Drug use isn’t directly related to poverty. Lots and lots of rich kids use drugs. I’ve seen drug users range from poor families to ultra rich. It’s an unfounded excuse. It’s a mental issue.

I think it’s part politic issue. Some people couldn’t cope with covid lockdowns and the propaganda. Also the federal government supports handing out hard drugs. And the fallout of shutting down the country and economy is healthcare cutbacks. The current US government is allowing mass immigration (also here in Canada) and these unvetted immigrants now have a pipeline to bring in drugs. Almost like the government wants this.

Not going to lie in this video it really hit me hard because I see it in my own town I'm living in I literally live about an hour away in Sussex and it's getting really bad here also especially with the kids they're mostly doing drugs and stuff now too.. It's a really sad world we live in.. And it really does have to deal with a lot of mental health stuff being cut back I deal with mental illness myself and I don't really receive what I need like a psychologist and therapist I've been on the waiting list for a new psychologist for a year now and come to find out the one I'm on the list for is retiring next month and I'm still not accepted so and sad you got to keep trying and move on and try your best to stay alive...😕❤️‍🩹

Just out fur a rip are ya bud

Born and raised in this shithole

Waterloo village is wild lol 😂

This is such a beautiful video, I go to high school in that area, and it's very very sad to me when I see unhoused people, addicts, and people who clearly aren't having life go their way, I have so many friends and people I know who are even as young as 15 who turned to drug abuse and sadly might just end up in the same situation. It's truly heartbreaking, and I really hope that our community can persevere and overcome this crisis, because we have amazing people who work for amazing non-profit companies who do their absolute best to help these people. Thank you again for making this amazing video, it feels good to know it's being acknowledged and shared, it might really help us make some progress

Buddy being interviewed doesnt even know the homeless exploded when they tore down the salvation army homeless shelter uptown for water front condos and didnt replace it

8 businesses threatened to leave uptown if the city didnt get rid of the homeless so they are using tax payer money to scatter the homeless throughout the city but setting up homeless towns in the middle of low income neighborhoods with 80% children and Fresh Start is helping them do it so they can apply for more funding because golly gee the problem is now everywhere. Sickening people

As a Fredericton city bus driver, my heart breaks for all the broken souls I see daily.. Housing and Mental health services are needed.. Bless those on the front lines.. Thank You

The petty crime thing you mention is new of the last 5 years or so. Of course there was always some; but it's really picked up - same with the cleanliness; use to be much cleaner with nicer landscaping etc; to me the city feels strained and overwhelmed and it's showing. "I haven't seen police radar in 3 years" They use to be very focused on traffic violations 5+ years ago; then what seemed like over night, no more cops at u turns on the highway, no more posting up on inner city streets with radar, etc etc. A lot of this stuff is recent changes due to population influx. You might see it resolve in years to come as the city catches up to it. Welcome fellow youtuber.

I WORKED ON IRVING OIL REFINERY 1974/75 WINTER TIME VERY COLD NOT MANY DRINKING BARS THEN USE TO GO TO X.L.COUNTRY AND WESTERN CLUB CHARLOTTE STREET .AND THE LEGION CLUB .CAN YOU PUT SOME LIGHT ON THIS

I'm someone who is living in Saint John, in a small condo unit I own, driving a vehicle I bought new a few years ago, and even used to travel a little. A couple of years ago I had a mental breakdown, panic attack or whatever it was... it knocked me on my ass. I barely leave said home now and my social circle is dwindling down to just my appointments. When I do go out, if it's not to dart in and out to run an errand... it's typically to disappear out in the woods on my own. To this day, I've yet to be diagnosed with anything while having ideas of depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, etc being thrown around. My psychiatrist came out and said it's simply my personality now and I need to just get back out there again. Sure, OK. Luckily I'm not on the streets (yet) as my life choices before hand has acted as a life preserver for now but I have a lot running through my head concerning my future. I say this to open some peoples eyes that not everyone spiraling towards living on the streets are drug addicts, welfare surfers or ex cons. There's too many people that are one slip up away from starting the process of joining them and falling down the ladder is a hell of a lot quicker than the process of climbing it. Would I lose my mind or start numbing my senses with drugs if I ended up losing everything? I don't know. I don't do drugs. Hell, I don't even drink but those ideas don't seem so far fetched when the shoe is on the other foot. There's soo many factors to this issue and it's been around forever. However it's no coincidence that it spreads like wildfire when ever the government keeps turning the dial up to see how far they can push their citizens. Even more suspicious when they aim to keep every drug on the streets. Almost like drugged out zombies are easier to brush under the rug than people with nothing to lose on a united front. Food for thought.

