Canada's poverty problem isn't going away. Inflation is at an 18-year-high. Food, gas, housing prices are all climbing. Context spoke with organizations making a real difference for those living on the edge of poverty: ua-cam.com/video/zIFTviFzTog/v-deo.html
I'm Canadian and I can tell you the reason why it's so hard to make ends meet, is because of the Astronomical Rents/Housing Prices. The cost of living is up the roof and you have to make at least $50k a year just to get by if you want to live a somewhat normal-ish life. Even at that, You won't be owning a home or renting a 3 bedroom apartment for a family of 3. You need to clear at least 4$-$5k a month to support a family of 3.
As an Italian we aren't doing any better either. But honestly you are the only one Canadian who speaks the truth and the real reality with your heart. Too many so called amurikan s include Canadian s trie to hide themselves behind a fake media one nation under God, Canada and America are the center of the world and the list goes on
@@lupeavalos9342 Not anymore.. you use to be able to move outside the city to get away from high rents, but even rents in small areas have skyrocketed and you'll pay $1000 for a place so far from jobs and services that you'll spend twice as much just getting groceries. Canada has literally started euthanizing it's poor and disabled, (at no cost to the patient) to save money.
Before you judge a homeless person, remember you are only a few missed paycheques of ending up like them. On the other hand the rich have almost nothing in common with you.
Thats a lie, covid has proven that even during a pandemic Canadians has so much money its impossible to default on car payments and mortgage payments. Trust me I'm disappointed, I was hoping enough people would fall flat on their ass we could change things.
So save one more week over the next month. Just don’t spend your income. Each month do the same and you have a 3 month buffer. 5 years and you have a house deposit. 15 years and you never have rent again. Take responsibility for yourself.
seriously i am in the states..have never made more than 20k a year and qualify for absolutely no assistance what so ever.. im educated, hardworking and homeless
p d i hope things change for you real soon; If you are hardworking, there is a company out there looking for you, and will pay your worth. Don't give up!
@@quaithom3138 if you are hardworking there is a company willing to underpay and laugh at you as you throw your physical health in the garbage so theur pockets get fatter
I live in Canada the biggest problem is how much housing has gone up. The problem is there is no limits on how many units and properties one person can buy. Which has artificially increased the price and there has been no legislation to combat this. For example housing prices in Toronto have gone up 164 percent since 2010.
You know, adding 350,000 immigrants a year has an impact on rents, and house prices. Nobody wants to admit this of ocurse because immigration is a sacred cow.
@@btg1958 I'm in favor of regionalized immigration toronto is like overcapacity for the infrastructure that currently exists the blood Danforth line built in 1955 as well as the Gardiner expressway built in 1955 is way over capacity
@@btg1958 now it's 400,000 people each year for the next 3 years. Canada needs to grow its population, but in places like the Atlantic provinces and Prairies, not the GTA/Vanc.
@@pirate1012 Even at 350,000 a year, our population was growing by 1.6% a year - while the US was a only 0.7% a year and Britain, Germany and other countries are below the US. Births exceed deaths. With 8.8% extra workers will just add to unemployment and the labour surplus. When we had a recession in the early 80s, Pierre Trudeau cut immigration to below 90,000 a year. And 50% of the immigrants who settle in New Brunswick are gone to another province within 5 years.
@@btg1958 Brian the sacred cow can go and get stuffed. We are all sick of this crap that you can't say anything anymore for fear of being labelled racist. I live in Australia and we have our fair share of these mainly free loaders with at times their hoards if kids. We hear in Australia have seen the hotel debarkle in both Canada and England. It would be interesting to know how many of them are not living off welfare. I thinking they should get twelve months if help when they arrive and have to learn English in that time. If they are not in work within two years the government should find them whatever works they need doing. And as soon as they commit a crime out they go no questions asked. They know Canada and Britain are a very easy touch. It's an absolute DISSGRACE!!!
Meanwhile city of Calgary spends a 100 million on a foot bridge....300gs for a blue ring...2mill on artwork for the lrt...the list could go on forever....what a joke
@@luchaluchalucha And on top of building useless art or non-necessary infrastructure, they have the audacity to call them "Prestige Projects". Prestige for whom? Definetely not for us ordinary citizens
But where will that money come from? If we apply the Canadian model, then taxes will be raised, which will destroy the economy. If we use the USA model, the government will borrow in perpetuity. If we use the Argentina model, the Central Bank will be ordered by the government to fire up the printers at the Mint, and print Loonies for everyone. Please make your selection.
Indeed, if the government allows foreign investors to buy property and inflate the rent prices, it should compensate this by covering part of the rent automatically. If a chinese investor buys a property and doubles the rent from 500 to 1000 , the government should compensate the tenants with 500 a month.
