I live in a small city in northern Ontario and it's here too. I don't think there is a place left that isn't affected. It will get worse. It's already gotten so much worse in such a short time.
Oh my God. And it's not Canada. What is going on there? What is that dirt in the street and on the sidewalks? And these homeless people, some of them addicted, filled these spaces with household items. Chairs. sleeping beds. bicycles. Baby vehicles. camp.... Garbage containers are dirty and badly stained on the side of buildings and houses. It's a strange thing happening in Canada. Just like what happens in Philadelphia in America. And as if it were the end of the human being!!!
You should have seen it earlier this summer. You literally could not walk on these sidewalks due to the number of tents set up. Massive piles of garbage everywhere, stinking to high heaven, addicts shooting up in the street, a complete horror show. It was finally declared an emergency situation and the VPD shut down the streets and finally forcibly took down the tents, which took a few days. This video here is very tame compared to usual daily goings on.
They dont want to lay down because they will fall asleep and miss the "high". But it makes their body so relaxed so they bend over instead. They get really hot so some of them pull down their pants too. Called the fenty fold
What a shame. The problem has definitely gotten worse in the past few years. The homeless were at least contained to the E. Hastings area before but it's slowly become an issue across the entire downtown peninsula. It smells like piss everywhere, human feces on the street, garbage littered everywhere, and people shooting up. I would definitely not recommend anyone with children to move anywhere close to the downtown core, or anywhere in Vancouver for that matter. At least until voters wake up and vote out these woke governments and woke policies that are 100% enabling this.
It isn't quite that bad, as long as you stay west of the Chinatown gate it's still a normal city. But yes half of these people should be forced to go to rehab and the other half should be in a mental asylum. Enough is enough, I don't understand how people just accept seeing people smoke crack on a sidewalk in the middle of the day.
@@arseface2k934a lot of this stuff is brought among themselves they have addictions there is help out there for them they don't have to be on the streets so they don't want to be
Hope will not happen to us what's happening in USA ,SPECIALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO ALMOST ALL BUSINESSES ARE CLOSE BECAUSE THE HIGH CRIMES,HOMELESSNESS, AND DRUGS THAT CAUSE OF DOWNFALL OF AMERICA
Ever thought about videoing A remake of " Night of the living Dead ". Using fentanyl schizophrenia zombies-???🤔.. Low cost production giving fentanyl to the actors-!!!😉.. While you're at it. Have a recording of the Beatle's classic song. Elenor Rigby playing in the background-!!!😉.
It's not the governments fault that these people are addicts. But it is the government's fault that they are in the streets and not in a facility, whether it be a prison or rehab
How in the hell is this the governments fault? People need to take responsibility for their own actions. Did the government make them do drugs ? Idiot !
Great videos. Our homeless in California are the same. More have tents. Rows ans rows. Our church feeds as many as possible but the lines are long every day. Few want jobs and many are working but not enough $$ for rent. Its a sad problem. Praying that their situations change. Most are mentally ill.
@@ruyan247actually social and mental degradation can come from living without basic necessities. ( like running water, place to change, shower toilet, safe place to sleep and proper social contact.)
@@KP-wt8qr That's true!!!! But for one of the wealthiest country in the world, that should not happen!!!! There are hundreds of extremely wealthy people in that country & have more money than they know what to do with it, why don't they help???? Maybe there's just too much greed & they don't give a damn. My third world country has its problems but nothing compared to this!!!!
@@Mervyn001 It doesn't really make sense if you're saying you live in a third world country then there are homeless people in your country, third world is just another term for poverty, so there is this in your country.
@@KP-wt8qr Third world country doesn't necessarily mean poverty & homeless people. My country's problem was due to a system called " apartheid". We don't have hundreds of people sleeping in street corners, the poor people were forced into squatter camps by the regime. So what I said does make sense. I never said, we don't have poverty, every country does but for a third world country, not as much as seen in the video!!!!
I was homeless years ago i passed out under a bridge drunk it was 22 degrees out i had hardly anything on luckily a complete stranger had walked by and put a blanket on me or i prob wouldn't be here right now!
hey bud great vids the government needs to see more of these. im in victoria and downtown along Pandora is just as bad . id reccomend you getting a small gimble for your cam so you dont get that hop when you walk. amazon has them relatively cheap. keep up the good work mang. i drive truck for a living, i come to the mainland, fill up with produce and go back to the island. i go down to E. hastings and jackson to pick up a pallet .a lot of tents up there now in that block. op
These people are at the lowest point of their lives.. they don’t want their family or people from back home to see them like this So people can get pretty angry if they catch you filming them
@@Meowface. you honestly think most of these people even care? give me a break. ive known a lot of homeless back east and trust me , they dont care cause most choose to be and most family know they are down here and dont give a shit.