Good on you to be realizing and covering this. Thank you for stepping up.

Bro I’m 21 I’ve been in SJ my entire life, things really changed after Covid.

Please don't come to New Brunswick, we don't want it to become another crap hole like the rest of Canada

That women sarah is so dumb. Jib is one of the only drugs i think should be illegal… its soo bad for your health.

Saint John is a crapshow - funded by halfway houses uptown, hippies and millionaires. Nowhere else can u rub shoulders with criminals, blue collar workers and millionaires in the same city block

quit fuckin smokin rocks then?

I'm a west-side convert :) would love to show you around sometime! It's got so much to love, especially if you love the coast.

The real truth is you all need the Lord Jesus Christ and then when you understand the spiritual warfare behind the problem then you can go and you can learn how to pray in a effective way that it will drive out the curse that is upon the land because that's what it is it is a curse that somebody put their and because the Christians in your town do not understand warfare and spiritual means is Why it got to where it did Y'all need Jesus Christ

Play closed down loan water farm wow I wonder what it would take if a group of Christians got together and went and reopened it for the purposes of a christ-centered program that would actually work Study the statistics on it go look at the success rate of teen challenge in places who teach people the Bible in their programs I have 6 years sober thankfully to one of those programs who taught me the biblical meaning of life I wonder what it would take for a group of Christians to get together Henry open it and turn it into a crate center recovery program I'm going to look into that

Man I'm telling you I walked that road and I walked that lifestyle and I talked to people still who are stuck in this lifestyle daily I'm telling you I wish I knew how to get a hold of you guys because I would do my best to try to team up with you and go out to the streets and encourage people it would amaze you when you were jaw drop on how I would speak and how they would listen because I listen for God's voice and I only speak to these people what he puts on my heart to speak and when I do it this way and I don't just speak what I want to speak but I speak what I hear the Holy Spirit tell me to I see changes big time I'll tell you a little story and try not to comment too much more there was a man who had a girlfriend both of them were homeless for the longest time when I was in my addiction I used with his girlfriend before they were together we get high together needles for me when I get sober years after I run into him and met him and he was dating this girl they were living in a camp they built off the side of the highway Which was pretty cool but the only problem is the law keeps running them out so when he would talk to me I would encourage him and let him know how I overcome and how I was even worse than where he was at and I was and I encouraged him and told him that he will get sober one day I got a message on messenger from this man the other day he sent me a picture of his 7-month-old baby him and his girlfriend have their own home and they're sober today He said a lot of what I said to him is what encouraged him to make that move I didn't know that I was pushing him to do better when I spoke to him until he told me just the other day Never judge those people do you know how some of them people grew up beaten by their parents some of them women out there selling their bodies molested by their uncles and their dads and brothers and whoever would come in to do so and now she's become a sex slave on the street willingly due to her own pain to be able to pay for the addiction that blocks every drop of Angie feels and you go out and judge them not only judge them but actually pay them the money to sleep with you stop and think some people don't even do them drugs but you'll go and pay for the hookers on the streetwhen you don't even know the lifestyle that she once lived was nothing but abuse and you're just showing that girl that she's not wrong and what she believes of men You don't know the life somebody had before they ended up where they are now when you see them be very aware of what you say about them cuz one day it will come back on you do not be deceived every man will reap what he sows My brother's who are posting this video online I encourage you to continue what you're doing in God's time and I'll meet you in person❤

