{"id":50236,"date":"2021-04-05T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=50236"},"modified":"2021-04-05T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:56:53","slug":"making-communities-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/making-communities-more-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Making communities more accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the Rick Hansen Foundation thinks can be done so people with disabilities can reach their full\u00a0potential.\u00a0Hans Egger and Kim Egger, representatives from the Rick Hansen Foundation spoke with CIVL and explained how the environment that we live in can be more inclusive to individuals living with\u00a0disabilities.\u00a0Mr. Egger says that 1 in 5 Canadians are currently living with a\u00a0disability.\u00a0He continues to say that those Canadians struggle to access places that we work, learn, and\u00a0play.\u00a0Mr. Egger says that an accessible built environment benefits everyone including adults, small kids, parents with strollers, older adults, and people with temporary or permanent\u00a0disabilities.\u00a0Mr. Egger says that the Rick Hansen Foundation has a mission to deliver innovative solutions that can lead to a global movement to remove barriers and enable people with disabilities to meet\u00a0their\u00a0full potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the Rick Hansen Foundation thinks can be done so people with disabilities can reach their full\u00a0potential.\u00a0Hans Egger and Kim Egger, representatives from the Rick Hansen Foundation spoke with CIVL and explained how the environment that we live in can be more inclusive to individuals living with\u00a0disabilities.\u00a0Mr. Egger says that 1 in 5 Canadians are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":50238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221,222],"tags":[6543,7787,7786],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50236"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=50236"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=50236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}