Is this the MOST DEPRESSING city in Canada? Exploring London, Ontario

Harrison Faulkner went to London, Ontario to investigate ground zero of Canada’s “safe supply” drug experiment.
In 2016, London became the first city to have an official safe supply facility. And now, the situation is horrible - boarded up buildings, encampments throughout the city and open drug use.
Are these programs really “saving lives” as we are told by the activists who believe in these programs or is the opposite happening? How bad of a problem is the diversion of these “safe supply” opioids?
Harrison investigates these questions by speaking to local politicians, doctors and residents to find out more.
Watch the latest episode of Ratio’d with Harrison Faulkner.
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[@lynnb-TruckCastreauJr]

As an ex-user, I can assure you there is NO such thing as a "safe supply."

[@patriciaingles1452]

Thank you for your insight and Congratulations on your sobriety ❤

[@ronw59]

Nobody knows that better than the ones who are pushing it. Turdeau got great kickbacks for the clot shots and I imagine he is getting the same for this criminal enterprise as well.

[@lynnb-TruckCastreauJr]

@@patriciaingles1452 Thank-you. 🥰

[@lynnb-TruckCastreauJr]

@@ronw59 Of that I have no doubt!

[@mondolilith7917]

Thanks for being an example! I’ve been saying the same… any recovery addict will tell you there’s no such thing as “harm reduction” or “safe supply”. Getting sober and addressing the underlying problems… affordable life, housing, work, respect, belonging, purpose. Trudoh has created the perfect storm… creating hopelessness, and then handing them the drugs or death by doctor. And yes, pharma is cleaning up while they clean our clock. They own government and msm.

[@JasonMacKenzie]

I live here. It’s an absolute shit show.

[@Dwayne_Green]

Hey Jason! Hope things are going well with you!

[@johnpearce9891]

I live 40 mins away Waterloo and see the same damn thing I spend alot of times in both cities and it disgusts me

[@Canadian_Networth]

I believe you

[@olgarodrigues1417]

​@@Dwayne_Green Hi Dwayne! And how are things with you??

[@jacquelinecaulfield8346]

😢

[@rickschritt1616]

Lots of depressing cities and towns in Canada with the Trudeau NDP Dictatorship.😡

[@thebleckBieber45]

100% correct.

[@theconfusedphilosopher4724]

It's not a Trudeau issue; socialism always fails in the long run no matter who is in charge.

[@MonkeyManProductionsOffical]

Unfortunately it doesn't matter who our PM and MPPs and all that lovely stuff are they only want the money in their pockets and power and people vote for them, Conservative people still bitched about Harper don't vote I hate to break it to yall but whoever next after Trudeau will do the same thing and so on and so on just like past will not change. It's really not hard to give people like us money just like they like to do to fund wars and their pockets have I said enough facts already lol 🤭🤭🤭🤭

[@geoffd8598]

Don't use words you don't know the definition of.

[@bobthebaptist4541]

That’s why my wife and I are leaving for her home country of Japan. Canada is finished!!

[@gabriellesturm81]

The women talking in front of inner-city health has no idea what she's talking about. Homeless don't want places to live. They have tried that. Homeless were given places to live. They trashed the places and went back out on the streets. The provinces never should have shut down the Psychiatric hospitals. A lot of Homeless need to be there.

[@phantomlegion4522]

That is part of the issue , seems the government would rather put the mentally ill on the street then in a hospital where they can be looked after and not be a danger to themselves and others , another part of the issue is the government is willing to give immigrants 2500 a month just to come here but wont give that to our elderly and Disabled that .. If the elderly and disabled were given 2500 a month to live on that reduce the issue to about half , open the institutions back up and that would be anther 20% of the problem solved

[@coryrichardson1547]

Yes bring back the physic wards.. give back the streets to the people that pay taxes and give small business a break instead of giving money to poeple that never lived here in the first place .. it's only going to get worst until we physically take the streets back

[@kellygarnet6329]

Would be less expensive and better for the addicts and for the cities if psychiatric hospitals were reopened.

[@fineartlifestyling]

So sad but there is some truth to this, you are right

[@DROK278]

London's Psychiatric hospital shut down like 30 years ago now and your right it's affected this city very badly since, people with severe mental conditions walking the streets of London in checked and that's fucking scary. I live here btw

[@lightgiver7311]

When London was run by Conservatives, I felt safe. This is my City, and I cannot believe how the Liberals have destroyed it.

[@gerganatzoneva7615]

Among countless others.

[@Roseknight1]

London was beautiful and prosperous very busy and safe even at night

[@wrongthinker350]

I was in London Ontario 15 years ago and it didn't look anything like this. Good job liberals.

[@genuian]

That’s the liberal plan destroy lives with handouts when will people wake up it is ridiculous now

[@CANControlGRAFFITI]

@@wrongthinker350 they really only showed the bad areas. They did go through and chop a bunch of the heritage trees down though.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

American viewer here. As you all know, massive issues here in the States. My thoughts and prayers to our Canadian brothers & sisters. God bless you! 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦

[@sabrinamiller3671]

How did we go from declaring war on drugs in the 80s and 90s to glorifying drugs today?

[@shea1219]

Because this started with the blacks and browns-----now it turned white.

[@thehagification]

The world became woke/insane. Good is bad, bad is good, up is down, black is white, men are women. That mentality.

[@milomacdonald4980]

Lines up with when they betrayed the working class and allowed the outsourcing of good paying factory jobs. London is a rust belt

[@karenouillette3156]

Tru Dope!!!!!

[@morimoko]

war on drugs wasn't anything better, there's a place in the middle to deal with it, but this clearly isn't it.

[@brianfantana8510]

Canada is the wokest country on earth. This is the result.