I remember back when you were high or drunk your ass was dragged away atleast for an over nighter or longer for a repeat offender, and if you got angry or combative you got a couple good whacks with a good old police baton or even a face full of mace if you were really being a nasty piece of work, AAAhhhhh the good old days...
goverment paid rehanbs so they acn go straight to a rehab and give it a go ,alot of them could probably get clean if they were given one chance at least at a good treatment center livein so they are ther eand off the streets for awhile ,its not jsut the drugs ,it a life style,so ya but if they get clean i hope they can go and help others theyknow give them the one chance too ,i donthtink hittign peope will solve anyhting ,they dont deserved to be hot casue they have fallen to addiction,theres alot of alcoholics still walkign around in total denial they have drinking problems so ,i htink jsut give them all one shot at it and the goverment can pay for it and take it out of the goverment paid advocates paychecks ,i think they really are not helping at all....sadly somethign bigger has to happen ,but give them achance , know some they af good people my brother was there hes dead now but i wished he could have had one chance at it ,everyone deserves a achance at a better healther life with someone to help them stay out of a place that brought them to drugs in the first place or fix other problems that led them there .....sometimes it is simple to fix given one chance
I’ve ASKED to be taken to jail for a night When you’re cold and hungry, jail is a nice place to rest Cops purposely cut people loose or don’t even contact them because they know jail isn’t a punishment I mean unless you want to criminalize homelessness and lock people up for more than a night Then people would try n avoid it
If a new generation of Drug and alcohol users doesn’t come along this problem will take care of it self ! These druggies can’t live much longer ! Suicide by drugs and alcohol !The Mayor must be so pride of the city he loves ?
Of course there are more comming!! Junkies can find their shit and USE it right where they are!! They live this way by CHOICE! Don't feel sorry for them and NONE are going to rehab!! Let them OD!
I remember when I was with my mom and dad and we were at a parking thing in Vancouver. And this homeless guy said he would pay for it if it goes off. Some homeless people are nice and I bet he has a rich life now.
@@margob6203so how do they get prescriptions for drugs they then sell to get illegal? You must be 15 yrs old if you have no clue that BC gives them the drugs called safe supply that they turn around and get illegal drugs for. Education is easy just google Pot is legal across Canada yep but we gotta pay for that pot these people don’t pay anything for their safe supply.
I lived in the downtown eastside in 1982..i was 19yrs old and it was skid row back then...more alcoholics than drug addicts ...im lucky to have gotten out..im now 60..there were lots of places to live back then...i had a room on Main and Georgia...i think its multi level parking lot now...i should of died a couple of times back then...i guess god had a different plan
The great and peaceful people of the great country of Canada. How peaceful is every street in Canada and how peacefully people are living here. They are very peaceful people. No fighting and no looting of any kind. This is Vancouver and the rest of Canada will be the same in years to come.
They don’t all have phones… maybe 1/4 do N lots just use pay as you go plans n live off free wifi I was homeless… a phone was the one and only thing my family paid for Because my mom always wanted to be able to know where I was Oh… and I never saw other homeless people tagging with spray paint Tagging is a hobby… a homeless addict doesn’t have hobbies
Most of the people doing graffiti there aren’t homeless, they just paint in that area cause it’s sketchy and they’ll blend in easier (a civilian is less likely to be like hey what are you doing), also for the thrill of doing graffiti in a dangerous area. People need to stop writing on businesses though and in Chinatown, just makes the situation worse, stick to the walls and dumpsters.
@@Inf7cted And what are these criterias, do you support legalization of drugs and safe supplies? 50 PC Canadians suffer mental health problems of various kinds and will grow in future...
@@chimralyonfire Homelessness stems from various factors. Social causes, including the scarcity of affordable housing, poverty, and unemployment, contribute to homelessness. Additionally, life events can push individuals into a state of homelessness. The combination of inadequate income stability and unaffordable housing leads to what is known as "hidden" homelessness. These individuals may oscillate between being homeless and having temporary housing, making the homelessness issue more extensive than what is typically reflected in street or shelter counts. A study conducted in 2022 revealed that the differences in homelessness rates across the country are not primarily attributed to mental illness, drug addiction, or poverty, but rather to variations in housing costs. For many homeless individuals, accessing drugs or alcohol is easier than finding stable employment and secure housing. On the streets, drugs are more readily available than opportunities for homeless individuals to improve their circumstances. When coupled with the stress and anxiety that accompany life as a homeless person, it is understandable why someone in such a situation might turn to substances as a means of coping. Moreover, if someone was already battling drug addiction before becoming homeless, their situation is further compounded by the difficulty of receiving essential medical treatment.
Absolutely a drug problem only homeless as no one can rent to people that can’t start a fire in a place and kill others. Homeless is not the issue it’s the drugs
It's China. Chinese are the primary source of fentanyl and India 2ndary. Fentanyl can easily be smuggled overseas due to only needing a small amount per dose
Downtown east side Vancouver was always bad, long before fentanyl. Back in the day, it was heroin at pigeon park, then meth, then crack, then fentanyl, then tranq. I wasn’t there for the fentanyl and tranq, but the telltale signs show the same. In San Fran, we’ve got the same zombies doubled over, and scabs up there arms and legs. It’s tough to see. They are humans after all. I want to care, but it’s brutal. What can be done? Vancouver has been trying everything long before a lot of American cities ever lifted a finger. But the problem still remains and has become worse.
Thanks for your story @craigstewart8123, dtes was bad but not as today. I live in Van since 86 and sometimes driving by E Hastings to Stanley Park and there was nothing like today.
East Hastings has been this way for 50+ years - Vancouverites would sooner it stayed that way than move the problem elsewhere , or do anything about it!
@@ExploreVancouverCanadaFalse. There is a documentary made by the National Film Board in the 1970s and the situation was the same. The only difference I see is those people folded in two after using fentanyl.
