@@Nickh4929 it sure is, a gentrified and racially separated city with drug addicts camped all over downtown, and out of control home prices due to speculation and flipping and influx of foreign money, mostly Chinese since the early 90's
We drove 4000 km all over Italy. We literally didn't see any of this. NO public drunkenness, drug use, drugged out people, garbage strewn... I smelled pot once there. 35 days, 4000 km + in Italy. Canada is collapsing. It's becoming unliveable.
Im from Poland, i live in big city for our estimation and last time i saw homless in last autumn. This is totally insane. What about normal peoples who paying taxes, run business in here ?? What about children who seeing this everyday and eldery too, who can`t fell safe. No discipline from goverment, free drugs, free food from volunteer and it`s getting only worse
Its an area people avoid, there’s nothing there an except what you see, nobody cares. People pretend they care about the strife of Palestinians, Ukrainians etc., while this is right under their nose.
I was raised right on east hastings street in a complex. Every morning before elementary school there would be someone doing dope at the bottom of the stairs that i'd have to walk by and avoid the needles. It became pretty normal.
It's always been there. Grew up in the burbs and when we got our drivers license ( this was 25 years ago) we would drive down to "the pain" we would call it. Horror block. Now the pain has grown to take over the whole city.... I was down there in Nov23 Couldn't believe how many vaca storefronts with for lease signs. The pain is the canary in the cole mine... Foreshadowing the poverty that is looming for us all under these fiscally corrupt govs.
Vancouver , BC where I lived since 1972 - I used to work underground mining for 8+ months and then take the summer off and play golf and have fun - Our weather is among the best in Canada - not to Hot in the summer but lots of rain in the winter - We have a huge homeless population of around 5000 as housing and rent is off the charts - 1 bedroom is $2000 if you can find one ? Western Canada we have all this vacant land - build more roads and railways to the Far North - then more infrastructure with more town and cities to follow - We are so huge we could house and feed 1 Billion People but first we need new Leadership = MAKE CANADA GREAT AGAIN !
garbage homeless is because of drugs and alcohol which could and should have been dealt with by arresting, charging and sending to jail to help them get a start at life instead of encouraging this. Stop making excuses this is a choice and it should be handled as such the time in jail will give them time to think about getting things right
Uh, “America”??? I think you are referring to USA? “America “ , in particular North America, is made up of 3 countries. Canada, Mexico and United States of America.
@@howardbutler4878 Well Mr Grammer perfect, besides complaining about someones comment that was pretty obvious on the meaning, what is your solution to this horrible mess on the streets in Vancouver???? Answer this or slick away like a limp dick.
Western countries never show their bad side, 100 time worse than Asian commi China N Korea Cuba combined. Yes some them live great live at expense tax money and plundered other resources and loans 10 trillion dollar from Asian communist countries. Hah.
Not sure what it is you folks are expecting. Give these people money? They spend it on drugs! It’s not a poverty issue, it’s a drug issue. We need to take a careful look at our penalties for drug dealing!!
What gets me......is the FACT they receive disability because they cannot work and spend all of it on drugs. That is tax payers dollars that tax payers have no say over because the governments don't want us to have a say over it. It is HIGH time we all stopped doing our taxes to send a message out to the real criminals of the state of our streets.....EBY in BC, SINGH and TRUDEAU for all of Canada's streets looking like this.
The nostalgia of the Canada that I grew up in in the 80s and 90s hits hard when walking down the streets of today. 38 years of life, the degradation has occurred in the last nine years is astonishing. The safe, clean streets of my childhood, are long gone. Tents are popping up everywhere, more Canadians use the food banks than ever before, our housing is unaffordable, yet we have millions to send over in foreign aid when our streets look worse than theirs. Those who believe that Justin and the liberal party have been good to us are delusional. It’s time to vote them out. Enough is enough.
Canada is broken from top to bottom. East Hastings is but one aspect. The whole country requires an overhaul. I hope when Pierre takes over in 2025, he does what he promises. Even if it's 50% of what he promises, it will be an improvement.
@@nobrainsnoheadache2434 So, the carbon tax was a decrease with the rebate? And... the government simultaneously eliminated several tax credits including the children’s fitness tax credit, children’s arts tax credit, public transit tax credits, education and textbook tax credits, and the income-splitting tax credit for couples with young children. While eliminating these tax credits helps simplify the tax system, which is good, it also acts to increase personal income taxes for Canadian families. A recent study compared the savings from the lower personal income tax rate against the loss of these tax credits based on a model provided by Statistics Canada. The primary finding was that the elimination of these tax credits resulted in higher personal income taxes for most Canadian families. In fact, when you compare the value of the government’s tax rate reduction with the loss of tax credits (between 2015 and 2019), 86 per cent of middle-class families (with household incomes between $84,625 and $118,007) experienced an increase in their federal personal income tax burden. In other words, nearly nine in 10 middle-class families now pay more-in fact, the average federal income tax increase for this group of middle-income families was $800 annually. Now I'll go give that rebate pittance to PP.
Let's send a few more hundred million dollars to Ukraine and Israel , GOD knows we don't need it here at home , come on in illegal immigrants ,free room & board , just ignore OUR down & out Citizens .
About a decade ago i heard the figure of a $ million a day is spent by govts in the DTES . Clearly throwing money at the problem hasn't solved anything@@dorianmode69
Aaah may I remind you this mess has existed for decades and all levels of governments share equal blame for their mismanagement . So do you have anything positive to say or do you just fall back on useless talking points?
the DTES was a horror show when I moved to Vancouver in 1986. Trudeau was nowhere to be seen at that time. this is nothing to do with him and everything to do with people flocking toi Vancouver because it's the most pleasant city in Canada weather wise and also a scenic place on the ocean
Canada currently doesn't have an active government we're under the control of an Organized Crime Liberalndp regime, stealing millions daily. They have done this to Canada.
