Where is Home? (2016) Documentary on Homelessness & Residential School Effects in Canada (Full Film) 

Dan Berdusco: Thank you for creating this incredibly moving, beautiful film. Every Canadian should see it. Just....thank you.

this totally broke my heart. I am glad that I do volunteer for the homeless. Hoping one day...everyone sees them and feels their pain

This is one of the most informative documentaries on homelessness I have ever 'received' from in a long long time. This documentary was sensitively made... I applaud the producer/s the .. directors .. editors..and those who took part in the interviews. and those who live the life of homelessness. I thought deeply about every moment.. I felt sadness and cried more then once. not only for the indigenous men and women but also for those who just don't get it.. Ultimately we are all human.. we all have concerns.. we all deal with it in different ways.. it is obvious however that we have the have's and the have not's.. those who are able to get professional counselling.. able to get suitable health care.. the hidden hurt.. these however are real, and raw.. what you see is what you get.. God bless them and God bless you ... ..

true leaders.this is a small step that will lead to greater things.well done documentary i loved it and want to thank every one that took there time to make a difference.god bless you all

Thank you for making this documentary! Excellent work and noble cause.

It's 2023 I'm studying ABE 10 As a former ward of the agency ..I can say this issue has increased over the years .. homeless got worse all over Canada. Especially after the COVID hit. It's sad and something really needs to change instead of looking down on these people help them get back up !!!!

this documentary was watched by all the students taking the course addiction and community health workers . thank you for educating me , specifically the Indigenous people that took their time to educate us , free emotional labor , thank you!

I feel honored to count myself among these amazing people as someone who "gets it" can see humanity in others and be part of a solution. Many thanks to everyone who helps and even just displays compassion for their fellow human.

such a heartbreaking story but so touching. these people are so gentile and beautiful, i wish i could do anything i could to help.

I was born and raised in Lethbridge, and its nice to see that people are out there raising awareness and trying more suitable solutions to the problems in the city towards homelessness. There is a lot of stigma and discrimination against the native population in Lethbridge and this doc. really shines a brighter light on what they have gone through. I did twelve years of my education in Lethbridge and was basically unaware of residential schools and their practices. Amazing documentary!! well done!

Powerful. Thanks for sharing.

Beverly Hungry Wolf was so evocative.She taught me precisely what had taken place with the Indian inhabitants after Canada was colonized. She broke my heart and expanded my experience . I will not forget what I learned. She has such empathy for her people without anger or obvious resentment. I admire her.

I live in alberta, i grew up with some indigenous people, they are great people with an amazing culture 👏 and i hope things keep on getting better

There are triple the amount of Animal Shelters in Calgary than there are Homeless Shelters! They say we are equals but we are NOT! Why is the city spending $500K on public art projects instead of helping the people in more practical ways!

One does not really know the true significance of this krase, unless you've experienced homeless . . . yourself ! I had . . . six years, for multiple years !

Realtors are to blame for homelessness. They should not be able to sell homes to investors instead of homebuyers and should not be able to set rents or home values. They should have to have degrees with ethics laws.

😡😡 sad thing no one should be homeless at all or without work period!!!

Watched this for class...and want to thank you for sharing. I think more people should see this, it is very insightful and will help in understanding.

What the police chief and the inclusion consultant said toward the end of the documentary is so true - we don't have difficult conversations in Canada and we're still an us vs. them society.

Amazing

So eye opening.

Very good documentary 👍

I am a struggling single mom who has been technically homeless. I was fortunate enough NOT to end up on the street. I also worked with homeless prior to covid... And I get it, I see the human in EVERYONE Even though I'm struggling and BARELY makin it by... if I see someone asking for food who's homeless ... I will put back whatever isn't necessities that I can get next time & grab a little care kit full of water, food, (feminine hygiene for girls) Praying for everyone!

I love homeless people and realize that they are good people and have every emotion that everyone else has. Working people don't seem to know that they have all of the same emotions that they have. It hurts! I would like to work for an organization to help, but I guess I am not qualified. I don't care how much education you give someone, it doesn't make them care.

This is is a very great subject. But , a lot of people, shy away from it.

I live in Lethbridge. Rest in peace Ernestine Healy who passed away in 2018. Corrine who was briefly videotaped was murdered in 2017

Native America from North , Central and Sud , fighting for keep the culture and land ,

no one should ever have to just serve to live in life and no matter how much money the government gives will never change or take back what was done to them. It just sickens me how the government treated them and still to this day they are still not treated fairly.