If there is Christian's reading this and you know what Deliverance Ministry is then you know what I'm talking about and if you're in St John get off your freaking asses Hugh hypocrites this problem would not have gotten this far if the Christians would have been praying properly into the spiritual realm against this type of thing happening

Msny in Saint John in that lifestyle know who I am because I was born and raised in Saint John I know a lot of the faces I'm seeing in this video One day I'll come back to St John and I'll open the ministry and it'll be a biblical bible-believing Ministry which will cause the streets to become cleaned up of addiction because we will bring Jesus Christ into the lives of the people and he is the only one going to change that problem that you got down there it was a flying biblical laws that has been keeping me sober for 6 years now I hit my first needle at age 17 and I did not stop until 34 I remember sitting in jail and thinking to myself 34 and I turn 34 in jail I turn 33 in jail I turn 32 and 31 all in jail and do you want to know something my birthday is Christmas Eve I truly got to call those years didn't I and I deserved it too Put one day God's going to send me back and unlike the church is you're seeing in your town today who have no power as it is written in the book of Acts you will see that power flow through the ministry I bring in to your town my old town I'm very aware of who the bigger guys are in St John and I stay clear of them at the same time I'm coming back one day in Jesus Christ is coming with me and we're going to clean up Saint John all in God's perfect timing and I'll teach you why your physical means are not going to help a spiritual problem This is spiritual more than anything else and when you begin to understand spiritual warfare and how to drive out the strong man that Jesus Christ tells us about that problem will not go away it will continue and it will get worse If you want to take what the devil has placed upon your land you must first tie up the strong man bind him and then you can go in and you can take everything he owns the hearts of the people stuck in addiction and oppression it is a spiritual problem and you're not going to fix it with physical means ever

The main problem is people continue to try to fix a spiritual problem with physical means and you will never fix a spiritual issue with physical means You need to pray you need to understand spiritual warfare and understand how to pray against it and then when you drive out the strong man you will see a change and that takes a lot of time to an effort This is a spiritual issue and until you truly understand this the problem will grow worse

The main problem is people continue to try to fix a spiritual problem with physical means and you will never fix a spiritual issue with physical means You need to pray you need to understand spiritual warfare and understand how to pray against it and then when you drive out the strong man you will see a change and that takes a lot of time to an effort I do not disagree that some of them struggle with mental health disabilities book all of them that you think is a disability I'm telling you right now no it's not it is demonic oppression and when you understand Deliverance in Ministry biblical means in spiritual aspects when you understand what it means to tie up the strong man bind him and take all he owns then the land will be healed and the people as wel You go and study the statistics you're going to find out that the most high success rate in the highest success rates are of those who teach the recovery guys the word of God about Jesus Christ and I'm one of those people that overcome and exactly that

My name is James Magee I grew up in Saint John born and raised 18 years of my life I use needles fentanyl Dilaudid crystal meth almost 6 years ago I overdosed out of body experience that changed my life forever we're 2024 in October I will have 6 years sober I give all glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who has taught me love and peace and joy and hope and now today I live in Moncton and I go out to the streets often and try to encourage people that are in the same background that I want shoes to be in There's very few people that will overcome these addictions I have many friends in Saint John that aren't here no more because of it they won't have a chance like I have How shed tears asking God why me why did you let me live in all of them didn't get this chance I may never answer that will I know that God has purpose here for me there's people here on this Earth that only I can speak to can you show me that turned my overdose how is arrested on a 6-year warrant after running from the law for 6 years well in my addiction I went to a place called harvest House recovery program in Moncton New Brunswick it is a christ-centered program I stayed one year court-ordered I got my own home when I left that program as well at job today I'm still living in the same house that I got when I accomplished my recovery program I've become an evangelist and I do Street Ministry because me I walked that road too and lived to tell my story

