When I left Vancouver 15 years ago, it was dying then. There’s only so many times you can see heroin users shooting up on the bus, mentally ill people urinating and defecating into drains and being scared to accidentally leave so much as a dime on your car seat. It’s frustrating bcs I’d very much like to return to BC, and Vancouver is where all the jobs in games, tech and higher education are…but then, so is the heroin and related crime. I was single then, and can’t imagine raising kids there now. It’s really very sad.
Yes, it is very sad. Young people have to move away from here to live in other cities. If we follow the pattern of other west coast cities in the U.S., the situation will get worse. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Wishing you all the best.
City staff who have jobs to try to "come up with solutions" are benefiting, they don't want to find a solution because then their job will be done and they'll be out of work.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 I have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with City staff and I agree with you completely. Some of the people who work for the city of Vancouver should be ashamed of themselves.
Had a store in 90s down there and it was barely safe but now hundreds of well off social workers have convinced living this way is ok. There needs to be more 1-1 24/7 rehab and pay those workers very well for 15 day contracts or something in provided room or housing.
Man, this gives me so much nostalgia. Im going to move to Vancouver soon. Right now, I am in China (using a VPN). I really hope this doesn't spread, or things will get pretty bad. Let's all pray for Vancouver.
The tents have been mostly dismantled but a lot of the homeless people are still living on the streets. Thanks for praying for Vancouver. Have a safe trip when you're coming to Vancouver.
Keep up the good work. While it's a sad situation, it's the city's responsibility to do something about this. Businesses and people who live in the neighborhoods do not need to be terrorized or feel unsafe living in their neighborhood.
Finland might have some solutions for our homeless problem. Finland gave their homeless population free housing and a high percentage of the homeless picked themselves up and found jobs . If you have an income the government might want you to pay rent .
My friend, a lawyer, just migrated to Vancouver from the Philippines. She joined her husband and daughter who moved earlier this year. Her husband is on a study visa. She, as his dependent can work there while their daughter studies high school. They're already wealthy in the Philippines. She worked as a corporate lawyer here while her husband is/was in the tech business. Canada is a different ballpark but I feel they'll continue to be wealthy there. Meanwhile, I'm stuck here. I wonder though despite it being a super modern and wealthy country why Canada still has its share of homeless population.
There is a widening gap between the wealthy and the poor. The price of housing is out of reach for many people. There is not enough social housing for the poor. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Just went to Vancouver, it seems as if they all spend money on drugs, I see half of the homeless people knocked out literally mid-day, I saw somebody trying to interview them but none of the homeless people that were knocked out woke up, a guy who I talked to got groceries from a street full of homeless people, apparently a guy started chasing him with a hatchet, before that he got spat on aswell, I was eating at an A & W and I had to take a poo, but there was a guy living in the stall, backpack, pillow, everything, it’s truly disgusting how many homeless people there is, Vancouver really has to sort it out, but if Vancouver DOES sort it out, more homeless people will save up for transportation to Vancouver, continuing the process over and over and over again, making it an infinite loophole, all Vancouver would be is a homeless shelter
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. It's a bad situation in Vancouver which a lot of people do not realize. Thanks for telling it like it is. If we follow the pattern of U.S. cities on the west coast, the worst is yet to come. Thanks for checking out my video.
Recently there was a homeless man who went to one of our city mayoral debates and yelled at the current mayor about the lack of water in this area. There used to be washroom facilities on the street but I think they were closed. Thanks for checking out my video.
it is NOT a homeless situation....the homelessness of these poor souls is due to either drug / alcohol abuse or severe mental health. Putting them in a 'home' doesn't end the cycle
It's an experiment gone wrong. We're at the start of the bad situation, if we follow the pattern of west coast cities in the U.S. Thanks for commenting.
these guyes da ' omeless " are makin our beautifull citay look like it ' ghetto " ang tanks da lord for thems man ang woman of da Vancouver poelice force for all there hard work in these matter you know what i sayin
Still looks exactly the same. Check out Debbie Hellion and the Apocalypse, she lives on Hastings right above all this shit and films daily. She was recently attacked for filming, had her purse, phone and jewelry stolen. They threw the puppy stroller she uses to walk her dog into the street in oncoming traffic. They beat her up. Thank God she had pepper spray, it was two men and a woman who attacked her. Everyday she also faces insults and threats from the people. They block the entrance to the senior housing building she lives, they do and sell drugs and have drug parties in their tents and sell stolen items in front of her building. It's a disgusting situation. The enabling of these drug addicts needs to stop.
This is a 'west coast' thing, Seattle, Portland, San Fran, San Diego and L.A. all have the same challenges. If you do some research you'll find that less that 50% of these souls are from BC. The majority are from across Canada who were lured by warmer weather and easy access to welfare. Other provinces have been 'caught' coercing their street people to move to BC, Alberta and Sask. are major culprits. This is a national problem, Vancouver is unfortunately the end of the sewer pipe. In 2022 the Canadian federal fiscal budget shows that 7.6 BILLION dollars was given in foreign aid !? WTF. Pakistan , a haven for Muslim radicals AND a country proven to have training bases for terrorists was given 58 MILLION dollars...and this to a country that has a nuclear bomb and was Bin Laden's hiding place. The Pakistan Gov't KNEW he was there.... and we give them money ? Before Trudeau goes skipping around the globe handing out our money, lets take care of our own backyard first. Lets take care of these people and our Veterans, we just need a provincial and federal gov't who has the vision and balls to do it...
