Jun 29, 2020
Homeless encampments are here to stay
Cathy Crowe
Without a real national housing program, the economic fallout of COVID-19 will likely lead to growing homeless encampments.
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
May 19, 2020
City of Toronto finally commits to physical distancing standards in key court settlement for city's homeless people
Cathy Crowe
It took a lawsuit at the Superior Court level to push Toronto to commit to enforceable physical distancing in shelters.
Apr 28, 2020
Fifty days into the COVID-19 pandemic, and homeless people are still in a desperate situation
Cathy Crowe
Homeless people across the country remain at risk in the pandemic, necessitating legal action by Toronto advocates.
Mar 30, 2020
This is not a game. Hotels are the only defence for homeless people in a pandemic
Cathy Crowe
Around the world hotels are being used to shelter homeless people from COVID-19.
Mar 9, 2020
Toronto's homeless people deserve a COVID-19 plan
Cathy Crowe
Public health officials have so far failed to develop a plan for homeless populations amid the global COVID-19 outbreak.
Mar 2, 2020
Shelters are like a petri dish waiting for COVID-19 to arrive
Cathy Crowe
Public health officials continue to reassure that Canada is at low risk for virus spread. But what about the homeless?
Feb 7, 2020
There is no 'Winterlicious' festival for Toronto's homeless people
Cathy Crowe
While Toronto is in the midst of a culinary event called "Winterlicious," homeless people in Toronto's warming centre receive brown bag meals.
Jan 21, 2020
What would Florence Nightingale say about this new coronavirus?
Cathy Crowe
The homelessness emergency and shelter overcrowding demonstrate lessons have not been learned since the 2003 SARS outbreak.
Dec 28, 2019
Canada's brutal decade of homelessness
Cathy Crowe
Cities across the country are evicting people from outdoor tent encampments. Without a national housing program or municipal support for shelters, the homelessness crisis has become an emergency.
Nov 20, 2019
Toronto needs to declare homelessness an emergency to prevent more deaths and suffering
Cathy Crowe
Toronto's Shelter and Housing Justice Network takes an extreme measure and calls for the mayor to declare a state of emergency on homelessness.
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