@@limouzine1529 no... the government should have blocked that from happening. New Zealand had policy that prevents foreign buyers from buying existing houses/buildings ( and farmland) , so as not to displace the local population. Foreign land buyers/investors should only be permitted to buy undeveloped land ( with limitations on size) and build... this would not take housing away from citizens and would not artificially inflate housing prices and rent. This is an old idea! It’s suspect that our “elected representatives” couldn’t figure this out. Also... a few years ago Canada’s housing market was put on a online property shopping site in China, that already has 90 million “shoppers”. 90 million ... for a land grab free for all. We can thank all those “highly educated” Canadian bureaucrats and politicians for protecting the Canadian people ( extreme sarcasm).
It's on good to let in migrants and refugees if they work and are working. No country needs economic migration. We do not need welfare recipients especially those with a board of kids. And we don't need people coming in to wealthy countries who's skills are not required.
The housing problem is global in all big cities around the world. Those that are keeping the big cities running can no loonger afford to live in the cities and have to commute for hours. The problem is that there is no longer a focus on building affordable housing for everyone as it was the case in the 1970s.
It's going to blow up in their faces eventually. I always notice how relatively wealthy people use the existential platitudes like, "it's a self-esteem problem", "You have to believe in yourself". This is to make themselves feel better about the income disparity, while putting the onus on poor people and no one else.
@@luchaluchalucha Where are the local governments to regulate and prevent this kind of situations. People in big cities in Spain like Madrid and Barcelona can no longer afford to live in thier rented homes after paying rent there for the last 25 years.
The end of the day as a whole poverty pays. That's why we have this conundrum. Being part of the solution or have subsidized housing doesn't make a profit. Greed. Corporate greed. Comes to mind. It's not homelessness. As that would involve having a home. It's houselessness. -George Carlin.
L Harvey. Rich and Well off do NOT have a JOBS, meaning working for somebody else . Rich and Well off people are BUSINESS owners, JOB creators , wealth creators and politicians stealing money from taxpayers etc etc..
Maybe we do ourselves, because here in Quebec Montreal I was homeless for 7 years, and all the system is doing is put us in jail for random stupid reasons.
It’s absolutely useless to try and get any homeless help until you’re actually on the street and then you’ll be stuck there for a long time because there is no real help but billions of dollars going into it every year
First a company pays say $50 an hour for their work to be done that person now hire somebody else to hire employees at $15 an hour now the second person takes a piece of the pie and by the time I get down to the employee there’s nothing left
Toronto has the most Millionaires than anywhere else in Canada. Half of Canadian Billionaires are from Ontario. Ontario's GDP dwarfs Alberta: $1 Trillion. Don't kid yourself.
Food banks are a joke, the volunteers and their family/friends eat very well. Nothing is left for the families who go to them for help. Greed, Greed, Greed
Food banks are just a product of failed left-wing tax-the-rich policies that ironically stifles any attempt by the poor to improve the financial situations while benefiting the rich.
There is not enough jobs that pay a living wage in our country as well as the automation is going on throughout the industry laying more people off day by day
In Ontario there is 103,000 houses for rent I cannot afford to rent one of them I have change the prices to pay more but still there is nothing to rent stop lying to the people about the problem and fix the problem
Look to the politicians, corruption is the norm.. By the time anyone comes to power they owe business's, etc. We get in another Trudeau who comes from wealth. He is so removed from the everyday struggles of the ordinary Canadian. I just hope that the uprisings around the world will come here.
Why do they constantly use the word affordable and affordable for the poor is $375 start using a dollar amount for the word affordable instead of the word affordable
Yes, This is what JESUS said, not what the Church practice. Churches have business opening hours these days, it looks like they dont care much about peoples need.
We are already well below the 3 to 5% Housing safety rate anything below 3% the poor are the ones paying for it stop hurting the poor and give them a chance to have a life
Hungry and homeless and in severe pain Brain tumour and broken neck Pwd disabled BC only $375 for shelter or rent and only $1100 per month total Even the entire amount of 1100 isn’t enough for. Home I require urgent surgery but I don’t get that either 🇨🇦 Doesn’t care about its citizens our country is a corrupt criminal Cartel
If you don’t believe me and we’re being screwed look at the jobs that are being offered in the waiting with the offer look how many of them are above a certain wage to make you a middle class you’ll see that the numbers are no longer valid for that getting an education will get you a good job
2 years later, lost everything no job in 2 years!! 60 years old and cant find any kind of social help!!! This country is a joke! Born here worked all my life and wiped out in few years.
Greedy rich people driving up prices and charging astronomical amounts for rent for one, for two, more people than you'd think and realize have blew and squandered their opportunities by having lots of money and wasting it on drugs and alcohol cigarettes, "toys" and expensive lifestyles, and pure irreaponsibiliy and laziness...theres poverty by circumstance and poverty of poor choices and judgment, which can be changed. People need to stop looking at themselves as perpetual victims, and these social services are most guilty of conditioning brainwashing people into hopelessness and learned helplessness, and not just relying on handouts. many people did dope BEFORE THEY lost it all, it was while they were working. Theres different motives...not just one way...different reasons. People either get beaten down and stay there, or struggle to rise back up. Who will be the easier person to help? Poverty pimps want repeat customers to so they like to hand out and enable vs actual help to progress...