Vancouver may be dying but it's a symptom of neglect how many of them ran away from home because of abuse etc? The problems start before they end up on the street.
The drug addicts don't need the prayers. The disadvantaged tenants in the very low income housing need they prayers. They are the ones being forced to have to live with these criminal drug addicts in tents on their sidewalks. The disadvantaged tenants are the ones being assaulted, harassed, stolen from by these drug addicts that need to be moved into an asylum and out of the DTES.
@@paulreynolds7103 Not when it's the so called "homeless" perpetrating the crimes. The thing people need to understand about the DTES is that so many of the people who set up tents and set up little "shops" with stolen goods are not homeless, they come from other neighbourhoods to sell their stolen things, sell drugs, have drug parties, and just create chaos. Maybe go rent an apartment in the Eastside, 41 East Hastings, the Olivia Skye building run by Atira, they have 1 bedrooms available, go rent it and live in the neighbourhood. Probably will be assaulted or robbed within a month, and face threatening comments from the so called "homeless" people everytime you walk by them. Invite to set up their tents and all their junk in your neighbourhood outside your home. The drug addicts have a dangerous hive mentality and assault and threaten everyone. You're blinded by a bleeding heart and know nothing.
@@paulreynolds7103 Watch the documentary VANCOUVER IS DYING. Remember when people were trying to fight to allow the tents in Oppenheimer Park? A bunch of tents were full of weapons, a woman who called to clean up the park was brutally assaulted by people in the park. The low income disadvantaged people who live in the buildings that are surrounded by the "homeless" it's way more dangerous for them than the people in tents on sidewalks. like I said, educate yourself.
@@DanSetoChineseCanadianRootsTV I never knew Canada is like this. Or was this bad. I grew up hearing my parents saying Canada was a nice and safe place where people often don’t even have to lock doors during the night.
Canada, you are better than this. Here in the USA. We conclude that we have lost our Blue cities.,.fell back to the so called Backward South. You are fine people. Please don't allow this to spread. God Bless your Truckers. They were/Are our heroes and heroines
Sir you have an excellent channel here. You should do a periodic video to summarize news articles of all the random assaults. I email my MP and MLA on a weekly basis with all the violent headlines from our downtown.
Sure there is many homeless, in Vancouver it cost 40 time for a rent than in Sherbrooke Quebec, how can you afford that , I was your king as a machinist for the aviation industry near Montreal can you imagine the pay check ? I definitely retired at age 47 and live aboard my sailboat in the south , sail in French Polynesia and other country ,,, what industry you have in Vancouver? Noodles industry ? Ho yeah selling cups of noodles at 0,27 $ how can you pay your employee 45 to 90 $/ hour Vancouver is a dead city , a refuge for the homeless because in winter it’s not too cold .
A lot of wealthy people moving here. A lot of workers can't make enough money to live here. Soon there will not be enough workers to serve the wealthy. Great to hear that you worked hard and achieved the lifestyle that you want. Thanks for checking out my video.
@@DanSetoChineseCanadianRootsTV thank for the reply , living in vencouver is too expensive, as I was telling i’m in Quebec and we have a totally free healthcare it’s financed through our taxes on our income, in ONTARIO it’s the same system, I don’t know in British Columbia if it’s the same system but I know in some provinces there’s some difference they have theirs own system. Can you explain the healthcare system in BC ?
They aren't homeless. They are drug addicts from other neighbourhoods who come set up tents and have drug parties because the police aren't allowed to enforce laws in the DTES. The mayor won't allow them to do their job in the east side.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 it’s the same as California once it became a haven for Homeless people! There’s interviews of them in Santa Monica and they said they came from other states because at least in California they wouldn’t suffer from extreme weather changes like Chicago and such!
@@g.k.7057 "Trauma" is being used as an excuse to justify drug abuse and crime. A lot of the drug addicts started because of peer pressure and continue using because look what's around them, the city and organizations like OPS and Pivot and Vandu think keeping them in this environment helps them. If they truly wanted to help the addicts, they would be getting them out of the neighborhood, away from the drugs and this lifestyle and drug culture, they wouldn't continue enabling them and feeding them drugs.
