Jesus is the only way to healing, restoration and salvation to all souls. Please turn to him and he will change your life, depression into delight, soul heading from hell to heaven all because of what he did on the cross “Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” Romans 10:13
I usually think of Toronto as being a smaller, less densified version of NYC. Outside of the downtown core and the original city, there isn't much that's interesting about this place since the rest of it is suburbs build for cars. NYC on the otherhand seems to have alot of interesting places to see and not just Times Square.
Is that right? Can you share who planned and is carrying out your mythical "great reset"? If you know what the plans are, surely you have some factual evidence you could share so you don't just sound like a tool, right?
hitting all the crack hot spots around Sherbourne. This is about as decrepit as it gets. Sitting beside a warm smelly garbage bin on a hot summer night with a bunch of people jonesing.
ahhhh.....at least it was summertime!! canada is wayyyy to cold for me. come to austin, tx!!! all the crack u want, but nice and warm most of t he year
@@worstcase519 Toronto is much worse than it use to be, but even so its still much better than most every major US city in terms of safety and crime rates. Just sucks that Toronto is going downwards towards becoming more like a US city than being better and becoming more like many peaceful and safe cities in Asia.
I used to live in and work at downtown Toronto up until last November, and Dundas and Church St and Yonge are little different. That being said, I miss the place. Magic mushrooms and movies were everything
I literally live here. Grew up in regent here and beaches, im 40.i sold coke in 90s with Jamaicans but changed my life around. That church needs to go tbh. Its literally all people eating from them and stealing 24/7 Alllllllll the thiefs around the city come down here to sell.... The pakistani electronic store on corner buys stolen electronics constantly...... Its BAD..... Rapes murders yearly..... Whole area needs revamping like original regent park... Im fact when they tore down regent and rebuilt it they moved alot of that action few blocks west to sherbourne du dundas..... Take the church down..... Also tougher courts.... More surveillance October 12th at 3pm Queen's Park i have peaceful protests planned....... I put posters up Centrist movement. Guardians.
Jesus is the only way to healing, restoration and salvation to all souls. Please turn to him and he will change your life, depression into delight, soul heading from hell to heaven all because of what he did on the cross “Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” Romans 10:13
@@lahoya111 Unfortunately these people want to destroy everything that made us who we are today. Any form of cohesion and social fabric needs to come down for individuality. Then they wonder why people end up lonely or drugged out on the streets.
@@TheSeeker225 I’ve been to so many places all over the US.. including LA and Chicago and there are a lot of “hoods” there that you wudnt even know were hoods cus they look like such nice areas. Where Charlie is filming here, u can tell right off top that its not a nice area
The city is beautiful at night with the purple, aqua, and blue lights twinkling like diamonds against the blackness of night. Sad to see so many homeless on church steps, but it appeared they were being fed by the lady behind the food cart, happy to see that at least.
@@unixrebel It's a hard call. I don't think anyone wants to live on the street and they do need food to survive. Many aren't in a position to work due to mental illness, drug addiction, or being handicapped. Even those who have none of these issues but fell on hard times due to eviction, etc. have a very difficult time finding jobs when they don't have a physical address to fall back on. Take me for example, I'm an artist and one of the fortunate ones. My place goes for twice the amount of rent that I actually pay. If my landlord would have doubled the rent on me like Many people have had to deal with based on inflation, I'd be in trouble. I lucked out and apparently have a kind landlord who didn't stick it to me (not yet). If he had doubled the rent I couldn't have stayed. Then what? All the rents out there are just as high and I'd be in a Catch22. So I can absolutely see how people end up out on the street.
Not everyone is homeless for the same reasons. Better watch what comes out your mouth because one day you or a close loved one could be in this same situation and may you be met with the same ignorance you put out.@@unixrebel
@cliff is right, when your ignorant you think you know, but know nothing. People can easily loss there job and not be able to pay rent ect, then end up on the streets,
Before they knocked down the Lakeshore off ramp i could get from East York to West Toronto in like 20 minutes, now its at least 45 minutes, an hour if you're lucky.
@@evaone4286 There would be less traffic on the Gardiner if they would have the balls to knock down the old Gardiner and build a brand new one, but make it a triple decker. First deck would be for traffic to downtown as it is presently. Second deck would be an actual expressway that bypasses downtown almost completely for those who want to go from east to west and vise versa. Top deck would be a new park for people and cyclists to use to get around easier and to enjoy. Unfortunately no politician would want to do that and some portion of the public would object to a bigger newer expressway even though it would greatly help with traffic. Instead we're spending a couple of billion or something like that just to fix a small portion of the old Gardiner instead.
0:25 used to be the Canada Tavern. And in the 1800s my cousins owned what it was then. Great dive tavern in the early 90s. Abandoned for years. Just rotting.
They should head to Hamilton then too if this is what they do!! Same with certain areas of Brampton, or even Malton,ON. (Not Milton LOL) He also easily could’ve driven around Weston, Jane&Finch etc although yes Sherbourne is also not the greatest. I’m from Mississauga but go to Toronto enough to have seen these places lol
Sherbourne & Dundas isn't a place to hang out unless your looking for something or you have some business to take care of. I was a streetcar operator for 9 years downtown and there are certain area's you dont stop in. Other than that Toronto is still a safe city when compared to other major cities in Canada. If you look for trouble you will find it. So in having that said just keep to yourself, mind your business and nobody will mess with you. I love my city and its still beautiful!!
