Tag: Rick Hansen Foundation
Rick Hansen’s new mission: Improving accessibility across Canada
Accessibility activist Rick Hansen has a new poster to show you. One with adjustable text at an eye level so people in wheelchairs can...
Should I say ‘disabled person’ or ‘person with a disability’?
Recently, an Alberta woman with an obvious physical disability was asked to leave a grocery store and not come back because she could not...
UBC researcher prescribes specific exercise dosage for those with spinal cord injury
For decades, the main message to keep the general population healthy was for everyone to get active.
In fact, the World Health Organization laid out...
Rick Hansen: We can all be difference-makers in the world
Thursday, May 22, celebrates the 27th anniversary of the end of the original Man In Motion World Tour. Here, Rick Hansen reminisces on the...
March 6, 1987: Rick Hansen wheels into city hearts
EDMONTON - Rick Hansen’s gruelling worldwide odyssey for spinal-cord research rolled into Edmonton to the cheers of hundreds of flag-waving children and adults.
He rolled...
Helping people with spinal cord injuries
REGINA — Meeting Rick Hansen during his Man in Motion world tour sparked six-year-old Josef Buttigieg’s fascination with biology and set his career course...
Spinal cord researchers to benefit from $20 M investment from Rick Hansen Foundation
Spinal cord injury research at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health will be accelerated by a 10-year, $20 million contribution from...
Building on progress and a vision for spinal cord injuries
Spinal cord injury is one of the world’s major unsolved health-care challenges, affecting not only the individuals who live with it but also their...
Hansen tour hits 25 years
Screams and cheers filled the halls of Rick Hansen Secondary School today as the man for whom the school is named wheeled down the...
Saskatchewan commits $4.3M to spinal injury research
The Government of Saskatchewan is taking a leadership role too, by committing $4.3 million for a Saskatchewan-based initiative, in partnership with the national Rick...