@@ashwinters9315 maybe, but at least he needs a try. Something has to change. I mean good lord, the system obviously isn't working like it is. JT has done one thing perfectly though, he's created a lot of conservative loyalists. That's one thing he can claim.
There is a conservative opinion, from our GOP friends south of the border, that may be more appetizing to you. These poor people may actually be worth something suddenly, too. Cannibalism. Imagine the freedom. Idaho, politician, cannibalism. Google it.
husband speaking age 81, I'm glad I am old enough to have walked around Vancouver, Canada years ago when it was nice and clean and was a city you would want to visit. I live in Wash. State just across the boarder and going up to Canada was a great weekend vacation..
The lower east side of Vancouver (East Hastings, downtown east side) is the original "skid row". It's been bad for decades, but it's hit peak insanity over the last 2 years.
It's also spreading more and more. I'm in Pitt Meadows, which is a pretty chill little spot, but in Maple Ridge, specifically Haney, it's getting closer and closer to the Vancouver downtown east side. Coquitlam Center and Lougheed Mall are also getting pretty sketchy. The numbers are lower, but the behavior of the street folk is getting more and more unhinged. I've chatted with some homeless people in my area and they said Haney is very dangerous now. Homeless get killed often out here. About 150 meters from my house a dead body was found in a ditch, that was several months ago.
I remember when it use to be only east hastings street that was bad.. now its all over Vancouver, and Vancouver island looks like east hastings did.. its disgusting
This Tranq is horrible , I saw this come out first watching Kensington PA videos.. I'm born and raised in Vancouver, I am 50 yrs old. I was an addict I am Clean Sober 14 yrs coming up in August. I wasn't a Downer , but spd and crk and Booze ... always at the Bars downtown, Cambie, the Ivanhoe, Old American etc drinking then head to the dtes to get high and " straighten up" yeah right more like spend all my money on stupid shit , then when I'd sober up I'd be mad at myself and repeat. I'm glad I forgave Myself finally after 20 years wasted using here and there loosing out on my kid growing up , Forgiveness ,WOW that did a lot 100%
Just like the US, I'm scared. Sooo many people have been homeless, what's going on? Have cousins in Canada, one of my cousins are not happy with the healthcare system, but this.....
homeless is not the issue. it is an issue, but not for these zombies. many of these people have tax payer funded places, I know, I've been unfortunate enough go into many of them. shit on the floor, blood smeared on the walls, completely trashed even the places that were just built, used needles everywhere, stolen bikes etc etc. fentanyl and meth, cheap and readily available, that is the problem. the ports and police have been looking the other way for decades, and our courts and laws are far too permissive. there has to be help yes, but also accountability, and if you can't be accountable, you need to be separated from society
The Vancouver East Side has been awful for decades and only getting worse with harm reduction strategies and good hearted counsellors getting conned by addiction and thinking that they can contain it. The only thing that works is tough detox, and long-term rehabs out in the country where people are literally forced to learn basic life skills. Learn or go to jail.
This is what happens when the government puts the needs of migrants and refugees above the needs of Canadians. You know, the people that made this country such a great place that it is appealing to the world to begin with. We need to take care of our own first, then and only then do we consider sharing our hard earned wealth and civilized society with outsiders and impress upon them that it is a privilege to live here, not their right.
This isn’t a result of immigration or of refugees. This is the result of so called Harm Reduction policy. I think you would find that most of these people were born in Canada. That is the case in Victoria. Don’t demonize foreigners
Lol, parts of saskatoon are this bad too right now! I think every major city in each province is having a tough time right now with addictions and homelessness.
the reaSOn a lot of people turn to hard drugs is because they feel as though life is not worth living anymore. They have no one that loves them and tells them its wrong and dangerous.
@@LHLK-q2v they just made it illegal again to possess hard drugs again a few days ago. So no, there were no laws in place. It was legal. And you say your educated. You're miserable and ignorant
@@vancouverstreets420 I was part of the dark side of it. Heroin. Grew up in North Van in the 70's. East Van punk rock in the 80's. I miss my home but I never want to see it again.
@@vancouverstreets420 BC is a shithole. Town after town of mounds of garbage on everyone's lawns, shoddy homes and tent cities that everyone pretends is normal. Like I say to my kids...''Afghanistan has nice mountains too. Does anyone consider it to be a great country because of that?''
@protea45 at least the conservatives are not enabling. The conservatives are powerless in parliament right now thanks to the NDP. This is a non partisan issue and we as humans should all agree hard drug legalization is not the correct path.
@@protea45 Yeah I mean provincially (obviously talking BC) or federally conservatives aren't in a position to solve this problem. Safe supply and decriminalization *could* have had a chance if there was enough mental health care/addiction services to counter balance. It's absolute brain dead insanity to have attempted this they way the province did. Shame on them!
@@tazzthedoodle7861 Criminalization isn't the answer either. It is a social issue that goes deeper. I am 52 and have lived in Vancouver a long time...East Hastings has always been like this...the only thing that changed were the drugs....addiction has always been here. Opiates are so damn powerful and it is easy to judge them all with the same brush but as a former addict...it's a lot more complicated than that. I am strongly conservative in punishments for crimes but using a drug shouldn't be a crime nor should addiction. The root issues need to be addressed and sadly never have been. Those things have nothing to do with the government in charge. They are family and societal issues.
Inane comment with little thought. The provincial government had more impact on this this than the federal, by far. This is a problem in nearly all western countries now. It’s a VERY small part of a major city. A world class city. It needs to be dealt with but no way British Columbians will pay for it.
this is actually a nice looking day for east hastings. it gets so much worse, dirtier, more open violence, covered in needles, people passed out standing up in the street.
