This First Person column is written by Dylan Earis, a graduate of the University of Regina’s school of journalism. For more information about First Person stories, see the FAQ. I recently moved …
Canada’s Mel Pemble won her second medal of the 2024 Para Track Cycling World Championships in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, bagging bronze in the women’s C3 omnium. The 23-year-old from …
This column is an opinion by John Loeppky, a disabled artist and freelance writer/editor in Saskatoon. It’s part of a series called Taking a Sitting Stand about disability issues. You can …
WestJet chief executive officer Alexis von Hoensbroech apologized Thursday for incidents where the airline failed to accommodate people living with disabilities, saying he hopes to improve travel accessibility. “To our guests who didn’t have …
Lawmakers took Air Canada’s CEO to task on Monday over “shocking” and “scandalous” failures to accommodate passengers living with disabilities. At a House of Commons committee hearing on services for …
Warning: This story contains graphic images of an injury. A passenger who landed at Vancouver International Airport says he almost lost his foot to a septic injury after he was …
Air Canada says it’s apologizing and making a number of changes internally to improve the way it treats passengers with disabilities after several high-profile incidents — including one involving a passenger who had …
Air Canada has issued an apology to a man who uses a wheelchair, saying it violated Canadian disability regulations when he was forced to drag himself off a flight because …
Among Paralympic sports, boccia is one of a kind. Some have compared it to curling. Others have likened it to lawn bowling. But there is no true able-bodied equivalent to …