Welcome to the Rick Hansen Foundation blog! We post regularly on a range of topics and issues in the disability and accessibility community.
Explore past posts to read personal experiences of disability, tips for how to improve accessibility in your community, what you can do to be more inclusive, and more.
According to Statistics Canada, 3.8 million Canadian adu
It's a wrap on the Rio2016 Paralympics! After 12 days of watching these elite para-athletes compete on a global stage, here are our five favourite things about Rio2016.
The Rick Hansen Foundation’s Quality of Life Grant Program helps break down physical barriers to accessibility and provides greater independence and increased self-esteem for thousands of Canadian
Darryl Tait has always been an athlete and extreme sports enthusiast. Fresh out of high school, he was pursuing a career in freestyle snowmobiling with the goal of competing in the X Games.
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Imagine not being able to work because you can’t enter an office building, use a standard desk, or see or read a computer screen.
If you own or operate a business, chances are you’ve tried different ways to attract more customers and increase your sales.
As people with obvious physical disabilities, we grew up rarely seeing ourselves represented accurately in pop culture.
