‘I find moments of joy in each day,’ says junior Cabinet Minister Fletcher

Steven Fletcher had three choices after he was paralysed. He chose to live.

OTTAWA—When Steven Fletcher hit a moose while driving on Highway 304 near Manigotagan, Man., on Jan. 11, 1996, leaving him paralysed from the neck down, he later decided in the hospital that he had three options. He could figure out how to die, he could live in despair, or he could try and ...

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