Homeless people in B.C. struggling in deep freeze temperatures

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  • čas přidán 28. 12. 2021
  • Western Canada remains locked in a deep freeze with frigid temperatures hitting record-breaking lows. Advocates say the cold snap leaves those who are homeless in B.C. vulnerable.
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Komentáře • 231

  • @aarongranda7825
    @aarongranda7825 Před 2 lety +31

    Kudos to the trash man out there trying to earn money in freezing cold. He's a real man.

    • @AnyM4jorDude
      @AnyM4jorDude Před 6 měsíci +2

      The news never highlight your average Joe getting up and going to work and paying their bills and being accountable for their life.

  • @Ricky-jm6lk
    @Ricky-jm6lk Před 2 lety +34

    To be put this in perspective, even with arctic expedition gear, -50 is still a challenge for people to remain outdoors

    • @2bRealist
      @2bRealist Před 2 lety +6

      You may want to look up winter camping.... people do this stuff for fun, so there are ways ;-)

    • @Ricky-jm6lk
      @Ricky-jm6lk Před 2 lety +1

      @@2bRealist oh I know, I go winter camping myself.

    • @2bRealist
      @2bRealist Před 2 lety +2

      @@Ricky-jm6lk Nice!.. I have not gone out in a while, but I have the itch to do so lol
      I didn't get to go out last year because of work (covid frontline worker)
      I haven't been able to go out this year for the same reason.
      I may just set up my gear on the front yard, I have a couple of tall pine trees just far enough from each other to set up a ridgeline! Though my wife thanks I'm crazy, and has a concern about rules regarding having a campfire in the city lol
      My brother thanks we should glamp it this year by using a hot-tent, but I feel that is cheating O_o

    • @shari9721
      @shari9721 Před 2 lety +1

      @@2bRealist Yes people go winter camping for fun , people who have warm homes and who have the money and ability to get the proper gear , supplies , knowledge etc . That is very different than being homeless with mental health issues , medical issues , drug/alcohol issues etc at -50 during a pandemic to boot.

    • @evelinholmes6401
      @evelinholmes6401 Před 2 lety +1

      @@shari9721 even if you find a solution most homeless people don’t want to listen to conmen sense. What can one due against alcohol and drug addiction.?

  • @ChristianCentury2000
    @ChristianCentury2000 Před 2 lety +39

    I hope that lawmakers and public policy specialists and economists and other social scientists will work together to solve the homelessness crisis that is unfortunately getting worse in Canada and the US! Drugs and mental health issues are a significant part of this crisis. Failure to address this crisis means that there will be a decline in the overall quality of life for society as a whole. We are already seeing this happen in cities like Seattle, San Francisco and LA. We are already nearing 25 years into the 21st century and we must not re-create the same unsanitary conditions that allowed diseases that afflicted so many during the 19th and early 20th century, to haunt society again. Diseases like small pox, cholera, dysentery, yellow fever, tuberculosis, polio, typhoid fever, malaria,... can return if more and more people live in unsanitary conditions.

    • @kathleenkostiuk-huguenin2197
      @kathleenkostiuk-huguenin2197 Před 2 lety

      The Google story on immigration and refugee costs in Canada prove why this happens as do the poor employment practices lack of rent caps and Government ignorance. Make it an emergency and see how fast they turn tail. Canadians first and vote for change!

    • @WaffleAreEpic
      @WaffleAreEpic Před rokem

      Fr

  • @metanews7656
    @metanews7656 Před 2 lety +34

    Another example of Canada's poor human rights record

    • @brettthomas5605
      @brettthomas5605 Před 2 lety +3

      I guess just like the rest of the world.

    • @Darkhare33
      @Darkhare33 Před rokem

      What human right? Free dope and home to destroy?

  • @pkerofscotia
    @pkerofscotia Před 2 lety +10

    2:40 I need a bath

  • @ashleighjaimaosborne3966
    @ashleighjaimaosborne3966 Před 2 lety +19

    This is NOT ACCEPTABLE! Let’s look after our own in 2022. Seniors, homeless and the working poor.