Everyone who lives in this country needs to watch this video .Then tell me about how we care for the poor . i am ashamed to see this and my heart goes out to every person seen on these streets . Canada needs to do more about this situation before it lets in another immigrant or migrant into this country. DISGUSTING CANADA DO BETTER!
@@vancouverstreets420and thank you. I used to be down there man. But something happened (from above as far as I'm concerned) and I cleaned up and got out of there. Now I'm in a beautiful neighborhood in Mount pleasant, just up the road from there but night and day. Got a good job and now I'm in camp making a living and being a contributing member of society. I was lucky though. It can be done but it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Tha k you for bringing light to this issue staining our city. God bless 🙏
yeah keep on taking prayers out of daily life and pushing God out of the land....wait until you see what God is going to release as you new rulers .THE NEPHILIM
No folks, do not adjust your set! Though this might seem like an episode of 'The Walking Dead', it is merely just a typical day on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. But what it also is, is the net result of a city's(and a province's) lenient attitude towards homelessness and drug use. Things recently reached a climax when the provincial government decided to reverse its disastrous policy of decriminalizing street drug use in public. Though the downtown Eastside has been like this for decades, things seem to have really taken a nosedive since the legalization policy came into existence. I'm not sure what the answer is, and clearly neither do the politicians. I suspect it might involve a zero policy towards homelessness and street drug use as they have in Finland.
We used to walk around on this street 10 years ago and was only fewest people on drugs or nothing. Now is unbelievable a mess.😢 thanks to JT and ndp government
I'm old. I live far from the big city now and have personally witnessed none of this. As a young man I lived in Montreal and Toronto. Visited most of Canada's large cities in the 60s. I saw none of this then. NONE! We've lost our way to let this continue. :(
I am an immigrant, I feel blessed that I get to live here in Beautiful Vancouver. It feels so bad to see people are making this city shit. I love Canada, going to live here till my last breath
@@paulmackay7265 they made it legal to possess 2.5gs of any hard drug with zero repercussions. Just a few days ago the made it illegal again after over 2500 deaths in bc since they implemented the policy. A huge increase
I've seen that first guy around town for many years. He's getting more and more stooped every time I see him. I've spent many, many hours walking around Vancouver since the early '70's and have seen this city change in so many ways, some good, some bad. We moved here in 1970 and aside from a few years living in Burnaby, I've lived in Vancouver. I've walked, biked, bussed, trained: both Canada Line and Expo Lines and driven everywhere on both sides of the river out to Abbotsford and south to the border.
Visited Vancouver two days ago saw this while there I could of cried to see people existing like this, come on Canada you can do better than this, best wished from UK
This is sad to see, but I live across the water, in a small town. My neighbourhood is exactly like this, the only thing that is different is we don't have as much graffiti. I see this every time I set foot outside my door. I have called so many ambulances for people who have overdosed, as well as used Narcan. We have a needle exchange and a homeless shelter just down the next block. Most of the stores around my area have closed. This is what happens when the Government allows most drugs to be used without penalties.
Horrible to see this in my country. Never thought I'd see the day. Theres people there who still have glimmers of hope like the lady at the 7:34 point, the one in black/red shirts who has brushed and braided her hair. I take that person as someone who could be brought back to normal. But theres orhers there that are lost causes at this point. I'm sure first responders there know people who they are just waiting to unfortunately go pick them up in a black rubber bag. I cannot imagine raising children among something like this. Hard to imagine trying to live as an adult in the same area.
Ohe my word. I've dealt with and seen some hard stuff in my life, but this is simply unbelievable. Its like a a scene from a video game waiting for a ghoul to jump out. I will never be angry with dog poop left on the pavement, it seems you are dealing with humans left on the sidewalk.
I lived in Vancouver for 8 years near waterfront and just up the road is hell. Some parts of the city are very nice and beautiful, while in the city area Is hell except near the seaport is and Stanley park . It’s very scary at the city loads of homeless people, so much crime. Please God make my beloved Vancouver nice again!
"THIS CITY" See the city lights? See how brightly they shine? This city was once special, Before the gangs, drugs and the crime. See the children on the corner? They are tougher than they seem. They'll jump you like a pack of wolves, They are not sweet, but cruel and mean. See the old man on his front porch? He is a lot like me. He remembers back to happier times, And the way things used to be. See the lady hanging laundry? Her son was killed two weeks ago. He wasn't even in a gang, But the bullets didn't know. Yes, this city once was beautiful, But now her looks are gone. It smells and feels quite different, It just looks and feels so wrong. This city once held promise, Joys and hopes and dreams. Now it holds only sadness, We hear it in her screams. (c)Danniel J. Lennax March 13, 2006
@@vancouverstreets420 ...I grew up in Vancouver. It breaks my heart to see what the Liberals and the NDP have done to her. I live in Calgary now. We are starting to have our own problems here. As well as all of Canada.
Definately. I live in BC and come from Quebec. This is definately not a political issue. This is the result of a sanctimonious and supremicist majority who make decisions solely based on feelings and hysteria, and then don't have the least humility to roll them back once the totally predictable consequences start appearing.
we have the laws we just don't enforce them every excuse in the book - just enforce the laws, arrest, charge, off to jail to get a life started if they want one
many of these zombies have free housing while the rest of us work and struggle to afford our own while paying for theirs. nothing to do with affordability. this is a meth/fentanyl problem
It used to be way worse than it is now. 100s of people used to like the streets. They kicked a bunch of people out of the area. But still, so sad to see. It's become more wide spread across the country 💔
if anyone is wondering, Vancouver, due to its position on earth earth experiences more gravitational force than other parts of the earth, walking bent over is not due to tweaking or drugs but, the effects of this force. Some people, over time, can negate this effect, but a few cannot. The More You Know.