Governments, members of provincial legislation and Charities have no real intentions to solve the root problem. Perpetuating the problem is best for their continual interest.
Canada's only possible solution to Homelessness is to gather all the homeless people across Canada grouped in one place, for example, in Toronto or Vancouver Don't let them wander into every other location and stay on the sidewalks. If you see homeless people, dump them all in Vancouver or anywhere with a good climate. There needs to be a place to accept those homeless people to be put and be allowed to live. Similarly, the garbage that has landfills to dump enough rubbish and segregate combustible from non-combustible waste so you can recycle usable items by type, likewise to people, cautiousness if the people are contagious, separate the bad from the good people and ordinary people. Separate the sheep from the goats. Matthew 25:31-46
This is DRUGS not homelessness. Granted no one can rent to addicts but BC people want to give out free drugs so they can trade for illegal and kill themselves. Not homeless problem a drug and mental province problem.
@@robertdobie8680 vancouver physically stole over 250K from me in physical possessions from me this included things like the only time my parents house was BnE happened during the day while i was at school feb 28 1996 on my 8th birthday(my actual 8th birthday) nearly 30 BMX bikes i literally physically built with money i earned(nearly 30 grand) most of them where stolen from people i once knew but no way to prove it and once you ask them to do you a simply favour a person literally broke in and cleaned out my mothers life savings Well!!!! over! 150K in precious metals! in my 35 years of life has left me with a physical bad taste in my mouth of not vancouver but its people(all of them) and that's not even half of it but some of the most rememberable stuff! this is why i will Never! Return to vancouver
@@10percent4DaBigGuynot sane the poor ones leave. There was a time the mouthy middle class BC would trash Alberta as if they were something great now they are running here as they can’t afford their wonderful province. Funny thing is they keep that delusion that we like them that everyone in the world likes them😂 crazy is all they are with no money left We wait till they lose their houses they are not cut out for our province they should go to Quebec only
I was offered drugs at the height of the hippie counter cultural revolution of the 1960's and said No. I was 12. I thought it was stupid to do drugs. All this self degredation is disgusting. And these people blame it on everybody but themselves. That is the real tragedy.
Isnt it like snow in Canada how do they do it in the cold, they mustn't shower for days, where do they go to eat, and wait till it eats sway at their flesh a girl in one of the other videos in Kensington arm got amputated due to fentanyl and tranq use
Vancouver specifically is unique because it's in a rainforest, so it does now snow in Vancouver or get below 0 but it just rains a lot. The rest of Canada all snow.
Drugs are cheap here and they will smash a car window just to get the change from the ashtray. They beg or steal all day long and spend all the money they get on drugs. The churches and shelters provide everything else, food, a bed, clothing.
Thank you for these videos. They are so humanizing. I always felt afraid of this area but I’ve watched so many videos of you safely walk through now. You’re right. These people are not dangerous. They look scary, but you look closer and they are just people. Some are even younger than me. Anyone seeing this who feels like these people are the lazy drug users they used to know is wrong. It only takes one mistake to get hooked nowadays. Can you honestly say you never made one mistake? I’m so lucky my mistake was before the time of fentanyl. None of us can see with certainty we are better than these people. We need forced treatment and we need to crack down on drugs. These people need to be rescued from evil Mexican and Chinese drug cartels
I've always heard how bad Vancouver's slum is but this doesn't seem that bad. I mean at least there are still regular people going about their business unlike some of these places where I assume normal people are afraid to go.
I'll be honest, I don't really give a crap about these people (as a whole, individually they can make me sad). It was their choice to get started down this path. No one put a needle in their arm the first time. But a lot of commenters don't seem to understand that after a while it's not about getting high anymore. It's about avoiding the pure hell of withdrawals. These drugs destroy your body's ability to make natural endorphins. Most people have no idea how much our bodies use endorphins. Without them, even walking is absolute agony. And there's the nausea. Imagine vomiting with no endorphins to stop you from feeling the violence of even just dry heaves? Point is it's really nearly impossible once you're in that stage to ever get clean. They just can't take withdrawals. They are in no shape to just "get a job."
govenrment pays for them or should i say the tax payer. most dont even have plans and use wifi around the area to use chat apps and also use them for music etc.
Ppl change, get clean or die or go in and out of jail. Addiction isn’t a crime and no one will change until they r ready, doesn’t look like it’s any better since it was me down there, it’s me who’s changed.
Shame on the leader of your country for not helping these people. I've no time for drug users they make their choice, but nobody should be living like this.
At first I thought "where do they take money for food ?" but I noticed a truck with free food. However what about drugs, where do they take it from ? Are there such kind of trucks with label "free drugs" ? I doubt that sh$t is cheap.
The drugs are cheaper in Vancouver compared to other cities in BC To be comfortable I needed around $200-$300 a day at the height of my addiction N that’s not a high number compared to others I knew on the street
@@bigdog8820 the prescription heroin program is pretty strict and difficult to get on if you go to jail, you’re off the program If you don’t show up when you’re suppose to You’re off the program If you test positive for other drugs You’re off the program Also the program isn’t for just anyone You have to have tried other means to stop your opiate addiction Such as methadone, suboxone, etc Multiple tries and failures Heroin lasts much longer in the body… it gives people stability Plus the program has very limited space Only a few get in compared to the thousands addicted to fentanyl
I live in a small city in northern Ontario and it's here too. I don't think there is a place left that isn't affected. It will get worse. It's already gotten so much worse in such a short time.