    • @ELizabeth_Beeza
      @ELizabeth_Beeza Před 2 lety +4

      100 percent👍👍👍🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦CANADIAN BORN FIRST CLOSE IMMIGRATION PLEASE ASAP

    • @person-yu8cu
      @person-yu8cu Před 2 lety +1

      @@ELizabeth_Beeza It's not immigration, it's putting profits above the well being of working people. Housing supply is artificially low in order to increase prices.

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 Před 2 lety +2

      @@person-yu8cu
      Thanks to city government restrictions.

    • @person-yu8cu
      @person-yu8cu Před 2 lety

      @@shauncameron8390 restrictions created to serve the capitalists

  • @bhupinderkalra5188
    @bhupinderkalra5188 Před 2 lety +8

    They should be shifted in school or college building to avoid freezing. Lack of not for profit organizations’s presence in increasing homelessness

  • @vthilton
    @vthilton Před 2 lety +11

    Sharing, Justice and Peace for All.

  • @terriwilliams8506
    @terriwilliams8506 Před rokem +6

    The amount of homeless seniors is deplorable. Media always insists on making our homeless out to be all a bunch of drug addicts. You never hear them tell the story of my friend, for instance, who worked hard all her life, paid her taxes, was a great home care worker who when she turned 65 was let go of her job by the Filipino agency that runs the home care. Turfed, jobless and homeless, she had a stroke, had to live in her truck afterward and was homeless for SEVEN YEARS. She never drank, never did drugs, was discriminated against by Filipinos, and needed home care herself but was "Not Qualified" as she had NO HOME. She finally died homeless after her second stroke. And the media would rush to paint her as a drug addict they are so sick and like being bad at investigating homelessness.

  • @davej2510
    @davej2510 Před 2 lety +7

    Trailer parks. Trailers mass produced. Lots of crown land

  • @terriwilliams8506
    @terriwilliams8506 Před rokem +5

    Vancouver's new Chinese mayor, even though the feds give him $5 billion to solve housing, he plans to revamp Chinatown, a major Fentanyl hub just down the street from its victims who are homeless. Ken Sim sure does know how to look after HIS people.

  • @goodmorning1537
    @goodmorning1537 Před 2 lety +5

    Canada please weak up...protect your citizens no matter what and when...When you ask them to join the war they do....when they ask for help at home ..you ignore them. It's a national crime and a shame for rich Country Canada...The USA too...

  • @brettthomas5605
    @brettthomas5605 Před 2 lety +6

    Our current society means well, but in fact they're just making it worse. Just listen to some of the frontline workers and they will tell you the truth.
    Quite simply money will not solve all problems!

  • @TP-jx9vh
    @TP-jx9vh Před 2 lety +5

    Open up the churches to the ppl who are on the street freezing

  • @cashed-out2192
    @cashed-out2192 Před 2 lety +4

    This is among the saddest I have ever seen for the homeless

  • @X7393
    @X7393 Před 2 lety +14

    I just prayed for the people on the streets of Abbots Canada 🇨🇦 and elsewhere in Canada 🇨🇦 Amen 🙏🏻

    • @evelinholmes6401
      @evelinholmes6401 Před 2 lety

      Self inflicted,no mercy.

    • @nelliesfarm8473
      @nelliesfarm8473 Před 6 měsíci

      Wow! You prayed? That should get all those homeless people a home!😂

    • @nelliesfarm8473
      @nelliesfarm8473 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@evelinholmes6401Read the comment below. They aren't all druggies . get a clue.

  • @Whatsahandle4
    @Whatsahandle4 Před rokem +3

    Also dehydration you need to drink twice as much fluid in cold weather

  • @onenonlysash1590
    @onenonlysash1590 Před 2 lety +5

    If you go to a library and use there centers they have help options it's if they choose to use them also in Washington DC they close centers early for homeless when it is this cold no shelter just the gyms whatever helps we should do the same

    • @jdean6206
      @jdean6206 Před 2 lety

      You're so out of touch with reality.
      THERE'S NOWHERE TO HOUSE THEM.