Karma Support staff is an occupation. Either lower the cost of living or raise the wages. Elimination of the middle class is underway across the globe.
Read a really good book, called : "Life at the Bottom, the Worldview that Makes the Underclass". There's more than one Dynamic going on here.... so many of these people who act so hard done by are the ones who game the system for everything they can get their greedy hands on, and get so much stuff for free it's sickening, and it's just to enable them to do whatever they selfishly feel like, wasting resources... not to help them be productive members of society
We are being taxed into poverty as well, why is that with how insanely we get taxed over & over on every single little thing x100 that the food bank is seeing 40% increase with people who need there services. The rate there taxing us in this country we should all be eating good, like damn. $300-$400 off my paycheck bi-weekly towards taxes. Let us keep our gross income, ridiculous.
We don’t have a poverty problem we have a greed problem. We have greedy, rich in government, rich, keep taking more and more leaving the bottom with less.
The lack of affordable housing is worldwide it’s not just in Canada or United States this is something that the governments of the world have not addressed correctly to deal with the problem they must put a stop to all building except for low income moderate housing to catch up with what they’ve wiped out over the years
What are you some hypothetical numbers if it cost me $1 million a year to run the company and I’m giving out only 25% of what I’m taking in that mean 75% of people are donating is going into their pockets
Exactly and whatever they give willl never be enough because people don’t live below their means. I commute 1 hour to work so that I can own my home and pay it off early and I don’t buy crap I don’t need
Read the book "Half the Sky", even in 3rd world dirt poor countries, many are poor cuz of what the MEN do to choose what they spend money on addictions and prostitutes instead of directing it to the family and doing things like starting a business that makes money etc . Not just one thing...
Not sure how I feel about Alberta's poverty crisis, given their long history of ultra conservative - Right Wing Politics. For a long time Albertans have been so invested in misguided "Bootstrapping" and "Entitlement" ideology. They have held a grasping and resentful sense of Entitlement around their Natural / Mineral resources, espoused a lot of Racist - Xenophobia ideology, endorsed RW politicians whose social and economic policies have never been about protecting working class / poor interests. Many Albertans actually love and support Trump. Remember Preston Manning and Stockwell Day, the guys Albertans wanted to bring to Ottawa...? They have decried any economic policies that sounded "Socialist"....so its hard for me, as a 50 yr plus, racialized and marginalized Canadian born national myself, to have empathy here....other than to say, the chickens have come home to roost !
But ultra-conservative right-wing politics is partly the reason Alberta is one of the better off provinces in Canada. But LW social and economic policies have done plenty to hurt the poor and working class under the guise of helping them.
Government has caused all problems that are out there at the moment and it's not gonna get any better they love to donate money to other countries and worry about their families in India and all the immigration that's coming in
This is why I look myself or why I live a minimalist lifestyle volume at my van Titanic stop paying high rent to paint a big Bill's which prevents you from enjoying your life it's been more serious in companies and working the rest of your life by the time you have time for yourself you're dead cuz now you're too old to enjoy it.. this is the problem I just get bigger and bigger for poor poor people or middle class over protect people I tell people get out of the system and final 20 ways to live only this way you'll have more time to yourself less work more time to enjoy it's been spending hours and hours working working you spend more time with your family time..
@@skapunkoialternativeliving6522 I believe he is referring to a minimalist lifestyle, to "getting out of the system" and having "more time to yourself". Easier said than done, in most cases people do not really have a choice. Stay in a big city and work hard just to pay your rent, buy food and hopefully some clothing or move outside the bigger cities, cheaper rent but hours of commuting to work as there are no jobs locally.
Refreshing perspective on ' be fruitful and multiply', It was a nice surprise to hear a discussion on those who have for onr reason or other having left the employment arena, children are grown etc having an empty space nolinger being fulfilled.
Here is the poverty percentage based of affluent countries. Some of thd super powers like US has 16.5% (approximate) = 45 million, Uk has 10.5 %(approximate) = 6.9 million, Israel has 18.5 % (approximate) = 1.69 million
The governments really need to take their finger out of the cookie jar With the people that are poor and allow them to not be taxed to death to try and make a living text message only be after you make so much money and you should not be tax with any business you open until after you make so much money
This country have very very very low fertility rate 1.5 only so it's very very very easy to keep here peaceful environment and to do development but middle east and africa have well over 4.5 fertility rate.
