wow, paramedic, kudos to you for your career choice... but everyone is affected differently by what Life will show us, the east side, for example. let this person have it! it was an eye opener for him/her & hopefully fuel a change inside for them. maybe you should just be thankful for that.
I think I just saw I've been looking for since96, when the cops split us up as kids. His name is Andy Carson and if anyone in Vancouver sees this and knows him, my e-mail is kccampbell920@yahoo.com I'll never give up, and may be headed there soon.
The people that are there are all there because of different reasons I look at this video and think about the people that help these homeless people.I also look at the people and wonder how someone becomes addicted not to say that they are all there because of that.I do not wonder in a judgemental way I just wonder.
I truly believe that if Canada can make this change and STOP the CYCLE by STARTING WITH OUR YOUTH then the rest of the world may follow considering everyone loves CANADA. U wanna change the world start in your own back yard.....
im from great britain and last summer i saw this with my own eyes canada you should be ashamed of yourself all the lovely places such as gas town with big liners going to alaska all people wiyh money and just round the corner this complete devestation of drugs prostitution even murder homeless with there shopping trollys full of drink cans shame on you vancouver SAD SAD SAD
Street life? Not in Canada!!! Canadians claim that nothing like this ever happens there. My God!!! Didn't all the socialism fix everything? Are Canadians lying? Well,I'd have to say yes. How's the health care thing going up there, btw?
Canada is a huge land mass. The population in the Central area and the east have no idea what happens in the west. In Ontario and Quebec homelessness is not possible you would freeze to death. All the homeles come to Vancouver because they knew that here they will be fed and cared for at BC's expense. Also Ontario and Quebec put out warrents for the arrest of their criminals valid only in their provinces, therefore, the criminals all come here where they are not arrested.
@borninvanbc Well dah!! Like I couldn't see that it's a huge land mass.Its one country though, right.However,it doesn't excuse the lie that Canadians try to force on Americans that Canada is so perfect.And btw when I was at Curve Lake and St. Catherines, I saw homeless people.
u dont know nothing about those people how could u say that i have met some of the most real down to earth people down there.... u have no right to judge
i'm currently in ontario.taking classes on concurrent disorders..and when i get my certificates i will go back to the streets and help rather than judge the same ppl i have been with on the streets of vacouver..u need to have been there to understand why they are there...KARMA will seek you out...and believe you me i don't wish this life on my worst enemy
Your obviously a very confused individual. And if your writing is any indication your as dumb as shit too. Yeah, Obama is the Antichrist. What a retard!! I'm sure the antichrist would want to tax the rich and give it to the poor, and make sure that everyone should have adequate health care, oh, wait that actually sounds like the regular Christ, but you wouldn't know that what with your bible propping up a table, and you spending all of your time reminiscing about what a great pres Bush was.
like i said im not a bible thumper but i do beleive so what, some people wil have just have to see for themselves i didnt say he was the anti christ he comes close is what i said its happened many times before in rome, and other super powers it will happen to us if we beleive this wolf in sheeps clothing our goverment lies and im sure yours does to, and by the way i hated bush guts glad hes out so dont even go there with me bush started the downfall of america obama will finish it
heartless fuck im not even a canadian citizen yet, and i find your post offensive some of these folks arent drug addicts alot of them im sure are but still even theyre people to, run them off if anything i hope all canadians arent like you
actually that part of hastings is just a few blocks.. it looks really bad though and i try not to go to that side if possible, but if i really need to, i hope that nobody from those bums would talk to me! they can really be intimidating...
Yes. We're perverts because the sight of another person's genitals don't bother us. Don't call 911, or whatever the fuck you have on QUEBEC the next time you get hurt. Since we're all twofaced. Don't bother us.
