Vancouver's Dark Side- sketchy Hastings Street - Night walk on November 5 2022
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- Hi walkers, this is a night walk video in Vancouver that I filmed while in the area of Main street and East Hastings Street. My walk around the area took me through the east Hastings that was lined with tent encampments.
This area had Canada's first "safe injection site" and has a history riddled with drug issues and homelessness.
Just two blocks away is an area called Gastown, which is a tourist attraction. I took this Vancouver walk through Hastings Street and down into parts of Gastown before passing back through Hastings one last time.
Thanks for watching!
I grew up in Vancouver, and have been living in Calgary for 20 years. As bad as this video looks my heart has always stayed in Vancouver, it's still the best city ever and I miss it everyday. ❤️👊🍻 Thanks for this video.
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I've kind of given up on Vancouver. It was amazing before, now the crime, drugs, insane cost of living....the mountains and ocean is nice, but doesn't make up for all the problems there now...I wanted to one day move back there. Now trying to figure out what I want to eventually do and where I want to eventually live....I hope Calgary has been good to you!
To be true it's hard to recognise the city now as I can 👀 see .Back in decades it wasn't like this it is dirty,footpaths have encroachment,a lot of homeless ppl...to be candid it's a bit unrecognisable. What a drastic change 💔
THANKYOU for rekindling MEMORIES 🚶👨❤️👨
You're welcome thx for watching! Unfortunately yes, it seems to always be getting worse
Vancouver usto be such a beautiful city with the neon lights and great shopping centre… gone and destroyed forever
Unfortunately it seems that way. All of this is spreading out to different areas in Vancouver....
:) THANKS MUCH for sharing! My old neighbourhood, so drasticly changed from the 70's :( ALL the BEST!
Yes it's changed, but unfortunately not for the better :( I don't see things ever improving at this point. It's gone past the point of no return as it's spreading to different areas
As your walking down Main towards Hastings, @1:04, you see across the street an Owl Drugs. A couple of decades ago, I lived above there on the 5th floor, right on the corner in a two bedroom suite for a couple of years. It was a great apartment, big with lots of windows facing south and east and I was sharing the already low rent with a friend because the owner of the suite was a good friend of my mothers who wanted someone he knew to live there and since he already owned the apartment outright, I got a killer deal. It was central to most of the places I usually went to and was on 2 major transit routes at the time but now, there's also the Canada Line nearby. It had all the things I needed nearby like convenience stores and groceries. The biggest drawback was that even with the windows closed, it was noisy because of traffic.
@Mr. Tibs You would assume correctly.
Now theres definitely poo
Glad you have some good memories of your time living there. Unfortunately things have taken a turn for the worse:(
also gang and block territory on certain streets which sell block work
It's gotten worse growing up in east side Vancouver visiting the city every now and then I'm actually afraid to go back now especially with the increase of stabbings
Yes it's definitely taken a turn for the worse
THE PROVINCE NEWSPAPER - October 6, 2023 - in Greater Vancouver our population is around 2.5+ Million people ,
but now with the lock downs in the last 3+ years , we have close to 5000 people homeless , 94 are parents sleeping
outside with their children and 141 are Military Veterans or former Police Officers - UN ACCEPTABLE - We have to
stop MASS IMMIGRATION from the 3 rd World Countries - Take Care of the People here = CANADA FIRST
I agree, I don't know why it's so controversial for a people to think a country should look after its own citizens first?!?! Imagine a parent failing to give the necessities of life to their own child and letting them go without essentials and instead paying for someone else's kids. Would that be tolerated?
Thank you.
We visited the city a year ago and walked all the way down Hastings. It's nighmarish with zombie like people, and someone threw a used needle that almost hit us.
Yeah being in that area you have to be careful. You never know who's going to have a drug induced episode
in fact that is the original Old Spaghetti Factory. been there since 1970.
Thanks for the info!
gastown may as well be called ghost town, walked there from cambie and broadway in nov 2023 for lunch at the spagetti factory, three customers at best, very few people roaming the streets shopping, all the old eclectic shops are gone, all politically correct generic tourist crap, as for the stroll down granville or near anywhere for that matter keep your head on a swivel as drug induced psychopaths abound.
How ironic that I’m watching this exactly a year later
Oh wow, it's been a year since I did that walk? Crazy!