If you offer housing to the artists the elderly and the veterans you’re not solving the problem you’re pandering because the real problem is with the rest of the population homeless that is not being acknowledged and is being ignored every single time stop lying and start doing something honest and deal with the problem that they’re not the one that you perceive
there are lots of 3 and 4th generation Canadians living in poverty - where can they go? Also native people have high rates of poverty - what country can they go to? How about this, instead of bringing in more immigrants the social money spent on them go to the poor and homeless in this country
Most immigrants moved here when there were still jobs and housing wasn’t so expensive. For the new immigrants life here is a nightmare. I’m an immigrant and I would tell people not to come to Canada, for their own sanity.
@@eduardor.5417 So True! My cousin sister was crazy about coming to Canada and I warned her but she thought I am just discouraging her to move to Canada. Now she’s crying that life back home was better. I moved to Canada when house prices were not too bad , now in 2021 it’s crazy high.
If any of the policies or regulations that were being in place by all these industries and government we’re doing anything to help the population and the poor he would see a decrease in the numbers not an increase so who’s lying to who until we start seeing decreases it’s all just pandering
Read the Bible and ask God to show you what is happening in the world today!? Is all written in Bible prophecy book of Daniel and Isaiah and book of revaluation and also Jesus spoken of sign of the End and last days
And I’ll explain a customer hires a company to do a job that company hires another company Higher employees And all along the way everybody takes a piece of the pie well the person doing the work gets the lowest pay and I’ll explain how that works
To those homeless ,..I can only help One person,..but I own my home an property but like you I'm struggling to ,...let's work together ,I have safety an essentials to live but no hope in the future,...I help you ,..you help me ,..I'm a divorced 45 year old white man, who believes in god an america ,...send a message let's work together
Canada's poverty problem isn't going away. Inflation is at an 18-year-high. Food, gas, housing prices are all climbing. Context spoke with organizations making a real difference for those living on the edge of poverty: ua-cam.com/video/zIFTviFzTog/v-deo.html
Good ideas are great but what is being done against oppressors?
I'm Canadian and I can tell you the reason why it's so hard to make ends meet, is because of the Astronomical Rents/Housing Prices. The cost of living is up the roof and you have to make at least $50k a year just to get by if you want to live a somewhat normal-ish life. Even at that, You won't be owning a home or renting a 3 bedroom apartment for a family of 3. You need to clear at least 4$-$5k a month to support a family of 3.
That is worster than USA . Rent in different states is 700 usd to 900 usd for 3 bedroom .
San Francisco is too outrageous and New York City is outrageous. Rent . Every state is cheaper accept California.
Tell me is there is any cheaper rent I Canada like USA ? We have proverty too , but cars here are cheaper and houses you can buy for 50,000 usd .
As an Italian we aren't doing any better either. But honestly you are the only one Canadian who speaks the truth and the real reality with your heart. Too many so called amurikan s include Canadian s trie to hide themselves behind a fake media one nation under God, Canada and America are the center of the world and the list goes on
@@lupeavalos9342 Not anymore.. you use to be able to move outside the city to get away from high rents, but even rents in small areas have skyrocketed and you'll pay $1000 for a place so far from jobs and services that you'll spend twice as much just getting groceries. Canada has literally started euthanizing it's poor and disabled, (at no cost to the patient) to save money.
The price of food and resources have gone up at least 32% of the last year nobody that is poor has ever got that much of a raise ever
Before you judge a homeless person, remember you are only a few missed paycheques of ending up like them. On the other hand the rich have almost nothing in common with you.
If people would save 6-12 months emergency fund that would insulate them against loosing it all
Rich people are rich because they have high I.Q s. Poor people are poor because they have low I.Q s.
@@carolynwertelecki698 Not necessarily, a lot of people are rich because of inheritances.
Bull shit. If I Lose my job I have 20 years worth on money before I start to go backwards. Started with nothing. You need to push up.
A lot of us are only one or two paycheques away from being homeless
Thats a lie, covid has proven that even during a pandemic Canadians has so much money its impossible to default on car payments and mortgage payments.
Trust me I'm disappointed, I was hoping enough people would fall flat on their ass we could change things.
Nah. Just you
So save one more week over the next month. Just don’t spend your income. Each month do the same and you have a 3 month buffer. 5 years and you have a house deposit. 15 years and you never have rent again. Take responsibility for yourself.
@@patrickpittorino7032 how old are you?
Check your lifestyle and stop spending money on stuffs you don’t need. Save more
seriously i am in the states..have never made more than 20k a year and qualify for absolutely no assistance what so ever.. im educated, hardworking and homeless
Is Canada improving, is your life getting better 😞
Do you take mood enhancers?
p d i hope things change for you real soon; If you are hardworking, there is a company out there looking for you, and will pay your worth. Don't give up!
This is the reality of most people. Don’t give, and most importantly remember you’re not alone
@@quaithom3138 if you are hardworking there is a company willing to underpay and laugh at you as you throw your physical health in the garbage so theur pockets get fatter
I live in Canada the biggest problem is how much housing has gone up. The problem is there is no limits on how many units and properties one person can buy. Which has artificially increased the price and there has been no legislation to combat this. For example housing prices in Toronto have gone up 164 percent since 2010.