Feels weird Other cities in America you might feel off, and still I feel comfortable watching this video, it’s bad. Yet still going down to Spadina to get Chinese food you don’t really think much about getting jumped. I’d say it’s right place right time. Go in with a task, do it and leave. Sucks to see how many more homeless have been accumulated in downtown Toronto. Our economy really has suffered
as a little girl I used to visit Toronto a lot. I only live 3 hrs away. now as an older women (34) I wouldn't even be able to express this is the same place. With all the flashing screens and fancy buildings homeless line the streets, many never have a home cooked meal in years. It reminded me of Tokyo Japan with the screens, but it looks nothing like this at all. I feel sorrow watching this, my childhood smashed. I never realised until becoming a mom myself, my parents are right, cherish your childhood, things are a lot different as an adult. The degradation of society is unbearable and I always feel so hopeless. All I want it to help everyone. My own small town is full of the homeless.... this is so gut retching
i visited vancouver like 6-7 years ago and for the most part it was fine but i took the bus through some realllly sketchy areas and it was probably the worst place ive ever seen/been through. I didn’t get off the bus there but yeah, vancouver’s sketchy areas are something else
It is not the same city I lived in 10 years ago. It's a mess now, with garbage and homelessness everywhere. This is what Trudeau has done to this country. Smh
This area is actually a lot better now than it was 10 yrs ago. I stayed in Moss Park in the late 90’s/early 2000s and it’s not as many junkies out on the streets like it used to be and crime is down (most Regent projects were torn down, and that knocked murders n violence way down) Be thankful for what u have and stop blaming everything on Trudeau
saw a lady once at dundas and sherbourne who was clearly high af and losing her mind after a streetcar refused to open the door. she smashed like 3 of them streetcar windows with her bare fists and gtfo the streetcar. she was nice as hell though and apologized to me for the disturbance she's caused. bless her heart.
Excellent drive around video! I moved from Queen and Bathurst to Kingston Ontario in 2001 at 30. Your street scenes were compelling and reminiscent for me. The good, the bad and the ugly. ✌️❤️🇨🇦
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where at Wrestlemania 6, the Ultimate Warrior defeated Hulk Hogan for the World Wrestling Federation Championship....the good old days of wrasslin'.
My wife and I honeymooned in Toronto in 1981... We stayed at the Inn On the Park hotel ( it has been torn down and replaced by a newer one further away )... We took in the sights and 25 yeers later, we visited again... And in 2024...How far it has fallen !☹️
Sherbourne and Dundas and the rest of east Downtown was a drug infested shit dump in 1981, the same as it is in 2024. I grew up there, I would know. This guy is just doing laps around the block and trying to paint the whole city like that.
At 7:45 you're driving through the boardwalk of regent park, im 32 now but i grew up here as a young punk kid from like 13 up, 90% of my acquaintances growing up are deceased or in jail; The first night chillin here we seen some dude get shot like 22 times siting on the bench at the boardwalk there... which never really stopped just became normal.
Good thing that the redevelopment of Regent Park seems to have helped that area a fair amount and crime and violence seems to have gone down in that neighborhood.
It looks like you are on the Gardner. You will probably end up over by Jane and Finch. That is supposed to be the heart of the Toronto hood. Rotate maps of Chicago and Toronto together when you get a chance. The layouts of these lakefront cities are eerily similar. Chicagoland is bigger. But, the bones of each city are almost carbon copies of each other, rotated at 90 degrees.
No man, the outer suburbs of Toronto are much more spread out away from the lake north to Barrie and west to Waterloo and then south towards St Catherine’s. You can’t compare with Chicago because Lake Michigan is east of Chicago so it just expands west and south and north. Well actually you’re right now they are spread out 90 degrees inverted. Toronto though still much cleaner than Chicago. Chicago is a cleaner New York actually weather wise they also very similar. If I were to move I would live in Minneapolis, MN not Chicago or Toronto.
Toronto should use this video to attract tourism. Living in Toronto, I would tell Tourists to try a different city. Sure this video was in the sketch areas but it doesnt get much better near the Eaton Centre.
Toronto is the epicentre for the gta, the largest populated area in Canada, sorta cool to see this tour for people all around the world to see this great city
I grew up in this area Sherbourne & Dundas brings back a lot of memories. That convenience store used to be a 7-Eleven, George’s chicken just west on Dundas if you’re a real Toronto native then you know!!!
I have some of that area in the other Toronto video from 2 days ago. And I’ve filmed there in the past. I do have some footage I may post. People don’t realize it’s difficult to do this kind of filming there because it’s a big wide suburban type setting on fast busy streets, with shopping malls, etc, and now they got that train going down through there. You have to drive fast, the buildings and people far from the street. It takes a few days there to get good footage. You have to drive up into the individual apt parking lots etc sometimes people out, sometimes they not. I’ll probably have to park and walk to get good footage there.
@@CharlieBo313 Good evening Charlie.What is your overall opinion of Toronto....or Canada as a whole perhaps....maybe compared to US cities...anything that really stands out?
@@CharlieBo313do walking videos of grandravine and driftwood housing projects - cant drive through but its huge to walk and shows the real Jane and finch not the busy street which is safe
Sherbourne & Dundas. I used to pass that intersection every night on my way home from late night security shifts. I’m sure street cars still hate stopping there lol.
