Cathy Crowe
Cathy Crowe is a street nurse, author and filmmaker who works nationally and locally on health and social justice issues. Her work has included taking the pulse of health issues affecting homeless people including shelter conditions and inadequate housing, the return of tuberculosis and bedbugs, discrimination and a high mortality rate. She has fostered numerous coalitions and advocacy initiatives that have achieved significant public policy victories.
Cathy is the recipient of numerous awards including honourary Doctorates in Law, Science and Nursing, an international Human Rights and Nursing Award and the prestigious Atkinson Economic Justice Award. Cathy is the author of Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out and was the Executive Producer and researcher for the national documentary film and community development project Home Safe with filmmaker Laura Sky.
Cathy's website is www.cathycrowe.ca

Toronto takes carpenter behind tiny shelters for homeless people to court
Tiny homes and tiny shelters are pop-up responses to government failures
The best and worst for homeless people during this year's pandemic
The housing lessons from Rainer 'Dri' Driemeyer and Tent City
Toronto continues to fail homeless population with prison-like plexiglass cubicles
Judge rules City of Toronto breached its agreement to ensure physical distancing in homeless shelters
Toronto's homeless people don't 'count' during the pandemic
City of Toronto excludes homeless shelters from mask policy
Homeless encampments are here to stay
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