That's right, nothing better but worse.
let me guess, kenora ?!
Wow
Oh my God. And it's not Canada. What is going on there? What is that dirt in the street and on the sidewalks? And these homeless people, some of them addicted, filled these spaces with household items. Chairs. sleeping beds. bicycles. Baby vehicles. camp.... Garbage containers are dirty and badly stained on the side of buildings and houses. It's a strange thing happening in Canada. Just like what happens in Philadelphia in America. And as if it were the end of the human being!!!
You should have seen it earlier this summer. You literally could not walk on these sidewalks due to the number of tents set up. Massive piles of garbage everywhere, stinking to high heaven, addicts shooting up in the street, a complete horror show. It was finally declared an emergency situation and the VPD shut down the streets and finally forcibly took down the tents, which took a few days. This video here is very tame compared to usual daily goings on.
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YOU GOT TO BE MENTALLY STRONG TO LOOK AT THIS IT IS SAD
Just think how strong you have to be to defy incredible odds, get out of homelessness and to eventually become a homeowner! ( That would be me).
A 90 degree forward bending is their standard posture. Is there a particular reason why ? Energy saving mode ?
It definitely seems to cause muscular problems.
Tranq
They dont want to lay down because they will fall asleep and miss the "high". But it makes their body so relaxed so they bend over instead. They get really hot so some of them pull down their pants too. Called the fenty fold
Mixing meth and fentanyl
You’re sedated but pumped full of stimulants so you’re asleep while standing
Or unable to control your movements
It’s a result of using what these animals call “tranq”. Livestock tranquilizer .
Such an eye opener I never imagined Canada to have such a big homeless problem
All I can say is “ oh Canada”😢
"Oh Canada" 😃 L.O.L. !
Yes one of getting being problem because of free drugs and marijuana
Thanks Trudeau !
You only see whats infront on this video, the problem is pandemic scale!!
What a shame. The problem has definitely gotten worse in the past few years. The homeless were at least contained to the E. Hastings area before but it's slowly become an issue across the entire downtown peninsula. It smells like piss everywhere, human feces on the street, garbage littered everywhere, and people shooting up. I would definitely not recommend anyone with children to move anywhere close to the downtown core, or anywhere in Vancouver for that matter. At least until voters wake up and vote out these woke governments and woke policies that are 100% enabling this.
It isn't quite that bad, as long as you stay west of the Chinatown gate it's still a normal city. But yes half of these people should be forced to go to rehab and the other half should be in a mental asylum. Enough is enough, I don't understand how people just accept seeing people smoke crack on a sidewalk in the middle of the day.
@@arseface2k934a lot of this stuff is brought among themselves they have addictions there is help out there for them they don't have to be on the streets so they don't want to be
You're living in a euphoric fentanyl schizophrenia day dream-!!!.
What do you get out of waking through that smell and mysery?
You got a relatively “quiet “ day for filming. I live in the neighborhood and there can easily be 3-5 times this many people like this.
Hope will not happen to us what's happening in USA ,SPECIALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO ALMOST ALL BUSINESSES ARE CLOSE BECAUSE THE HIGH CRIMES,HOMELESSNESS, AND DRUGS THAT CAUSE OF DOWNFALL OF AMERICA
Ever thought about videoing A remake of " Night of the living Dead ". Using fentanyl schizophrenia zombies-???🤔.. Low cost production giving fentanyl to the actors-!!!😉.. While you're at it. Have a recording of the Beatle's classic song. Elenor Rigby playing in the background-!!!😉.
Such an amazing job government and whoever involved in this bs
Ya, who is lacing all the dope? How is it possible that all the dope is now tranq?
Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.
It's not the governments fault that these people are addicts. But it is the government's fault that they are in the streets and not in a facility, whether it be a prison or rehab
The government has done all they can do, the homeless have mental problems.
How in the hell is this the governments fault? People need to take responsibility for their own actions. Did the government make them do drugs ? Idiot !
Great videos. Our homeless in California are the same. More have tents. Rows ans rows. Our church feeds as many as possible but the lines are long every day. Few want jobs and many are working but not enough $$ for rent. Its a sad problem. Praying that their situations change. Most are mentally ill.
They became mentally ill due to high rent
Almost the same, our local charities daily feed them
@@tinahalim6589 quite possibly since we are all pretty much one paycheck away from the curb.
Rent doesn't cause mental illness, drugs do.
@@ruyan247actually social and mental degradation can come from living without basic necessities. ( like running water, place to change, shower toilet, safe place to sleep and proper social contact.)
Can't believe there's so homeless people in these first world countries, now I don't feel so bad, living in a third world country!!!
There is homeless in every country on the planet, don't let anyone tell you different.
@@KP-wt8qr That's true!!!! But for one of the wealthiest country in the world, that should not happen!!!! There are hundreds of extremely wealthy people in that country & have more money than they know what to do with it, why don't they help???? Maybe there's just too much greed & they don't give a damn. My third world country has its problems but nothing compared to this!!!!
@@Mervyn001 It doesn't really make sense if you're saying you live in a third world country then there are homeless people in your country, third world is just another term for poverty, so there is this in your country.
