CALGARY—Behind his face mask, sweat glistening on his forehead, Ryan Straschnitzki was smiling. The 22-year-old, paralyzed from the chest down when a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team crashed in 2018, had accomplished another milestone in his long recovery. He stood up. He needed a walker to help him, and his arms were shaky from the effort, but after three-plus years he was seeing the world from a different—and higher—perspective. “Sitting down here you kind of look up at everyone. You forget how tall you are,” he laughed. “I’m pretty happy … but again not really satisfied. I know I’ve got a lot more to give, and I know next session’s going to be even harder. It’s really humbling to see the progress that I’ve made but I’ve got a long way to go.” Straschnitzki has been working with a team from the Synaptic Neuro Rehabilitation Centre in …