    • @jdean6206
      @jdean6206 Před 2 lety

      I just bought my 6th house and I price bums like this out.

    • @jdean6206
      @jdean6206 Před 2 lety +1

      People don't want to live in apartment buildings filled with bedbugs and cockroaches...
      Shocking right? So ungrateful.

  • @canadiancoffee
    @canadiancoffee Před 2 lety +9

    did she say "i need a bath" at the end?

    • @Libra_Strings
      @Libra_Strings Před 2 lety +5

      I think she said Anita Bath as is her name lol

    • @ramseydarkstar
      @ramseydarkstar Před 2 lety +6

      😆 that's what I heard too. My goodness who gave her that name LOL

    • @Roof_Pizza
      @Roof_Pizza Před 2 lety

      @@ramseydarkstar Perhaps her parents and husband?

    • @marinasmith3763
      @marinasmith3763 Před 2 lety

      Maybe she really does need a bath? Lol

  • @caseyalexandraweismiller
    @caseyalexandraweismiller Před 2 lety +23

    Wait.. Anita bath?!? I need a bath? This is the oldest one in the book.. also, yes I live in Cloverdale and couldn't walk my dog 25m to the end of the street before his paws froze and he laid down. Walk ten feet into any patch of greenbelt/forest and there is a camp here. Cloverdale is not near any rapid transit system like SkyTrain, where normally homeless would be. Warming stations are a good idea for extreme weather

    • @shmick4203
      @shmick4203 Před 2 lety +2

      If it wasn’t about the homeless I’m sure they would of come up with another name

    • @almightywhitey6955
      @almightywhitey6955 Před 2 lety

      LMao Anita bath!! Ur too funny, man!.....oh, and jeez, what a sad story...run to the Mexican border....way warmer there.

    • @juniperabbott2614
      @juniperabbott2614 Před rokem

      Ok you heard it too.
      Kinda mean of them to make that kinda joke..

    • @jondyer5573
      @jondyer5573 Před rokem

      Keeping dry, staying warm and buying cheap food arnt that difficult..but considering I work 5 days a week, for the sake of the customers, god damn I need a bath 🤣

    • @jondyer5573
      @jondyer5573 Před rokem

      There are warning stations and places to get food but that's an all day endeavor..one way to keep warm but depressing if you're try to schedule a job around it.

  • @msjanetpants
    @msjanetpants Před 2 lety +27

    If this were happening somewhere else in the world. Canada would send help.

  • @aynrandfan7454
    @aynrandfan7454 Před 2 lety +8

    I prayed for them so they will be fine

  • @pallabbaruah1738
    @pallabbaruah1738 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Please open the stadiums

  • @tadm08
    @tadm08 Před 2 lety +12

    Praying is not enough

  • @Elainerulesutube
    @Elainerulesutube Před 2 lety +2

    😢😢

  • @dinnerandashow
    @dinnerandashow Před 7 měsíci +1

    Problem.
    Shelters let in psychopaths. Many homeless do not want to sleep next to psychopaths.

  • @bradley1128
    @bradley1128 Před 2 lety +7

    Greed is what runs this world

  • @Eaterofeaterofpies
    @Eaterofeaterofpies Před 2 lety +6

    The reporter name is Anita bath. Their parents must be jokers

    • @person-yu8cu
      @person-yu8cu Před 2 lety

      Humour is always needed, it is a gift that will keep giving.

  • @Mojoblitz
    @Mojoblitz Před 2 lety +6

    -15? LOL try coming to the prairies

  • @jonathandow684
    @jonathandow684 Před 2 lety +1

    All you need to say is wind chilled 🥶

  • @viejournal4107
    @viejournal4107 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Praying is appreciated but words alone are not enough. Go out there volunteering, or donate something if you could.