They prefer to beg for money then they spend that money for drugs.. They got paid from government 600dollars per month.. They even dont wanna work and a good life.. That life cant be dramatic for them.. I believe that they are lucky.. In United States that problem way worst than Vancouver.. I used to live in Vancovuer. So, i do believe that my opinion is right..
dont we owe the start of this to the 90's government deciding people with mental disabilitys were too expencive to care for n they could just care for themselves.. resulting in them doing drugs n here we are today. i dont feel scared walking down the streets at night.. they are just people. try talking to one of them n ull start to understand it. i sat for hours one night talking with a young girl who would sing songs for change by a train station. hard to imagine shes in such a position. :(
whoa.. i don't know how you could have missed this all these years. It has been happening forever.
The population, and drug use has exponentially increased, this is the only reason why it's very prevalent.
I grew up in Vancouver, walked down main/ hastings many many times/ midnight to 4am some nights. It wasn't much a danger, as it was somehow entertaining to myself at an age of 19 through 25
best of luck, it's all just gottten worse the past ten years I've noticed
Very artistic. I love the subtle haziness in some of the pictures, owing to the pictures having been taken from a moving vehicle. It is a metaphor, showing the disclarity of some of these peoples' lives.
stupid naif people..most of these people are addicted to alcohol ..not only DRUGS..theres people who takes heroin and still are business man..
this has to be the most idiotic post ive ever seen you know what herion does to someone im a security guard in vancouver and theres no way any business man would survive the effects of herion it ruins your facial features you get sores everywhere you lose weigh think before you speak herion is a killer
Well Mr. security guard, I'm a paramedic in Vancouver, and I'm here to tell you that business men/women outstanding citizens who ever does use heroin. Yes you see it more on the east side but you also see it every everywhere and with everyone. I've treated company CEOs, average Joe's, students and what have you. Some people have the means to cope with an addiction others don't. Poor health is a byproduct of a lot of things, not just heroin.
@parasympatholytic It is true, thanks for letting people know this they all assume that it can never happen to them what they need to remember is that all of these people are someones daughters, sisiter's brothers ect and that they are human beings
If Vancouver had a homelessness problem, more Phillippino people would be on the street - instead, they work 3 jobs at minimum wage to make ends meet. Saying drug addiction/alcoholism/mental illness is the same as poverty is an insult to millions of poor people who just want a chance. These folks have lots of chances. You can eat for free in Vancouver 18 times a day (fact!) and welfare will even pay for a room. What they want is drugs.
I fed homeless people down there on Hastings, at Potter's House, they looked so happy just to have somewhere to sit, and beautiful food to eat. Ive never met such polite people in my life. Props to David Gray too
I was there in my last trip on december, and i realized that homeless people are very far to what vancouver shows to tourists.
Is sad to see how drugs transform people, government have to do something, the problem is big even bigger than in countries or cities of undevelopment countries.
Its sad.... i drive past there everyday to see my gf. Those people struggle to survive. Sadly most of them give in to the drugs, the homelessness is verry sad
wow, paramedic, kudos to you for your career choice... but everyone is affected differently by what Life will show us, the east side, for example. let this person have it! it was an eye opener for him/her & hopefully fuel a change inside for them. maybe you should just be thankful for that.
pugnamedoliver 1 month ago
this should go on picturetube
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baront70 8 months ago
I think I just saw I've been looking for since96, when the cops split us up as kids. His name is Andy Carson and if anyone in Vancouver sees this and knows him, my e-mail is kccampbell920@yahoo.com I'll never give up, and may be headed there soon.
drumhead1978 9 months ago
Thank you parasympatholytic that was very well said-
I think it is easy for people to try and separate themselves from suffering if they decide it is completely foreign...
addiction has many faces.
hf333 1 year ago
loves Van :)
meanyman73 1 year ago
;\\\\\\
It's really sad to see this, MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE PEOPLE
8Dawn8 1 year ago
The people that are there are all there because of different reasons I look at this video and think about the people that help these homeless people.I also look at the people and wonder how someone becomes addicted not to say that they are all there because of that.I do not wonder in a judgemental way I just wonder.
rubydawn1 1 year ago
I truly believe that if Canada can make this change and STOP the CYCLE by STARTING WITH OUR YOUTH then the rest of the world may follow considering everyone loves CANADA. U wanna change the world start in your own back yard.....