Как хорошо, что я живу в России! В моём городе, слава богу, такой ужас не встретишь. Да и нигде у нас в России -в городах я подобное зрелище не встречала.
im sure when the cons have been in power a good few years and this blight on humanity is still festering you will come back here and acknowledge how simplistic and wrong you were
What shocks me the most is the fact that this is the norm and accepted. All those people....of all ages basically given up on life. What kind of society do we live in where this exist. How can anyone watch this video and not feel the deterioration of society as a whole? Shame on the Canadian government for this mess.
I've lived near vancouver all my life..and I'm 65...what a shit hole..zombie land everywhere..very sad..
Shame to hear someone refer to Vancouver as a shit hole.😢
It's not a "shithole".
@@Nickh4929 well then it's a shit show!
@@Nickh4929 it sure is, a gentrified and racially separated city with drug addicts camped all over downtown, and out of control home prices due to speculation and flipping and influx of foreign money, mostly Chinese since the early 90's
@@dalecaruso2052He just said the true! J.T. and his voters should be ashamed for what they have been doing to get our country to look like that.
We drove 4000 km all over Italy. We literally didn't see any of this. NO public drunkenness, drug use, drugged out people, garbage strewn...
I smelled pot once there. 35 days, 4000 km + in Italy.
Canada is collapsing. It's becoming unliveable.
Im from Poland, i live in big city for our estimation and last time i saw homless in last autumn. This is totally insane. What about normal peoples who paying taxes, run business in here ?? What about children who seeing this everyday and eldery too, who can`t fell safe.
No discipline from goverment, free drugs, free food from volunteer and it`s getting only worse
Its an area people avoid, there’s nothing there an except what you see, nobody cares. People pretend they care about the strife of Palestinians, Ukrainians etc., while this is right under their nose.
They have to avoid that area, paying taxes but still compromised
I was raised right on east hastings street in a complex. Every morning before elementary school there would be someone doing dope at the bottom of the stairs that i'd have to walk by and avoid the needles. It became pretty normal.
It's always been there. Grew up in the burbs and when we got our drivers license ( this was 25 years ago) we would drive down to "the pain" we would call it. Horror block. Now the pain has grown to take over the whole city.... I was down there in Nov23 Couldn't believe how many vaca storefronts with for lease signs. The pain is the canary in the cole mine... Foreshadowing the poverty that is looming for us all under these fiscally corrupt govs.
Other countries: We use taxes to improve society and citizens' lives.
Trudeau: We don't do that here.
Vancouver , BC where I lived since 1972 - I used to work underground mining for 8+ months and then take the summer off and play golf and have fun - Our weather is among
the best in Canada - not to Hot in the summer but lots of rain in the winter - We have a huge homeless population of around 5000 as housing and rent is off the charts -
1 bedroom is $2000 if you can find one ? Western Canada we have all this vacant land - build more roads and railways to the Far North - then more infrastructure with
more town and cities to follow - We are so huge we could house and feed 1 Billion People but first we need new Leadership = MAKE CANADA GREAT AGAIN !
garbage homeless is because of drugs and alcohol which could and should have been dealt with by arresting, charging and sending to jail to help them get a start at life instead of encouraging this. Stop making excuses this is a choice and it should be handled as such the time in jail will give them time to think about getting things right
This is going on in America and Canada, and people think that this is a coincidence!!! It's by design!!!
Uh, “America”??? I think you are referring to USA? “America “ , in particular North America, is made up of 3 countries. Canada, Mexico and United States of America.
Vancouver is getting worse
@@howardbutler4878The U.S.A. is commonly referred to as America, the U.S. and the States.
@@howardbutler4878 Well Mr Grammer perfect, besides complaining about someones comment that was pretty obvious on the meaning, what is your solution to this horrible mess on the streets in Vancouver???? Answer this or slick away like a limp dick.
@@jesseredden7123False. Americans do that, but not the rest of the world.
Good Lord. The police and local politicians have completely given up, ehh?
Yes, they did
They Love it so much money for "special homeless/addicts" programs
The first building they show is actually one of the police hq for the city lol
They are afraid to intervene because bleeding heart will cry police brutality for sure.
Why y'all keep harassing the homeless, they are not doing anything to you guys
What a unique cultural experience! For some reason I just never pictured Canada like this. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Western countries never show their bad side, 100 time worse than Asian commi China N Korea Cuba combined. Yes some them live great live at expense tax money and plundered other resources and loans 10 trillion dollar from Asian communist countries. Hah.
This is happening all over North America, some Provinces and States have it worse than others.
Because it never used to be. This all started to change about 15 years ago and has progressively gotten worse...
It's nice living somewhere where most of the year sleeping outside means freezing to death no bums for the most part
Streets of Afganisthan looks better than this! Holy Lord.. Its Disgraceful what CANADA has become!
Its just some rough side of it, Its beautiful though
So, why are there so many migrants from Afghanistan? western world are loaded with migrants from your country.
Less migrants less homelessness.
Afghanistan is rounding up the drugs and forcing them into rehab!
@@vancouverstreets420The big cities all have this now. If you drive out of them, yes, Canada is beautiful.
@@jgriffin282 afghanistan has none of this after they removed the democrazy.
' Free drugs everybody Come for your free drugs ' Bonnie Henry
Not free from our taxes ..
Not sure what it is you folks are expecting. Give these people money? They spend it on drugs! It’s not a poverty issue, it’s a drug issue. We need to take a careful look at our penalties for drug dealing!!
You spilled some facts, its a drug issue. That’s very serious they need help nd no one is there. I can’t even imagine myself at their position
@@vancouverstreets420 junkies are beyond help, genius.
It's a mental health issue(s)
They get free drugs now! All by design
What gets me......is the FACT they receive disability because they cannot work and spend all of it on drugs. That is tax payers dollars that tax payers have no say over because the governments don't want us to have a say over it. It is HIGH time we all stopped doing our taxes to send a message out to the real criminals of the state of our streets.....EBY in BC, SINGH and TRUDEAU for all of Canada's streets looking like this.