My brother got stabbed in that area a few years ago.
I'm sorry to heat that, I hope he's ok
@@MyWalkAround It screwed up his golf swing, but he is otherwise fine.
Sad indeed 😢 thx 4 showing us nonetheless XOXO
We used to drive up snd down looking at them all
I’ve been volunteering down there for fifteen years….it’s poor, it’s dirty and the only time it’s dark is when the sun goes down.
What happens to them during freezing temperatures in winter? Do they go to a shelter?
In 15 years, Has it gotten better or gotten worse? Honest answer please...
Vancouver need to run a tank/ cement roller down there
If you're lucky enough to have a tent ⛺ then life is very,very,very much more cozi. Especially if you lay down cardboard on the floor with a blanket on top then sleep in a sleeping bag 💤💤. Only have one backpack filled with necessities and only shop enough for a day at a time. It's better than being on the concrete that's for sure! 😢
The streets is dirty. Sacred to Walk
Beautyful sight
8 minutes in, has a huge umbrealla. not even raining.
Yeah who knows. He could have bought it on the street
And I also think other neighbourhoods are quite darker, they’re the ones full of the people who deal the drugs, keep this situation going, do nothing to find solution, and a lot of them have the same things going on just behind the walls of luxury towers and homes. And also, that term “tent city”, that’s downplaying the invasiveness of these people.
Late stage capitalism: "The rich do no work and pay no taxes. The middle class do all of the work and pay all of the taxes. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class - keep em showing up to them JOBS." - George Carlin.
seems like there was a very cool daoist temple around the area somewhere. we were last there in the 90's . looks like the street people have mountain bikes now as well as tents.
Not only bikes, many items are also sold on the sidewalk, you'll see them lined out for sale.
They’re not “street people”, they’re drug addict thieves who just set up tents and chop shops because they know there is no law enforcement in the DTES. A lot of these tents are just set up by drug addicts who actually do have homes and places to stay, they just have the tents to do drugs, sell drugs, distribute drugs, have drug parties, sell stolen items and chop up stolen bikes, paint them to hide serial numbers and then exchange them for drugs.
Another reason why the street has become so vile is because of Sarah Blyth and her OPS organization. She has 8 buildings on Hastings alone in this area where she gladly feeds people drugs, gives them needles full of heroin and pipes full of crack and disguises it as an organization that “prevents overdoses”. She would rather keep them addicted to drugs and living like this, if you can even call this “living”, instead of encouraging them to get off drugs and seeking rehab. Outside a lot of her buildings you’ll see people passed out on the sidewalks, or hunched over because of all the heroin they do. She also sets up tents all over the DTES run by drug addicts who distribute drugs where people shoot heroin and do whatever openly and publicly. She even had the audacity to set one up in front of building that houses low income seniors and disabled people, it’s the building seen around 4:40 by the Pennsylvania hotel SRO. And one of the things about the SROs, they allow the drug addicts to do drugs in the building and allow drug paraphernalia to be passed out in them, these are the same SROs the provincial government sends recovering addicts to expecting them to stay clean in such a setting.
One of the companies that was leasing land to her in the Eastside where people could go so drug openly outside cancelled their lease with her, if only the others leasing her buildings would cancel their contracts as well. She is major part of the problem in the Eastside.
I'm not sure who that Sarah person is. Does she work for the city/government?
I like going to new places with you. It's always such an adventure. Thanks so much for all the traveling without moving! : )
I think you do important work for sociology and history.
Barb! How are you? If I remember correctly, you're up in the Algonquin area? How is the snow situation there?
I feel bad for all the businesses who can’t operate due to this.
What kind of mayor allows this to happen to a city?
Just a typical bleeding heart moron with no common sense. Probably has every buzz word in their back pocket ready to use in any answer to a question. Like "safe space", "stigma", and any other BS
This place is becoming a tourist attraction I heard about busses full of Chinese tourists taking pictures of tent city
I have NO PROBLEM with that. None. If these junkies are allowed to fuck up and flood the streets using drugs and leaving shit everywhere and syringes, then take pics. Point your finger at them .I don't care, I've had enough of this crap
Our school band trip to van drove us down here to see it
Hmm... Really it's sad vew. I live in poor country in south east asian. In mycountry many poor people also .. But I never seen homeless on the street like that. They dont have discipline at all. Side walk full the tents by them.. worst😮
Yes it's awful situation. Getting worse and worse. Where do you live?
