‘Feeling bionic!’ Disabled take big steps forward with Surrey’s robotic walker

It’s been 27 years since the car crash that profoundly changed Stephanie Cadieux’s life.
The Liberal MLA and former cabinet minister was a passenger in a pickup truck that rolled off a highway near Bellingham, Wash.
Cadieux, just 18 at the time, woke up in hospital, unable to move.
“I was ejected from the vehicle, broke my neck and was completely paralyzed at first,” she recalled. “It was the start of a long journey back.”
The journey included a halo brace to