The Seattle Chinatown International District (CID) dodged a close one. The County was going to expand a Covid 19 Salvation Army homeless shelter to 5 acres of land, where it would have @ 400 beds, 50 Tiny Homes and 50 RV parking spots. This facility would also be the City's Drunk Tank and have a 24/7 Mental Health Clinic. This Mega Shelter is located 1-1/2 block South of the CID and the County never talked to the neighborhood about it's plans - Winter 2022 was it's implementation date. The nearby Seattle Little Saigon neighborhood businesses were destroyed by a 75 bed Shelter (DESC Navigation Center) that attracted lots of Crime and Drug Addicts. Crazy in Seattle, you have to steal more than $950 so it's a felony. Anything under, it's a Misdemeanor and the Police don't come since they got Defunded and are understaffed. Drug use is like Vancouver, so you see people using business doorways all the time, scaring away customers. Thankfully the CID started rallies and the Elderly old ladies living there showed up to the Protests with signs and chants, they embarrassed the County and it got cancelled. Lookup "Seattle Chinatown Objects to Shelter", you'll see some Seattle Times articles. RUclips channel "Chino Y Chicano" episode 70 (it got cancelled) 67 (CID history) 62 (Journalist Jonathan Choe about Seattle's Homeless) and 60 (Transit Station in CID - 10 years of construction). Jonathan Choe is a Senior Fellows (Writer) for the Discovery Institute. Look them up and His reporting and articles brought a lot attention to this Shelter. All West Coast Chinatowns should be treasured because they are one of the most "Historic and Unique Neighborhood" of the City. You want to see it thrive and exist as inspiration to the younger Asian Generations. The Anthem of Asian Success - "AWE is WOW" - Asian Work Ethic is Why Opportunity Works Asian parents expect their children to do well in school. The Brain is a Muscle - Exercise It!! They know you won't be a Professional Athlete, they don't want to see you Stuck in the Family Business. Build your mind with more Education, Skills and Awareness for better Opportunities in Life. If you can see yourself outside your skin ... It will explain how the World treats you. Experience is how you make your Money. It represents your Education, Skills, Drive, Charms, Bravery and Opportunities. Wisdom is what you do with your Money, once you have it. Think Family and Generational Wealth. Understand how Discipline and Delaying Gratification builds Strength of Character Finally, see Empathy with others. You'll be seen as Stuck up and Money Grubbing otherwise. Sad how East Hastings Street destroyed your Chinatown. I remember when Vancouver's Chinatown was a Great Chinatown. Hopefully Mayor Sim will have a chance to do something about it.
Thanks very much for your comprehensive comment. It's much appreciated. I saw something about the protest but I didn't know any of the details, so your comment gave me a lot of details. Just as an aside, I didn't recognize Enrique Cerna. I use to see him because I use to watch Seattle news and programming. It's hard to imagine Seattle's situation is so bad a 5 acre shelter was considered. I haven't been to Seattle in over 12 years. I think East Hastings has affected Chinatown but it hasn't caused Chinatown to deteriorate. Although there are some homeless people hanging out in Chinatown, there are no tents, as far as I can tell in Chinatown. Partly because services, such as injection sites and support is located on East Hastings Street. Graffiti and vandalism happens in both areas. The unprovoked attacks in Chinatown are not all by homeless people. Chinatowns throughout North America are facing similar challenges, such as gentrification, affordable housing and retaining the Chinese culture. Great to see the senior Chinese protestors out in full force. We had the Chinese seniors out to stop a building going up at 105 Keefer Street. It was a smaller cause than yours in Seattle, but we were happy to see it stopped. I'll be keeping track of the situation in Seattle. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and thanks for viewing my video.
@@DanSetoChineseCanadianRootsTV I look forward to seeing your videos. It is nice to see how other Chinatowns are doing. The "Northwest Asian Weekly" covers the Seattle area Asian community. They have an article on the Businesses leaving the Chinatown district due to crimes caused by the homeless. What the CID feared about the Mega Shelter was how a Shelter operates - they take people in for the night, feed them breakfast, then ask them to leave. Also it will be the City's Sobering Center and 24/7 Mental Health Clinic for the Homeless - so it concentrates a lot of dysfunctional people in one area and it's not a jail, they can leave when they feel good enough to repeat the same cycle of despair again. Where do they go when they leave? South to the Industrial area, East to I-5 and a hill, West to the Stadiums or 1 block North to Chinatown where there's Parks, Businesses, Restaurants and Transit stations to Shoplift from, Customers to beg from, Vacant lots to buy drugs from and a City Park to sleep and do their drugs, litter needles and use the area as a bathroom. It would make the CID so scary and undesirable to visit, that Businesses would leave and the land is now available for the City's developer friends - it is government approved Block Busting a neighborhood for it's valuable property. Sad that a City that Prides Itself for it's "Wokeness", Equity and Inclusion could care less about the Success of a neighborhood full of Ch*nks, J*ps and G**ks - who cause no problems to the City if left alone. Even the Police Chief thought it was a bad idea.
@@hillyseattlenarrowstreets6087 Thanks for filling me in on how these shelters operate. I was wondering about it and you have answered a lot of my questions. I'm afraid it could happen in our city. One of the mayoral candidates came up with the idea of a shelter at the site of our exhibition theme park, called the Pacific National Exhibition. Turns out this place was the site of an interment camp to imprison Japanese citizens around the time of the second world war. That candidate didn't win. Thanks for your detailed comment. I appreciate it.
NDP is the whole problem. They give super power to all these people. If you claim to be homeless, you can break all the rules and no one can touch you.Paying tax and working hard will be the biggest crime. Poor is not a crime but violating the law definitely is. There are so many laws they all violated every second.
Could be many variables unllawful inheritance from parents, this crappy cra termination program and its so expensive you need to buy or you'll just be evicted serious ly ppl are renting rooms for 1000 having sex with each other it could be that the whole reason estate there is screwing the entire country renting rooms should be outlawed... man when you see how these people live inside a massive unit you rent would want this too
There are all sorts of housing, medical and social services available to the mentally ill and drug addicted people of Canada. The problem in treatment lies in the nature of individual rights and freedoms allowed to citizens under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the individuals will to seek this treatment. It can not be forced on them. Mentally ill and drug addicted people are not capable of summoning the discipline required to properly maintain a home, let alone maintaining a responsible administrative life of a normal citizen. They prefer the streets to the boring minutiae of institutional medical and psychiatric therapy combined with the rigors of daily domestic duties in the maintaining of a proper functioning dwelling.