[@terrencedeagle4429]

Agreed

[@dawnelder9046]

I think we are competing with Australia, but one of two of the worse. Everything country with WEF members, the virtue signaling Nazis reimagined are in trouble. The Nazis were socialist. Just barely right of communism. Yet they have convinced the world they were far right. Which is why they were able to take over. Herr Trudulf and Herr Jugnut proud members.

[@Ynalaw]

As a Nigerian refugee, I love how woke it is. I have a high salary government job that isn't too hard. I didn't even think I was qualified. Canada loves helping newcomers. I still love Nigeria more, but I love what Canada does for me. Justin Trudeau is actually a good leader. He deserves more respect.

[@jimdent351]

@@Ynalaw Meanwhile highly qualified people who were born in Canada are rejected because of their skin tone, and you can't figure out why you're not wanted. Go away!

[@illwillsquared]

nah they just took advantage

[@joehogan8234]

He might just be the best reporter in Canada.

[@cristinaxo]

Agreed! Harrison is awesome. Always professional and articulate.

[@peekaboo4390]

By far the best.

[@OppsOpp]

And he’s hot

[@Dorklepuss]

He is by far the best I agree

[@wrongthinker350]

You'll never see the CBC in one of these homeless encampments.

[@TheRobroll]

On the day Rex Murphy passed, Harrison drops an absolute gem of journalism! Keep up the good work

[@bvictoria6605]

Harrison taking the reigns from Rex. R.I.P. Rex indeed!

[@wrongthinker350]

Rest in peace Rex Murphy.

[@cindersspace5011]

R.I.P. Rex you’ll be sadly missed 🩵 See this young man is from the same cloth, thank you

[@canuckted1]

Please folks, show Harry and True North some love with some money 💰. It’s the only way they will survive.

[@milomacdonald4980]

RIP Rex, Canadian Icon

[@simpson4237]

"Safe supply" is like handing out free booze at AA meetings and saying your helping them get sober.

[@fineartlifestyling]

Great analogy! ❤

[@GuardiansofRecovery]

Anyone that gives out drugs without support for housing and RECOVERY as a priority, - is a drug dealer, not a "compassionate" care company. Definitely NOT a safe supply company.

[@synthesaurus]

What would fill the void inside these people once they “recover”?

[@jadziamerryweather77888]

Proper mental health care would be a good frickin' start.

[@revolioclockman8090]

The Liberals are claiming that addiction is an illness and addicts have "no choice" in whether to use drugs. If that's the case, making drugs, which are poison, available to them is horrific because they can't refuse.

[@blakebaker301]

Our government is looking after everything but the people that live here

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

Canadians are the last on the list.

[@thebirdguardien.14]

then why can't people look after themselves.

[@synthesaurus]

People should be able to look after themselves.

[@milomacdonald4980]

We penetrate zee cabinets, over half are for us, our young WEF global leaders, very proud of Justin Trudeau..." youll own nothing " ...Trudeau handler Klaus Schwab

[@DROK278]

I live here and it's not the people, this city is soulless and selfish, it's our government and friendly brown investors making it that way, we receive nothing and get corrupt councilors piss poor doctors and wicked high rent and mortgages and general cost of living being Insane and unaffordable! This has been going 30+ years now and it's the city's fault we have so many druggies, they hand the shit out like candy if you other guys weren't listening. This city has become Detroit.

[@dystopianjustice247]

Enforce drug laws, make it less available, and there will be less addicts. It's simple.

[@plrt6794]

Like in the USA?

[@TurdFerguson101]

@@plrt6794 No, like we used to in Canada. I am old enough to remember when they emptied out the mental institutions.

[@ronw59]

@@TurdFerguson101 So am I and now it has come back to haunt us. This was my home town and it has become such a disgrace.

[@mysticjedi6730]

After the 50's we had a breakdown in the family.. people would be more afraid of their family then police..

[@harunmusa8693]

That won't fly in Sudbury lol 😆

[@rus1078]

Wacko policies from our wacko leader😮

[@mikefoehr235]

✅️✅️✅️👍👍👍

[@grantcanada1]

You solve it Loser.

[@tamaraagley8152]

Ya and sadly both leader (PM and Op) believe in mass immigration we are screwed either way you vote.😢

[@ladyjade6446]

Shame on the ghouls getting rich off these addicts. Pretty sick.

[@JJ-vp3bd]

They don't care

[@DROK278]

I live here and it's not just that. The lack of anything from our city council is 100% every reason for London's failures.

[@xsxhx7870]

@@DROK278 why should they help? they're for the landlords and the owning class. not poor people lmao

[@DROK278]

@@xsxhx7870 hahaha 🙄 it's happening to EVERY class of Londoner except the fuckin land lords and government staff. What's your point? ☝️

[@xsxhx7870]

@@DROK278 idk what you're talking about. city council is meant to help businesses and landlords. if the people don't like what they do, why don't they move somewhere else?

[@mitchellzrobin1933]

They need help not drugs.

[@synthesaurus]

Drugs is the only effective help they know.

[@e_i_e_i_bro]

Problem is, what help? What is effective? What is capable of handling the large volume of addicts?

[@synthesaurus]

@@e_i_e_i_bro Nothing, you can bring a horse to the water

[@e_i_e_i_bro]

@@synthesaurus yep. Why are our tax dollars going to "help" people who are unhelpable. Prioritize people who want to be healthy, at least.

[@synthesaurus]

@@e_i_e_i_bro when a society reaches the stage of atomization and moral relativism observed today in the western world the only help could only be sought from God.

[@jessekozma8213]

I am a Londoner. Ran a business around the corner from the health unit. Didn't even last a year. I was constantly cleaning up feces from infront of my business. Had both my vehicles broken into several times to the point where they destroyed the lock mechanism. Had people steal from my tip jar. Meanwhile I helped as many as I could, free fries, a donut or two, Pepsi. Never turned anyone down when in need. So many people need serious help. They are literally dropping dead in the streets.

