Kelowna’s North End — breweries, fancy coffee, wine tasting, live music, overdoses — sometimes feels like a city arguing with itself.
Paramedics respond near a North End shelter. The call itself is not the story. The story is how ordinary these moments have become alongside breweries, coffee shops, warehouses and daily life.
A few weeks ago I was housed. Now I’m carrying most of what I own in reusable bags, trying to figure out bathrooms, bus schedules, insulin supplies, charging cables, where to sit without being moved along, and whether I can …