Much improved from two years ago - Mayor Sim is keeping his promise. Thank you!
The nostalgia of the Canada that I grew up in in the 80s and 90s hits hard when walking down the streets of today. 38 years of life, the degradation has occurred in the last nine years is astonishing. The safe, clean streets of my childhood, are long gone. Tents are popping up everywhere, more Canadians use the food banks than ever before, our housing is unaffordable, yet we have millions to send over in foreign aid when our streets look worse than theirs. Those who believe that Justin and the liberal party have been good to us are delusional. It’s time to vote them out. Enough is enough.
Canada is broken from top to bottom. East Hastings is but one aspect. The whole country requires an overhaul. I hope when Pierre takes over in 2025, he does what he promises. Even if it's 50% of what he promises, it will be an improvement.
he can work all those miracles with your tax money, not mine
@@nobrainsnoheadache2434 Good luck with that. Tell me where I can put what's left of my money after nine years with Turd.
@@argopunk taxes have gone nowhere but down, you do live here right? didn't you get your money today? go give it to PP
@@nobrainsnoheadache2434 So, the carbon tax was a decrease with the rebate? And...
the government simultaneously eliminated several tax credits including the children’s fitness tax credit, children’s arts tax credit, public transit tax credits, education and textbook tax credits, and the income-splitting tax credit for couples with young children. While eliminating these tax credits helps simplify the tax system, which is good, it also acts to increase personal income taxes for Canadian families.
A recent study compared the savings from the lower personal income tax rate against the loss of these tax credits based on a model provided by Statistics Canada. The primary finding was that the elimination of these tax credits resulted in higher personal income taxes for most Canadian families. In fact, when you compare the value of the government’s tax rate reduction with the loss of tax credits (between 2015 and 2019), 86 per cent of middle-class families (with household incomes between $84,625 and $118,007) experienced an increase in their federal personal income tax burden. In other words, nearly nine in 10 middle-class families now pay more-in fact, the average federal income tax increase for this group of middle-income families was $800 annually.
Now I'll go give that rebate pittance to PP.
I was attending college in Vancouver from 2008 to 2012 and it was never this bad. I'm glad I left the GVA.
It has been this bad since the 1970s
Let's send a few more hundred million dollars to Ukraine and Israel , GOD knows we don't need it here at home , come on in illegal immigrants ,free room & board , just ignore OUR down & out Citizens .
No shit ! What's wrong with the folks in charge?!?
true , and the girl with the fuck off beanie ( 3:54 ) is a nice touch .
What is throwing money at the problem going to do
About a decade ago i heard the figure of a $ million a day is spent by govts in the DTES .
Clearly throwing money at the problem hasn't solved anything@@dorianmode69
@@DavidMichaels-s9y Ask our great leader Mr. Trudeau , he has all the answers.
Trudeau's Canada. Embrace the tolerance
grow a brain
Free drugs for all.
@@arnold-t3y -We wish our “leader” would.
I have an idea! Let’s give them free drugs. In school that was known as enabling. Now it’s somehow a “solution.”
Aaah may I remind you this mess has existed for decades and all levels of governments share equal blame for their mismanagement . So do you have anything positive to say or do you just fall back on useless talking points?
TRUDEAU GOTTA GO!!!!!
Oh yes
the DTES was a horror show when I moved to Vancouver in 1986. Trudeau was nowhere to be seen at that time. this is nothing to do with him and everything to do with people flocking toi Vancouver because it's the most pleasant city in Canada weather wise and also a scenic place on the ocean
Has the government completely collapsed there?! What’s going on?!
Its so worse out here, a normal guy can’t even easily pay for groceries and rent.
....
Canada currently doesn't have an active government we're under the control of an Organized Crime Liberalndp regime, stealing millions daily. They have done this to Canada.
AI is running the supply chain, only the majority's desire for societal order keeps things glued together.
@@vancouverstreets420 that is an excuse not reality, crying the blues and whinnng is not an answer make a choice, change what one is doing, move
This is what the Lieberals want for all of Canada!!!
I can’t wait to say the same thing when poilievre is in power 😂
@@ashwinters9315 shut up we need change not the clown prince
@@ashwinters9315 maybe, but at least he needs a try. Something has to change. I mean good lord, the system obviously isn't working like it is. JT has done one thing perfectly though, he's created a lot of conservative loyalists. That's one thing he can claim.
There is a conservative opinion, from our GOP friends south of the border, that may be more appetizing to you. These poor people may actually be worth something suddenly, too. Cannibalism. Imagine the freedom. Idaho, politician, cannibalism. Google it.
This has been going on in Vancouver for decades.
husband speaking age 81, I'm glad I am old enough to have walked around Vancouver, Canada years ago when it was nice and clean and was a
city you would want to visit. I live in Wash. State just across the boarder and going up to Canada was a great weekend vacation..
Our soldiers would have dropped everything where they stood if they knew this was the future they were fighting for
The lower east side of Vancouver (East Hastings, downtown east side) is the original "skid row". It's been bad for decades, but it's hit peak insanity over the last 2 years.
Its getting worse day by day
It's also spreading more and more. I'm in Pitt Meadows, which is a pretty chill little spot, but in Maple Ridge, specifically Haney, it's getting closer and closer to the Vancouver downtown east side. Coquitlam Center and Lougheed Mall are also getting pretty sketchy. The numbers are lower, but the behavior of the street folk is getting more and more unhinged. I've chatted with some homeless people in my area and they said Haney is very dangerous now. Homeless get killed often out here. About 150 meters from my house a dead body was found in a ditch, that was several months ago.
I remember when it use to be only east hastings street that was bad.. now its all over Vancouver, and Vancouver island looks like east hastings did.. its disgusting
Can concur, the dishelved homeless have been moving into courtenay and such sights were unheard of 20 years ago
Nanaimo is disgusting
Canada wide now. Late stage capitalism at it's finest.
