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

This is not a game. Hotels are the only defence for homeless people in a pandemic
Toronto's homeless people deserve a COVID-19 plan
Shelters are like a petri dish waiting for COVID-19 to arrive
There is no 'Winterlicious' festival for Toronto's homeless people
What would Florence Nightingale say about this new coronavirus?
Canada's brutal decade of homelessness
Toronto needs to declare homelessness an emergency to prevent more deaths and suffering
Splash pads and swimming pools are not a response to climate change for vulnerable populations
Integrity in journalism counts
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