We' re lucky to have a former president who waged a war on drugs. Now these things are now minimal in our country. The Canadian govt should look into this. We hope people there get on the way back to recovery. Watching from the Philippines.
Sometimes comments are put in the "Held For Review" section but I didn't see it there. I know your intentions are good. Thanks for checking out my video. I hope things are well with you Roy.
It's actually under the city leadership where the majority of city councillors support the BC Green party. And the mayor chooses to support special interest groups in the city that advocate for the drug addicts rather than allowing the police to do their job. Mayor Kennedy Stewart first defunded the department by taking away $6M of their budget, but then they challenged him, took it to the province and the provincial NDP party ordered him to reinstate the $6M to their budget, so then since that didn't work, Kennedy started ordering the police to not engage with people in the DTES, to decrease the police presence in the Eastside, and he implemented a rule telling the police they have to tell residents to call 3-1-1 to report a crime rather than calling the police so that city hall can filter the calls and determine what police respond to. In addition, Kennedy supports drug addict advocate groups like Pivot, led by Anna Cooper who claims it's the drug addicts right to set up tents and do drug and create this hell on the sidewalks. She also claims it's illegal for the cops to do anything. Which is totally false and not sure why the police by her BS. And Kennedy also supports DULF which supplies the drug addicts with more free opioids that keep them addicted to drugs. Kennedy also supports OPS led by Sarah Blyth that has 8 buildings on Hastings where drug addicts can go and feed their addiction with all the heroin and meth and crack and fentanyl they want. They choose to enable the drug addicts and allow them to create this world of crime and violence and disgusting drug addiction instead of protecting the disadvantaged tenants in the low income buildings where the poor seniors, disabled people and working poor individuals can only afford to live. The actual disadvantaged Vancouverites are being treated like second class citizens to the drug addicts, the drug addicts are given more rights than the actual poor people. You should watch the video Vancouver is Dying on here, it offers more information about what is going on. The majority of problems are due to Mayor Kennedy. He needs to be voted out.
Their narrative doesn't play without the homeless. In addition, they know that solutions are so simple. Criminals litter the streets in the DTES. Those people won't change, even with free housing. In addition, the NDP is completely full of s**t. They are all about narratives and very little action. They waste tax money and tell tall tales.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 Thank you and very good sharing. I just don't understand, in order to save these people is to get them off and away from the drugs they are by any possible means. Also to offer whatever support possible to get them back on their feet. I can't see the login on how these people can be helped by keeping then on the drugs that ended up killing them.
2:40 they need a good place to go, social housing is essential for temporary and longterm improvement of addiction and mental health. Social housing with no stipulations.
Its a sad thing to have this situation and we should do something about it. But the title of the video is really disrespectful and offensive. After all, they are just victims of circumstances.
I think the answer is simple if you want to live on the streets and not pay taxes like normal people. On drugs or not on drugs your going to have to work create a place that all those homeless people are taken to like a large farm or factory and put there asses to work making stuff or cleaning zoos or graffiti off the streets. Come with the Curfew you can't Reason with anyone on drugs or help them Unless they really really want The help so you want to live on the streets and shit and pee and do what ever now we have a place for all of you to go and pay your dues I don't feel sorry for them because there are plenty of programs out there they just choose to live like that take them all to labor farms or Industrial area for homeless and put them to work there is plenty of work to do
When I left Vancouver 15 years ago, it was dying then. There’s only so many times you can see heroin users shooting up on the bus, mentally ill people urinating and defecating into drains and being scared to accidentally leave so much as a dime on your car seat. It’s frustrating bcs I’d very much like to return to BC, and Vancouver is where all the jobs in games, tech and higher education are…but then, so is the heroin and related crime. I was single then, and can’t imagine raising kids there now. It’s really very sad.
Yes, it is very sad. Young people have to move away from here to live in other cities. If we follow the pattern of other west coast cities in the U.S., the situation will get worse. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Wishing you all the best.
For this level of poverty to exist someone some where must be benefiting.
Fentynal comes from China
I'm hearing many viewpoints on this. Thanks for viewing my video.
You bet!
City staff who have jobs to try to "come up with solutions" are benefiting, they don't want to find a solution because then their job will be done and they'll be out of work.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 I have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with City staff and I agree with you completely. Some of the people who work for the city of Vancouver should be ashamed of themselves.
Had a store in 90s down there and it was barely safe but now hundreds of well off social workers have convinced living this way is ok. There needs to be more 1-1 24/7 rehab and pay those workers very well for 15 day contracts or something in provided room or housing.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom. Certainly a lot has changed sinced the 90's. Thanks for checking out my video.
It’s a problem right across Canada. It’s stemmed from greed.
Man, this gives me so much nostalgia. Im going to move to Vancouver soon. Right now, I am in China (using a VPN). I really hope this doesn't spread, or things will get pretty bad. Let's all pray for Vancouver.
The tents have been mostly dismantled but a lot of the homeless people are still living on the streets. Thanks for praying for Vancouver. Have a safe trip when you're coming to Vancouver.