Misssilverbullet 1 year ago
Make the Rich Pay
Join Anti Poverty Committee Coalition...
I have live in Vancouver for 40 years.
most people that has mental-illness ( & addiction ) are not born with mental-illness.
it is the human society that push them over the edge, & turn them into drug addicts...
kongg 1 year ago
good mixing and sincronizing music and pic
bonegristler 1 year ago
I never liked going to East Van.
calvinblinkee 1 year ago
@calvinblinkee East Van rules
Jambo888 1 year ago
BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION : All homeless people have mental disabilities!!!
dawn4201980 1 year ago
"The best place on earth"
Zac6230 1 year ago
@Zac6230 Richmond.
calvinblinkee 1 year ago
@calvinblinkee" the best place on earth "
Zac6230 1 year ago
@Zac6230 Richmond, B.C.
calvinblinkee 1 year ago
yo dude its your mom
azmovement 1 year ago
its cuz canadians are low class a lot of them, so of course they will have a lot of ppl taking to that life....
bahamastrapstar 1 year ago
Your Island sucks Donkey Dick
BigDumbJerk 1 year ago
im from great britain and last summer i saw this with my own eyes canada you should be ashamed of yourself all the lovely places such as gas town with big liners going to alaska all people wiyh money and just round the corner this complete devestation of drugs prostitution even murder homeless with there shopping trollys full of drink cans shame on you vancouver SAD SAD SAD
gypsiegypsie1 1 year ago
Street life? Not in Canada!!! Canadians claim that nothing like this ever happens there. My God!!! Didn't all the socialism fix everything? Are Canadians lying? Well,I'd have to say yes. How's the health care thing going up there, btw?
maybetuesday1790 2 years ago
@maybetuesday1790
borninvanbc 1 year ago
@maybetuesday1790
Canada is a huge land mass. The population in the Central area and the east have no idea what happens in the west. In Ontario and Quebec homelessness is not possible you would freeze to death. All the homeles come to Vancouver because they knew that here they will be fed and cared for at BC's expense. Also Ontario and Quebec put out warrents for the arrest of their criminals valid only in their provinces, therefore, the criminals all come here where they are not arrested.
borninvanbc 1 year ago
@borninvanbc Well dah!! Like I couldn't see that it's a huge land mass.Its one country though, right.However,it doesn't excuse the lie that Canadians try to force on Americans that Canada is so perfect.And btw when I was at Curve Lake and St. Catherines, I saw homeless people.
maybetuesday1790 1 year ago
@borninvanbc they did a poll in 2006 around 80% of the homless and from BC
Zac6230 1 year ago
at least we don't get busted here for no reasons as smoking joints and doing other drugs
citymontreal 2 years ago
fletzy
u dont know nothing about those people how could u say that i have met some of the most real down to earth people down there.... u have no right to judge
tigerchild1986 2 years ago
good photography! good thing u stayed in the car... they would have chased after u if they saw u taking their pic
fIetzy44 2 years ago
I remember being 13 and walking down those streets, I was scared I didn't know anything about how bad it was.
DeadBodyOutline 2 years ago
anybody who knows who`s playing this song?
neversurr 2 years ago
i would say david gray pretty sure
Redhexa 2 years ago
where the fuk is your compassion..??
i'm currently in ontario.taking classes on concurrent disorders..and when i get my certificates i will go back to the streets and help rather than judge the same ppl i have been with on the streets of vacouver..u need to have been there to understand why they are there...KARMA will seek you out...and believe you me i don't wish this life on my worst enemy
shellshocked64 2 years ago 2
@shellshocked64 you are right, but the karma bull is retarded. Ther is Universal Law, but there is no Karma.
JoDaddyy 2 years ago
jeez.... ignorant
VanHalenGirl25 2 years ago
Your obviously a very confused individual. And if your writing is any indication your as dumb as shit too. Yeah, Obama is the Antichrist. What a retard!! I'm sure the antichrist would want to tax the rich and give it to the poor, and make sure that everyone should have adequate health care, oh, wait that actually sounds like the regular Christ, but you wouldn't know that what with your bible propping up a table, and you spending all of your time reminiscing about what a great pres Bush was.