Congratulations on the video, it was excellent, Canada is a wonderful country, I hope to visit it one day. I started a channel here on UA-cam recently and record in the same way here in Brazil. I signed up, I will follow you from now on, I look forward to your next videos, you are very good. A big hug !!!🙂
You parked at the store I used to go to all the time. Sherbourne and Dundas, is nuts, and has been for as long as I can remember. The homeless people straight up grab shit off the shelf and walk out, every day, and the workers are like, screw it! It's a scary place at night, too. But surprisingly, I've never had any problems with the people. Maybe I'm just lucky? There was this crazy tweaker girl who used to come up to me and bum a smoke. She was zoomin, every time I saw her. She's one of the people who would beg outfront the store and then when she got enough cash, she'd go inside, make a scene, and steal some shit. Then she would run out and dart across the road, almost getting hit. So one day, a few years later, I was watching dashcam videos, and what do you know? There she is, getting hit by a car, at that very intersection, likely after doing the same thing she always did... She was hit at low speed, luckily, and seemed fine. The dash cam was a car or 2 behind the vehicle that hit her, but you could see it clearly and I recognized her walk and frame, instantly. I admit it. I busted out laughing.
Yes, our downtown has declined. Yorkville is nice (clean streets and sidewalks, few homeless people) but 95% of our city core has cracked sidewalks, crumbling streets, condoms and needles on the ground and homeless people. The video shows Sherbourne Street, which is the worst of Toronto, but most of downtown is suffering. In season 3 of "The Wire," a police officer lets people do what they want in three parts of his precinct, then keeps the rest of it clean and safe. I wish we could do that here. Some people are addicted to drugs and do not want help. I wish we could contain them to several areas, and keep the rest of our city core clean. Lastly, I visited Chicago in 2022 and their downtown area was impressive: clean sidewalks, smooth streets and few homeless people. If they can do it, we can do it.
I was born and raised in Toronto, grew up in Metro housing. Moved out of the gta last July. Best move i ever made. Sure there are homless and drugs in my new city but that shit dont bother me, grew up with it. I love having to deal with no traffic and when you go downtown its empty and quiet. People are very nice and polite still for the most part. Its on a bay.and has a river running through it.
As a Black American who was born and raised in Baltimore i listen to Canadian hip hop one of my favorite artists is Kardinal Offishall and I've heard him speak in interviews the Toronto accent was heavily influenced by the Jamaican accent the majority of Black Canadians in Toronto are 1st and 2nd generation born Jamaicans the Toronto slang is basically patios forreal like they say "tings" "bredren" "fam" "wagwaan" (i know probably spelled it wrong lol) all that is patois forreal when they came they brought the slang with them
@colossus112785. Toronto "slang" is actually, from Jamaican patwah/Jamaican Creole. "When they came they brought the slang with them" No, it's not a slang, it's a language.
@@maryjs4878 No one stole or "wants to be" anything, Caribbean's and East Africans came over and shared the culture and the people grew up in the same neighbourhoods as them ended up appreciating it and using it, since that was their environment. Black Canadians in Toronto have been speaking like this since the 80s for the longest time, but it was just in certain areas of the GTA, the big problem now is that TOO MANY people force it and make it into a caricature of what it actually is.
It sure isn’t the T.O. we used to cruise on Friday nights in the late 70’s. I don’t even recognize it anymore (haven’t lived there since the late 80’s)
It's crazy you drove past the worst McD's in Toronto and nothing was happening at the time MENTAL! Escorts, drugs, gangs and guns usually found there, also drunk clubbers and night owls. It really makes for a diverse circle of life.
welcome to canada! you went right to the worst part of town hahah. that part of the gardiner is gonna be under construction until 2027, swear there is traffic there 24 hours a day now
i like Toronto..ive been there many times in both night and day..and theres life there even at night..you meet soem oddballs at night all hours of the moroning but theres still peopel walking aorund at night all hours. but last time i was there it was plastered wiht those electronic billboards all over the place it was disgusting i cant stand that..like in New York i see its all electrinic billboards and Toronto seemed much the same..i wasnt a fan .
At 45 seconds 191 Sherborne . Lived there for 6 years, Sam's on the corner across from homeless church had best friend chicken in town . That was 20 YE ARE S AGO
I was born in Hamilton Ontario and Left in 1990 came back in 2018 I thought I was in Toronto! lol! we used to not have anything to with Toronto shit! I moved to St Catherine's Ontario in March 2024! gun violence, Homelessness and Cracked out Crazies! I was like this is Trudeau doing it was not like this before he was Prime Minister! it's a worlds different here in St Catherine's it's not perfect but has a lot more peace to it!
Hamilton here and you wouldn’t believe how bad it is here now! Tents everywhere! Hamilton was always low income but not like this! Now it’s high income for roach places.. I blame Trudeau also !! It wasn’t lie this ten years ago
@@izzydeadyet7336 Amen Brother I was poor and single mother life and close to street life and dead end loser friends who really not friends in the long run! but pure Hamiltonian when we had our own culture and identity not to be messed with and not give up! But everything changed and even our heritage and unique buildings are pretty much gone! there no pride anymore or to fight for it! There lots of buildings for the homeless and treatment not harm reduction is more important for the homeless right now you cant band aid the problem and hope it goes away and get better that's the spirit of inaction! period and tolerance! and enabling the problem! its only making things worse! its all our responsibility not just the governments we are not socialist for the most part they want us to depend on them! lol they can't even solve their ow n personal issues and through money at that too now no one knows where the money is going except in someone's pocket lol it's not a money problem it's people's heart attitude problem
you dont have to worry nearly as much about getting jumped or robbed in canada compared to the US even in the slummiest areas, it still happens though.
Toronto kinda looks like Liberty City from GTA IV.
Charlie drove up and Sherbourne from Queen to Dundas at least 3 times, try the rest of the city. Be careful on Crescent Road.