There’s two ways to view Saint John, if you’re in a couple with two incomes it’s a great place to life but if you work minimum wage things might be a little tough. Rent is getting 1400$ without utilities and if you have no transportation the busses might not be the best as you’ll probably need a transfer and the trip will take 1h plus going from west side to east end and busses close at 6pm on Sundays or some don’t run at all. So my opinion is if you have a good job it’s worth it but if you can’t afford to do the m.v.i on your car every two years or pay high property tax it will be a struggle.

and so much falsifying of information, documents and diagnosis ....I am all for 'help' but not from 'professionals' who are corrupt with an agenda

we need to publicly have voices and not be silenced, oppressed, trapped in community with our abusers and ones who are supporting/enabling or abusing themselves ....I am not an addict but have been seriously affected, let down by the 'system' and when trying to get 'help', tell the truth about the abuse....soon to be homeless in Windsor, Nova Scotia, being silenced and oppressed in the community I was adopted into......msgs, emails can't be reached from my area ....are blocked......no in person supports anymore just the corrupt internet that can easily delete and silence ........so much abuse and so much silencing happening

Lived on all side of this city and West is best. Lots of shops and a more chill safer vibe.

It's sad man that's my city

Talk about poor people while capitalizing on the highest taxed and lowest paid province in Canada. Get real loser.

I could be one of these ppl. I took the chance at recovering.. took the help offered. Went to jail. Went to rehab. Lost my kids. Got them back. Graduated the methadone program. Used my skills. Even with mental illness im still able to be on top! Got my shit together, a job. Kept my apt for 5 years. It’s possible.. it really is.

St. John’s Newfoundland is the same way.

speaking as a someone who was addicted to crack-cocaine in my past life, I'd have to say it was me just making the decision to quit for me and my kids. I was on the verge of loosing my husband and kids and I wasn't willing to go through that. I cried out to Jesus and asked Him to help me and He did! I thank Him everyday (21 yrs clean) that He plucked me out of the lifestyle I was living which would've put me in the grave. What I've learned is that help is there if your willing to go get it. you can't help someone who isn't ready. you can put someone in rehab all you want but if their not truly and I mean truly ready to get clean and change their life around it doesn't work. Resources are there for the one's who choose. My heart breaks for everyone who is under this addiction and I pray for them that they too will rise from this and ultimately meet the Man who TRULY loves them... JESUS CHRIST

Thanks for promoting Freddy

Completely agree with dog craps there are tons in the Rez as well. So much so that we will probably need some law enforcement and surveillance from time to time. Better have some signs with warnings. smh

The Freddy, Moncton, SJ meme was perfect lol 👌

This is how Trudeau's government is making Canada great again!

Thank you so much for this detailed, measured take of life in Saint John. As a dual US-Canadian citizen contemplating leaving the US with my family for NB, I am so glad to have come across your channel!

Sitting here in the US as a dual US-Canadian citizen (Canadian citizenship by descent) with family in NS, very much considering sponsoring my husband and our son and moving to the Maritimes. Thank you for your perspective and detail. With all its flaws, it sounds so much better than what we're facing here. I spent my childhood summers in Cape Breton, and have fond memories of traveling through Saint John.

I want buy one too for this price how than I do?

I am from exmouth street , my parents are still there . This breaks my heart . Open drug use should not be legal .

Glace Bay, NS had a bad run with drugs. The drug suppliers need to be stopped. I walked on Waterloo street yesterday going to service Canada. I was approached by a prostitute, it was sad. And the kids matter in that area.

Cupe is a joke of a union

You've got area 506. Waterloo Street is Area 911

hard to have sympathy for an addict who says they dont need rehab,, they need an apartment....because we know thats bull

I live in a small town 2 hours away from this woman and we have people sleeping in Bank ATM spaces. There is no work and I don't think most of them would go to work if they could. I am a senior waiting for a hip replacement and can't find anyone anyone to mow my lawn.