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141 - Vancouver Homeless Crisis 2026: Canada vs America - Who Lost Control of the Drug Crisis? | Documentary

Vancouver has become one of the clearest warning signs of North America’s growing homelessness and drug crisis. In this 2026 episode of US HOMELESS STORIES, we go deep into the streets of East Hastings and the Downtown Eastside to examine a difficult question: when it comes to addiction, overdose, and life on the streets, who has really lost control — Canada or America?

This documentary reveals the brutal reality behind the headlines. Tents, open drug use, and deep poverty now shape daily life in one of Canada’s most famous cities. Through raw interviews and unfiltered street footage, we expose how fentanyl, housing pressure, and system failure have pushed vulnerable people into survival mode.

This is more than Vancouver’s story. It is a wider portrait of a continent struggling to respond to a crisis that keeps growing.

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A few days ago we learned that Ukraine had been conducting a major counteroffensive in the south over the last few months. Those operations, combined, led to over 745 sq km cleared and 26 villages returned to Ukrainian control. Part of the reason for that success is that it was kept secret. Clearance after clearance went off without a public mention from the Ukrainian military.

Today we’re joined by two soldiers that took part in some of those operations. Rojhat and SOUPS are team leaders in the Black Talon Group, an organization fighting in the Ukrainian SSO or Special Operations Forces. We focus on some of their close quarters tactics. How they go about clearing buildings when they know Russians are inside, challenges of infil and exfil and a crazy story about a recent MEDEVAC that goes to show that the ‘golden hour’ really isn’t a thing in this war.


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David Hookstead talks about Russia launching a massive attack on Ukraine that killed several people and wounded dozens more. NATO also shot down multiple Russian drones and war drills continue against Russian forces in Kaliningrad. Ukraine is also continuing to hammer Russian targets.

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Homeless in America has reached a brutal breaking point, and nowhere is the system failing harder right now than on the blistering 100°F asphalt of Los Angeles. Despite the city funneling a staggering $418 million into homelessness programs for early 2026, the reality on the streets is a daily nightmare of lethal fentanyl, expanding tent cities, and broken promises.

We follow the heartbreaking reality of Lois, a mother abruptly cut off from the system in one of the wealthiest cities on earth. Why is a $20 million taxpayer-funded hotel sitting entirely empty while people fight for their lives just blocks away? From the massive "budgetary black hole" and sudden service cuts to the uncomfortable truth about untreated mental illness, we step inside LA's crisis to expose what the mainstream media won't show you.

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286. Frozen Night in Kensington: Where Warmth is a Luxury for the Homeless - Homeless in America

Kensington, Philadelphia, has become one of the most painful symbols of the homeless in America. Tents on sidewalks, people sleeping in doorways, and lives torn apart by addiction show how severe the homeless crisis has become.

In this documentary, we follow people living on the edge of survival in the middle of a growing fentanyl crisis. Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, has spread through Kensington like a fire, fueling overdoses, violence, and fear. Every corner carries a story: a lost job, a medical bill, a broken family, and a system that failed to catch people before they hit the streets.

Through raw, honest voices from Kensington’s broken streets, this film shows what homelessness really looks like in America today – not as statistics, but as human beings fighting cold nights, hunger, trauma, and stigma. It asks a simple but urgent question: how many more lives have to disappear before we truly confront the homeless crisis and fentanyl crisis in America?

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Things are going to get creative

Ukraine is pretty much out of missile interceptors, so now what?

We know they’re trying to get more and there’s of course the domestic program that hopefully will be ready soon but the other option is to target the archer rather than shooting down the arrows. And that’s something NATO is helping with.

Today we’re joined by Colonel Valerii Vyshnivskyi of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center to discuss a new challenge: persistent airfield denial. This is part of a series of innovation challenges put on by NATO where companies from alliance countries submit their solutions and compete for the potential to receive support to develop their products.

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A haunting firsthand account from Cape Fiolent describes late-summer Crimea as almost deserted—silent streets, parked cars, burning land, incoming drones, and residents seemingly detached from the war unfolding around them. Greg examines why this reported “ghost town” atmosphere may be one of the clearest signs yet of how Ukraine’s campaign is changing daily life across occupied Crimea.

The update also covers Russian attacks on Sloviansk, Odesa, Kyiv, and Ukrainian civilian and logistics infrastructure. Meanwhile, a report attributed to The Economist claims Vladimir Putin fears that failure in Ukraine could threaten his own survival—and may be preparing to send hundreds of thousands more Russians into the war.

