Ontario wheelchair basketball player Eric Voss has grown up with the Canada Winter Games. Once an introverted boy with spina bifida, Voss’s star began to emerge as a 15-year-old at the 2011 Games in Halifax. After competing in Grand Prairie in 2015, Voss is now entrenched as a leader on the Ontario Under-24 wheelchair basketball team in these, his third Canada Games.

This morning, at Hawthorne Elementary School in Delta BC, 470 children welcomed two-time Olympic medalist, five-time overall World Champion and Canada Games alumna Jennifer Heil to their school assembly for the national kick-off of the Canada Games Activity Challenge: a Canada 150 signature project.

If Hollywood is looking to cast a new Catniss Everdeen in a Hunger Games remake, they might want to call on Kirsten Arsenault.