There's this other place that also looks exactly like liberty city it's crazy
Naw
@@bobsobie678 He should go hang out in the Jane & Finch projects.
Jesus is the only way to healing, restoration and salvation to all souls. Please turn to him and he will change your life, depression into delight, soul heading from hell to heaven all because of what he did on the cross
“Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” Romans 10:13
I built the roads there in 1975
Ooo man what a time 😮
I built the CN Tower with one hand all by myself.
That’s pretty cool man! I work on railroad tracks around gta. Bet things were a lot different just that long ago. Cheers
@yoyoyo416 "Have you seen the new addition to the Guggenheim? I built that. And it didn't take very long either."
@@blightedgroundscostanza.
Toronto Canada looks very similar to New York City.
In a way while considerably smaller and less diverse types of layouts, it kind of is
Fun fact they shoot alot off movies in Toronto but say they are in New York because it is cheaper to do so as usd are worth more then cad
I usually think of Toronto as being a smaller, less densified version of NYC. Outside of the downtown core and the original city, there isn't much that's interesting about this place since the rest of it is suburbs build for cars. NYC on the otherhand seems to have alot of interesting places to see and not just Times Square.
More like Chicago when you get there
@@KinoRunner_ doubt it
I grew up in Toronto in the seventies as a teenager. It's sad to see what a shithole it's become!
Going just as planned for the great reset.
Sherbourne was always a hole. Try the rest of the city.
It's canada that's a shit hole, Toronto is still easily the best city in this shitty country tho, and has been for decades.
It was a shithole in the seventies too.
Is that right? Can you share who planned and is carrying out your mythical "great reset"? If you know what the plans are, surely you have some factual evidence you could share so you don't just sound like a tool, right?
hitting all the crack hot spots around Sherbourne.
This is about as decrepit as it gets. Sitting beside a warm smelly garbage bin on a hot summer night with a bunch of people jonesing.
Lol
ahhhh.....at least it was summertime!! canada is wayyyy to cold for me. come to austin, tx!!! all the crack u want, but nice and warm most of t he year
This is like driving through skid row and calling it LA
Sherbourne is the worst street in toronto
@@worstcase519
Toronto is much worse than it use to be, but even so its still much better than most every major US city in terms of safety and crime rates. Just sucks that Toronto is going downwards towards becoming more like a US city than being better and becoming more like many peaceful and safe cities in Asia.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ i'd reclaim that claim that toronto is safer then most US cities at the start of 2024 Toronto had the most homicides
@UzumakiNaruto_ oh boy trust me it won't be all so good when your youth realize the reality of 0 jobs that this fkin city offers. Fk the GTA.
I used to live in and work at downtown Toronto up until last November, and Dundas and Church St and Yonge are little different. That being said, I miss the place. Magic mushrooms and movies were everything
Lived at 191 for 6 years . 15 years ago
That church will actively allow homeless to stay next to their doors and they help them during the daytime.
I literally live here. Grew up in regent here and beaches, im 40.i sold coke in 90s with Jamaicans but changed my life around.
That church needs to go tbh. Its literally all people eating from them and stealing 24/7
Alllllllll the thiefs around the city come down here to sell....
The pakistani electronic store on corner buys stolen electronics constantly......
Its BAD..... Rapes murders yearly.....
Whole area needs revamping like original regent park...
Im fact when they tore down regent and rebuilt it they moved alot of that action few blocks west to sherbourne du dundas..... Take the church down..... Also tougher courts.... More surveillance
October 12th at 3pm Queen's Park i have peaceful protests planned.......
I put posters up
Centrist movement. Guardians.
That church is immoral...
@@holeindanssock156 Cool. Don't care
Crazy how that store stays open at night wtf
Jesus is the only way to healing, restoration and salvation to all souls. Please turn to him and he will change your life, depression into delight, soul heading from hell to heaven all because of what he did on the cross
“Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” Romans 10:13
DRUGS ARE EVERYWHERE, WHAT A SAD PLANET!!!!
Modern society. Never forget basics and traditions.
@@lahoya111 - What traditions? Religious zealotry? Racism? Wars?
@@tomato-ir9xs yawn...
@@lahoya111 Unfortunately these people want to destroy everything that made us who we are today. Any form of cohesion and social fabric needs to come down for individuality. Then they wonder why people end up lonely or drugged out on the streets.
@@tomato-ir9xsfor some, but if u think that for all your mind is very tiny 😂
Dope fiends everywhere
@alwynraynott7303 dude they are pretty much everywhere downtown especially on public transit at night
@alwynraynott7303sprinkled? Blanketed.
Yeah that part of the city is known for that ….
we don't care what happens in your home
And where there is dope feinds there is drug wars
As a UK citizen this fascinates the shit outta me, GTA feels 🔥🔥
Downtown Eastside in Vancouver is even worse than that
u legit went to some of the worst areas.
That's kind of the idea of this channel
@@WhoisthisCon Only visiting the worst parts of a city to misrepresent them? Very cool
Those are really the worst areas ? They look pretty good compared to what we have in the US.
Wheres the good part? I have to go work dt a lot, I dont see a good part
@@TheSeeker225 I’ve been to so many places all over the US.. including LA and Chicago and there are a lot of “hoods” there that you wudnt even know were hoods cus they look like such nice areas. Where Charlie is filming here, u can tell right off top that its not a nice area
The city is beautiful at night with the purple, aqua, and blue lights twinkling like diamonds against the blackness of night. Sad to see so many homeless on church steps, but it appeared they were being fed by the lady behind the food cart, happy to see that at least.
shouldnt give them anything, why enable this behaviour?