لقد عمل المريكان من هاذا القمامة والنفات البشرية جيش تصرف عليهي دول الخليج لخراج موضفهم صدام من العمل بعد انتهاء عقلهي 😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 😂😂😂😂
Keep up the good work. While it's a sad situation, it's the city's responsibility to do something about this. Businesses and people who live in the neighborhoods do not need to be terrorized or feel unsafe living in their neighborhood.
Thanks very much. We're having a civic election this Saturday. I hope it's a start of something better. Thanks for checking out my video.
the city brought it upon itself. They could not afford rents after the wild increases due to "property taxes" or values going up, what a pile of crap.
@@whitesquirrel4131 So then what do you propose? Just give up?
@@whitesquirrel4131 Many factors involved, including no affordable housing as you say. Thanks for checking out my video.
very disturbing .
Yes, it is very disturbing. Thanks for checking out my video.
Finland might have some solutions for our homeless problem. Finland gave their homeless population free housing and a high percentage of the homeless picked themselves up and found jobs . If you have an income the government might want you to pay rent .
Our country should at least check into it to see if it can be implemented here. Thanks for viewing my video.
They probably don't get $900 a month in Finland.
Fentanyl destroy humans mentally and physically beyond the point of repair very quickly.
That's because their "homeless" were actually homeless.
So then, if I move to Finland and identify as homeless, will they give me a free apartment ?
My friend, a lawyer, just migrated to Vancouver from the Philippines. She joined her husband and daughter who moved earlier this year. Her husband is on a study visa. She, as his dependent can work there while their daughter studies high school. They're already wealthy in the Philippines. She worked as a corporate lawyer here while her husband is/was in the tech business. Canada is a different ballpark but I feel they'll continue to be wealthy there. Meanwhile, I'm stuck here. I wonder though despite it being a super modern and wealthy country why Canada still has its share of homeless population.
There is a widening gap between the wealthy and the poor. The price of housing is out of reach for many people. There is not enough social housing for the poor. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Just went to Vancouver, it seems as if they all spend money on drugs, I see half of the homeless people knocked out literally mid-day, I saw somebody trying to interview them but none of the homeless people that were knocked out woke up, a guy who I talked to got groceries from a street full of homeless people, apparently a guy started chasing him with a hatchet, before that he got spat on aswell, I was eating at an A & W and I had to take a poo, but there was a guy living in the stall, backpack, pillow, everything, it’s truly disgusting how many homeless people there is, Vancouver really has to sort it out, but if Vancouver DOES sort it out, more homeless people will save up for transportation to Vancouver, continuing the process over and over and over again, making it an infinite loophole, all Vancouver would be is a homeless shelter
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. It's a bad situation in Vancouver which a lot of people do not realize. Thanks for telling it like it is. If we follow the pattern of U.S. cities on the west coast, the worst is yet to come. Thanks for checking out my video.
How they go to toilets and bath. There is no water. This place has serious health hazard
Recently there was a homeless man who went to one of our city mayoral debates and yelled at the current mayor about the lack of water in this area. There used to be washroom facilities on the street but I think they were closed. Thanks for checking out my video.
@@g.k.7057 The former mayor didn't seem to care. thanks for checking out my video.
it is NOT a homeless situation....the homelessness of these poor souls is due to either drug / alcohol abuse or severe mental health. Putting them in a 'home' doesn't end the cycle
It's an experiment gone wrong. We're at the start of the bad situation, if we follow the pattern of west coast cities in the U.S. Thanks for commenting.
sad times like this worldwide unfortunately
Yes, very sad. Thanks for checking out my video.
these guyes da ' omeless " are makin
our beautifull citay look like it ' ghetto "
ang tanks da lord for thems man ang
woman of da Vancouver poelice force
for all there hard work in these matter
you know what i sayin
Saying what's on your mind. Thanks for viewing my video.
This video was recorded at least a month ago.
Yes, this video should have been posted earlier. Thanks for checking out my video.
Still looks exactly the same. Check out Debbie Hellion and the Apocalypse, she lives on Hastings right above all this shit and films daily. She was recently attacked for filming, had her purse, phone and jewelry stolen. They threw the puppy stroller she uses to walk her dog into the street in oncoming traffic. They beat her up. Thank God she had pepper spray, it was two men and a woman who attacked her. Everyday she also faces insults and threats from the people. They block the entrance to the senior housing building she lives, they do and sell drugs and have drug parties in their tents and sell stolen items in front of her building. It's a disgusting situation. The enabling of these drug addicts needs to stop.
And ?
This is a 'west coast' thing, Seattle, Portland, San Fran, San Diego and L.A. all have the same challenges. If you do some research you'll find that less that 50% of these souls are from BC. The majority are from across Canada who were lured by warmer weather and easy access to welfare. Other provinces have been 'caught' coercing their street people to move to BC, Alberta and Sask. are major culprits. This is a national problem, Vancouver is unfortunately the end of the sewer pipe. In 2022 the Canadian federal fiscal budget shows that 7.6 BILLION dollars was given in foreign aid !? WTF. Pakistan , a haven for Muslim radicals AND a country proven to have training bases for terrorists was given 58 MILLION dollars...and this to a country that has a nuclear bomb and was Bin Laden's hiding place. The Pakistan Gov't KNEW he was there.... and we give them money ? Before Trudeau goes skipping around the globe handing out our money, lets take care of our own backyard first. Lets take care of these people and our Veterans, we just need a provincial and federal gov't who has the vision and balls to do it...