[@darlenedunn5693]

KUDOS to you ....for trying and I get you ... eventually even is enough. You help them and they can't even clean up the feces for you or keep other bad ppl away or even sweep the area in front of your store. shame on them - if they only knew how got they had it with you

[@gormenfreeman499]

If a domino tries to hold up a falling domino, they all end up falling.

[@jamescrump6356]

London needs to close it down.

[@bandave1]

Safe supply isn't for to help addicted , this is meant to speed up the eventual ..Goverment does not want the vulnerable and needy ..

[@BellaJoyeuse]

I lived in London Ontario years ago- it used to be a really nice and family oriented city. Now it's a dump.

[@synthesaurus]

When muslims take the by power by sheer majority this mess will be quickly eliminated.

[@jonathanhole8240]

Liberal NDP run city, London's electorate voted for this.

[@Christopher-iv6sn]

Fucking university towns. They are so fucked up in every way.

[@shawnkelly695]

Getting what they voted for time and time again. Hate hearing liberals cry when this is what they voted for. Quit your belly aching liberals, you got what you wanted.

[@Val.Kyrie.]

Because the wasps and yuppies feel comfortable in their wealth and distance from issues, so they vote with feefees, thinking they’re “helping”. I cannot think of any other logical reason to vote for this insanity. Oddly, there’s only ever one liberal sign our entire street, and I barely see ndp through the city. Of course I see them but not in the numbers that says they’re popular. Yet they “win” all the time.

[@SquarishLink]

what a cowardly way of thinking, so because someone else has decided lawlessness is perfectly fine it gives you the ability to watch the chaos and destruction with a clean contentious . "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

[@MagnifiedGiant]

@@SquarishLink What can be done when the stupid voters of London vote for this? Liberals ruin everything. Until they are gone the problem will remain and get worse.

[@maryannelawless4447]

I live in North bay Ontario. On my way to pay my $30 parking ticket, I almost tripped over a lady sprawled over the sidewalk. She was rolling around, high as a kite. I thought to myself... here I am paying a $30 parking ticket where I can get reprimanded if I don't pay....and there is a lady openly doing drugs, with zero consequences. The city looks like it's been taken over by zombies. The fact they even give parking tickets to people brave enough to go downtown is mind boggling. Soon it will be a gohst town in every Canadadian city.

[@bonnieodonnell2780]

8 billion missing on the net zero carbon fiasco. Imagine how that money could help social issues.

[@synthesaurus]

It would make ZERO difference. You can’t solve a spiritual issue with money. That money should have stayed in the pockets of the taxpayers

[@Tonyscasa]

@@synthesaurusimagine having 1 rehabilitation center established in every Canadian city with full staff . You bet your pale rear end that it would make a difference

[@tinalaursen8993]

​@@Tonyscasaa rehabilitation center in every (major?) city would be helpful. However, choosing to stop using anything that becomes a main focus at the expense of everything else in your life is much more complex. As one recovering person said they would be willing to stand a corner on their head if that's what they needed to do to stop. Then there's the life needed to be created to replace what they had which hopefully is not replacing one addiction for another. I suspect the reasons for so little success in recovery programs is a lack of understanding of how much it actually involves. And, btw, I doubt ones ass colour has much impact on comprehension of this issue. 🤨😂

[@synthesaurus]

@@Tonyscasa it will be just another tax sucking bureaucratic entity Canada is so fond of.

[@grantcanada1]

Nope - it went right back into our great country - go move to the useless USA.

[@suziecue]

thank you Harrison for your great work to expose reality in Canada

[@Stacy-ri5pb]

Susan Stevenson is a brave strong woman. We've never seen a councilor like her before. She truly listens and tries to help and is asking the right questions. Thank you so much Susan!

[@mikemcgee3636]

I am a straight white male who has asked to speak to her facet o face and she made it clear to me that as a straight white christen male that I have been declared NON HUMAN in LONDON HATES WHITE PEOPLE CANADA

[@christa702]

She's a horrible NIMBY bully and no one likes her.

[@labradogs1]

Can't help but notice all the pretty green bike lanes that clog up the roads around where Harrison is conducting these interviews, followed by a guy riding his bike on the pedestrian sidewalk. That's London in a nutshell. The war on the car is progressing as planned. London is crumbling because it is governed by idiots. London was once a solid conservative city politically, but it has been hijacked by liberal and NDP socialists. No surprise this has happened to London. BTW, what is the city's budget for '40 km/hr ends' and '40 km/hr begins' signs? Reckless and ridiculous spending. When traffic grinds to a complete stop in this city as it almost certainly will with the current direction this city is taking, will the war on the car end and will we actually start building roads to accommodate the increase in volume? And NO, I don't want to take the bus.

[@Val.Kyrie.]

Traffic is awful, and was already bad before all the changes.

[@milomacdonald4980]

Hey Paul, I couldnt agree more buddy .👊

[@DROK278]

Dude it's always been bad the bike lanes really aren't the problem at all, the problem is transit, we have buses and they blow, super inificent and no other way to travel besides bikes and cars, we need that damn monorail, the other issues are streets are to narrow on major arteries like Dundas leaving L for Woodstock or opposite into junkie filled downtown that leads to a two lane road and Oxford leading knowwhere, it's a fucking mess and many side streets are under developed too. We have to many crossings against railway tracks and very little care in general for anything outside a car. Thats the real problem bud. Oh and some of the shittiest drivers in Canada too, can't forget that! 🙃

[@Val.Kyrie.]

@@DROK278 driving is a shit show for sure. It’s worse than it was five or ten years ago and it was already bad. Why don’t we have a subway?

