SOMEWHERE ACROSS THIS GREAT LAND, SOMEONE OR SOMETHING GREAT IS JUST GETTING STARTED. THIS COUNTRY IS BUILT ON GAME-CHANGING PEOPLE, IDEAS AND INITIATIVES: WAYNE GRETZKY REDEFINED A GAME; OIL SANDS INNOVATIONS HELPED US PROSPER; FREDERICK BANTING TRANSFORMED MILLIONS OF LIVES; LOBLAWS CHANGED HOW WE LIVE. TODAY, WE LAUNCH A NEW NATIONAL POST SERIES THAT CELEBRATES CANADIAN GREATNESS, IN WHATEVER FORM WE FIND IT._

My editor informs me, between snaps of the whip, that our series on Canadian greatness will be asking readers to imagine the heroes-to-be that may be attending kindergarten now — including the “next Wayne Gretzky.” Imagination isn’t one of my strongest qualities: I wonder what a “next Wayne Gretzky” would even look like, what kind of phenomenon that would be.

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