@@KP-wt8qr Third world country doesn't necessarily mean poverty & homeless people. My country's problem was due to a system called " apartheid". We don't have hundreds of people sleeping in street corners, the poor people were forced into squatter camps by the regime. So what I said does make sense. I never said, we don't have poverty, every country does but for a third world country, not as much as seen in the video!!!!
@@Mervyn001 What country? South Africa?
this shows Canada for what it is
Not what it once was-!!!😉
I was homeless years ago i passed out under a bridge drunk it was 22 degrees out i had hardly anything on luckily a complete stranger had walked by and put a blanket on me or i prob wouldn't be here right now!
How you do during these days, dude.
hey bud great vids the government needs to see more of these. im in victoria and downtown along Pandora is just as bad . id reccomend you getting a small gimble for your cam so you dont get that hop when you walk. amazon has them relatively cheap. keep up the good work mang. i drive truck for a living, i come to the mainland, fill up with produce and go back to the island. i go down to E. hastings and jackson to pick up a pallet .a lot of tents up there now in that block.
op
Good advice.
You can't hide a gimble. It's dangerous to openly film them.
These people are at the lowest point of their lives.. they don’t want their family or people from back home to see them like this
So people can get pretty angry if they catch you filming them
@@Meowface. you honestly think most of these people even care? give me a break. ive known a lot of homeless back east and trust me , they dont care cause most choose to be and most family know they are down here and dont give a shit.
@@justmeandmyopinions they dont care, all they want is their high.
I remember back when you were high or drunk your ass was dragged away atleast for an over nighter or longer for a repeat offender, and if you got angry or combative you got a couple good whacks with a good old police baton or even a face full of mace if you were really being a nasty piece of work, AAAhhhhh the good old days...
Ya, not long ago this stuff would not be tolerated. Heads would get cracked.
goverment paid rehanbs so they acn go straight to a rehab and give it a go ,alot of them could probably get clean if they were given one chance at least at a good treatment center livein so they are ther eand off the streets for awhile ,its not jsut the drugs ,it a life style,so ya but if they get clean i hope they can go and help others theyknow give them the one chance too ,i donthtink hittign peope will solve anyhting ,they dont deserved to be hot casue they have fallen to addiction,theres alot of alcoholics still walkign around in total denial they have drinking problems so ,i htink jsut give them all one shot at it and the goverment can pay for it and take it out of the goverment paid advocates paychecks ,i think they really are not helping at all....sadly somethign bigger has to happen ,but give them achance , know some they af good people my brother was there hes dead now but i wished he could have had one chance at it ,everyone deserves a achance at a better healther life with someone to help them stay out of a place that brought them to drugs in the first place or fix other problems that led them there .....sometimes it is simple to fix given one chance
@@bob733333 S O C I A L I S M apparently gives everything BUT LOVE & CARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve ASKED to be taken to jail for a night
When you’re cold and hungry, jail is a nice place to rest
Cops purposely cut people loose or don’t even contact them because they know jail isn’t a punishment
I mean unless you want to criminalize homelessness and lock people up for more than a night
Then people would try n avoid it
Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.
Not sure where you got your numbers from but the addiction rates for homeless people in the DTES is effectively 100%
@@xxllbb55 did the boot stuck in your mouth make seeing your screen difficult?
If a new generation of Drug and alcohol users doesn’t come along this problem will take care of it self ! These druggies can’t live much longer ! Suicide by drugs and alcohol !The Mayor must be so pride of the city he loves ?
Of course there are more comming!! Junkies can find their shit and USE it right where they are!! They live this way by CHOICE! Don't feel sorry for them and NONE are going to rehab!! Let them OD!
Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.
It ain't the mayor's fault
I remember when I was with my mom and dad and we were at a parking thing in Vancouver. And this homeless guy said he would pay for it if it goes off. Some homeless people are nice and I bet he has a rich life now.
Some of them are cool and nice. They are not as bad as most people guess.
@@ExploreVancouverCanada no, in addiction they are dangerous
all drugs are legal now in BC right? you think this will get better or worse ?
Untrue. Only marijuana is legal. Small amounts of other drugs for personal consumption have been decriminalized, not legalized.
@@margob6203so how do they get prescriptions for drugs they then sell to get illegal? You must be 15 yrs old if you have no clue that BC gives them the drugs called safe supply that they turn around and get illegal drugs for. Education is easy just google
Pot is legal across Canada yep but we gotta pay for that pot these people don’t pay anything for their safe supply.
I lived in the downtown eastside in 1982..i was 19yrs old and it was skid row back then...more alcoholics than drug addicts ...im lucky to have gotten out..im now 60..there were lots of places to live back then...i had a room on Main and Georgia...i think its multi level parking lot now...i should of died a couple of times back then...i guess god had a different plan
Thanks for sharing your story, bud. Back then there were more drinking problem, sometimes people drank Sake cooking wine.
The great and peaceful people of the great country of Canada. How peaceful is every street in Canada and how peacefully people are living here. They are very peaceful people. No fighting and no looting of any kind. This is Vancouver and the rest of Canada will be the same in years to come.
Ok Vlad.
Naw cuz other provinces won’t be giving out drugs so they can trade for illegal.
So Canada is going the same way as the US. All the best to you.....
because of the US..
Unfortunately along with sectors of Europe-!!! 😭.
@@YohahnDenial is more than a river in Egypt.