Thanks for sharing your wisdom. Thanks for putting everything out in the open.
Vancouver may be dying but it's a symptom of neglect how many of them ran away from home because of abuse etc? The problems start before they end up on the street.
For sure, this has been going on for decades. Compounded by lack of mental health support and lack of proper housing. Thanks for viewing my video.
☹️pray for them
They need all our prayers. Thanks for viewing my video.
The drug addicts don't need the prayers. The disadvantaged tenants in the very low income housing need they prayers. They are the ones being forced to have to live with these criminal drug addicts in tents on their sidewalks. The disadvantaged tenants are the ones being assaulted, harassed, stolen from by these drug addicts that need to be moved into an asylum and out of the DTES.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 I'm sure it's more dangerous being homeless then living near the homeless🤣
@@paulreynolds7103 Not when it's the so called "homeless" perpetrating the crimes. The thing people need to understand about the DTES is that so many of the people who set up tents and set up little "shops" with stolen goods are not homeless, they come from other neighbourhoods to sell their stolen things, sell drugs, have drug parties, and just create chaos. Maybe go rent an apartment in the Eastside, 41 East Hastings, the Olivia Skye building run by Atira, they have 1 bedrooms available, go rent it and live in the neighbourhood. Probably will be assaulted or robbed within a month, and face threatening comments from the so called "homeless" people everytime you walk by them. Invite to set up their tents and all their junk in your neighbourhood outside your home. The drug addicts have a dangerous hive mentality and assault and threaten everyone. You're blinded by a bleeding heart and know nothing.
@@paulreynolds7103 Watch the documentary VANCOUVER IS DYING. Remember when people were trying to fight to allow the tents in Oppenheimer Park? A bunch of tents were full of weapons, a woman who called to clean up the park was brutally assaulted by people in the park. The low income disadvantaged people who live in the buildings that are surrounded by the "homeless" it's way more dangerous for them than the people in tents on sidewalks. like I said, educate yourself.
man, i wouldnt have any desire to go there
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Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is worse than Los Angeles’s Skid Row area. No kidding 😐
Vancouver Downtown Eastside is also known as Skid Row for many decades. Thanks for checking out my video.
@@DanSetoChineseCanadianRootsTV I never knew Canada is like this. Or was this bad. I grew up hearing my parents saying Canada was a nice and safe place where people often don’t even have to lock doors during the night.
@@JC.72 I feel the same way. Much different than before. Thanks for viewing my video.
@@g.k.7057 Different meaning to different people. Thanks for checking out my video.
Canada, you are better than this. Here in the USA. We conclude that we have lost our Blue cities.,.fell back to the so called Backward South. You are fine people. Please don't allow this to spread. God Bless your Truckers. They were/Are our heroes and heroines
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Sir you have an excellent channel here. You should do a periodic video to summarize news articles of all the random assaults. I email my MP and MLA on a weekly basis with all the violent headlines from our downtown.
Certainly will be doing more news related videos, including random assaults. Thanks for the suggestion.
Poor historical China town!, it's dead now, I used to go China Town during early 1990s, it's better then not much homeless and addicts
It's a sad situation now and much worse than in the 1990's. There is one tour guide I know who is on denial. Thanks for viewing my video.
Sure there is many homeless, in Vancouver it cost 40 time for a rent than in Sherbrooke Quebec, how can you afford that , I was your king as a machinist for the aviation industry near Montreal can you imagine the pay check ? I definitely retired at age 47 and live aboard my sailboat in the south , sail in French Polynesia and other country ,,, what industry you have in Vancouver? Noodles industry ? Ho yeah selling cups of noodles at 0,27 $ how can you pay your employee 45 to 90 $/ hour Vancouver is a dead city , a refuge for the homeless because in winter it’s not too cold .
A lot of wealthy people moving here. A lot of workers can't make enough money to live here. Soon there will not be enough workers to serve the wealthy.
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@@DanSetoChineseCanadianRootsTV thank for the reply , living in vencouver is too expensive, as I was telling i’m in Quebec and we have a totally free healthcare it’s financed through our taxes on our income, in ONTARIO it’s the same system, I don’t know in British Columbia if it’s the same system but I know in some provinces there’s some difference they have theirs own system.
Can you explain the healthcare system in BC ?
They aren't homeless. They are drug addicts from other neighbourhoods who come set up tents and have drug parties because the police aren't allowed to enforce laws in the DTES. The mayor won't allow them to do their job in the east side.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 it’s the same as California once it became a haven for Homeless people! There’s interviews of them in Santa Monica and they said they came from other states because at least in California they wouldn’t suffer from extreme weather changes like Chicago and such!
@@g.k.7057 "Trauma" is being used as an excuse to justify drug abuse and crime. A lot of the drug addicts started because of peer pressure and continue using because look what's around them, the city and organizations like OPS and Pivot and Vandu think keeping them in this environment helps them. If they truly wanted to help the addicts, they would be getting them out of the neighborhood, away from the drugs and this lifestyle and drug culture, they wouldn't continue enabling them and feeding them drugs.