@@unixrebel It's a hard call. I don't think anyone wants to live on the street and they do need food to survive. Many aren't in a position to work due to mental illness, drug addiction, or being handicapped. Even those who have none of these issues but fell on hard times due to eviction, etc. have a very difficult time finding jobs when they don't have a physical address to fall back on.
Take me for example, I'm an artist and one of the fortunate ones. My place goes for twice the amount of rent that I actually pay. If my landlord would have doubled the rent on me like Many people have had to deal with based on inflation, I'd be in trouble. I lucked out and apparently have a kind landlord who didn't stick it to me (not yet). If he had doubled the rent I couldn't have stayed. Then what? All the rents out there are just as high and I'd be in a Catch22. So I can absolutely see how people end up out on the street.
Not everyone is homeless for the same reasons. Better watch what comes out your mouth because one day you or a close loved one could be in this same situation and may you be met with the same ignorance you put out.@@unixrebel
Well said!
@cliff is right, when your ignorant you think you know, but know nothing.
People can easily loss there job and not be able to pay rent ect, then end up on the streets,
Damn, not even Charlie is safe from traffic on the Gardiner...
You could pull up any minute, any second of the day and there would be traffic on that goddamn road
Before they knocked down the Lakeshore off ramp i could get from East York to West Toronto in like 20 minutes, now its at least 45 minutes, an hour if you're lucky.
@@Parody-j9k That's a shame. The on-ramps won't be rebuilt until around 2026, and they will be further west at Cherry St.
@@evaone4286 hasn’t changed in 40 years, lol
@@evaone4286
There would be less traffic on the Gardiner if they would have the balls to knock down the old Gardiner and build a brand new one, but make it a triple decker. First deck would be for traffic to downtown as it is presently. Second deck would be an actual expressway that bypasses downtown almost completely for those who want to go from east to west and vise versa. Top deck would be a new park for people and cyclists to use to get around easier and to enjoy.
Unfortunately no politician would want to do that and some portion of the public would object to a bigger newer expressway even though it would greatly help with traffic. Instead we're spending a couple of billion or something like that just to fix a small portion of the old Gardiner instead.
0:25 used to be the Canada Tavern. And in the 1800s my cousins owned what it was then. Great dive tavern in the early 90s. Abandoned for years. Just rotting.
You might need an front wheel alignment after driving downtown, also make sure there is no dents in your rims... the potholes be ponds over here
Sherbourne, Sam's, and Moss Park. You know how to pick 'em.
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Ayeee Charlie big fan, always loved your vids. Happy to see you in Ontario in my neck of the woods, take care man!
Wow all that diversity definitely enriching our country.
You should try do an video about Windsor, Ontario. You can go there through Detroit.
why? Windsor et un grand sheet hole. In English, Windsor is one big sheet hole
@@michealtessier7246 thats the point of the channel
@@michealtessier7246 this channel shows the ghetto areas of Toronto 😂 So Windsor would easily make the cut 😂😂
They should head to Hamilton then too if this is what they do!! Same with certain areas of Brampton, or even Malton,ON. (Not Milton LOL) He also easily could’ve driven around Weston, Jane&Finch etc although yes Sherbourne is also not the greatest. I’m from Mississauga but go to Toronto enough to have seen these places lol
That border crossing prob how he got his vehicle to TO.
Sherbourne & Dundas isn't a place to hang out unless your looking for something or you have some business to take care of. I was a streetcar operator for 9 years downtown and there are certain area's you dont stop in. Other than that Toronto is still a safe city when compared to other major cities in Canada. If you look for trouble you will find it. So in having that said just keep to yourself, mind your business and nobody will mess with you. I love my city and its still beautiful!!
Feels weird
Other cities in America you might feel off, and still I feel comfortable watching this video, it’s bad.
Yet still going down to Spadina to get Chinese food you don’t really think much about getting jumped.
I’d say it’s right place right time. Go in with a task, do it and leave.
Sucks to see how many more homeless have been accumulated in downtown Toronto. Our economy really has suffered
as a little girl I used to visit Toronto a lot. I only live 3 hrs away. now as an older women (34) I wouldn't even be able to express this is the same place. With all the flashing screens and fancy buildings homeless line the streets, many never have a home cooked meal in years.
It reminded me of Tokyo Japan with the screens, but it looks nothing like this at all. I feel sorrow watching this, my childhood smashed. I never realised until becoming a mom myself, my parents are right, cherish your childhood, things are a lot different as an adult.
The degradation of society is unbearable and I always feel so hopeless. All I want it to help everyone. My own small town is full of the homeless.... this is so gut retching
Toronto is a cleaner newer Seattle actually. Space Needle=CN Tower
East Hastings, Vancouver BC: " HaHa! Hold my beer Toronto!"
@@freddyphilips8525 Haha? So having more addicts is something to brag about now. Interesting...
i visited vancouver like 6-7 years ago and for the most part it was fine but i took the bus through some realllly sketchy areas and it was probably the worst place ive ever seen/been through. I didn’t get off the bus there but yeah, vancouver’s sketchy areas are something else
@@ilTHfeaait's bc Vancouver allows it
It is not the same city I lived in 10 years ago. It's a mess now, with garbage and homelessness everywhere. This is what Trudeau has done to this country. Smh
You can’t blame one man for what ppl here have done to this city
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@@xalt00 Yes, thanks to his insane immigration policy.