  • @iamshango3005
    @iamshango3005 Před rokem

    I pray for you all ?! I'm gonna be right there with you. God bless I pray your all ok

  • @jmb1497
    @jmb1497 Před 2 lety +12

    Do you know what else is dangerous? Doing drugs and drinking everyday

  • @cronokross
    @cronokross Před 2 lety +2

    2:33 Advocates say "it would be a miracle if everyone comes out of this extreme weather, alive". I need a bath. CBC news. Abbotsford. two of the least things that will....... you know what. I'm just going to stop myself right there.

    • @shari9721
      @shari9721 Před 2 lety

      Her name is either Anita or Ineda but I heard I need a bath too and can't get the irony out of my head now.

  • @jcp5890
    @jcp5890 Před 2 lety +10

    My Lord....to sad to watch. What is wrong with the whole wide world??????

  • @marinasmith3763
    @marinasmith3763 Před 2 lety

    It's been-40 c all week here in Manitoba...🥶

    • @refinnej1234
      @refinnej1234 Před 2 lety +2

      It's the same here in Northern BC...soooo cold..... our homeless folks are dying... but we are All represented in BC by Vancouver unfortunately.

  • @jocelyneke6445
    @jocelyneke6445 Před 2 lety +14

    What about warming centers or better tents and sleeping bags? There is city money so spend it on the most vulnerable. That 🥶 is deadly.

  • @into_the_void
    @into_the_void Před 2 lety +2

    Homeless should move to cali

  • @Iqbal_sibia
    @Iqbal_sibia Před 2 lety +2

    Its ok... Govt officials are on extended holidays somewhere warm.. they'll bring some heat for these guys...

  • @user-dm4ob8bw1m
    @user-dm4ob8bw1m Před 2 lety +1

    "Being cold" on your country's news. What's wrong with Canada? I know it's BC but still..

  • @carlsonkearley3727
    @carlsonkearley3727 Před rokem +1

    5 years clean and sober drug use is not a mental disorder is not a disease its a life choice its addicting and you make the choice to let it control your life you are not born a addict .

  • @ahj3225
    @ahj3225 Před 2 lety +1

    I’m not sure using a news anchor with the name “Anita bath” whilst doing a story on homeless is fitting hahaha.

  • @pamelacharbonneau3115
    @pamelacharbonneau3115 Před 2 lety +2

    Find shelter

  • @hamishr2367
    @hamishr2367 Před 2 lety +2

    I'm sure everyone needs a bath

  • @chinaflu4198
    @chinaflu4198 Před 2 lety +14

    I wonder how many empty homes in Richmond could solve this issue

    • @johncam8420
      @johncam8420 Před 2 lety

      Not how property rights work, make more homes instead.

    • @auturgicflosculator2183
      @auturgicflosculator2183 Před 2 lety

      @@johncam8420 Not how property rights work, true... but perhaps alleviating their massive speculation tax with deals to provide low income housing could work. It probably wouldn't, but it's worth a try.

    • @brettthomas5605
      @brettthomas5605 Před 2 lety +1

      Are you proposing to move the houses to another neighborhood?

  • @wendyjenkins1559
    @wendyjenkins1559 Před 2 lety +1

    🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

  • @lanabyk8012
    @lanabyk8012 Před 5 měsíci

    Competition is always rough....

  • @kehidupankanada
    @kehidupankanada Před 2 lety +1

    😢😭

  • @ankushmanhas5194
    @ankushmanhas5194 Před rokem

    🙏🏼

  • @doubleagent6951
    @doubleagent6951 Před 2 lety

    Did she say “ I need a bath, Abbotsford “

  • @victoriabarnett7148
    @victoriabarnett7148 Před rokem

    What can we do to help I'm in the UK

  • @theworldforgot4857
    @theworldforgot4857 Před 8 měsíci

    May God bless them all may He give them strength and courage Amen🙏🏽🤲🏽❤️‍🩹☝🏽✝️

  • @Etaoinshrdlu69
    @Etaoinshrdlu69 Před 2 lety +5

    Canadian housing to the moon😄😄😄😄🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

