Push (2023)

How it feels

A Canadian documentary series follows a group of wheelchair users in Edmonton who are close friends. It shows their lives, relationships, careers, and personal challenges.

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What happens

Push is a Canadian television documentary series which premiered on February 24, 2023, on CBC Television. The series profiles the "Wheelie Peeps", a group of wheelchair users in Edmonton, Alberta, who have come together as a circle of friends around Benveet Gill, the co-founder of the city's ReYu Paralysis Recovery Centre. The cast members of the show include Paralympian Brian McPherson, a sledge hockey player, and his girlfriend Victoria Berezovich, an advocate for Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease awareness; Natasha Urkow, a quadriplegic playwright and actress who is navigating the complications of pregnancy; Brittany Neunzig, a teacher who makes disability awareness videos for YouTube; Aleem Jaffer, an employment readiness consultant who is newly married to his husband Nick; and Riccardo Baldini, a concert pianist relearning to play adaptively after a spinal cord injury. Cast member Brian McPherson died on November 12, 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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