DOYLERULES69X 2 years ago
like i said im not a bible thumper but i do beleive so what, some people wil have just have to see for themselves i didnt say he was the anti christ he comes close is what i said its happened many times before in rome, and other super powers it will happen to us if we beleive this wolf in sheeps clothing our goverment lies and im sure yours does to, and by the way i hated bush guts glad hes out so dont even go there with me bush started the downfall of america obama will finish it
thomas242007 2 years ago
heartless fuck im not even a canadian citizen yet, and i find your post offensive some of these folks arent drug addicts alot of them im sure are but still even theyre people to, run them off if anything i hope all canadians arent like you
thomas242007 2 years ago
1:45... she's a vampire!!!
dontutremble 2 years ago
0:56 the met (a bar) is right on that corner.
amb0 2 years ago
actually that part of hastings is just a few blocks.. it looks really bad though and i try not to go to that side if possible, but if i really need to, i hope that nobody from those bums would talk to me! they can really be intimidating...
LoveYamachan 2 years ago
i live there for 18 years and never got bothered. we ll are not drug addicts or drunks on hastings .
powerliftingmama 2 years ago
Yes. We're perverts because the sight of another person's genitals don't bother us. Don't call 911, or whatever the fuck you have on QUEBEC the next time you get hurt. Since we're all twofaced. Don't bother us.
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
gr8 shots
gr8 video
well done
thank you
DuchessJulia 2 years ago
They prefer to beg for money then they spend that money for drugs.. They got paid from government 600dollars per month.. They even dont wanna work and a good life.. That life cant be dramatic for them.. I believe that they are lucky.. In United States that problem way worst than Vancouver.. I used to live in Vancovuer. So, i do believe that my opinion is right..
thrashmaniac331 2 years ago
i do beleive ur a pussy
onoffqb 2 years ago
Fuckin hell, looks like drugs have had an even bigger effect there than it has were I live.
lwouldliketoknow 2 years ago
I wish the government would really step up and do something about the hastings problems. I don't think it's that hard to do so
babyfacejerkoff 2 years ago
re: babyface
good luck with that!
lackthereof0 2 years ago
is the music tracy chimpman?
verrywellhung 2 years ago
(It's spelled Tracy Chapman) And no.. it's David Grey
Jesstool 2 years ago
dont we owe the start of this to the 90's government deciding people with mental disabilitys were too expencive to care for n they could just care for themselves.. resulting in them doing drugs n here we are today. i dont feel scared walking down the streets at night.. they are just people. try talking to one of them n ull start to understand it. i sat for hours one night talking with a young girl who would sing songs for change by a train station. hard to imagine shes in such a position. :(
lejink 2 years ago 6
@lejink You are right ... people in Vacouver should all do the same ... walk Hastings and talk to the folks and be generous to them
johnh23 1 year ago
whoa.. i don't know how you could have missed this all these years. It has been happening forever.
The population, and drug use has exponentially increased, this is the only reason why it's very prevalent.
I grew up in Vancouver, walked down main/ hastings many many times/ midnight to 4am some nights. It wasn't much a danger, as it was somehow entertaining to myself at an age of 19 through 25
best of luck, it's all just gottten worse the past ten years I've noticed
krusti30 2 years ago
I cant beleive this¡ I thought vancouver had not that side¡
But I think these people are addicted to something and many of them dont want to work¡
MICHAELJL1 2 years ago
Very artistic. I love the subtle haziness in some of the pictures, owing to the pictures having been taken from a moving vehicle. It is a metaphor, showing the disclarity of some of these peoples' lives.
hehmtube 3 years ago
good video. I think the song went well with it... what david grey song is it?
roseybeing 3 years ago
The song is called Hold on to Nothing, on the Sell, Sell, Sell album (prob his best imo).
