CALGARY - It’s been a while since Ryan Straschnitzki looked at the world from a different perspective. The former Humboldt Broncos player, paralyzed from the chest down in the 2018 bus crash that ...

Normand Meunier, a 66-year-old quadriplegic, chose to legally end his life following what his wife called a “horrible” emergency room stay that left him with a severe bedsore wound that ...

A quadriplegic man chose to legally end his life following a “horrible” emergency room stay that left him with a severe bedsore. Now, Canadian authorities are investigating his death.

2:12 Another family raises concerns about Community Living BC Donna Smith felt defeated and deflated each time she tried to secure accessibility equipment for her quadriplegic sister. Smith is a ...

Over on Quora, people with quadriplegia (a form of paralysis that affects all four limbs and the body from the neck down) are bravely sharing their experiences.It's an important conversation that ...

While cell therapy holds great promise for spinal cord injury, several challenges remain. “Most of the challenges are pretty common. More specifically on spinal cord injury, I think what makes it ...

Pretty privilege is more slippery than other forms of privilege because perceptions of beauty are so subjective. Just because we perceive someone as pretty doesn’t mean they have pretty privilege. And ...

After a diving accident on Clear Lake on her 30th birthday, Jessica Olsen was quadriplegic. A year later, she has found a love of art. ... "The first month was pretty rough," Olsen said.

W hen you’re young, you come to know quite quickly who’s pretty and who isn’t. If you’re pretty, people will tell you often and upfront. And if prettiness isn’t your overwhelmingly ...

T he other week, my four-year-old daughter and I were going to her swimming lessons, when a man came up to us in the gym and exclaimed: “What pretty girls!” “Mama, what did he say?” my ...