You know, adding 350,000 immigrants a year has an impact on rents, and house prices. Nobody wants to admit this of ocurse because immigration is a sacred cow.
@@btg1958 I'm in favor of regionalized immigration toronto is like overcapacity for the infrastructure that currently exists the blood Danforth line built in 1955 as well as the Gardiner expressway built in 1955 is way over capacity
@@btg1958 now it's 400,000 people each year for the next 3 years. Canada needs to grow its population, but in places like the Atlantic provinces and Prairies, not the GTA/Vanc.
@@pirate1012 Even at 350,000 a year, our population was growing by 1.6% a year - while the US was a only 0.7% a year and Britain, Germany and other countries are below the US. Births exceed deaths. With 8.8% extra workers will just add to unemployment and the labour surplus. When we had a recession in the early 80s, Pierre Trudeau cut immigration to below 90,000 a year. And 50% of the immigrants who settle in New Brunswick are gone to another province within 5 years.
@@btg1958 Brian the sacred cow can go and get stuffed. We are all sick of this crap that you can't say anything anymore for fear of being labelled racist. I live in Australia and we have our fair share of these mainly free loaders with at times their hoards if kids. We hear in Australia have seen the hotel debarkle in both Canada and England. It would be interesting to know how many of them are not living off welfare. I thinking they should get twelve months if help when they arrive and have to learn English in that time. If they are not in work within two years the government should find them whatever works they need doing. And as soon as they commit a crime out they go no questions asked. They know Canada and Britain are a very easy touch. It's an absolute DISSGRACE!!!
Meanwhile city of Calgary spends a 100 million on a foot bridge....300gs for a blue ring...2mill on artwork for the lrt...the list could go on forever....what a joke
Everywhere is like that. All the huge amounts of space taken up by pointless ugly art.
@@luchaluchalucha And on top of building useless art or non-necessary infrastructure, they have the audacity to call them "Prestige Projects". Prestige for whom? Definetely not for us ordinary citizens
@@luchaluchalucha
To satisfy the vanity and ego of the mayor and city council.
We need rent at less than $500 per month
The federal GOV must top up all province rent shelter payments by adding $500 to each person
But where will that money come from? If we apply the Canadian model, then taxes will be raised, which will destroy the economy. If we use the USA model, the government will borrow in perpetuity. If we use the Argentina model, the Central Bank will be ordered by the government to fire up the printers at the Mint, and print Loonies for everyone. Please make your selection.
@@manolokonosko2868 raise taxes for the rich only and then it wont destroy anything the 1% has plenty to go around
@@luchaluchalucha yeah .. raise taxes on rich in Canada, so Rich can take theirs money and MOVE to USA . FUCK stupid poor like you . ,
Indeed, if the government allows foreign investors to buy property and inflate the rent prices, it should compensate this by covering part of the rent automatically. If a chinese investor buys a property and doubles the rent from 500 to 1000 , the government should compensate the tenants with 500 a month.
@@limouzine1529 no... the government should have blocked that from happening. New Zealand had policy that prevents foreign buyers from buying existing houses/buildings ( and farmland) , so as not to displace the local population. Foreign land buyers/investors should only be permitted to buy undeveloped land ( with limitations on size) and build... this would not take housing away from citizens and would not artificially inflate housing prices and rent. This is an old idea! It’s suspect that our “elected representatives” couldn’t figure this out.
Also... a few years ago Canada’s housing market was put on a online property shopping site in China, that already has 90 million “shoppers”. 90 million ... for a land grab free for all. We can thank all those “highly educated” Canadian bureaucrats and politicians for protecting the Canadian people ( extreme sarcasm).
It is very good to invite immigrant but if you don't address house problems in many cities. It is very danger ahead
It's on good to let in migrants and refugees if they work and are working. No country needs economic migration. We do not need welfare recipients especially those with a board of kids. And we don't need people coming in to wealthy countries who's skills are not required.
no work no food
“Let them eat cake” - The rich
There is food but only spoiled canned food.
They always say they have no money to fix the problem but keep causing the problem to get worse who’s lying
But they have no problem finding the money to pay off illegal immigrants, migrants and foreign governments.
So many promotional videos about Canada only show the positive side of Canada ?
Thats what a promotional video is meant to do lol rub two brain cells together
The housing problem is global in all big cities around the world. Those that are keeping the big cities running can no loonger afford to live in the cities and have to commute for hours. The problem is that there is no longer a focus on building affordable housing for everyone as it was the case in the 1970s.
And now the chinese and indians is just making everything even remotely near a big city obscenely expensive
It's going to blow up in their faces eventually. I always notice how relatively wealthy people use the existential platitudes like, "it's a self-esteem problem", "You have to believe in yourself". This is to make themselves feel better about the income disparity, while putting the onus on poor people and no one else.