That is a lie, disgracing yourself, family and community
@@LHLK-q2v bad bot
This Tranq is horrible , I saw this come out first watching Kensington PA videos.. I'm born and raised in Vancouver, I am 50 yrs old. I was an addict I am Clean Sober 14 yrs coming up in August. I wasn't a Downer , but spd and crk and Booze ... always at the Bars downtown, Cambie, the Ivanhoe, Old American etc drinking then head to the dtes to get high and " straighten up" yeah right more like spend all my money on stupid shit , then when I'd sober up I'd be mad at myself and repeat. I'm glad I forgave Myself finally after 20 years wasted using here and there loosing out on my kid growing up , Forgiveness ,WOW that did a lot 100%
Just like the US, I'm scared.
Sooo many people have been homeless, what's going on?
Have cousins in Canada, one of my cousins are not happy with the healthcare system, but this.....
Believe me healthcare is fucked, government is fucked, Canada is fucked
homeless is not the issue. it is an issue, but not for these zombies. many of these people have tax payer funded places, I know, I've been unfortunate enough go into many of them. shit on the floor, blood smeared on the walls, completely trashed even the places that were just built, used needles everywhere, stolen bikes etc etc. fentanyl and meth, cheap and readily available, that is the problem. the ports and police have been looking the other way for decades, and our courts and laws are far too permissive. there has to be help yes, but also accountability, and if you can't be accountable, you need to be separated from society
My once beautiful country is now a cesspool. Thanks, Trudeau (never, ever voted Lib/NDP).
The Vancouver East Side has been awful for decades and only getting worse with harm reduction strategies and good hearted counsellors getting conned by addiction and thinking that they can contain it. The only thing that works is tough detox, and long-term rehabs out in the country where people are literally forced to learn basic life skills. Learn or go to jail.
Unfortunately, it's not just one political party responsible for this.
This is what happens when the government puts the needs of migrants and refugees above the needs of Canadians. You know, the people that made this country such a great place that it is appealing to the world to begin with. We need to take care of our own first, then and only then do we consider sharing our hard earned wealth and civilized society with outsiders and impress upon them that it is a privilege to live here, not their right.
Our wealth is gone, just like these people.
This isn’t a result of immigration or of refugees. This is the result of so called Harm Reduction policy. I think you would find that most of these people were born in Canada. That is the case in Victoria. Don’t demonize foreigners
Thats true, except the downtown eastside has had a problem since before the mass influx of migrants and refugees.
Toronto and Vancouver are two SHT STAINS on Canadian soil
Toronto still isn’t even close to as bad as Vancouver though yet anyways
You have never been to Edmonton have you?
Ya another sht stain
Lol, parts of saskatoon are this bad too right now! I think every major city in each province is having a tough time right now with addictions and homelessness.
Certain parts of the cities are shtstains for sure but not the whole city
Until the day there are no drugs on the street, then and only then can these people be helped.
No this is a choice, we have the laws, uphold them. arrest, charge, incarcerate then assess and look at resources needed.
the reaSOn a lot of people turn to hard drugs is because they feel as though life is not worth living anymore. They have no one that loves them and tells them its wrong and dangerous.
@@LHLK-q2v they just made it illegal again to possess hard drugs again a few days ago. So no, there were no laws in place. It was legal. And you say your educated. You're miserable and ignorant
I loved living in east Vancouver. I don't live in BC anymore and I will never go back!
BC is very beautifulc its just the dark side of it, which needs to be seen
@@vancouverstreets420 I was part of the dark side of it. Heroin. Grew up in North Van in the 70's. East Van punk rock in the 80's. I miss my home but I never want to see it again.
@@vancouverstreets420 BC is a shithole. Town after town of mounds of garbage on everyone's lawns, shoddy homes and tent cities that everyone pretends is normal. Like I say to my kids...''Afghanistan has nice mountains too. Does anyone consider it to be a great country because of that?''
These people need help not more supply. Shame on the Liberal and NDP governments
give an example where the right is solving this problem and not just talking about how it's everyone elses fault
@protea45 at least the conservatives are not enabling. The conservatives are powerless in parliament right now thanks to the NDP. This is a non partisan issue and we as humans should all agree hard drug legalization is not the correct path.
@@protea45 Yeah I mean provincially (obviously talking BC) or federally conservatives aren't in a position to solve this problem. Safe supply and decriminalization *could* have had a chance if there was enough mental health care/addiction services to counter balance. It's absolute brain dead insanity to have attempted this they way the province did. Shame on them!
@@tazzthedoodle7861 Criminalization isn't the answer either. It is a social issue that goes deeper. I am 52 and have lived in Vancouver a long time...East Hastings has always been like this...the only thing that changed were the drugs....addiction has always been here. Opiates are so damn powerful and it is easy to judge them all with the same brush but as a former addict...it's a lot more complicated than that. I am strongly conservative in punishments for crimes but using a drug shouldn't be a crime nor should addiction. The root issues need to be addressed and sadly never have been. Those things have nothing to do with the government in charge. They are family and societal issues.
@@tazzthedoodle7861 nor is cutting funding, which is how it got this way.
Welcome to the Liberal Governments vision for Canada.
looks like some areas here in california but vancouver looks cleaner to me .
Okay smart guy, talk to me after the new guys term has ended. It’ll probably be worse
You have to stop blaming people when you have no idea what you're talking about. This place has been like that for at least 60 years.
Inane comment with little thought.
The provincial government had more impact on this this than the federal, by far.
This is a problem in nearly all western countries now.
It’s a VERY small part of a major city. A world class city.
It needs to be dealt with but no way British Columbians will pay for it.
@@ashwinters9315Impossible.
I never imagined Canada could be as bad as the USA. I am shocked to the core.
