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It started as a childhood game. Once you learn to notice something, you begin seeing it everywhere.

When I was a kid, my mom and I played Punch Buggy. The rules were simple. Whoever spotted a Volkswagen Beetle first got to call it out. “Punch Buggy!” Before long, it seemed like Beetles were everywhere. Of course they …

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Editorial photo illustration depicting a hospital discharge: medication, water, and a transit ticket in the foreground while a wheelchair user waits outside the emergency department.

At 4:42 a.m., I called 911. By that point, my regular medications had stopped controlling the pain. It had become so severe that simply getting from my bed to the shelter door was an ordeal. Every push on my manual …

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Kelowna General Hospital emergency entrance on the night I was hospitalized during the final stages of displacement, exhaustion, dehydration, and ongoing legal and housing instability in Kelowna, B.C

Since My Last Post, I Lost My Housing, Ended Up in Hospital, and Still Do Not Know What Comes Next By Randy Millis When I published my previous article on May 11, 2026, I still believed there might be enough …

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