Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Once Canada's steel capital, Hamilton, Ontario now faces the struggles of a Rust Belt city: drugs, homelessness, and loss of industry. Yet its population is growing and is in a nation known for welfare support. We hit the streets to find out why.

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0:00 Intro
0:58 Bottom of the Mountain
3:05 STEAL Town
4:40 Uber Driver
6:14 Crime, Grime, Slime
7:30 Downtown Hamilton
9:21 Population Shift
10:01 Trudeau
11:00 The Immigrants
13:56 Rich Hamilton
15:11 Living in Hamilton
16:17 Getting a Chance


Episode 58
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