This area is actually a lot better now than it was 10 yrs ago. I stayed in Moss Park in the late 90’s/early 2000s and it’s not as many junkies out on the streets like it used to be and crime is down (most Regent projects were torn down, and that knocked murders n violence way down) Be thankful for what u have and stop blaming everything on Trudeau
@@BadbwoyKelly better than 10 years ago??? Lol ridiculous. Why should you be thankful to a guy who is ruining your country?
Feels like I'm swimming when he's walking around. Camera must be hidden in a bag or something... 😅
pretty sure its attached to a walking assist like a cane; you can hear it when he walks and his gait matches such a thing.
I think it was a go pro attached to his leg @@MrFiddleedee
saw a lady once at dundas and sherbourne who was clearly high af and losing her mind after a streetcar refused to open the door. she smashed like 3 of them streetcar windows with her bare fists and gtfo the streetcar. she was nice as hell though and apologized to me for the disturbance she's caused. bless her heart.
Yep . Loose your friggin mind ,smash shit and then apologize. It's the Canadian way. 😅
That convenient store was shot up a couple of months back. Someone walked in and started shooting at everything. Thank God no one was injured.
Excellent drive around video! I moved from Queen and Bathurst to Kingston Ontario in 2001 at 30. Your street scenes were compelling and reminiscent for me. The good, the bad and the ugly. ✌️❤️🇨🇦
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where at Wrestlemania 6, the Ultimate Warrior defeated Hulk Hogan for the World Wrestling Federation Championship....the good old days of wrasslin'.
That's pretty gay
@@toads5200 you're a mark
@@toads5200😊
Agreed.. @@toads5200
Thanks for the recap vince
My wife and I honeymooned in Toronto in 1981...
We stayed at the Inn On the Park hotel ( it has been torn down and replaced by a newer one further away )...
We took in the sights and 25 yeers later, we visited again...
And in 2024...How far it has fallen !☹️
The camera man took video of Sherbourne/Dundas and Regent Park. Those areas were always poor, and I strongly doubt you and your wife went there.
Liberalism
When we visited in 1981, I wasn't aware of the poor neughborhoods and since it was our first time there, we stayed close to the hotel...
you telling this story in every canada related video , it amazes me
Sherbourne and Dundas and the rest of east Downtown was a drug infested shit dump in 1981, the same as it is in 2024.
I grew up there, I would know.
This guy is just doing laps around the block and trying to paint the whole city like that.
At 7:45 you're driving through the boardwalk of regent park, im 32 now but i grew up here as a young punk kid from like 13 up,
90% of my acquaintances growing up are deceased or in jail; The first night chillin here we seen some dude get shot like 22 times siting on the bench at the boardwalk there... which never really stopped just became normal.
Good thing that the redevelopment of Regent Park seems to have helped that area a fair amount and crime and violence seems to have gone down in that neighborhood.
OMG looks like Detroit mixed with Chicago.
@alwynraynott7303 No, they just act like it.
@alwynraynott7303yeah, Toronto is worse.
Or as I've aptly named Toronto, little LA, it's the same everywhere.
@@lorimrasek7611 Hogtown & Tinsletown.
@@ront769 It's disgusting in downtown Toronto, the energy is just vile.
It looks like you are on the Gardner.
You will probably end up over by Jane and Finch. That is supposed to be the heart of the Toronto hood.
Rotate maps of Chicago and Toronto together when you get a chance. The layouts of these lakefront cities are eerily similar.
Chicagoland is bigger.
But, the bones of each city are almost carbon copies of each other, rotated at 90 degrees.
No man, the outer suburbs of Toronto are much more spread out away from the lake north to Barrie and west to Waterloo and then south towards St Catherine’s. You can’t compare with Chicago because Lake Michigan is east of Chicago so it just expands west and south and north. Well actually you’re right now they are spread out 90 degrees inverted. Toronto though still much cleaner than Chicago. Chicago is a cleaner New York actually weather wise they also very similar. If I were to move I would live in Minneapolis, MN not Chicago or Toronto.
This city & most cities in general are weird , because they house both of the extreme opposites of living spectrum in the same area.
I used to drive that strip a lot. I was a doorman for Guvernment. Scarborough and North York foh-evah, guy.
Ahhh the Guv!
You've seen some things ...
I love this city
I thought it was skid row in Downtown Los Angeles at 0:20
As someone who has gone out way too many nights in Toronto, I'd take Toronto out night vs LA anytime of day. TO legit is chill, LA is pretty rough
At about 430 in the morning that everyday electronics plaza is packed with people of the night.
Nah you the goat for this one for sure.
Toronto is unrecognizable of its former self... this is like a well respectable person going into meth addiction
Toronto should use this video to attract tourism. Living in Toronto, I would tell Tourists to try a different city. Sure this video was in the sketch areas but it doesnt get much better near the Eaton Centre.
Opening reception is Weds the 24th 5 to 8pm 183 Queen St East
Umm, I just noticed at the time at 6:50 above the intersection at the lights, but it looks like a UFO flew by…
wtf
Toronto used to be really nice. Was it always like this or did it get bad some time in 2010?
There are nice parts of Toronto, lots of them. He was just filming some of the rough parts. Toronto is a huge city.
@@tripod5147 All of Toronto used to be nice. The pockets are getting smaller by the day.
9 years of liberalism
@dix just 9 years?? That's crazy
@@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee9531 Toronto has been liberal for a while, but things really took a progressive turn in the past decade.