The Seattle Chinatown International District (CID) dodged a close one.
The County was going to expand a Covid 19 Salvation Army homeless shelter to 5 acres of land, where it would have @ 400 beds, 50 Tiny Homes and 50 RV parking spots. This facility would also be the City's Drunk Tank and have a 24/7 Mental Health Clinic.
This Mega Shelter is located 1-1/2 block South of the CID and the County never talked to the neighborhood about it's plans - Winter 2022 was it's implementation date.
The nearby Seattle Little Saigon neighborhood businesses were destroyed by a 75 bed Shelter (DESC Navigation Center) that attracted lots of Crime and Drug Addicts. Crazy in Seattle, you have to steal more than $950 so it's a felony. Anything under, it's a Misdemeanor and the Police don't come since they got Defunded and are understaffed. Drug use is like Vancouver, so you see people using business doorways all the time, scaring away customers.
Thankfully the CID started rallies and the Elderly old ladies living there showed up to the Protests with signs and chants, they embarrassed the County and it got cancelled.
Lookup "Seattle Chinatown Objects to Shelter", you'll see some Seattle Times articles. RUclips channel "Chino Y Chicano" episode 70 (it got cancelled) 67 (CID history) 62 (Journalist Jonathan Choe about Seattle's Homeless) and 60 (Transit Station in CID - 10 years of construction). Jonathan Choe is a Senior Fellows (Writer) for the Discovery Institute. Look them up and His reporting and articles brought a lot attention to this Shelter.
All West Coast Chinatowns should be treasured because they are one of the most "Historic and Unique Neighborhood" of the City. You want to see it thrive and exist as inspiration to the younger Asian Generations.
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Sad how East Hastings Street destroyed your Chinatown. I remember when Vancouver's Chinatown was a Great Chinatown. Hopefully Mayor Sim will have a chance to do something about it.
Thanks very much for your comprehensive comment. It's much appreciated. I saw something about the protest but I didn't know any of the details, so your comment gave me a lot of details.
Just as an aside, I didn't recognize Enrique Cerna. I use to see him because I use to watch Seattle news and programming.
It's hard to imagine Seattle's situation is so bad a 5 acre shelter was considered. I haven't been to Seattle in over 12 years.
I think East Hastings has affected Chinatown but it hasn't caused Chinatown to deteriorate. Although there are some homeless people hanging out in Chinatown, there are no tents, as far as I can tell in Chinatown. Partly because services, such as injection sites and support is located on East Hastings Street. Graffiti and vandalism happens in both areas. The unprovoked attacks in Chinatown are not all by homeless people.
Chinatowns throughout North America are facing similar challenges, such as gentrification, affordable housing and retaining the Chinese culture.
Great to see the senior Chinese protestors out in full force. We had the Chinese seniors out to stop a building going up at 105 Keefer Street. It was a smaller cause than yours in Seattle, but we were happy to see it stopped.
I'll be keeping track of the situation in Seattle. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and thanks for viewing my video.
@@DanSetoChineseCanadianRootsTV I look forward to seeing your videos. It is nice to see how other Chinatowns are doing.
The "Northwest Asian Weekly" covers the Seattle area Asian community. They have an article on the Businesses leaving the Chinatown district due to crimes caused by the homeless.
What the CID feared about the Mega Shelter was how a Shelter operates - they take people in for the night, feed them breakfast, then ask them to leave. Also it will be the City's Sobering Center and 24/7 Mental Health Clinic for the Homeless - so it concentrates a lot of dysfunctional people in one area and it's not a jail, they can leave when they feel good enough to repeat the same cycle of despair again.
Where do they go when they leave? South to the Industrial area, East to I-5 and a hill, West to the Stadiums or 1 block North to Chinatown where there's Parks, Businesses, Restaurants and Transit stations to Shoplift from, Customers to beg from, Vacant lots to buy drugs from and a City Park to sleep and do their drugs, litter needles and use the area as a bathroom.
It would make the CID so scary and undesirable to visit, that Businesses would leave and the land is now available for the City's developer friends - it is government approved Block Busting a neighborhood for it's valuable property.
Sad that a City that Prides Itself for it's "Wokeness", Equity and Inclusion could care less about the Success of a neighborhood full of Ch*nks, J*ps and G**ks - who cause no problems to the City if left alone. Even the Police Chief thought it was a bad idea.
@@hillyseattlenarrowstreets6087 Thanks for filling me in on how these shelters operate. I was wondering about it and you have answered a lot of my questions. I'm afraid it could happen in our city. One of the mayoral candidates came up with the idea of a shelter at the site of our exhibition theme park, called the Pacific National Exhibition. Turns out this place was the site of an interment camp to imprison Japanese citizens around the time of the second world war. That candidate didn't win. Thanks for your detailed comment. I appreciate it.
NDP is the whole problem. They give super power to all these people. If you claim to be homeless, you can break all the rules and no one can touch you.Paying tax and working hard will be the biggest crime. Poor is not a crime but violating the law definitely is. There are so many laws they all violated every second.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. When it reaches NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), it may be too late. Thanks for checking out my video.