The so called modern country.
Unfortunately this seems to be happening in the western countries at an alarming rate! And there are people that think this is fine
I don't know what is more dystopian, the people or the city they inhabit....Probably the city because that was made first and these people are the result of that creation.
Yes this is messed up. It's constantly getting worse too!
Shocking! How can this be allowed?
Well this appears to be what the Canadian federal Liberal government wants. Get people addicted, so they can control people. Plus they offer government "safe supply" drugs manufactured by companies that the government pays for,. Howevere there are government people who are "investors" in those companies, so they make a profit off these drug addicts.
ah yes, the steam clock
The shame of Vancouver.
How can they get away with this in city limits ??
Very progressive
I'm getting sick of progressive. Crime and drug addiction is now being held up like a badge of honor, and I'm tired of it all!
@@MyWalkAround Canada from my research could have as of now 1 million homeless or higher based on the reality not all are accounted for. Now in that place to legalize "Fentanyl for minors" they're calling it safer. The biggest flip is MAID to allow drug users - homeless and those experiencing poverty to kill themselves. No country can stand with such brutality against hope and honor.
Why are they all so crouched over?
Heroin users
It's caused by a cut they use to make heroin's effects stronger, I think they call it "tranq"
@@BigScoots1981 no, tranq, a special fentanyl and xylazine blend.
Ist hard to believe that this is true
I wish it wasn't. But it is. And it's spreading and will be throughout Canada eventually with the way this country is going...
The drug addicts and homeless are victims, just like you, of your country's recent policies. Why aren't they given housing instead of street space near a tourist area? You are intentionally being turned against your neighbors by those who created this crisis rather than solving it. Know your enemy.
You’re pretty generous with other people’s money. Why don’t you give them your house?
Always someone else’s fault isn’t it. Is that what you teach your children?
Made houses for homeless they ripped out the plumbing and electrical wireing and sold for scrap ,pretty well destroyed the housing units, in the end they were burnt down and never replaced.
Exactly this! I'm tired of no personal accountability anymore.
Nice👍 wok
Thanks!!!
Looks like Los Angeles my Friends
How bad is LA? Have you been there recently at all?
IT"S ALL GOOD IN THE HOOD!!!!
Good money to be made down there
I bet
Have a first hand look at the effects of SOCIALISM..NDP policies..
Not just them...Liberal "progressives" seem to think this is OK
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Social Inequality at its worst!
That’s ridiculous. There is, and never will be, equality of outcome for everyone. Someone who makes poor decisions and does nothing but use drugs isn’t going to have the same outcome as someone who works hard and makes good decisions. What fantasy are you living in? You should try tuning into reality from time to time.
@@Acemechanicalservices Do you know how much income tax billionaire Jeff Bezos (Amazon) pays? ZERO! But the Canadian gov't gives him money instead!!! Get ur head out ur arse!
So you're blaming Jeff Bezos for drug addicts? I'm sure if he paid more tax all the drug addicts would stop using ... I guess drug addicts are never ever to blame for for using drugs. I guess drunk drivers can use that same excuse?
break out the fire hose
Ken Sim needs to step the hell up like the mayor of Toronto and a couple mayors in BC and clear out the tents and ban tents from being set up on sidewalks. The police need to step up too. The landlords of the low income housing need to step up too and stop allowing this in front of their buildings. There are drug addicts that block entrances with their tents and junk, they block the entire sidewalks, the police do nothing, the landlords do nothing, the mayor does nothing. A city bylaw exists preventing structures from being set up on sidewalks like this, the bylaw also prohibits setting up structures and selling merchandise without a permit. The city isn’t even enforcing its own bylaws. There is too much pandering to the advocate organizations who only defend this going on in the DTES because they just don’t want them in their own neighbourhoods. Some of them advocate for this to continue in the DTES all the while living in Kitsilano or Yaletown and petitioning to prevent the construction of supportive housing in those neighbourhoods. You’ll see them drive up in the DTES in their BMWs and Teslas to protest against the removal of tents all the while signing petitions to keep the supportive housing and centres to help addicts out of “their” neighbourhoods. There is a lot of hypocrisy going on among advocate groups and the city and law enforcement need to ignore those groups.