[@DROK278]

@@Val.Kyrie. Agreed, I actually know why we don't and can't have a subway, the amount of ground water saturation downtown and other areas throughout London are sand and mud because London is basically a bowl unlike most cities, the amount of water removal daily would be immense using a ton of power and sinkage (sinkholes) would be guaranteed, also it would interfere with a lot of prebuilt structures under ground so mass infrastructure changes. So simplest solution to that would be monorail as I said and it is cheaper to build then a subway, can run all the time all year from what I understand and can be built over most structures without modifying and removing them, modern advancements in that tech today make it a real possibility now and I think we should go for it plus it would look cool too and London needs that look upgrade right now. I ain't holding my breath though with what we have for city councilors lol

[@wjjz8902]

It's NOT diversion...it's illegal trafficking in a controlled narcotic substance.

[@badgermacleod5588]

: Nailed it !! You're 100% correct. You must have seen something that most don't.

[@Cop324]

Outstanding job, Harrison! You are a true journalist, unlike the grifters at cbc. Keep up the good work. I've been following you for a while!

[@Bob-ip4lw]

I live in London, I can tell You that it’s terrible! 😢

[@johnc4814]

Problem...................solution Housing. Stop immigration Hospital waits. Stop immigration Crime. Stop immigration Pierre hear us!!!

[@robgreenawayy]

the elite hate you

[@mikeb5664]

Tank the economy - Stop immigration.

[@Metal2TheMaxxx]

Population decline…. Make babies? Or stop immigration?

[@rohitguptac]

Try stopping immigration, Canadian economy will crash, Canadian housing prices will fall so dramatically that people will lose jobs and still won’t be able to afford a house, this guy (Harrison Faulkner) does not know economics or how the country runs. If your situation is bad you are not working hard enough, do you think these druggies are druggies because some immigrant stole their job in Tim Hortons ? If you had these druggies in Tim Hortons he’ll probably spike your drink with drugs or spit in it and Canadian companies would fail 😂, how did you think the actual people of the land felt when your ancestors invaded, you please leave the country and go back to which ever European nation your ancestors came from before telling others to leave.

[@whatyousay998]

You can't fix London Ontario even if you stopped immigration. That city was like for decades, even in 2010 when I was there. I think even then I heard on the radio that Windsor and London were the worst cities of Ontario.

[@thomastessier9718]

I moved out of London 3 years ago after living there for over 30 years. I left after watching London die slowly due to the addicts destroying the downtown. Human waste, fights and the mental health issues make it unliviable. Best thing I ever did was move with my son to the country.

[@Scott-jz4xx]

If health care is provincial, why can't Doug Ford just shut these places down?

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

Trudeau made it a Federal Law. Ford could if he enacted the right of the province to override it, but he was bought when Trudeau said he would put the VW battery plant here. After Rob stopped opposing him.

[@joshs3436]

wef

[@CNotez-uo8kp]

​@@joshs3436exactly, it's all planned.

[@patriciaingles1452]

because he's bought and a paid a hole, he made huge money off the Plandemic too, he's a SHIL

[@ronw59]

A LIEberal isn't going to fight a LIEberal. Don't let Dud Fraud's Conservative clothing fool you.

[@Luke1959]

Thank you, Harrison, you are a real journalist, asking the right questions!! Keep up with the great work 💪

[@frostyjo]

The Autism Society Support of London is right next door. How frightening for parents who are desperate to help their child.

[@judithschuett4978]

Are you KIDDING??? drugs aren't enough? Build them free homes, feed them...take away ALL RESPONIBILITY for the irresponsible...SO LITTLE WISDOM today.

[@renataferreira8829]

They pretend they have good intentions.

[@DerekLoney]

It's not about wisdom. They are cunning, agents of subversion and deception who are doing it on purpose, right in front of your face and daring you to stop them. Stop being fooled by the obvious boot that is stomping on your neck while they distract you with shiny objects.

[@fineartlifestyling]

So smart right? Let’s give them a squatting place as well to keep encouraging their addiction! This is moronic

[@dovdoverson]

I would suggest that Brantford, Ontario, is running neck and neck with London for this shameful title.

[@cindersspace5011]

I’m sorry to hear this

[@wolfhaven2023]

Where is the Brockinator?? (read sarcasm)

[@user-ri3gh6yb5k]

Trying to act like he’s fixing things with his toothless committees

[@retrogamer82]

Oshawa is just as bad

[@milomacdonald4980]

Theres plenty of this in Canada..London isnt unique ...FJT

[@The-Real-Bader-Blade]

Not much better in Alberta, Turdo's soft on crime perspective has literally allowed crime and terrorism to flourish.

[@CANControlGRAFFITI]

You can’t just keep blaming one man for a country that’s fucked

[@kchristian133]

@@CANControlGRAFFITIYou completely can when he’s responsible for doing it. Obviously he isn’t the sole individual, but of course he plays a significant role.

[@synthesaurus]

@@kchristian133 do you really think you’d do better? Lol. Just imagine trying to implement anything that contradicts these shrill women who basically are running the country.

[@retrogamer82]

@@kchristian133exactly

[@larryjohnstone6260]

The shit trickles down from the top.

[@willyupshaw]

The safe supply is insane, but the bigger problem is the cost of living. 20 years ago, a person working service could afford a one room apartment on a service wage. (I paid $450 a month for small but hip pad as recently as 2005.) It was a regular city then, and poor people had at least a chance. I have no idea how much housing costs now, but I bet it's way to expensive for a low income person to have any independence. This drives people to hopelessness and makes them more likely to end up on the streets and doing the junk. And it all comes from increasing the population artificially through...you guessed it, immigration.