Observations: A very limber people! They seem to all have Cell phones! Someone can afford cans of spray paint, many cans in multiple colors!
Exactly
They don’t all have phones… maybe 1/4 do
N lots just use pay as you go plans n live off free wifi
I was homeless… a phone was the one and only thing my family paid for
Because my mom always wanted to be able to know where I was
Oh… and I never saw other homeless people tagging with spray paint
Tagging is a hobby… a homeless addict doesn’t have hobbies
Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.
Most of the people doing graffiti there aren’t homeless, they just paint in that area cause it’s sketchy and they’ll blend in easier (a civilian is less likely to be like hey what are you doing), also for the thrill of doing graffiti in a dangerous area. People need to stop writing on businesses though and in Chinatown, just makes the situation worse, stick to the walls and dumpsters.
How can such a great country as Canada tolerate such a pandemic drug problem ?
Canada fell ages ago.
They have made drugs legal here..
@@chimralyonfire Jun 16, 2023 - An estimated 21% of Canadians, about 6 million people, will meet the criteria for addiction in their lifetime.
@@Inf7cted And what are these criterias, do you support legalization of drugs and safe supplies? 50 PC Canadians suffer mental health problems of various kinds and will grow in future...
@@chimralyonfire
Homelessness stems from various factors. Social causes, including the scarcity of affordable housing, poverty, and unemployment, contribute to homelessness. Additionally, life events can push individuals into a state of homelessness.
The combination of inadequate income stability and unaffordable housing leads to what is known as "hidden" homelessness. These individuals may oscillate between being homeless and having temporary housing, making the homelessness issue more extensive than what is typically reflected in street or shelter counts.
A study conducted in 2022 revealed that the differences in homelessness rates across the country are not primarily attributed to mental illness, drug addiction, or poverty, but rather to variations in housing costs.
For many homeless individuals, accessing drugs or alcohol is easier than finding stable employment and secure housing. On the streets, drugs are more readily available than opportunities for homeless individuals to improve their circumstances. When coupled with the stress and anxiety that accompany life as a homeless person, it is understandable why someone in such a situation might turn to substances as a means of coping. Moreover, if someone was already battling drug addiction before becoming homeless, their situation is further compounded by the difficulty of receiving essential medical treatment.
There all over the U.S and Canada but do politicians even care um no
Democratic countries.
Exactly
It doesn’t look like a homeless problem so much as a zombie apocalypse drug problem. Homelessness is the byproduct.
That's right, either byproduct or consequence.
Both diabolically devastating room mates go hand in hand-!!!😉.
Absolutely a drug problem only homeless as no one can rent to people that can’t start a fire in a place and kill others. Homeless is not the issue it’s the drugs
Wow. I thought this was just a thing here in the states. Humanity must be crashin' and burnin'.
It's China. Chinese are the primary source of fentanyl and India 2ndary. Fentanyl can easily be smuggled overseas due to only needing a small amount per dose
@@apples874 China also buying up everything causing a housing pandemic.
Downtown east side Vancouver was always bad, long before fentanyl. Back in the day, it was heroin at pigeon park, then meth, then crack, then fentanyl, then tranq. I wasn’t there for the fentanyl and tranq, but the telltale signs show the same. In San Fran, we’ve got the same zombies doubled over, and scabs up there arms and legs. It’s tough to see. They are humans after all. I want to care, but it’s brutal. What can be done? Vancouver has been trying everything long before a lot of American cities ever lifted a finger. But the problem still remains and has become worse.
Thanks for your story @craigstewart8123, dtes was bad but not as today. I live in Van since 86 and sometimes driving by E Hastings to Stanley Park and there was nothing like today.
@@ExploreVancouverCanada so where did all the homeless go? its not like they just vanished right?
Strange how we don't see foreigners on the streets ad homeless
You can see, but how do they feel.. unreal 😢
the coming world-wide depression will only make it worse
S O C I A L I S M apparently gives everything BUT LOVE & CARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But they tell me Socialism is the future!
This is Proof Socialism works!
This is Honcouver??,
East Hastings has been this way for 50+ years - Vancouverites would sooner it stayed that way than move the problem elsewhere , or do anything about it!
I do not agree. 4 decade ago, there was one or two wandering or sleeping on the bus bench
@@ExploreVancouverCanadaFalse. There is a documentary made by the National Film Board in the 1970s and the situation was the same. The only difference I see is those people folded in two after using fentanyl.
You mean East Wastings.
What do they live off in Canada? How do most get cash?
Welfare system and free drugs apparently with "safe injection sites" . Also the influx of other homeless people from other provinces .
Incridible ,and that for a rich country like Canada.
Incredible.
Has nobody ever told these people this is what happens when you use drugs?
What's it for ?
***WOW*** 🥺 Why is "NOTHING" being done about this???🤔😥
The government needs to want to put these people to work building shelters for the homeless.
Like that would work. I doubt most of these people could build a snowman without help!
Free coffee and food van! I was surprised to see that. I believe Vancouver is more organized then other zombie areas in the world 🌎
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Well this is better than other vids I've seen
For obvious reasons I wish Vancouver was like the town of Chillingbourne. 💔💔💔
Governments, members of provincial legislation and Charities have no real intentions to solve the root problem. Perpetuating the problem is best for their continual interest.