Klaus Schwab is laughing his head off .
Welcome to Trudeaus Canada. This will be the entire country if things don't change.
you obviously know nothing at all about the LES
Even if the conservatives get in nothing will change.
China is killing the people because they want Canadas land and resources from the farmers!
Смотрю и не верю своим глазам, неужели это правда?
I know its sad to look at them
And they say,take pride of our country nothing to be proud of with this happening everywhere
this is actually a nice looking day for east hastings. it gets so much worse, dirtier, more open violence, covered in needles, people passed out standing up in the street.
Everyone who lives in this country needs to watch this video .Then tell me about how we care for the poor . i am ashamed to see this and my heart goes out to every person seen on these streets . Canada needs to do more about this situation before it lets in another immigrant or migrant into this country. DISGUSTING CANADA DO BETTER!
That’s the whole purpose of
@@vancouverstreets420and thank you. I used to be down there man. But something happened (from above as far as I'm concerned) and I cleaned up and got out of there. Now I'm in a beautiful neighborhood in Mount pleasant, just up the road from there but night and day. Got a good job and now I'm in camp making a living and being a contributing member of society. I was lucky though. It can be done but it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Tha k you for bringing light to this issue staining our city. God bless 🙏
must be gold in those sidewalks.... everyone looking straight down on the path. West Coast mentality. You brought it in, now deal with it.
Trank drug
More of that please, looks terrific.
You get what you vote for
Don't matter who u vote for there all gona fuck you one way or another
yeah keep on taking prayers out of daily life and pushing God out of the land....wait until you see what God is going to release as you new rulers .THE NEPHILIM
@@commandercontraband I think I saw you in the video, you were the guy with the bare cheeks right?
@@jmap No Im not like you
@@commandercontraband you’re supposed to turn the other cheek, brother
Every Canadian city is like this. Some worse, but every city is like this...
Literally picked the most chill part of hasting too walk around 😂 let's see main and hastings
its getting worse over there
What a lovely place to raise a family Canada has become
Can you send this to the politicians in Ottawa pleas, who ever film this.
They're a bunch of psychopaths. It wouldn't faze them...
What a dump.
By U.N. Design
This is what the BC NDP Government does to are beautiful city.
It’s the feds , j t doesn’t care
Beautiful city, very free and safe an example for all democracy worshipper to live in such wonderful city, a real pride for the Canadian government,
yes but its all about choices sometimes
No folks, do not adjust your set! Though this might seem like an episode of 'The Walking Dead', it is merely just a typical day on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. But what it also is, is the net result of a city's(and a province's) lenient attitude towards homelessness and drug use. Things recently reached a climax when the provincial government decided to reverse its disastrous policy of decriminalizing street drug use in public. Though the downtown Eastside has been like this for decades, things seem to have really taken a nosedive since the legalization policy came into existence. I'm not sure what the answer is, and clearly neither do the politicians. I suspect it might involve a zero policy towards homelessness and street drug use as they have in Finland.
We used to walk around on this street 10 years ago and was only fewest people on drugs or nothing. Now is unbelievable a mess.😢 thanks to JT and ndp government
Wow...why is the Mayor allowing this to continue? Everything looks boarded up. How can a city survive this?
I'm old. I live far from the big city now and have personally witnessed none of this. As a young man I lived in Montreal and Toronto. Visited most of Canada's large cities in the 60s. I saw none of this then. NONE! We've lost our way to let this continue. :(
I am an immigrant, I feel blessed that I get to live here in Beautiful Vancouver. It feels so bad to see people are making this city shit. I love Canada, going to live here till my last breath
This is Canada? Not Detroit?
Yup, the thing is in Vancouver it doesn't get really cold in the winter. I think the homelessness is likely the worst there in all of Canada...
@@HuxtableTV how so?
I moved to calgary from vancouver in 99'. No regrets. The winter cleans the streets every year!
When you chose to make drugs legal
It was like that before that. New to Vancouver?
@@paulmackay7265 they made it legal to possess 2.5gs of any hard drug with zero repercussions. Just a few days ago the made it illegal again after over 2500 deaths in bc since they implemented the policy. A huge increase
@@paulmackay7265 nope. Been around since early 70’s.
@@paulmackay7265 been around here for more than 40 years, watched the changes.
This isn't just Vancouver's Hastings street. This is the true face of Canada and of those in power.
Canada is beautiful , but dark side is scary too
@@vancouverstreets420 I'm not talking about nature.
I thought Joe Biden said
AMERICA WERE BACK
It’s scary to se them suffering
you don't think much
I've seen that first guy around town for many years. He's getting more and more stooped every time I see him. I've spent many, many hours walking around Vancouver since the early '70's and have seen this city change in so many ways, some good, some bad. We moved here in 1970 and aside from a few years living in Burnaby, I've lived in Vancouver. I've walked, biked, bussed, trained: both Canada Line and Expo Lines and driven everywhere on both sides of the river out to Abbotsford and south to the border.
I know it feels bad to see Vancouver turning into to shit
Do this on a Friday or Saturday night after 10pm your video would go viral
So sad and to think I use to walk around down there safely and go to all the neat stores, now no one in there right mind can go to town,
It's getting to be like this in Owen sound
Yahoo
It's everywhere, even on the once nice beaches along the Oregon coast.
How sad not the beautiful city i remember.
Visited Vancouver two days ago saw this while there I could of cried to see people existing like this, come on Canada you can do better than this, best wished from UK
Its getting worse here
This is sad to see, but I live across the water, in a small town.
My neighbourhood is exactly like this, the only thing that is different is we don't have as much graffiti.
I see this every time I set foot outside my door.
I have called so many ambulances for people who have overdosed, as well as used Narcan.
We have a needle exchange and a homeless shelter just down the next block.
Most of the stores around my area have closed.
This is what happens when the Government allows most drugs to be used without penalties.