[@edwardcarrier4816]

Yes, to the cost living being a bigger problem no to immigration causing the problem even tho it doesn't help said problem it exacerbates it. Willy immigration is not to blame it is lifting rent controls off of vacant rental properties while freezing welfare rates and service workers wages. Immigrants are not responsible for Canadian politicians' neoliberal policies that only benefits the wealthy via sky high rents and tax cuts do to shredding the social safety net. That's on us for not getting rid of this plutocratic system decades ago.

[@Day-ZDuke]

That same apartment that was $450 in 2005 would now be at least $1200, probably more like $1500. My apartment in 2006 was $620 in Hamilton. Now the same units in same building go for $1750

[@Narutotaku93]

Currently in my building in London, a 1 bedroom apartment goes for 1500. When I moved in just 3 years ago my 2 bedroom cost me 1200. The rise of cost of living is getting out of hand and every building that goes up is owned by slum lords who are charging exorbitant prices.

[@briandunn3822]

I hope there is no blow back against this brave council woman.

[@mikemcgee3636]

Brave?hahahahah all she cares about is continuing the pure hatred this city has for straight white men

[@amandaandjeremysmith7636]

She was already publically admonished for taking pictures of this crap.

[@ecleansing]

She will be punished. City council are a bunch of marxists.

[@christa702]

shes not brave........ shes a NIMBY on steroids. she wants all these people to die lol . Everybody cant stand her

[@zimjammin6330]

You can't even recognize this city anymore in some parts

[@allisontaylor1818]

I dont recognize it, I lived there for 12 years...had kids here...its so sad and was booming and beautiful

[@ronw59]

@@allisontaylor1818 I lived the first 21 years of my life there and was proud of that city. 'Was' being the operative word here.

[@synthesaurus]

Pretty soon it will shariah rule there.

[@bornagaincarpenter]

Im 32. Used to fish and bike along the river pretty much every day. Now i cant because of crack heads and tent cities. Funny i was never allowed to camp out in the forest when i was a kid. It's all good though. Lot's of shawarma restaurants and Indian food. Thanks Trudeau

[@nancypelosi480]

same here man. fight fire with fire. get some buddies and evict them yourself. my favourite fishing spot under the train bridge over where springbank turns to Horton is exactly what you describe. if you anon call in crazy reports under the bridge the cops eventually go and arrest these people for a few hours because they usually have no id. so when that happens go and remove all their crap. a good fishing spot with no homeless or indians is the river bends deep in the hunt club woods in the west end of town. cheers

[@bornagaincarpenter]

@@nancypelosi480 yeah I go to far side of kains woods now

[@nancypelosi480]

@@bornagaincarpenter oh solid. il start yelling out "born again carpenter is that you" next time I see randoms. I love the area. I come from the Gainsborough Side though for the deeper side of the river and I have had problems with Karens from the kains side so I just trek 30 mins through hunt club

[@bornagaincarpenter]

@@nancypelosi480 enter in off of strattforshire place. It's a dead end street. It's a bit of a hike and the trails are over grown but no one is there.

[@bornagaincarpenter]

@@nancypelosi480 go to the Kelly stinton environmentally significant area. It runs into hunt club. You can enter in off of a dead end street

[@lyndabilton]

I want to cry . Thank you, Harrison, for your reporting. I thought it was just safe supply in BC.....not London, Ontario. How can this government look at themselves every morning before they go out😢 Have they not been to oversee what their policy has done ???? There is no such thing as Safe Supply. Looking at the state shown in your reporting, this policy is a total disaster!! Why are is Trudeau and his government thinking different places will net different results . This is insane .

[@Js-kt7sr]

I honestly believe thes pathetic Liberals who support this must be taking some kind of drugs themselves to believe this program is helping people.

[@andrewcrook2240]

They follow wef plan. The goal is to turn citizens into indentured peasants. It's so obvious.

[@marieames4520]

This was already mentioned by Pierre Poilievre to the Prime Minister Trudeau to stop this drugs.

[@meowboy_455]

I'm homeless I can't get help BC I'm not an addict!!!

[@alaalrashaeideh1154]

😒 where is your parents?!!!

[@Gingerblaze]

@@alaalrashaeideh1154 there are single parents living in tents while working who are not addicts. Housing is not affordable. Even for people who are not addicted to drugs and who are employed.

[@rosemaryvan6885]

You are low acuity then. Get a bed at the Ark for 4 days in a row and ask to be transferred to the Cronyn Warner building on Queen and William. It's open 24/7 and residents that follow the rules there have been transitioned out into housing. Great program!

[@wendymarshall2132]

@@alaalrashaeideh1154not everyone has parents around!

[@alaalrashaeideh1154]

@@wendymarshall2132 💔 sad , his profile show that he still a boy.

[@gerwyntiberius1918]

Wow...who would've guessed giving free drugs to drug addicts would lead to overdoses and escalating crime. :p

[@jonathanandrew2909]

Basically just an early version of the MAiD program.

[@Day-ZDuke]

....these free drugs are to help battle the overdoses, it doesn’t cause them. They are giving out pharmaceutical grade morphine, which you would have to use a lot of to overdose. People have been overdosing at increasing rates for the last 10 years since this illicit fentanyl started coming from China They do this because the alternative is, the addict will use illicit fentanyl made in Mexico. They will overdose and if they don’t pass away, they end up costing the health care system tons of money in emergency treatment. This is the cheaper & better option, give them safer drugs, pay the cost up front.....cause if you don’t they’ll use dangerous drugs and cost more later And you have it totally confused, as does this report. Giving them free drugs DECREASES crime. They don’t need to steal to get money for their fix, they get it for free from government, instead of buying from a street dealer. It’s been proven by other places that heave done this, and the data proves it . This report is all anecdotal

[@fineartlifestyling]

I know rocket science!

[@sarahhale-pearson533]

It’s an unmitigated disaster. Stop throwing my tax dollars at junkies, to perpetuate their addiction.

