Spending the last five years using a wheelchair has given former Humboldt Broncos hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki a new path forward.
The 23-year-old from Airdrie, Alta., says so many times friends and family have had to carry his chair up stairs, wheel him down sketchy ramps and find other ways to get him around narrow doorways.
So he's studying how to make buildings more accessible for the disabled. "Having lived this experience for five years now and going travelling all over the world and just realizing how inaccessible places are, especially Calgary, where I'm most of the time," he said. "I realized that maybe working toward making things a little more accessible ...
these sorts of problems don't have to be encountered by anyone else." Straschnitzki was paralyzed from the chest down on Apr.