@@HuxtableTV I live up Island from Victoria Bc
Looks good on Vancouver!
sunny ways
Horrible to see this in my country. Never thought I'd see the day. Theres people there who still have glimmers of hope like the lady at the 7:34 point, the one in black/red shirts who has brushed and braided her hair. I take that person as someone who could be brought back to normal. But theres orhers there that are lost causes at this point. I'm sure first responders there know people who they are just waiting to unfortunately go pick them up in a black rubber bag.
I cannot imagine raising children among something like this. Hard to imagine trying to live as an adult in the same area.
I know it hurts seeing them suffering
Just wrong on so many levels
Ohe my word. I've dealt with and seen some hard stuff in my life, but this is simply unbelievable. Its like a a scene from a video game waiting for a ghoul to jump out. I will never be angry with dog poop left on the pavement, it seems you are dealing with humans left on the sidewalk.
This is what our NDP government has givin us and only getting worse
I lived in Vancouver for 8 years near waterfront and just up the road is hell. Some parts of the city are very nice and beautiful, while in the city area Is hell except near the seaport is and Stanley park . It’s very scary at the city loads of homeless people, so much crime. Please God make my beloved Vancouver nice again!
"THIS CITY"
See the city lights?
See how brightly they shine?
This city was once special,
Before the gangs, drugs and the crime.
See the children on the corner?
They are tougher than they seem.
They'll jump you like a pack of wolves,
They are not sweet, but cruel and mean.
See the old man on his front porch?
He is a lot like me.
He remembers back to happier times,
And the way things used to be.
See the lady hanging laundry?
Her son was killed two weeks ago.
He wasn't even in a gang,
But the bullets didn't know.
Yes, this city once was beautiful,
But now her looks are gone.
It smells and feels quite different,
It just looks and feels so wrong.
This city once held promise,
Joys and hopes and dreams.
Now it holds only sadness,
We hear it in her screams.
(c)Danniel J. Lennax
March 13, 2006
Its getting worse now
@@vancouverstreets420 ...I grew up in Vancouver. It breaks my heart to see what the Liberals and the NDP have done to her.
I live in Calgary now. We are starting to have our own problems here. As well as all of Canada.
Bless all these people, they deserve the best
I wish the government would invest in the people. They are the most valuable. Sending love to all that suffer
*_"Each people has the government they deserve"_*
Definately. I live in BC and come from Quebec. This is definately not a political issue. This is the result of a sanctimonious and supremicist majority who make decisions solely based on feelings and hysteria, and then don't have the least humility to roll them back once the totally predictable consequences start appearing.
🙏🙏🙏
No such problems in Singapore. Shows how clueless Canadian lawmakers are about solving problems like this.
we have the laws we just don't enforce them every excuse in the book - just enforce the laws, arrest, charge, off to jail to get a life started if they want one
this is literally the reason why everyone on Vancouver Island is way more fond of the Island more then the city
There is money changing hands to make it this way.
THERE IS A MAJOR PROTEST HAPPENING IN VANCOUVER TODAY OVER AFFORDABLE HOUSING!!! CANADIANS ARE WAKING UP!!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💯 March 5, 2024
many of these zombies have free housing while the rest of us work and struggle to afford our own while paying for theirs. nothing to do with affordability. this is a meth/fentanyl problem
No they aren't! They are screaming for more government intervention! That is just going to make the problem worse!
What is Jenny Kwan this riding MP doing to help these people?
These are someone's children, this breaks my heart, so sad....
Sad part people just walk by like this is 😢 normal!
To be fair it's been like this for decades.
I remember driving through east Hastings over 20years ago and it being a nightmare
When I was a kid we had the Stanley Park Zoo … 🐻 🐒 🐳 🐔
It was closed because it was deemed inhumane 😢
Now in 2024 we have this … 🧟♀️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️
It used to be way worse than it is now. 100s of people used to like the streets. They kicked a bunch of people out of the area. But still, so sad to see. It's become more wide spread across the country 💔
Its still so bad, I think its better than nothing
Looks like a beautiful place to visit
Thank you Justin Trudeau and Jack my sink you know that sik guy that everyone expected more from😅
if anyone is wondering, Vancouver, due to its position on earth earth experiences more gravitational force than other parts of the earth, walking bent over is not due to tweaking or drugs but, the effects of this force. Some people, over time, can negate this effect, but a few cannot. The More You Know.
Это же какое-то безумие! Похоже, что с таким правительствам, которое привело к такой ситуации и никаких врагов ненужно...
Как хорошо, что я живу в России! В моём городе, слава богу, такой ужас не встретишь. Да и нигде у нас в России -в городах я подобное зрелище не встречала.
Let's put Trudeau down here see how long he lasts with his sunny ways 😮😅
im sure when the cons have been in power a good few years and this blight on humanity is still festering you will come back here and acknowledge how simplistic and wrong you were
Heartbreaking. Trudeau and Singh should be made to go there. Sf
Vancouver downtown east side is an actual apocalyptic wasteland
À la fois cette situation terrible et horrible dans un pays riche Pauvres gens 🤝✌
What shocks me the most is the fact that this is the norm and accepted. All those people....of all ages basically given up on life. What kind of society do we live in where this exist. How can anyone watch this video and not feel the deterioration of society as a whole? Shame on the Canadian government for this mess.
sadly , you can find vids like this from U S A also , Detroit , Seattle , etc. etc.
@@redherring9444 England also (just on a smaller scale) The people at the top should care more about the conditions people live in at the bottom.
This is not the third world standard, it is the fourth world standard, 🗽🗽🗽🗽
Seen people with everything house car, beach front lose it all in 6 months pushing a cart.
Should be shown in schools everywhere
Yeah, people should be aware this will be results, if you do drugs
Wow, things look better thanks to Pablo trudeau and Eby Escobar