@@luchaluchalucha Where are the local governments to regulate and prevent this kind of situations. People in big cities in Spain like Madrid and Barcelona can no longer afford to live in thier rented homes after paying rent there for the last 25 years.
The end of the day as a whole poverty pays. That's why we have this conundrum. Being part of the solution or have subsidized housing doesn't make a profit. Greed. Corporate greed. Comes to mind.
It's not homelessness. As that would involve having a home. It's houselessness.
-George Carlin.
There are not enough jobs at the higher wages for everybody to be rich or well-off
L Harvey. Rich and Well off do NOT have a JOBS, meaning working for somebody else . Rich and Well off people are BUSINESS owners, JOB creators , wealth creators and politicians stealing money from taxpayers etc etc..
Maybe we do ourselves, because here in Quebec Montreal I was homeless for 7 years, and all the system is doing is put us in jail for random stupid reasons.
huge poverty in ireland as well
They don’t really give a shit as long as they keep making money off the poor
It’s absolutely useless to try and get any homeless help until you’re actually on the street and then you’ll be stuck there for a long time because there is no real help but billions of dollars going into it every year
First a company pays say $50 an hour for their work to be done that person now hire somebody else to hire employees at $15 an hour now the second person takes a piece of the pie and by the time I get down to the employee there’s nothing left
All prices are being raised and not as welfare check being raised
Supply and demand for housing is the issue. Canada has done far more for foreigners than those whose families have been living there for generations.
Your ancestors are not Canadians
@@frankihatch WTH are you talking about? Do you want to see birth certificates?
@@SignedOff402 yes
@@frankihatch fuck off
@@SignedOff402 you first
Needs a post covid update
Toronto has the most Millionaires than anywhere else in Canada. Half of Canadian Billionaires are from Ontario. Ontario's GDP dwarfs Alberta: $1 Trillion. Don't kid yourself.
But Alberta has a higher GDP per capita and average household income.
How is half 1 million children in poverty when you give them more money then you give the people
Food banks are a joke, the volunteers and their family/friends eat very well. Nothing is left for the families who go to them for help. Greed, Greed, Greed
Food banks are just a product of failed left-wing tax-the-rich policies that ironically stifles any attempt by the poor to improve the financial situations while benefiting the rich.
A country gets what it votes for , stop weaning!
Stop believing crap that they allow your votes to influence anything at all
There is not enough jobs that pay a living wage in our country as well as the automation is going on throughout the industry laying more people off day by day
Since when did a shelf-stocker job pay a living wage?
In Ontario there is 103,000 houses for rent I cannot afford to rent one of them I have change the prices to pay more but still there is nothing to rent stop lying to the people about the problem and fix the problem
Look to the politicians, corruption is the norm.. By the time anyone comes to power they owe business's, etc. We get in another Trudeau who comes from wealth. He is so removed from the everyday struggles of the ordinary Canadian. I just hope that the uprisings around the world will come here.
The government considers probably around $1100 affordable is it affordable for anyone
Why do they constantly use the word affordable and affordable for the poor is $375 start using a dollar amount for the word affordable instead of the word affordable
I would like to see churches stepping up to provide child care. Jesus said, "Let the little children come unto me".
Look what happened in the Catholic Churches when the little children went
@@margsomerville21 true
Sounds fair to me
Yes, This is what JESUS said, not what the Church practice. Churches have business opening hours these days, it looks like they dont care much about peoples need.
That's a laugh and a half. Most churches can barely put on a service once a week.
We are already well below the 3 to 5% Housing safety rate anything below 3% the poor are the ones paying for it stop hurting the poor and give them a chance to have a life
People need more financial literacy but also and most importantly we need to understand that true hope is found in Jesus Christ 🙏
How the Hell is Jesus going to solve the poverty problem?
@@MissMuttonmeat hahahahahhahahahahahha
Theres no historical proof he even existed
And the jobs that are at the higher levels are being subbed out to other employees to hire employees at lower wages and take a piece of the pie
Namely foreigners.
Time to escape to the USA
Yeah Canada is going downhill time to go to LA.
Hungry and homeless and in severe pain
Brain tumour and broken neck
Pwd disabled BC only
$375 for shelter or rent and only $1100 per month total
Even the entire amount of 1100 isn’t enough for. Home
I require urgent surgery but I don’t get that either
🇨🇦 Doesn’t care about its citizens our country is a corrupt criminal
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If you don’t believe me and we’re being screwed look at the jobs that are being offered in the waiting with the offer look how many of them are above a certain wage to make you a middle class you’ll see that the numbers are no longer valid for that getting an education will get you a good job
2 years later, lost everything no job in 2 years!! 60 years old and cant find any kind of social help!!! This country is a joke! Born here worked all my life and wiped out in few years.
