, Chatham Teams entered:[12] Brackets:[13] January 7–8, RCMP Curling Club, Ottawa CTRS qualified teams: Brackets:[14] January 7–8, Niagara Falls Curling Club, Niagara Falls CTRS qualified teams: Brackets:[15] January 20–22, Midland Curling Club, Midland New teams: Brackets:[16]