[@DROK278]

They can also start spending some of those tax dollars on actual city projects that help build a better city like alternative transit, the monorail was a great idea and here we are with horrible traffic and car accidents every where. Or how our city has turned down government funding several times now that could be used for upgrades to the city all because they want to keep the "small town" assets, it's strangling our city to death.

[@henrygreenwood3927]

This is a mass immigration problem. Now we have limited housing. How do we house refugees, and not our own?

[@frankihatch]

Most of these drug addicts are white

[@ayamTondoBoy]

drug users: damn immigrants forcing my hand to smoke and shoot up these nasty stuff. 100% not my fault.

[@StealthNinja7]

Your own? Take one of these junkies in your house then. I bet you're renting lol

[@henrygreenwood3927]

@@StealthNinja7 Yeah. Our own. People that didn't choose to live here... because the people that are born elsewhere are now taking up low income housing. As well as recieving allowance for food, clothes, etc, etc. These "junkees" are on the streets because there is no housing for them. We're being invaded. Not by bombs and infantry. By drugs, and immigrants. I bet you're one of them. Lol

[@JJ-vp3bd]

Rent to a crack head

[@Stacy-ri5pb]

I have been speaking out about this for a year now. Born and raised in London. They have destroyed our once beautiful city. So happy to see you reporting on this Harrison. Dr. Andrea Sereda needs to have her medical license revoked.

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

Head to the hospitals, especially at night. I had to go as a family member was transferred last Winter and the drug-zombies were everywhere. Both inside and outside of the hospital. Trudeau is destroying Canada and Ford is allowing this. He should have followed Smith's example and use the Ontario Courts to end this nightmare.

[@ronw59]

Please, don't ever compare Dud Fraud to Premiere Smith. She has more class in her pinky finger, than that ox has in his entire pretend Conservative body.

[@pamelakingwell2155]

I, agree with your comment!

[@synthesaurus]

Ontario courts have the same “blood” coursing through the veins.

[@christa702]

lol this is literally Ford's respolnsibility!!! HEALTHCARE IS A PROVINCIAL DUTY!!!!!!! Jeezus are people really this obtuse???????

[@ronw59]

My reply was knocked down and all I said was the truth. But truth isn't tolerated in OUR country any longer, with Capt. Criminal at the helm.

[@danieltaylor3396]

The activists don't really want to eliminate drug addicts because it puts them out of a job.

[@1pridelion]

It makes no sense! And only 1 city counselor is sounding the alarm.

[@tomcervenka7883]

Time to leave Canada.

[@synthesaurus]

Because the power that descended upon the western world is hard to beat without faith.

[@DerekLoney]

@@synthesaurus Only the right type of faith, not the decoys drummed up by you know who.

[@frankpepper4797]

But The gay people are happy and we have rainbow crosswalks so we’re progressing.

[@SlavaUcrane]

Lots of pretty flags and parades.

[@OppsOpp]

I understand the liberal party might be over promoting it, but how does gay people having a happy life have anything to do with drug abuse.

[@BustaSnape]

@@OppsOpp his point is, a lot of money and time is spent on validating people's sexuality and, in some cases, complete delusions, while they spread hard drugs and barely provide funding for things that are actually important. A rainbow coloured monument is not a fucking priority.

[@drew6194]

@@OppsOpp Perhaps as an illustration of misplaced priorities by both our authorities and the overly liberal citizenry.

[@wrongthinker350]

Dead bodies strewn about rainbow crosswalks. Progress?

[@willyupshaw]

I grew up in London Ontario. Back in the 90s, you could go for a walk in the middle of the night and the sketchiest people you might run into were drunk students.

[@lindacarriere6045]

When the addicts are placed in apartments without any treatment they destroy the apartment and it becomes a free for all and the landlord can't even get them out and the bill to repair falls on the landlord's shoulders. It's horrible! This problem is throughout Canada.

[@victoriadunn9165]

Get rid of trudeau. When are we going to wake up. Eastern Canada voted him in.

[@1dilligaf]

What about BC but I’m getting so sick and tired of the west whining you keep whining about leaving. Just do it but like Quebec when push comes to shove, you’ll vote to stay.

[@krisskross8985]

And Edmonton Centre voted in a Liberal MP so don't point fingers and pretend you are superior!

[@victoriadunn9165]

@@krisskross8985 yes and where did he come from. The east has always set the election. But this time is destroying Canada. I agree Alberta etc whining and always threatening to separate, however nothing gets done. All I know is we have to eliminate the liberal government and especially Trudeau Or Canada will be no more. also mass immigration has also destroyed us.

[@akashaofthenile6077]

Eastern did not vote him in,,, mostly Toronto ridings and he won a minority,, conservatives actually had more votes,,, but because it's by riding they lost,,,now we are hearing about election interference,,, so what really happened ❤

[@1dilligaf]

@@akashaofthenile6077 we need election reform in this country. I don’t understand why we need over 300 MPs when they just do what they are told to do by there leaders. Let’s just get rid of all these MPs have two MPs for every province one rural and one city and that’s it think of the money we would be saving.

[@r1ot1ng247]

Big pharma loves these sites

[@BG-xr5bi]

There following the money greedy bastards

[@ronw59]

And their paid government pushers too.

[@peaceandfreedom2011]

they need to go after big pharma not go after addicts

[@badgermacleod5588]

China loves these sites.

[@seritamaclellan1991]

Trudeau and klaus love the r3sults

[@atheistconservative8573]

I'm glad I got clean right there in London 30 years ago. These free drugs would have killed me guaranteed.

[@curtispankrat4403]

The woman that wouldn't go on camera and was in opposition to your interview is a drug dealer, and you're compromising her livelihood. She was posturing to protect her street corner.

[@hchchc3412]

So sad how fast The NDPLiberal coalition is trying to scale down the population.