  • @nevanthompson10
    @nevanthompson10 Před 2 lety +2

    On a lighter note. Anita bath. Pretty funny name

  • @techtiger217
    @techtiger217 Před 2 lety +3

    I hate to say this but I used to work Frontline in the downtown Eastside of Vancouver, do you know how many thousands of those homeless people went to BC in the first place for the nice weather and the welfare check. Guess it's not working out so good for them now

  • @rockertimmy12
    @rockertimmy12 Před 2 lety +1

    Lol i know how it to find places to in illnois it was so hard then anything open or they dont take the housing voulter then or they can take part of it then have pay out of pocket or they arent taking the housing voulters and i could find one only places that was open for housing voulters. Its hard enough too to find a place to live, with low income for me and my girlfriend soon to be wife. and we after moved 4 times this year about to move again once they have opening and just be calm

  • @BratBustersParenting
    @BratBustersParenting Před 2 lety +6

    I saw a guy sitting in a doorway downtown who seemed out of it and was shaking violently. I called a homeless shelter and they told me what to do. She said to not hesitate to call them for advice ... good to know.

  • @goldenboi24k
    @goldenboi24k Před 2 lety

    Help them!!!!

  • @67697072
    @67697072 Před 2 lety +2

    They need JOBS !!!

  • @erichargreaves9883
    @erichargreaves9883 Před 2 lety +19

    Maybe if you didn't force businesses to close, putting them in bankruptcy. You wouldn't have a homeless problem

  • @newempress256
    @newempress256 Před rokem

    Why cant we as a society take care of eachother. We have to work to pay this system which is run by crazies. We focus on cosumerism. Why cant we have a building or 2 to help these people have a warm place to stay??

  • @natemorga
    @natemorga Před 2 lety

    Government should be put in jail

  • @pamelacharbonneau3115
    @pamelacharbonneau3115 Před 2 lety +4

    Help them pastor and homeless advocates.

  • @Foxtrot_Foxtrot_Lima
    @Foxtrot_Foxtrot_Lima Před 2 lety +14

    Keep helping them be homeless and they will remain homeless.

  • @mahroof8730
    @mahroof8730 Před 10 měsíci

    Sad very Sad,, it's about time the governments around the world should be fighting this,, and not wars , save that Money to help people at home ,,

  • @wademacdougall1600
    @wademacdougall1600 Před 5 měsíci

    So try to keep warm in a house with the price of oil at $600 per month on fix income at$965 per month,then power bill $215 eat $150.not much left

  • @MoritaJunichiro
    @MoritaJunichiro Před rokem

    Has the number of homeless people increased since 10-15 years ago? "Is the government teaching how to help the homeless?"

  • @harveyepstein8256
    @harveyepstein8256 Před rokem

    why can't yall just let darwin take the wheel

  • @emporergrimes
    @emporergrimes Před 2 lety +2

    Hot tenting. Its fun!!

  • @raymondcouture9374
    @raymondcouture9374 Před rokem

    They had not planed fot that in April when they told their landlords to go to hell...

  • @juniperabbott2614
    @juniperabbott2614 Před rokem

    I swear she said at the end " Anita Bath, something news, Abbotsford".
    That's either funny or mean
    ( considering the content)
    Wtf? ? ??

  • @guineapigzed
    @guineapigzed Před 2 lety

    Play that your government!
    Take what you need!

  • @bcenlit3274
    @bcenlit3274 Před 2 lety +2

    😆😆 anita bath, (I need a bath)

  • @milanrydersavich4970
    @milanrydersavich4970 Před rokem

    100,000,00.00 for the homeless.

  • @roseoverdose6451
    @roseoverdose6451 Před 2 lety +1

    ward... do your jacket up buddy.