Could be many variables unllawful inheritance from parents, this crappy cra termination program and its so expensive you need to buy or you'll just be evicted serious ly ppl are renting rooms for 1000 having sex with each other it could be that the whole reason estate there is screwing the entire country renting rooms should be outlawed... man when you see how these people live inside a massive unit you rent would want this too
The graffities are disgusting
So much of it everywhere. Thanks for viewing my video.
There are all sorts of housing, medical and social services available to the mentally ill and drug addicted people of Canada. The problem in treatment lies in the nature of individual rights and freedoms allowed to citizens under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the individuals will to seek this treatment. It can not be forced on them.
Mentally ill and drug addicted people are not capable of summoning the discipline required to properly maintain a home, let alone maintaining a responsible administrative life of a normal citizen.
They prefer the streets to the boring minutiae of institutional medical and psychiatric therapy combined with the rigors of daily domestic duties in the maintaining of a proper functioning dwelling.
You touched on so many issues that affect the situation in this area. Thanks for checking out my video.
We' re lucky to have a former president who waged a war on drugs. Now these things are now minimal in our country. The Canadian govt should look into this. We hope people there get on the way back to recovery. Watching from the Philippines.
Certainly we need to look into different course of actions. Thanks for viewing my video.
How come no welfare raises
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I guess my comment (not hostile, but respectful towards human rights) was taken down.
Sometimes comments are put in the "Held For Review" section but I didn't see it there. I know your intentions are good. Thanks for checking out my video. I hope things are well with you Roy.
I’m not understanding how this is happening under a NDP government 🥺🥺
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It's actually under the city leadership where the majority of city councillors support the BC Green party. And the mayor chooses to support special interest groups in the city that advocate for the drug addicts rather than allowing the police to do their job. Mayor Kennedy Stewart first defunded the department by taking away $6M of their budget, but then they challenged him, took it to the province and the provincial NDP party ordered him to reinstate the $6M to their budget, so then since that didn't work, Kennedy started ordering the police to not engage with people in the DTES, to decrease the police presence in the Eastside, and he implemented a rule telling the police they have to tell residents to call 3-1-1 to report a crime rather than calling the police so that city hall can filter the calls and determine what police respond to. In addition, Kennedy supports drug addict advocate groups like Pivot, led by Anna Cooper who claims it's the drug addicts right to set up tents and do drug and create this hell on the sidewalks. She also claims it's illegal for the cops to do anything. Which is totally false and not sure why the police by her BS. And Kennedy also supports DULF which supplies the drug addicts with more free opioids that keep them addicted to drugs. Kennedy also supports OPS led by Sarah Blyth that has 8 buildings on Hastings where drug addicts can go and feed their addiction with all the heroin and meth and crack and fentanyl they want. They choose to enable the drug addicts and allow them to create this world of crime and violence and disgusting drug addiction instead of protecting the disadvantaged tenants in the low income buildings where the poor seniors, disabled people and working poor individuals can only afford to live. The actual disadvantaged Vancouverites are being treated like second class citizens to the drug addicts, the drug addicts are given more rights than the actual poor people. You should watch the video Vancouver is Dying on here, it offers more information about what is going on. The majority of problems are due to Mayor Kennedy. He needs to be voted out.
Their narrative doesn't play without the homeless. In addition, they know that solutions are so simple. Criminals litter the streets in the DTES. Those people won't change, even with free housing. In addition, the NDP is completely full of s**t. They are all about narratives and very little action. They waste tax money and tell tall tales.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 Thank you and very good sharing. I just don't understand, in order to save these people is to get them off and away from the drugs they are by any possible means. Also to offer whatever support possible to get them back on their feet. I can't see the login on how these people can be helped by keeping then on the drugs that ended up killing them.
hahahaha because its still a liberal government. Traitors and liars.
If that's all you focus on. That's all you're gonna see. It''s called scavenger video.
People ignore this until it shows up in your neigborhood. Check out what happened in Richmond the last few days. Thanks for chrcking out my video.
2:40 they need a good place to go, social housing is essential for temporary and longterm improvement of addiction and mental health. Social housing with no stipulations.
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The quickest fix and the one that will actually pay us back te most in finacial savings? End the War on Drugs.
Sounds like a reasonable approach worth consideration. Thanks for viewing my video.
Vancouver died years ago.
Seems that way. But if we follow the pattern of U.S. cities on the West Coast, this is only the beginning. Thanks for checking outmy video.
Its a sad thing to have this situation and we should do something about it. But the title of the video is really disrespectful and offensive. After all, they are just victims of circumstances.
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They look like zombies
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I think the answer is simple if you want to live on the streets and not pay taxes like normal people. On drugs or not on drugs your going to have to work create a place that all those homeless people are taken to like a large farm or factory and put there asses to work making stuff or cleaning zoos or graffiti off the streets. Come with the Curfew you can't Reason with anyone on drugs or help them Unless they really really want The help so you want to live on the streets and shit and pee and do what ever now we have a place for all of you to go and pay your dues I don't feel sorry for them because there are plenty of programs out there they just choose to live like that take them all to labor farms or Industrial area for homeless and put them to work there is plenty of work to do
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It's liberal
A lot of people are saying the same thing. Thanks for checking out my video.
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Instead of saying find them a home how about they find a JOB
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This is old, bruh
Still looks exactly the same. Check out Debbie Hellion and the Apocalypse's channel on here. She films daily.
I have seen her videos. She lies right there in DTES. Thanks for checking out my video.