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Vancouver is famous for its stunning nature and one of the highest qualities of life in the world — but a few blocks from its luxury condos lies a very different reality. Ilya Varlamov travels to Canada’s most controversial district to see how the country’s radical public-health experiment actually works on the ground: police who stand back, clinics that prescribe instead of treating, and streets that have emptied of everyone but those living the crisis. Who really benefits when a G7 country decides to stop saying no?
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Hello! My name is Ilya, I am a Russian journalist and founder of various urban beautification projects in Moscow and around Russia. There is nothing in the world that I love more than traveling. On this channel, I will do my best to give you an objective overview of life in different parts of the globe. Subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss my new videos!
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Chapters:
00:00 A tough conversation on the streets of Vancouver
00:55 The reality of Canada’s street crisis
01:52 Why this became a national security threat
03:13 First impressions of downtown Vancouver
03:58 Why people freeze mid-step here
05:17 Welcome to the Downtown East Side
06:43 The volunteers who save lives here
07:14 Inside the stolen goods market
08:05 What happens right in front of the police
08:39 From cultural heart to cheap SROs
09:48 High-end condos next to grim backstreets
11:11 How the street market actually works
12:16 Higgsfield Seedance 2.0
14:01 What corner stores sell here
14:45 The history of the Cambie Bridge crisis
16:15 How it started with prescription painkillers
17:19 Why a microscopic amount is lethal
19:22 Olia’s story: a mother’s fight against addiction
21:54 Who is really dying in British Columbia
24:39 Oppenheimer Park: a playground in a tent city
26:38 The $3,600 theft loophole
28:03 The failure of the “four pillars” strategy
29:15 Inside North America’s first supervised consumption site
31:17 The problem with the state programme
33:31 An alleyway under police supervision
34:23 The street stall that gives it away free
36:12 What Crosstown Clinic prescribes instead of treatment
38:40 Dana Larsen’s testing lab
41:52 Why the police raid legal dispensaries
44:52 The mail-in protest to Parliament
45:52 The rules of decriminalization in British Columbia
46:58 “It’s a disaster” — residents fight back
48:52 Saving a life on the sidewalk
50:07 Why expensive housing leads to addiction
53:16 VANDU: the activist union
57:06 What Canadian shelters actually look like
58:53 Portland Hotel: housing the most vulnerable
1:00:49 Where new synthetic substances come from
1:01:43 The largest police seizure in Canadian history
1:04:19 Boarded-up stores in Gastown
1:08:38 The luxury of False Creek and Olympic Village
1:11:25 Two realities of the same city
1:12:55 Stigma vs biology: can the crisis be stopped?
1:14:26 Ilya’s warning: the harsh truth about addiction
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