Greedy rich people driving up prices and charging astronomical amounts for rent for one, for two, more people than you'd think and realize have blew and squandered their opportunities by having lots of money and wasting it on drugs and alcohol cigarettes, "toys" and expensive lifestyles, and pure irreaponsibiliy and laziness...theres poverty by circumstance and poverty of poor choices and judgment, which can be changed. People need to stop looking at themselves as perpetual victims, and these social services are most guilty of conditioning brainwashing people into hopelessness and learned helplessness, and not just relying on handouts. many people did dope BEFORE THEY lost it all, it was while they were working. Theres different motives...not just one way...different reasons. People either get beaten down and stay there, or struggle to rise back up. Who will be the easier person to help? Poverty pimps want repeat customers to so they like to hand out and enable vs actual help to progress...
Karma Support staff is an occupation. Either lower the cost of living or raise the wages. Elimination of the middle class is underway across the globe.
Lets not forget the free healthcare.... the money's got to come from somewhere..
hai dai health care when you can get it. Doctor shortage = long slow wait.
Beth black subsidized housing available?
Read a really good book, called : "Life at the Bottom, the Worldview that Makes the Underclass". There's more than one Dynamic going on here.... so many of these people who act so hard done by are the ones who game the system for everything they can get their greedy hands on, and get so much stuff for free it's sickening, and it's just to enable them to do whatever they selfishly feel like, wasting resources... not to help them be productive members of society
We are being taxed into poverty as well, why is that with how insanely we get taxed over & over on every single little thing x100 that the food bank is seeing 40% increase with people who need there services. The rate there taxing us in this country we should all be eating good, like damn. $300-$400 off my paycheck bi-weekly towards taxes. Let us keep our gross income, ridiculous.
Who knew there was a Christian news program
The people without housing in Calgary must rely upon the Generosity of the corporations and people of Calgary to survive
We don’t have a poverty problem we have a greed problem. We have greedy, rich in government, rich, keep taking more and more leaving the bottom with less.
The lack of affordable housing is worldwide it’s not just in Canada or United States this is something that the governments of the world have not addressed correctly to deal with the problem they must put a stop to all building except for low income moderate housing to catch up with what they’ve wiped out over the years
The poor people living together means without any debt or being caused to go to the streets
What are you some hypothetical numbers if it cost me $1 million a year to run the company and I’m giving out only 25% of what I’m taking in that mean 75% of people are donating is going into their pockets
Just as the poor start catching up, the government does something to take all their money, one way or another that leaves them poor
Poverty in 2021- India - 25% (approximate), australia - 13.6%
I thought canada was giving $2000 a month?
Exactly and whatever they give willl never be enough because people don’t live below their means. I commute 1 hour to work so that I can own my home and pay it off early and I don’t buy crap I don’t need
Perhaps you should do more research/Homework not everyone got 2000 🤨🤨
@@NaturallyKristen86 now imagine you werent given a car growing up
Read the book "Half the Sky", even in 3rd world dirt poor countries, many are poor cuz of what the MEN do to choose what they spend money on addictions and prostitutes instead of directing it to the family and doing things like starting a business that makes money etc . Not just one thing...
I thought it was a Socialist Meca.
Ita Very easy to solve this problem: raise minimum wage to a BILION dollars! Boom! No morer poor people
Iq: infinity
Like in Zimbabwe and Venezuela?
Not sure how I feel about Alberta's poverty crisis, given their long history of ultra conservative - Right Wing Politics. For a long time Albertans have been so invested in misguided "Bootstrapping" and "Entitlement" ideology. They have held a grasping and resentful sense of Entitlement around their Natural / Mineral resources, espoused a lot of Racist - Xenophobia ideology, endorsed RW politicians whose social and economic policies have never been about protecting working class / poor interests. Many Albertans actually love and support Trump. Remember Preston Manning and Stockwell Day, the guys Albertans wanted to bring to Ottawa...? They have decried any economic policies that sounded "Socialist"....so its hard for me, as a 50 yr plus, racialized and marginalized Canadian born national myself, to have empathy here....other than to say, the chickens have come home to roost !
But ultra-conservative right-wing politics is partly the reason Alberta is one of the better off provinces in Canada.
But LW social and economic policies have done plenty to hurt the poor and working class under the guise of helping them.
Everyone should help everyone
Yeah people without any problems trying to solve the problem is causing the problem to get worse
But I’m not telling you one thing about Calgary is unless you have a place to live well for does not give you a thing
Government has caused all problems that are out there at the moment and it's not gonna get any better they love to donate money to other countries and worry about their families in India and all the immigration that's coming in
does Canada still welcoming refugees and giving them everything for free? housing. medicine, etc?or im just wrong
This is why I look myself or why I live a minimalist lifestyle volume at my van Titanic stop paying high rent to paint a big Bill's which prevents you from enjoying your life it's been more serious in companies and working the rest of your life by the time you have time for yourself you're dead cuz now you're too old to enjoy it.. this is the problem I just get bigger and bigger for poor poor people or middle class over protect people I tell people get out of the system and final 20 ways to live only this way you'll have more time to yourself less work more time to enjoy it's been spending hours and hours working working you spend more time with your family time..
and who will pay for this life style ? WILL YOU,????