[@olgarodrigues1417]

It's called replacement program... They will replace us with new immigrants!

[@maxcloutier5285]

I agree, it began slowly but suddenly accelerated so fast that we are taken off guard. Worst thing is that there is no hope someone will push the brake.

[@kennethbrewer2362]

Don't forget the PROFITS ! trudeau has his Fingers in EVERYTHING !

[@wolfhaven2023]

​@@maxcloutier5285there is always hope ❤

[@tarafox6618]

Abortion, MAID, drugs, pharma injections, criminals out on bail, trans surgeries on youth...the prefer death. :(

[@RobHellfire666]

London, Ontario looks just as bad off as Vancouver/ Victoria. Absolutely disgusting.. That lady picking her meth sores as she's being interviewed 🤢🤮 Thanx Liberals. Thanx Trudeau.

[@bvictoria6605]

I live in BC, you're absolutely right! Maybe worse.

[@Daisy38516]

He is just highlighting the downtown core, I agree the downtown is in trouble but the entire city doesn't look like that. I live here and there are some very nice areas in the city.

[@RobHellfire666]

@@bvictoria6605 I honestly think so.. From what I've seen Vancouver and Victoria devolved into, it's like a third world in some parts of both cities. Downtown Victoria is completely lost. A no go zone.

[@ecleansing]

@@Daisy38516 Where? There are trudeau towns everywhere in this city. There isn't a single establishment in this city not being robbed blind. There are zombies everywhere you look. People blacked out on the sidewalks, the bus shelters, the banks, zombies playing in traffic all tweaked out, parks and playgrounds are uninhabitable, the zombie army is allowed to congregate near schools, peoples properties being robbed at night, vandalized, cars being stolen, police have been ordered to do nothing about it. Do we live in the same city?

[@phantomlegion4522]

@@Daisy38516 Its more then just downtown Take a stroll down wellington street toward White Oaks mall , or how about from Dundas and talbot all the way upto the airport. Even Wortley Village has been infested . My house is on the outskirts of town on 10 hectors of land , and if it wasn't for a high fence around my property you would see me wearing red long johns straw hat chasing people away with a double barreled sawed off shot gun to keep them from setting up a tent city on my property .

[@vinokai]

Beneath Canada’s Veil of “Pride”, “Acceptance” and “progression” is a rot that’s slowly eating away at what was once a beautiful country….

[@Turner1281]

When I was a teenager I would get dropped off downtown and hang out all day, now a teenager would likely be robbed and/or assaulted. London used to be beautiful and clean, it has become a cesspool resembling the third world.

[@SpiritualHearts1]

I used to live there over 15 years ago and Adelaide and Dundas wasn't dangerous to walk at night. An old money and white conservative town gone liberal and woke. What a sh#thole it has become. Won't ever go and visit my family screw that! They always visit me

[@zooski1516]

Nothing has changed. Dundas and Adelaide is exactly the same as it was 20 years ago. Stop the 🧢.

[@SpiritualHearts1]

Ya sure it hasn't

[@jonathanandrew2909]

Sounds like you were looking for any excuse to not visit your family.

[@MrPage62]

Gee, my wife and I walked across Dundas and Adelaide the other night. Great Indian restaurant there. Friendly people, great service. Picked up some food to take home! You must be confused...

[@SpiritualHearts1]

Sure there are still good services in the area but it didn't have that degree of decay 15 years ago. As one could see in the video along with the sad lost souls. Or are you saying that A I. was used in the video.

[@JasonMacKenzie]

Interestingly, I had a coffee with one of the people who was a big driver of bringing in safe supply here. He said it’s one of the biggest regrets of his life.

[@ronw59]

Did you ask him what he is doing now to help correct the mess?

[@Js-kt7sr]

All the ideas Liberals brought was utterly failure

[@robs1714]

Good, tell them I blame them for this

[@DerekLoney]

Who was it? If it was a public figure, which it is, you can reveal their name. Did they hold the position of medical officer of health?

[@cameronbell415]

John Balone?

[@jamescrump6356]

London is being trashed.

[@peaceandfreedom2011]

london has never had a decent mayor they all were idiots

[@nospm1244]

imagine people were buying $1M+ houses there in the recent years. Shocked

[@jessmoore786]

True to form! Thank you Harrison for shedding light on this dire human condition(ING). Please continue the imperative work you are doing. Sincerely

[@nancycartwright3435]

Thank you, Harrison. Truth.

[@caitc3837]

My hometown...my heart breaks watching this. Thank you for bringing this to light and taking the city to task. God help London.❤

[@davidbrennan5]

We need detox centers, treatment centers and half way houses and they need to be built close to each other.

[@Gingerblaze]

Yup. Without wrap around treatment, it is just a tax subsidised drug dealership.

[@ronw59]

@@Gingerblaze And working to plan! I hope the woke sheep Lib/NDP voters are proud.

[@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine]

Ok when I just wanna do drugs with my friends

[@andrewcrook2240]

No we need prison for drug users and dealers. There is your safe housing and detox all in 1.

[@synthesaurus]

“We” don’t. The only way a person can kick this addiction is coming to his senses at the very bottom of that pit. These people will never find themselves at that point precisely because all these woke do-gooders keep “helping” them. It is clearly a woman run world. And you are witnessing the consequences.

[@monte129]

I used to go to London 25 years ago and it was very nice and clean. So sad.

[@janajoujan7658]

Again, another eye-opening report by True North. Thanks for your honest reporting.

[@Lorraine892]

My little sister died of a drug overdose. There is no such thing as safe supply.

[@akashaofthenile6077]

My deepest condolences to you ❤

[@atheistpower5659]

I live in Hamilton and always thought London was better then my city did I ever get an Education Thanks True North !

[@antimatter4444]

Awesome reporting Harrison, we need more like you on the ground.