This !!!!
Won't make any difference now that BC has basically legalized all hardcore drugs for personal use. It's about to get worse
When you take away manufacturing jobs and encourage addictions, this is what you got. In the end, a functional society is based on logic, not bs.
3:27
I think that was her version of singing ...
@@MyWalkAround sounds straight out of a horror movie
They don't appreciate life bestowed by God, killing themselve with drug. How sad
Are the drugs really that good? ...I mean WTF people?!?!
Don't be so heartless. These people are not addicts like in the 70/80/90s. They are people who self-medicate or are simply on the street, due to tauma and mental health that they can't get mental help for in this country. Lost homes due to cost of living and no relatives who will take them in, lost spouses who were the income, etc. Just think - with a bad turn of events in your life - this could end up being you. Never say never.
Give me a break. They lost their homes so they decide to shoot up with the money they have left? Yeah right. I guess everyone who has difficult times has no other alternative than this. Everyone in the world who is struggling is destined to become a junkie huh? I've had it with this crap, it's spreading everywhere and nobody gives a shit. The government seems to want it too. Liberal govmt doesnt want to "stigmatize" them cause that would be mean. It's a damn joke.
And I mean maybe get more and more hostile with are teenagers not even the grown folks could the grown folks really ain't into teenagers trying to have fun but that's the way they have you raised them to be like that
15 times worse now than it ever was!
Yeah its only getting worse as time goes by. Do you live in Vancouver?
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That's got to be the biggest Mega drug cartel in the world
Poor business owners This is didgusting
Kunada
Head down the alley ways if you want to see the real world of drug use ,what are the political fields doing about this absolutely f------ all
stop the BULL SHIT
Noticed you didn't really go into the "dark" areas of the Main/Hastings area and spent most of your time in gastown... Not really that scary dude.
I’m sorry but this makes me so upset, these people need homes, food, a reason to live…but what does our government do, they buy weapons, one missile could feed all of Hastings….that’s sad..what if we went back to being just peace keepers, the world looked up to Canada, now things have changed, more into military, less for the homeless…..Sad 😢
our military needs it 1000000% we have apathetic army BUT that being said there is TONS of other programs ect that are useless an do nothing but waste money. Our prime minister is the prob imo.
100% agree!
Food trucks give them food everyday at no cost to them, along with free clothes and necessities. Government benefits every month are spent on mostly fentanyl. They have more disposable income than people that work. Why would they go to a shelter with rules? You may believe that I a being mean, reality is that this is the governments fault and everyone is being played.
It's all about real estate rising prices, and absurd politic decisions to sell the heart of the city in an unlimited way to mainly Chinese investors.
Pretty sure it has something to do with pharmaceutical companies flooding the market with oxycodines and others,
Hope you're going to get the booster because we're all dying from covid still
@@UnderAlog572 you're nuts. It's all about money.
@@trstquint7114
Right, these are just normal, hard working, law abiding citizens who can’t afford a house. Give me a break. These people couldn’t maintain their lives if an apartment was $50 a month. I think you need to reevaluate who’s nuts here. Why don’t you try acknowledging reality instead of the “muh social justice” trope?
bullshit
Only a normie would think it's sketchy. It's not even bad. Never even seen so much as a fist fight.
Yeah right. Drugs , garbage everywhere, syringes on the street. You're right. Not sketchy at all
Where are you from? Go there and get shot by a dealer or stabbed from some crazy addict
If you think this isn’t sketchy then you haven’t travelled to anywhere else in Canada. This doesn’t look like Canada at all
@@MyWalkAroundgonna look like Kensington Philly in a few years if they don't stop it now
@@canadianstupidgirl2373 I agree. I'm getting sick and tired of this becoming normalized as if it's what we should be welcoming in our society now.
new toerist attraction en for school excursions
I completely agree. Kids should see this to scare the hell out of them so that they never want to try drugs. I swear I'm so sick of all this crap
Dark yes... but if they could just clean the streets up, this city would be really cool
Yes, but "could" doesn't cut it. This is disgusting crap and I'm sick of all this. I'm pretty patient and tolerant but thus is pissing me off now. Junkies and garbage are all tolerated like it's normal and acceptable now. Be honest, do you think this is acceptable?