I am a white car dweller in Barrie, ON. There is no affordable real estate north of the south pole because real estate is no longer a place to live it has become an investment with an unlimited price potential backed up by residency requirements , debt contracts and malicious greed for tax free profits at any cost to any of the races of mankind. It is genocide under the guise of business deal. I spent from 1982 to 2009 building stairs and time afterwords doing part time work at market wage rates. I paid my bills and rent saved the best I could. The cost of a home rocketed up faster than I could save and when I did invest market insiders destroyed the value of my holdings with their damned short selling. Damn them all . Damn all real estate investors, profiteers and sales people. They made life impossible for me and my race. Damn all politically correct social and legal engineers they made normal family life impossible and illegal. Some body had to tell the truth and I did it. I damn all who blame me for the actions of others and would condemn me for meting out justice in any way. Damn all anti white racists, miscegenists , LGBTQPB types and Semites. Damn all government and law that promotes and protects those criminals and perverts. Damn them all to a devils hell. Some body had to tell the truth and I did it. Do I have addictions and mental health issues? No! My big problem is that I know right from wrong, I can think and I am a man and a judge. That makes me public enemy number one because Canada is guilty of my genocide and that of my race. The real estate price inflation, legal reforms, social engineering the legal straight jacket that obstructs justice is genocide against me and my race. To the natives , you do not have a monopoly on being holocausted or being homeless. It can happen to anyone.

Very sad. I'm by all means not wealthy but i know im blessed to have a safe house that we rent. I'm Australian and we have homeless people across the country too. I think every country does and it pisses me off that people who have alot of money waste it on materialistic things rather than give it to a charity or open and fully fund shelters. I know i would if i didn't live week to week. Regarding the native people we had the same happen to the Aborigines

I pull shifts at the local homeless shelter 3 times a week and believe me, nobody goes without. We give them free socks, meals, snacks and all kinds of personal hygiene products including a cot and blankets for up to four months at a time. We close during the summer because it gets so hot here. I can't understand all the homeless that won't come to the shelter. They prefer sleeping under the bridge, etc. When it get really cold that's when they come into the shelter and they resent even that. Must want to drink or do drugs all night. I'll keep doing it because it is serving a need and we also try to get people rehoused asap. We also have a deal with the cops to bring people to the shelter instead of jail. Our director doesn't put up with any shit though and people can't be bothering other residents and things like that.

Most are not alcoholics or stoners! 90% have jobs but can not afford housing.

Make sad , because the still human , nobody deserves this life

that's in my home town

but that's because the business refuses to let the homeless use the bathrooms because of the stario type which needs to be dealt with

"Cripple them and then talk about them because they limp". ........horrendous!

Where eye-dollar-tree is of worth, everything is going to cost! Where one another is of worth, there is no cost...It's priceless! Babylon is passing away..... - the homeless in Babylon. HE'S US! In the mirror.

Ignoring Homelessness won't make it go away any more than ignorance will solve the problem of racism and prejudice toward aboriginal people in our Canadian society. I think it is imperative that anyone who weighs in on the topic of aboriginal injustice MUST have some insight into what it actually feels like to be a first-nation person in our broader society. As I'm sure that many have said that yes, there are ways to improve things for the "indians" but one must first have some sense of what it feels like to be looked down on for generations and generations. The only "real" relationship between white Europeans and Natives was the friendship between the Migmaw Nation and the Acadians. They enjoyed mutual respect and friendship only because they saw themselves as equals in every sense of the word. That lasted only so long because after the British were stomped in the U.S. colonies, they focused their attention on what they could accomplish in Upper Canada. One such option was giving out H.B.O. blankets that were infected with small pox to the unsuspecting local natives. The difference between the English and the French were that the French were traders first and foremost and saw their trading partners( Indians) as shrewd businessmen and the owners of this country. They were simply visitors doing mutually satisfying trade. The British, on the other hand, saw the natives like they saw everyone else they had the opportunity to conquer: backwards, ignorant, bloodthirsty savages that no "gentleman" British-man would ever have the desire to meet on mutual terms. How could one of impeccable upbringing ever even think of parlaying with the equivalent of mere "dogs"? And every time the Brits had the chance, they showed their contempt by lying about treaties. Taking back that which they first gave the Natives: Like their treaty right to the Black Hills in Dakota (I could be wrong here geographically, because Dakota didn't become a state until after the U.S. treasury found gold in them thar hills. And after all that, full out- total war on the indians who were simply fighting to keep what was given to them in the first place. If a person can go back through all that history and still think the Natives of this continent had reason to hold their heads up and face daily life with hope and dreams for the future like the rest of us, than my hat goes off to you but I truly think in the whole scheme of things, that the Natives didn't have a fighting chance at all and any hope of "normalcy" or legitimacy:" goes right out the frikkin window, never mind what they do with their welfare cheques of payouts. Take away a man's dignity, pride, inclusion, hopes for his family or even his race and you get the kind of cynicism and problems that are plaguing our people, white and red, reconciliation and forgiveness are not just something you put down on paper. It means we all have to look inward-good or bad or a little of both and admit when we made mistakes and truly want healing in this fucking mess, cause we did it to ourselves, no one else.