  • @cookingwithqasimjavid8586

    Pakistan bhot acha hai bhai selani weafare bhot khayal karta hai logo ka

  • @jasongavel2787
    @jasongavel2787 Před 2 lety +4

    Don’t matter if they are on the street as long as they don’t have Covid 🤣🤣🤣

  • @johncorcoran4250
    @johncorcoran4250 Před 2 lety

    Happy Canada Day......not for allot of Canadians

  • @KKK07866
    @KKK07866 Před rokem

    😭😭😭😭

  • @vesstig
    @vesstig Před rokem

    Governments would never advocate for simple cheap housing as it would ruin the current Housing markets which are propped up by large investment firms and foreign influence. People will continue to suffer unless real changes are enacted by the government thats supposed to care for its people.

  • @joebloggs7522
    @joebloggs7522 Před rokem

    Stuck in the open!? I wudd get a big metal tub or pot boil water pour it into a big plastic tub, easy way retain heat, if get a metal barrel just boil gallons of water it will stay warm long enough to sleep

  • @Kabr-tv7ii
    @Kabr-tv7ii Před 2 lety

    If I have my house then I will help these people if my nabours do not mind ,,, at least give them good tent in these days !

    • @techtiger217
      @techtiger217 Před 2 lety +2

      Trust me..you wouldn't want most of these people inside your home

  • @gibletsmith8403
    @gibletsmith8403 Před 5 měsíci

    Who named that poor reporter Ms INeedaBath lol I’m sorry but come on lol

  • @social3ngin33rin
    @social3ngin33rin Před 2 lety

    :(

  • @JohnnysCafe_
    @JohnnysCafe_ Před 5 měsíci

    Anida Bath? Fun name for news presenter

  • @terriwilliams8506
    @terriwilliams8506 Před rokem

    JT is counting on winter as his WMD to "solve" the homeless issue he caused.

  • @sidinessilva9786
    @sidinessilva9786 Před rokem +1

    Scenes of How good capitalism is

  • @catjuice8420
    @catjuice8420 Před 2 lety +3

    Homelessness is a choice folks

  • @dalexkom
    @dalexkom Před 2 lety

    Flamethrowers would heat them up

  • @Darkhare33
    @Darkhare33 Před rokem

    Selfish aggressive people who refuse to go into shelters because they can't do drugs.
    I'm tired of people committing crime and then demanding help without compromise

  • @asamanyworlds3772
    @asamanyworlds3772 Před 2 lety

    Just crazy wear a mask for your safety but not be given a home. Safeplace just crazy

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 Před 2 lety +1

      Why should anyone just be GIVEN a home. The VAST MAJORITY of people have to get of their backsides and actually work fir a living!!!????

  • @Syeven4949
    @Syeven4949 Před 4 měsíci

    If they came illeagally from a prison they wouldbt have to worry about it they woukd be in hotel with debit card

  • @souravhansda1945
    @souravhansda1945 Před 2 lety +1

    Fair capitalism

  • @neuralkernel
    @neuralkernel Před 2 lety +3

    Your property values demand Human Sacrifice.

  • @calvinbarajas5144
    @calvinbarajas5144 Před rokem

    Give a chronically homeless man an apartment and he will destroy it somehow.

  • @terrellgiddings2137
    @terrellgiddings2137 Před rokem

    Coldest country in the world 🌎

  • @robertdavidson9393
    @robertdavidson9393 Před 2 lety +11

    Shameful Canada leaving people that way

    • @brettthomas5605
      @brettthomas5605 Před 2 lety +4

      A lot of it is self-inflicted with drug and alcohol problems. No matter how many times you try to help them,many fall back to the same trap.

    • @Bunny11344
      @Bunny11344 Před 2 lety +2

      They will only use a house for drugs. They’re beyond help.

  • @ishowspppd7494
    @ishowspppd7494 Před 2 lety +4

    Here from the USA simply to say.... Let's Go Brandon 🤣

  • @j.c.nightwalker5322
    @j.c.nightwalker5322 Před 2 lety

    Isn’t housing a right according to Human Rights. Now is the time for UBI or there will be many more living in the streets

  • @user-pf9zt8zu7m
    @user-pf9zt8zu7m Před 2 lety

    ㅡ50 ?