Greg connects that report with warnings from Ukraine’s defense leadership, Russia’s still-active 2022 mobilization decree, and Putin’s latest increase in Federal Protective Service personnel. Together, these developments raise a critical question: Is mounting pressure in Crimea and inside the Kremlin pushing Putin toward an even more dangerous escalation?

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Today, the most intense news is coming from the Liman direction.

Russians just unleashed a massive swarm of fixed-wing attack drones in an attempt to halt the Ukrainian advance in its tracks. Video footage shows how Russians launched waves of Molniya drones across the river and into the newly gained Ukrainian territory. These Russian Molniya drones are equipped with heavy explosives and sometimes even anti-tank landmines that cause major destruction when they hit. The dedicated interceptor drone unit codenamed Destroyer shared footage showing the interception of over sixty-six of these enemy strike drones over the ongoing Ukrainian Vivaldi operation in a single day. The Ukrainians have fully integrated interception capabilities into their frontline units, with the Destroyer unit integrated with the Ukrainian sixty-sixth Mechanized Brigade using dispersed radar systems to launch an interceptor drone within a minute of detecting an enemy UAV. Using various interceptor drones of similar design, they are then able to neutralize the Russian waves with remarkable efficiency.

When looking at the situation on the ground, Ukrainians are advancing way faster than the Russians expected, and liberating far more territory than they had imagined. This even caused problems for Ukrainians however, who were advancing so deep that they threatened to move out of the cover of their fire-support units. The entire Ukrainian kill-chain of observation and strike drones, artillery, logistics, and command staff now has to be moved to the new line of contact. By launching the intense Molniya drone barrage, Russians were attempting to strike Ukrainians in the midst of this movement, hoping to prevent and undermine Ukrainians from getting ready to cross the river next. However, they were not expecting Ukraine to have already moved forward their frontline drone interception units, and their barrage was taken out in mid-air.

Notably, Russians were trying to do more than just strike Ukrainian support units on the move, but were preparing to follow up with a major counteroffensive of their own. As Russians cannot afford to lose their bridgehead across the Zherebets River completely, they are desperately trying to take it back. The massive wave of frontline strike drones was the fire preparation that Russians could have needed for a counterattack to succeed. Counterattacking while Ukrainians are still reorganizing would be their only real chance of making any rapid clawback.

The reason why Russians cannot lose the bridgehead is that it allows Ukrainians to maintain a much more stable defense of Liman itself. Due to the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russians are now over twenty-two kilometers removed from the nearest logistical strongpoint supplying Liman. This puts Ukrainian logistic hubs out of range of Russian tube and rocket artillery, as well as Russian FPV drones. While Russian FPV drones have the capability on paper to strike this deep, using FPV drones at such long ranges requires larger fixed-wing drones to serve as relays. And Ukrainians have just clearly demonstrated their capability to rapidly detect and destroy these fixed-wing type drones with ease, allowing supplies and reinforcements to arrive at the needed positions with no delay.

Overall, Ukrainians just destroyed the most massive Russian fire preparation launched in a single day. While Russians attempted to strike Ukrainian support units and staff while on the move and take advantage of their destruction with a follow-up counterattack, the cleverly integrated drone defenses were able to neutralize the Russian threat. As the Ukrainian kill-chain is being moved up to the new line of contact, Russian forces will soon be faced with a deadly choice: either throw their men into the Ukrainian meatgrinder, or suffer whatever the Ukrainian general staff has planned for them next.

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So now we’ve got Ukrainian robots being dropped off behind the front lines, firing rockets into where the Russians are hiding, then, once they’re suppressed, driving in and blowing up. That’s a bad day and a pretty wild new use of drones in the Ukraine war.

We’re seeing new tactics and techniques like this on a daily basis from Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps as they continue pushing in the east during Operation Vivaldi. In fact, today we have the Russian perspective on how their mistakes led to this Ukrainian advance and how the chaos is spreading to other sectors of the front.

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Today, there are important updates from the Liman direction.

Here, the manpower scale of Russia’s defeat around Liman is becoming clearer, as Ukraine’s Third Army Corps has officially confirmed the amount of Russian casualties during the third phase of Operation Vivaldi. According to Corps commander Andrii Biletskyi, Russian personnel losses during this phase reached more than two thousand, while more than two-hundred-and-fifty Russian soldiers were captured.