I didn't know Toronto had areas that looked like this. I figured the entire Country was paradise in Canada
Last 10 yrs all of North America has gone too Hell bro
Toronto is the epicentre for the gta, the largest populated area in Canada, sorta cool to see this tour for people all around the world to see this great city
C- bo made his way back to Toronto.
The Not Like Us by Kendrick playing in Toronto 🤣
@@casey5260 Yeah that song is big here. We play it at work all the time lol.
you'd be surprised that most canadians prefer kendrick lol I hear that shit everywhere
I never hear that shit played here
@@BadbwoyKellySounds like denial to me
Our boy hittin all the worst areas in town lol
All those areas were just as cracky 20+ years ago. I’ve lived here for 45 years.
Still can’t get over how the gps voices say SPA-DEEN-UH as oppose to SPA-DINE-UH😂😂😂🤣🤣
🤣
When did Canada start driving on the wrong side of the road?
the 'right' side of the road
I grew up in this area Sherbourne & Dundas brings back a lot of memories. That convenience store used to be a 7-Eleven, George’s chicken just west on Dundas if you’re a real Toronto native then you know!!!
Bro visit Jane and finch toronto
I have some of that area in the other Toronto video from 2 days ago. And I’ve filmed there in the past. I do have some footage I may post. People don’t realize it’s difficult to do this kind of filming there because it’s a big wide suburban type setting on fast busy streets, with shopping malls, etc, and now they got that train going down through there. You have to drive fast, the buildings and people far from the street. It takes a few days there to get good footage. You have to drive up into the individual apt parking lots etc sometimes people out, sometimes they not. I’ll probably have to park and walk to get good footage there.
You should go to Flemington Rd it's on Lawrence West. Bunch of government housing there and I seen your videos in Jane Finch before
@@CharlieBo313 Good evening Charlie.What is your overall opinion of Toronto....or Canada as a whole perhaps....maybe compared to US cities...anything that really stands out?
@@CharlieBo313do walking videos of grandravine and driftwood housing projects - cant drive through but its huge to walk and shows the real Jane and finch not the busy street which is safe
Come to my neighborhood.. Jamestown Rexdale.
Sherbourne & Dundas. I used to pass that intersection every night on my way home from late night security shifts. I’m sure street cars still hate stopping there lol.
Thanks for coming to Canada!
Boa noite ❤
Congratulations on the video, it was excellent, Canada is a wonderful country, I hope to visit it one day. I started a channel here on UA-cam recently and record in the same way here in Brazil. I signed up, I will follow you from now on, I look forward to your next videos, you are very good. A big hug !!!🙂
You parked at the store I used to go to all the time. Sherbourne and Dundas, is nuts, and has been for as long as I can remember. The homeless people straight up grab shit off the shelf and walk out, every day, and the workers are like, screw it! It's a scary place at night, too. But surprisingly, I've never had any problems with the people. Maybe I'm just lucky? There was this crazy tweaker girl who used to come up to me and bum a smoke. She was zoomin, every time I saw her. She's one of the people who would beg outfront the store and then when she got enough cash, she'd go inside, make a scene, and steal some shit. Then she would run out and dart across the road, almost getting hit. So one day, a few years later, I was watching dashcam videos, and what do you know? There she is, getting hit by a car, at that very intersection, likely after doing the same thing she always did... She was hit at low speed, luckily, and seemed fine. The dash cam was a car or 2 behind the vehicle that hit her, but you could see it clearly and I recognized her walk and frame, instantly. I admit it. I busted out laughing.
Good story 🙂 She DID play the odds afterall ...
Wtf???
The last clip was a filming location for The Boys in which Will Ferrell was a cameo
Yes, our downtown has declined. Yorkville is nice (clean streets and sidewalks, few homeless people) but 95% of our city core has cracked sidewalks, crumbling streets, condoms and needles on the ground and homeless people. The video shows Sherbourne Street, which is the worst of Toronto, but most of downtown is suffering. In season 3 of "The Wire," a police officer lets people do what they want in three parts of his precinct, then keeps the rest of it clean and safe. I wish we could do that here. Some people are addicted to drugs and do not want help. I wish we could contain them to several areas, and keep the rest of our city core clean. Lastly, I visited Chicago in 2022 and their downtown area was impressive: clean sidewalks, smooth streets and few homeless people. If they can do it, we can do it.
Yeah Toronto is looking like it's seen better days. Born here in '86
Always same problem
There an emergency shelter near here. You have not seen nothing yet. All the home around it are abandoned. Like something from silent hill.
I was born and raised in Toronto, grew up in Metro housing. Moved out of the gta last July. Best move i ever made. Sure there are homless and drugs in my new city but that shit dont bother me, grew up with it. I love having to deal with no traffic and when you go downtown its empty and quiet. People are very nice and polite still for the most part. Its on a bay.and has a river running through it.
thanks charlie
As a Black American who was born and raised in Baltimore i listen to Canadian hip hop one of my favorite artists is Kardinal Offishall and I've heard him speak in interviews the Toronto accent was heavily influenced by the Jamaican accent the majority of Black Canadians in Toronto are 1st and 2nd generation born Jamaicans the Toronto slang is basically patios forreal like they say "tings" "bredren" "fam" "wagwaan" (i know probably spelled it wrong lol) all that is patois forreal when they came they brought the slang with them
Kardinal is an OG Toronto rapper. Lots of Caribbean people in Toronto. Every year Americans come up here for Caribana.
I always though Toronto people sounded more Trini in their accent
@colossus112785.
Toronto "slang" is actually, from Jamaican patwah/Jamaican Creole.