Also, security guard should probably learn how to spell HEROIN before he calls other people idiots.
tripoly15 3 years ago
hey security guard, you would be amazed at who is addicted to heroin, yet still function as a businessman, etc. You have no idea buddy.
potmanmike 3 years ago
luke9o (1 month ago)
stupid naif people..most of these people are addicted to alcohol ..not only DRUGS..theres people who takes heroin and still are business man..
this has to be the most idiotic post ive ever seen you know what herion does to someone im a security guard in vancouver and theres no way any business man would survive the effects of herion it ruins your facial features you get sores everywhere you lose weigh think before you speak herion is a killer
cannedlimbs 3 years ago
Well Mr. security guard, I'm a paramedic in Vancouver, and I'm here to tell you that business men/women outstanding citizens who ever does use heroin. Yes you see it more on the east side but you also see it every everywhere and with everyone. I've treated company CEOs, average Joe's, students and what have you. Some people have the means to cope with an addiction others don't. Poor health is a byproduct of a lot of things, not just heroin.
parasympatholytic 3 years ago 10
@parasympatholytic It is true, thanks for letting people know this they all assume that it can never happen to them what they need to remember is that all of these people are someones daughters, sisiter's brothers ect and that they are human beings
jasongamble81 1 year ago
stupid naif people..most of these people are addicted to alcohol ..not only DRUGS..theres people who takes heroin and still are business man..
luke9o 3 years ago
well.. alcohol IS a drug ...
:P
elperelol 3 years ago
If Vancouver had a homelessness problem, more Phillippino people would be on the street - instead, they work 3 jobs at minimum wage to make ends meet. Saying drug addiction/alcoholism/mental illness is the same as poverty is an insult to millions of poor people who just want a chance. These folks have lots of chances. You can eat for free in Vancouver 18 times a day (fact!) and welfare will even pay for a room. What they want is drugs.
sonixelectronix 3 years ago 2
Vancouver does not have a homelessness problem. It has a drug addiction problem. Let's call it what it is.
sonixelectronix 3 years ago 3
interesting way of looking at it.. i agree with you in that fillipino's are a hard working bunch.
dubbedcrazy 3 years ago
crack or meth, which is preferred in Vancouver?
Tallman6ft7 3 years ago
heroin
rbanksbywater 2 years ago
Drugs are SO COOL. Look at what you can become. Great song though.
geoduct 3 years ago
i want to come to vancouver ihave all good things but nothing like this.I want to visit in July of 09
lovelywomen38 3 years ago
Homeless is everywhere pore people r everywhere
lovelywomen38 3 years ago
Powerful.
VanRamblings 3 years ago
2:48 My good friend smokey Devil......Dam drugs
penzoner 3 years ago
I fed homeless people down there on Hastings, at Potter's House, they looked so happy just to have somewhere to sit, and beautiful food to eat. Ive never met such polite people in my life. Props to David Gray too
alina7x 3 years ago
I live in the neighborhood! The rent is cheap!!! I love the crackheads they always seem to be quite agitated over nothing...they are hilarious!!
I know what you mean though...it is sad to see people lose their minds.
LanceButterworth 3 years ago
I was there in my last trip on december, and i realized that homeless people are very far to what vancouver shows to tourists.
Is sad to see how drugs transform people, government have to do something, the problem is big even bigger than in countries or cities of undevelopment countries.
osdarodriguez86 3 years ago
Me gusto la manera de plasmar la forma de vida y hasta los sentimientosy posibles pensamientos de las personas que viven ahi,buen trabajo.
ilemask 3 years ago
VERY NICE !!
GOOD JOB
WHO IS SINGING ?
health316 3 years ago
Thanks! :)
The song is 'Hold On' by David Grey..
celistin 3 years ago
TRUE. If a shout is cried in the streets about the plight of the downtrodden...Does anybody hear it? Or do they even listen?
strykavertable 3 years ago
Its sad.... i drive past there everyday to see my gf. Those people struggle to survive. Sadly most of them give in to the drugs, the homelessness is verry sad
GmailYo 3 years ago