But how? please leave out the Charities, giving FOOD and CLOTHING daily.
Exactly
Canada's only possible solution to Homelessness is to gather all the homeless people across Canada grouped in one place, for example, in Toronto or Vancouver Don't let them wander into every other location and stay on the sidewalks. If you see homeless people, dump them all in Vancouver or anywhere with a good climate. There needs to be a place to accept those homeless people to be put and be allowed to live. Similarly, the garbage that has landfills to dump enough rubbish and segregate combustible from non-combustible waste so you can recycle usable items by type, likewise to people, cautiousness if the people are contagious, separate the bad from the good people and ordinary people. Separate the sheep from the goats. Matthew 25:31-46
And after that build a wall around and fill it with comcrete
No kidding. nobody has right to relocating them.
每個政府都不想有這樣情況出現 世界各國都有這樣的貧民區 貧民佔大多數 所以加拿大政府要抽富人稅 世界各地都有貧富懸殊 這問題很難解決 看看北韓不會有這情況的 這是正式共產國家o
This is DRUGS not homelessness. Granted no one can rent to addicts but BC people want to give out free drugs so they can trade for illegal and kill themselves. Not homeless problem a drug and mental province problem.
Vancouverites must be happy to be residing in one of the most “livable” cities in the world, no?
the sane ones leave
@@10percent4DaBigGuy I left two years ago.
@@robertdobie8680 vancouver physically stole over 250K from me in physical possessions from me this included things like the only time my parents house was BnE happened during the day while i was at school feb 28 1996 on my 8th birthday(my actual 8th birthday) nearly 30 BMX bikes i literally physically built with money i earned(nearly 30 grand) most of them where stolen from people i once knew but no way to prove it and once you ask them to do you a simply favour a person literally broke in and cleaned out my mothers life savings Well!!!! over! 150K in precious metals! in my 35 years of life has left me with a physical bad taste in my mouth of not vancouver but its people(all of them) and that's not even half of it but some of the most rememberable stuff! this is why i will Never! Return to vancouver
@@10percent4DaBigGuynot sane the poor ones leave. There was a time the mouthy middle class BC would trash Alberta as if they were something great now they are running here as they can’t afford their wonderful province. Funny thing is they keep that delusion that we like them that everyone in the world likes them😂 crazy is all they are with no money left
We wait till they lose their houses they are not cut out for our province they should go to Quebec only
Vancouver's soooo privileged! this is one of the reasons i won't return!
You should have checked on that young guy on the corner ! Jeez 😡
I can only assume you are using a concealed camera?
🙏🙏🙏
These lowlives need to be charged for EVERYTHING to the ABSOLUTE fullest extent of the law!
Prayers help. Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.
I was offered drugs at the height of the hippie counter cultural revolution of the 1960's and said No.
I was 12. I thought it was stupid to do drugs. All this self degredation is disgusting. And these people blame it on everybody but themselves. That is the real tragedy.
Very depressing. I think that I would rather slit my wrists than have to live a life like that.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about
This goes way further than drug use
What can you expect when a piece of shit house in the area is at least 2 million to buy!
أين الاهل والاسر ؟ يا الله رحمتك
We need to help them my son down there
Some people know how to have fun and enjoy life! Lets not be jelous!
Lol
For Canada Day, I want to give everyone a pillow--and call it no dipping Day. (just chillax)
Isnt it like snow in Canada how do they do it in the cold, they mustn't shower for days, where do they go to eat, and wait till it eats sway at their flesh a girl in one of the other videos in Kensington arm got amputated due to fentanyl and tranq use
It's similar to Kensington Philly
Vancouver specifically is unique because it's in a rainforest, so it does now snow in Vancouver or get below 0 but it just rains a lot. The rest of Canada all snow.
The cold winter save Montreal from this mess
how and where are these hundreds of people getting the drugs? they all have them all the time. how?
Curtesy of Trudolf at the expenses of Canadians
They'll steal anything they get their hands on and sell it
@@lv2keepfit493And most of the VAST majority are criminals. Stealing anything they can!
Glad my tax dollars are going to good use 🤦♂️
Drugs are cheap here and they will smash a car window just to get the change from the ashtray. They beg or steal all day long and spend all the money they get on drugs. The churches and shelters provide everything else, food, a bed, clothing.
It’s been like this 4-5 years already
Thank you for these videos. They are so humanizing. I always felt afraid of this area but I’ve watched so many videos of you safely walk through now. You’re right. These people are not dangerous. They look scary, but you look closer and they are just people. Some are even younger than me. Anyone seeing this who feels like these people are the lazy drug users they used to know is wrong. It only takes one mistake to get hooked nowadays. Can you honestly say you never made one mistake? I’m so lucky my mistake was before the time of fentanyl. None of us can see with certainty we are better than these people. We need forced treatment and we need to crack down on drugs. These people need to be rescued from evil Mexican and Chinese drug cartels
Oh my god..All sorounding in d city is very bad..how come d peaple leaving in that place🤔😲😭
nowhere to go.
Why doesnt this happen in japan? Singapore? China? Learn from asia and strengthen laws for once.
wow it looks just like s.f.calif
It's base on the same line of policy. Except you throw in Indigenous rights and thus is even worse.
I've always heard how bad Vancouver's slum is but this doesn't seem that bad. I mean at least there are still regular people going about their business unlike some of these places where I assume normal people are afraid to go.
