Push is a Canadian television documentary series which premiered on February 24, 2023, on CBC Television."New CBC Show ‘PUSH’ Is Canada’s First Major-Network Primetime Series Featuring Leading Cast With Disabilities". Entertainment Tonight Canada, February 9, 2023. 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.Savannah Parker, "Edmontonians on wheels featured in CBC docuseries PUSH". Edmonton Journal, February 28, 2023.
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.
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