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The wheelchair tennis player from the rural village of Vhuri Vhuri in Limpopo has opened up an NGO called Wheels life changer and he talks to Eyewitness News about the change he hopes to invoke…

White Coat Black Art26:30Aging out of pediatric careFor the past 21 years, Marcy White has been fighting to keep her son Jacob Trossman alive — and that fight recently got a lot harder.Jacob has Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease (PMD), an…

Wheelchair mixed doubles curling added to the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games is music to the ears of Karen O'Neill.The CEO of the Canadian Paralympic Committee says that addition plays to the country's strength in the sport.Since four-person…

Rob Shaw learned tennis growing up in North Bay, Ont., and has now made the finals of three major tournaments while in a wheelchair.Most recently, Shaw and his doubles partner, Heath Davidson, reached the finals at Wimbledon.Shaw told CBC's…

Back in September 2020, 11-year-old Samir Touati looked set for a bright future. A keen student, he’d just got into a competitive secondary school and was the kind of youngster who enjoyed zooming around on his bike or playing with friends…

WIMBLEDON, England - Tokito Oda became the youngest man to win a Wimbledon singles title in any discipline after defeating Alfie Hewett in the men's wheelchair final on Sunday. The 17-year-old Japanese…

Canada needed each of Cindy Ouellet's game-high 35 points for its fifth-place finish at the wheelchair basketball world championships.The 34-year-old point guard's layup with 34.2 seconds left in regulation put her team ahead for good in a…

Like Canada's men before them, the women secured their spot in the fifth-place match at the wheelchair basketball world championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.Led by Arinn Young, Canada built a 15-point lead by halftime and played…

Patrick Anderson clearly didn't like how he or the Canadian men's wheelchair basketball team was faring against Australia, so he decided to let his play do the talking.Canada had been outscored 17-9 in the second quarter of Saturday's 5-8…

The Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team advanced to the quarterfinals at the world championships with a 54-50 win over China on Friday in Dubai.Cindy Ouellet of Quebec City and Kady Dandeneau of Pender Island, B.C., led the way with…