Can someone please explain to me what "Aboriginal" and "nonaboriginal" means???

WALLY of housing first is such a liar!!! There are only three non-Indigenous people in this documantary who gives a proper accounting of the reality or show GENUINE compassion.... Dr. Massey, Dr. Mate and Deanna Vincent, formerly of housing first.

Someone asked the question; " what makes you cringe when you see a drunk aboriginal on the street?" For me, I cringe because it always reminds me of the failures of white society, past and present. Sometimes I feel ashamed of being a white, European descendant due to the systematic way that indigenous people were stripped of: their land, (at first), their rights, the treaties that were accepted by them on good faith, stripped of their culture and dignity in residential schools. To realize that these people survived at all is worthy of acknowledgment. My own experience with the Catholic religion, and system was bad enough. I suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a catholic priest, so I do understand the inability to trust, and the hopelessness and feeling diminished as a human being. I also cringe when I hear my peers refer to Native Americans in demeaning ways. I for one do not tolerate ignorance and usually suggest that these peers of mine get educated on the REAL FACTS. I got quite a lot from the video and it is my hope that you keep up the fight to help these people because they really deserve a lot of understanding and empathy. This is not 'their" problem; it is and always will be OUR problem because we, as white N. Americans, created it in the first place. Thanks for sharing this video with me and best wishes for everyone involved in making and being in it. Alex C.

stan deana vincent

What about other people out there that has been sexuale abused when will they get their settlement you don't have to go to a school to be abused

So many references to "these people" by the white man......ugh !

It was the same for white children in public school the teachers beat the children with yard sticks pointers and straps as a form of discipline until it was finally banned in public schools Every school even documented the discipline in a little book in the office. I was made a ward of the Alberta Government and experienced the same abuse as the natives so I can relate first hand. I one day would wish for even an apology from the Alberta Government for the abuse I received when I was a ward of the Alberta Government in the early seventies. I too was homeless when I turned 16 years old and they no longer had control of me and lived on the streets with the sexual abuse from white homosexuals and struggled with drug and alcohol abuse to forget. However because I am white I will never get one.

Good Documentary. If I may voice my opinion about this without any prejudice. The Natives in this city do drink, do drugs, and beg for money. Also, commit crime such as robbery, assault, theft, etc. This is counter productive for the police and the legal system as well as case workers who make money off of to make their lives better. What I have in mind is to take these Natives who live on the street who don't have jobs or any thought of the future, to be brought back to the Reserve so they can be put in a source of rehabilitation in order to rediscover their identity. Some of them have it easy by getting AISH or SFI, but that just gives tem a path to drinking and drug use and trash a home that was given to them when there's a citizen out there who will put that welfare system to full use and get back on their own 2 feet. Now there are First Nations people in Lethbridge who come from the Reserve to work and go to school and do both so they can support themselves who I have the most deepest respect for. They have their reasons for leaving the Reserve because there are limited resources on the Reserve that do not fulfill their needs. And I'll be honest; it's all about nepotism on the rez. You have to be closely related to the manager or the boss of that department even if you're not qualified for that job. I am a citizen with a job to fulfill my needs and a member of the Blood Tribe, and change has to happen. I have spoken.

Goddamn it. There better be a shit ton of more openly gay homeless canadians than that!

get out of your home, world is bigger than you can imagine

The guy crying racism is typical

Alberta is a failure ,failed healthcare no doctors , WCB is a money scam , way too many femtard witches, a totally Demonized feminist fuckery court system and everyone is poisoned by government fluoride dumb down was a complete success, you should avoid Satan's Canada at all costs, Do not come here and ruin your life, you will not be warned again!, Canada went to hell burning,

lethbridge has the most racist cops and the cop doing this interview is putting on a show for the camera makes me sick......