@@finbarmaguire5668 what lifestyle what are you talkin about
@@skapunkoialternativeliving6522 I believe he is referring to a minimalist lifestyle, to "getting out of the system" and having "more time to yourself". Easier said than done, in most cases people do not really have a choice. Stay in a big city and work hard just to pay your rent, buy food and hopefully some clothing or move outside the bigger cities, cheaper rent but hours of commuting to work as there are no jobs locally.
So matthew was lying wasn't he?
India : Let me introduce myself .
But don’t convince yourself that living in Canada is heaven on earth because that was will be the worst mistake of your life
Refreshing perspective on ' be fruitful and multiply', It was a nice surprise to hear a discussion on those who have for onr reason or other having left the employment arena, children are grown etc having an empty space nolinger being fulfilled.
its a greasy place i live here smoke and mirrors
what do you actually know about early childhood abuse? why not take greedy landlords to task for overcharging on rentals!
Why is everyone being interviewed just white? What happened to the indigenous and minority communities?
Not relatable to this stations audience
@@luchaluchalucha
Apparently.
Their hopes and dreams are going so they turn to sniffing glue...?
In Calgary you must have a place in order to get welfare no place no welfare
Here is the poverty percentage based of affluent countries. Some of thd super powers like US has 16.5% (approximate) = 45 million, Uk has 10.5 %(approximate) = 6.9 million, Israel has 18.5 % (approximate) = 1.69 million
The governments really need to take their finger out of the cookie jar With the people that are poor and allow them to not be taxed to death to try and make a living text message only be after you make so much money and you should not be tax with any business you open until after you make so much money
Do you think the government will do something to change this situation?
This country have very very very low fertility rate 1.5 only so it's very very very easy to keep here peaceful environment and to do development but middle east and africa have well over 4.5 fertility rate.
And they continue to bring in migrants
If you offer housing to the artists the elderly and the veterans you’re not solving the problem you’re pandering because the real problem is with the rest of the population homeless that is not being acknowledged and is being ignored every single time stop lying and start doing something honest and deal with the problem that they’re not the one that you perceive
Why don’t people try to go back to their countries of origin?
There are people who brought money to Canada, now they can’t go back because they spent it to live in Canada.
there are lots of 3 and 4th generation Canadians living in poverty - where can they go? Also native people have high rates of poverty - what country can they go to? How about this, instead of bringing in more immigrants the social money spent on them go to the poor and homeless in this country
Most immigrants moved here when there were still jobs and housing wasn’t so expensive. For the new immigrants life here is a nightmare. I’m an immigrant and I would tell people not to come to Canada, for their own sanity.
@@eduardor.5417 So True! My cousin sister was crazy about coming to Canada and I warned her but she thought I am just discouraging her to move to Canada. Now she’s crying that life back home was better. I moved to Canada when house prices were not too bad , now in 2021 it’s crazy high.
Is that what you did?
This is what happens when you let Liberals Govern the Country. Poverty goes up!
If any of the policies or regulations that were being in place by all these industries and government we’re doing anything to help the population and the poor he would see a decrease in the numbers not an increase so who’s lying to who until we start seeing decreases it’s all just pandering
Read the Bible and ask God to show you what is happening in the world today!? Is all written in Bible prophecy book of Daniel and Isaiah and book of revaluation and also Jesus spoken of sign of the End and last days
You mean as opposed to *all the other* last days? Every time period in history was "the last days" - Call me back when it happens.
Cant wait for societal collapse oh wait dont let society hear me say that
It would be interesting to see them make a video on this problem again after the pandemic
UBI Works
I really want to go to Canada, I will die, but no one will help
Its just cold you will still be poor
Immigration of poor uneducated is helping the poverty.
And I’ll explain a customer hires a company to do a job that company hires another company Higher employees And all along the way everybody takes a piece of the pie well the person doing the work gets the lowest pay and I’ll explain how that works
Hope streams are all gone and there is no housing or jobs that will pay enough to even survive
Great video, more please
Canada is great
To those homeless ,..I can only help One person,..but I own my home an property but like you I'm struggling to ,...let's work together ,I have safety an essentials to live but no hope in the future,...I help you ,..you help me ,..I'm a divorced 45 year old white man, who believes in god an america ,...send a message let's work together
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That just want ur child!
And it all ur falt .... Save Jesus
That just want ur child!
austin powers "lies all LIES!"
Who knew tho most promising jobs in oilfields its not sad to see that....
Well thats why you are letting so many Indian student in arent ya?
Lol
Jesus didn't bully....if he did I don't follow him.... edifying someone shouldn't hurt them.
You need to get off what ever your smoking!!!
dont care
That just want ur child!
And it all ur falt .... Save Jesus
That just want ur child!
That just want ur child!
That just want ur child!