It's incredibly scary if you think this is not bad or in any way unacceptable. Please, for the greater good, do not vote in elections.
Kensington II
I'll be honest, I don't really give a crap about these people (as a whole, individually they can make me sad). It was their choice to get started down this path. No one put a needle in their arm the first time. But a lot of commenters don't seem to understand that after a while it's not about getting high anymore. It's about avoiding the pure hell of withdrawals.
These drugs destroy your body's ability to make natural endorphins. Most people have no idea how much our bodies use endorphins. Without them, even walking is absolute agony. And there's the nausea. Imagine vomiting with no endorphins to stop you from feeling the violence of even just dry heaves?
Point is it's really nearly impossible once you're in that stage to ever get clean. They just can't take withdrawals. They are in no shape to just "get a job."
And BC is legalizing the SMALL amount of DRUGS. Interesting!
Not legalizing, decriminalizing. There is a difference.
How can a civilized family live in such a city? This is just Horrible! 😮
Hey we got that on pandora in Victoria.
شركه مجموعه فاغنر لادارة المطاعم تريد ان تفتتح فرع هنا هل ههكم ذلك رجاء لدينا اكله جديده اسمها فلافل طعمييه😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
This makes me wonder where they y’all at in the winter
Just there, on Hastings. The homeless winter in a field out here in Salmon Arm. Vancouver must be a dream temperature wise.
WTH is that incessant whistle or squeal noise??? Can't believe the city could allow that kind of noise pollution...
It’s a high frequency vermin repellent. Unfortunately it’s not working, apparently.
The street looks clean
Looks just like Oakland Cal 😢
This is like ķensington in philly 😢
I see that affording those high priced cigarettes isn;t a problem.
Everyone down there smokes untaxed cigs
They are counterfeit 5 bucks
How come homeless people afford a cellphone we have house that's payed for but no cellphones we are frugal
Government pays for them......I can't afford one either
Why suffer in your home? Get out on the streets. Then you can have a cell phone and everything else these people have.
govenrment pays for them or should i say the tax payer. most dont even have plans and use wifi around the area to use chat apps and also use them for music etc.
U can get pretty shitty phones for like $50
Drugs..
Ppl change, get clean or die or go in and out of jail. Addiction isn’t a crime and no one will change until they r ready, doesn’t look like it’s any better since it was me down there, it’s me who’s changed.
Thanks dude, hoping more people will follow your footsteps.
9:39 protein shake
Lmao😂
It looks like ZombieLand. You should get double decker busses and do zombie tours. Ten percent can go to the clean needle program.
عندما تتغير الاداره الامريكيه بالصدفه. سيصبح كل شيء بخير😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
All disused army camps should be reopened as drug treatment facilities and these people are rounded up and treated
courtesy of Justin Trudo
Shame on the leader of your country for not helping these people. I've no time for drug users they make their choice, but nobody should be living like this.
They think they are being helpful by murdering or enabling suicide of all the junkies.
Rightfully earned problems, you know how your province works lol, homeless people here more homeless people there
Reminds me of early Granville. And damn, Van graffiti 'artists' suuuck
Что происходит с этим заподным миром 😮
At least it's quite.. Give me this over spring break any time
Hard to believe is this real
0:04
Would
At first I thought "where do they take money for food ?" but I noticed a truck with free food. However what about drugs, where do they take it from ? Are there such kind of trucks with label "free drugs" ? I doubt that sh$t is cheap.
The drugs are cheaper in Vancouver compared to other cities in BC
To be comfortable I needed around $200-$300 a day at the height of my addiction
N that’s not a high number compared to others I knew on the street
The city of Vancouver actually supplies some of the drugs. "Safe Supply" they call it. Gee, I wonder why they have an addiction problem.
@@rl5579 there’s prescription heroin
People on that program aren’t the ones out committing crime
They get their lives back
@@Meowface.fantasy world.
@@bigdog8820 the prescription heroin program is pretty strict and difficult to get on
if you go to jail, you’re off the program
If you don’t show up when you’re suppose to
You’re off the program
If you test positive for other drugs
You’re off the program
Also the program isn’t for just anyone
You have to have tried other means to stop your opiate addiction
Such as methadone, suboxone, etc
Multiple tries and failures
Heroin lasts much longer in the body… it gives people stability
Plus the program has very limited space
Only a few get in compared to the thousands addicted to fentanyl
00:05 perfect position!!!!
This is what is known as "being close to resources".
@0:05 WTF🤔😐😂🤣
I think this is better than Los Angeles CA.
right. but los angeles is better than chicago.
We are in the same boat. Nothing can be done.
Why are they bent over like that?
Nodding Out” is a common term for heroin or opioid-induced state that causes overdose-related
It's the methadone it messes up the skeleton
Once they were beautiful new born babies, it shows there are some reasons in education system.
Do they get drugs for free ?
some said Yes, some said No. But I guess free/safe injection sites and or nurses gave them some to revitalizing.
Turn 'em into fertiliser!
Looks like USA, 😢
В России такого не увидишь . К нам иммигрируют многодетные фермеры из Канады и США . Хотят нормальную жизнь своим детям .
Liberalism is great. We have it here in the US as well.
Such nonsense. This has been an issue for 4 or 5 decades now. Nothing to do with Liberals