Entire Russian groups surrendered, including officers, drone operators, and artillerymen, with Ukrainian footage showing dozens of prisoners assembled together, demonstrating that Russia had committed substantial forces to defending the bridgehead rather than merely scattering small infiltration groups throughout it, as the Russian command reported.

More importantly, these are nowhere near the final figures for Operation Vivaldi, as they represent Ukraine’s officially announced Russian losses from the third phase alone. The psychological consequences prove even more devastating, as Russian forces spent more than a year brutally grinding toward Liman and trying to transform their bridgehead into a launchpad for encircling the city. Russian soldiers repeatedly crossed deadly supply routes, fought for devastated forest positions, and suffered enormous casualties to seize territory that Ukrainian forces have now torn away from them in only a matter of weeks.

Watching those gains disappear severely undermines confidence among Russian troops expected to continue fighting, as they believed they were participating in a sustained advance, only to find themselves withdrawing, isolated or surrounded while Ukrainian assault formations take positions their units spent months capturing. This underlines the importance of entire Russian groups surrendering, with continued resistance judged pointless once Ukrainian troops penetrated Russian defenses and disrupted their logistics.

There is another reason the eventual Russian losses could be substantially different from the numbers currently public, as Ukraine continues to withhold operational information. Operation Vivaldi was conducted under an extensive information blackout, and Ukrainian commanders have repeatedly delayed announcing advances until they no longer created operational risk. Consequently, official information continues to lag behind events on the battlefield.

That delay itself creates military advantages, because if Russian commanders believe their withdrawal preserved more combat power than it actually did, they may overestimate the strength of their new positions farther east behind the river. Units assumed to have successfully escaped have suffered casualties instead, become dispersed or surrendered, with the resulting discrepancy producing incorrect decisions about available reserves. Russian commanders might even believe they possess enough infantry to defend crossings and positions around the Zherebets River or, more dangerously, they could conclude that sufficient combat power remains for counterattacks intended to restore part of the lost bridgehead. Ukraine would then be facing formations weaker than Russian headquarters believe them to be.

The confirmed prisoner-of-war numbers therefore reveal something larger than captured manpower, as more than two-hundred-and-fifty soldiers surrendering during one phase represents a considerable breakdown in Russia’s ability to maintain isolated positions once Ukrainian forces penetrated the bridgehead. Operation Vivaldi consequently extends far beyond territory changing hands, as Ukraine has pushed Russian forces away from Liman, dismantled positions built through months of offensive operations, and inflicted a major manpower cost, as hundreds of Russian troops have surrendered rather than continue defending those gains.

Overall, the precise final casualty and prisoner totals remain unknown and should not be assumed before Ukraine releases them officially. But the third phase alone demonstrates the scale of the reversal. For Russian soldiers who watched enormous resources spent creating this bridgehead, only to see it dismantled within weeks, Vivaldi represents something harder to replace than territory: confidence that all those previous sacrifices produced lasting gains.

I examine Vladimir Putin’s decree raising Russia’s authorized armed-forces strength to more than 2.44 million personnel, including 1.55 million active service members. The latest increase adds 49,860 total personnel and 47,860 servicemen—not the reported 300,000-man mobilization target, but potentially an incremental route toward it. I assess the possible manpower sources: coerced Russian citizenship and military registration in occupied Ukraine, reported additional North Korean deployments, and a 2027 Russian defense allocation of 17.1 trillion rubles.

I also look at Estonia’s allegation that Russian intelligence organized the August 15 arson attack on Tallinn’s Milrem robotics factory, the unresolved foreign-actor threat near RAF Fairford, and Europe’s lagging rearmament debate. Ukraine’s general-staff personnel review and Belgium’s planned transfer of three F-16s offer signs of adaptation, while proposed sanctions relief in exchange for prisoner releases raises a hard question: does easing pressure create peace—or reward coercion?

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16:41 Risks of Easing Russia Sanctions
19:39 Article 5, NATO Commitments, and Ukraine
22:43 How Could Putin Reach 300,000?

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In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin:

- New reporting says the United Arab Emirates has joined the fight against Iran, launching direct strikes on Iranian territory as the Gulf conflict quietly widened behind the scenes.

- Later in the show — reports suggest Pakistan may have quietly helped Iran shield military aircraft from possible U.S. strikes, even while publicly attempting to broker diplomacy between Tehran and Washington.

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In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:

- First—new details emerge about Iran’s demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and potentially ending the war, including control over vessels entering the vital waterway and oversight of those leaving.

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