[@diceman2004]

Very enlightening report Harrison , excellent work man . Real reporter at work here , if the CBC is looking for pointers .

[@MrFreekyByg]

London has gone downhill fast. It used to be a decent city but the amount of crime and poverty has increased dramatically. I dont recognize it anymore. St.Thomas to the south is suffering similarly.

[@Grimshire]

Terrible, stop this bullshit.

[@robinoxford8391]

Well done podcast. Helping people to continue making terrible choices with their lives and risking those around them is a wrong headed idea. Treatment not drugs.

[@synthesaurus]

“Treatment” is also “help”. Leave them be but not in your city. Their choice .

[@irmaoksanen6830]

For an addict the only form of "harm reduction" is total abstinence.

[@JJ-vp3bd]

Really

[@williamattwood1030]

I live in London….was born here….thanks for the news coverage

[@joshuasmith3638]

Thank you guys for covering this. The entire country needs to see this. Those in Vancouver may understand it but the people in their posh Forest Hill mansions don’t get it. If Toronto moves forward with their Wacko ideas those same sheltered individuals will quickly understand

[@ktodd4883]

No empowerment only enabling. So sad.

[@peaceandfreedom2011]

chapmans and the intercomunity are drug dealers

[@peaceandfreedom2011]

then again so is victoria hospital

[@bellaspatiogarden3493]

Great work with doing real journalism.

[@peaceandfreedom2011]

this aint real journalism this is controlling the narrative the conservative narritive

[@rwcrsarrc]

Great work Harrison ..I've worked in London periodicity over 30 years I never lived there. I've seen the decline . Corporations are fleeing downtown bc of the rising homeless and drug addicted.

[@easternsaxon7820]

Any place in southern Ontario would be the most depressing place in Canada.

[@LaydeeLyrix]

Truest thing all day

[@glennbeadshaw727]

Yep especially in the summertime when the humidity ramps up

[@horse69outside]

Where is the best? I'm thinking maybe somewhere in BC?

[@quirkychelle]

This is not the answer. All drugs are toxic.

[@badgermacleod5588]

Cease production of every drug on the planet. Only way to go.

[@davidrobinson5915]

"Safe supply" is a marketing term, it's not a medical term. My gf used to work at the Sally Ann. It's horrific and the city has abandoned all these people. We moved away two years ago and my step-daughter just moved out of the city 6 months ago. It's a shithole. There is no compassion in abandoning people to their addiction with a "safe supply". It's insane. London is for university students and addicts. There is no "living" in London. And it's a shame on the city and anyone who advocates for this crap.

[@gordtron]

moved right by this area in '08 and rolled in on a guy shooting up in the basement stairs. its only gotten worse. heard from people lots of street people kill one another and it never makes the news. something is rotten in London, this is all someones plan.

[@DerekLoney]

I dare you to name who's plan it is. I dare you.

[@joeturcotte2810]

What does a homeless drug addict do with an apartment??

[@rosemaryvan6885]

They get into supportive housing where they relearn how to function. It's working but takes time after someone's been on the street for a few years.

[@shea1219]

They turn it into a drug den.

[@crazyralph6386]

First thing they do is tear out the drywall and steal copper piping for $

[@justinlaporte9414]

It's down right aweful the transformation in London Ontario the last ten years.

[@RetroGamesAddict]

I moved back in 2013, you are right, it has changed so much in 10 years. From 2013 - 2016 it was still really nice, I noticed around 2018 - 2019 it started to get too big and busy, with lots of people from other towns moving in and immigrants. London doesn't know if it wants to be a cosmopolitan city, or be a small town / city. It is failing on both ends, falling short of being a real city, or a small town. Places I use to walk for quiet now always have people around, it is hard to escape the public like before, lots of garbage, noise, dirty streets / sidewalks, not as clean as the past either.

[@argopunk]

Way to go Harrison. You're a brave man.

[@paulkummer429]

So sad. These people need real help.

[@Tavz1111]

Keep voting liberal / NDP

[@peaceandfreedom2011]

vote green conservative and liberal both suck

[@kostanikas3881]

One really depressing thing about London is how many people have moved here in a short amount of time. Our population went from 300k to half a million in less than 10 years. We’re nicknamed “forest city” but we don’t really have many forests anymore. All knocked down for new subdivisions. It really sucks. Like many other people have said, London was once a very beautiful place to live. It’s really sad what’s happened here

[@jermiester7772]

I moved to London in 1986 and this city for some reason can’t get anything right and it is decaying rapidly. When I hear someone say safe supply for drug addicts, it makes me think. Why don’t they set up a bar at the corner of Lyle and Dundas for free liquor and beer and see how many alcoholics show up. I rarely go downtown anymore because it’s become a cesspool. I feel sorry for people that had to close their businesses or are barely staying afloat because of the zombies walking around.

[@deborahstone9696]

And yet, they spend millions of dollars changing the down town area to no avail, !! So many ideas have failed, time and time again.just wasting more and more money on ..makeup.. instead should try going down Dundas street from courthouse to highbury street.build affordable housing! Have places for people to clean themselves up, showers, meal plan cards and locate the places they all need there! with government assisted cards! Receipts for food etc to be handed into Ontario works so they know where the money is going! Clothing and laundry facilities close by! Hire them to be superintendents, work in kitchen, make london beautiful downtown without all the useless ...makeup..❤❤❤❤

[@coreythauvette-bn5in]

If you're looking for a story , come to Timmins Ontario. Going in the same direction as this with the same " strategy "

[@vovin8132]

These tiny home projects for street people are popping up all around BC (but tiny homes are prohibited for the rest of us peasants, of course). How much you wanna bet that there is a ton of low-income construction grant money going into these projects, and only a fraction of that money is actually ending up in tiny homes themselves while the "non-profit" executives bank 6-7 figure salaries.