Dispatch

Homeless in Paradise

On the west coast of Canada, between Vancouver and British Columbia’s capital city of Victoria, is Salt Spring Island. In a vast country known for extreme weather, Salt Spring is a weather sanctuary – generally mild winters, little snow and a laid-back lifestyle. But it is experiencing rates of homelessness far higher than nearby cities. Bramwell Ryan takes a closer look.

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Barefoot Blues

The watery bite in the mountainous southern Turkish coast called Goçek Bay is part of the original order of things. The winds of the nearby Middle East tumble in carrying a whiff of Eden. The waters look like a pool of ink dropped between the hills. There are no waves. Instead, the liquid meets the shore, oozing in and out, more like breathing than the rough thump of dumped water.

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Saving Ridley

They are ugly, tough and bred to survive brutal winters, yet somehow the gnarly Ridley Bronze turkey has captured the heart of a retired nurse on Saltspring Island.

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Transplant

Genaille, who lives in Pelican Rapids, a native reserve community 300 kilometres north of Brandon in western Manitoba, doesn’t have a phone. Notification came in the form of her brother, Frank, hollering through Genaille’s bedroom window in the early hours of a sleepy Sunday morning in late July.

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Wild and Free

Laura Reeves is a teacher and practitioner of foraging for wild edibles. Weeds. And this free food is available anywhere across Canada, even in urban centres. She wants to nudge us to start looking in place other than the supermarket to find portions of what we eat.

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Wolves at the Door

For 20 years Jenny Ryon has entered a secret enclosure in the Nova Scotia wilderness, the only place in the world to observe the full life cycle of wild wolves. Her patience is paying off. This is the second in a three part series about the human/animal connection written by Bramwell Ryan for Canadian Living.

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