"When they came they brought the slang with them"
No, it's not a slang, it's a language.
@@Lyfe3033No, the Toronto people are bunch of wannabes, they're trying to act like, Jamaicans.
But their accent doesn't sound like Trini.
@@maryjs4878 No one stole or "wants to be" anything, Caribbean's and East Africans came over and shared the culture and the people grew up in the same neighbourhoods as them ended up appreciating it and using it, since that was their environment. Black Canadians in Toronto have been speaking like this since the 80s for the longest time, but it was just in certain areas of the GTA, the big problem now is that TOO MANY people force it and make it into a caricature of what it actually is.
Yonge & Dundas gives me Bladeunner vibes
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Come to Barton street in Hamilton
His car will need a re-alignment lol.
@@Robert.Lee1989 lmao facts
havent been down to Toronto since before covid.
i escaped to paradise thx god
where
@@coolbian513Europe
Nice, where ?
Go back and fix this then? Why are you running away.....
Isn't that what you'll always say.
Leave paradise alone.
Yeah to Whitby
you got to go to moss park at night if you want to see some shit
He’s at Sherbourne and Dundas pretty well miss park
Did you ever come to Edmonton?
Was there yesterday to visit one of there huge mall
It sure isn’t the T.O. we used to cruise on Friday nights in the late 70’s. I don’t even recognize it anymore (haven’t lived there since the late 80’s)
It's crazy you drove past the worst McD's in Toronto and nothing was happening at the time MENTAL! Escorts, drugs, gangs and guns usually found there, also drunk clubbers and night owls. It really makes for a diverse circle of life.
i lived there about 10 years ago at queen east and sherbourne above the convenience store. crazy times. its scarier now... O.O
Nice that you are back in Ontario, shout out from London ! 🎉
welcome to canada! you went right to the worst part of town hahah. that part of the gardiner is gonna be under construction until 2027, swear there is traffic there 24 hours a day now
i like Toronto..ive been there many times in both night and day..and theres life there even at night..you meet soem oddballs at night all hours of the moroning but theres still peopel walking aorund at night all hours. but last time i was there it was plastered wiht those electronic billboards all over the place it was disgusting i cant stand that..like in New York i see its all electrinic billboards and Toronto seemed much the same..i wasnt a fan .
At 45 seconds 191 Sherborne . Lived there for 6 years, Sam's on the corner across from homeless church had best friend chicken in town . That was 20 YE ARE S AGO
Toronto is a nice city. Haven't been here since the 90's.
Shoutout to you for showing the store on Jane and yorkwoods..I used to pick up dime bags and a blunt and a Arizona
Hilarious how close to Robocop it looks (1897) and the the remake (shot in Toronto) didn’t take advantage of it 😂
City Council voting to make Toronto a Sanctuary City has ruined it.
Just rename everything Sankofa and society will balance itself.
No way! Since when did you start making videos in Canada? Used to watch you old LA(?) videos all the time. 👊
You gotta go to the projects in the suburbs next time. Rexdale, jane, galloway, etc
Is that how it is everywhere in downtown or only some parts of toronto? it looks depressing
Thumbnail is definitely around the college and Sherborne area. city used to be beautiful but Im soon looking to get out of this shit hole
I’ve visited Toronto several times over the years but never saw this part.
Lovely Sherborne and Queen never a dull moment😂
Toronto is where Drake learned how to assemble the perfect summer casual outfit
I was born in Hamilton Ontario and Left in 1990 came back in 2018 I thought I was in Toronto! lol! we used to not have anything to with Toronto shit! I moved to St Catherine's Ontario in March 2024! gun violence, Homelessness and Cracked out Crazies! I was like this is Trudeau doing it was not like this before he was Prime Minister! it's a worlds different here in St Catherine's it's not perfect but has a lot more peace to it!
Wellands better then st Catharines now
Hamilton here and you wouldn’t believe how bad it is here now! Tents everywhere! Hamilton was always low income but not like this! Now it’s high income for roach places.. I blame Trudeau also !! It wasn’t lie this ten years ago
@@izzydeadyet7336 Amen Brother I was poor and single mother life and close to street life and dead end loser friends who really not friends in the long run! but pure Hamiltonian when we had our own culture and identity not to be messed with and not give up! But everything changed and even our heritage and unique buildings are pretty much gone! there no pride anymore or to fight for it! There lots of buildings for the homeless and treatment not harm reduction is more important for the homeless right now you cant band aid the problem and hope it goes away and get better that's the spirit of inaction! period and tolerance! and enabling the problem! its only making things worse! its all our responsibility not just the governments we are not socialist for the most part they want us to depend on them! lol they can't even solve their ow
n personal issues and through money at that too now no one knows where the money is going except in someone's pocket lol it's not a money problem it's people's heart attitude problem
That train is sick
It's a tram not a train, technically
They call them streetcars - electric and pretty slick.
In europe you have tram in every big city.
@@hugoboss8786 very nice
It's a streetcar
This not the Canada that Canadians worked hard for, time for better leadership in Canada!!!!!
you dont have to worry nearly as much about getting jumped or robbed in canada compared to the US even in the slummiest areas, it still happens though.
Ive been to the thumbnail in gta5 so many times
Charlie please Vancouver east hasting street
crodie u do snow??? ❄️
4:00 hits different to get energy drink from a small market like that vs a marketed gas station like wawa
Sorry our fridges ain't Stacked like in America 😂💯
Charlie, during you day video you drove up and down Sherbourne at least 3 times, yes we know what goes on.
Go to South Drive, its a bad bad area.