Jun 21, 2018
Toronto's silence on tuberculosis reinforces the mantra that silence equals death
Cathy Crowe
Even after a micro-outbreak of tuberculosis in the homeless population in the early 2000s that saw deaths, the city still doesn't get it.
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
Jun 17, 2018
Faulkner Inquest proceedings avoid the 'H' word
Cathy Crowe
Recent inquest into the death of Grant Faulkner, who died in January 2015, excluded evidence on affordable housing, shelter availability, or the effectiveness of the cold weather alert system.
May 30, 2018
The Ontario election: A report card for equity
Cathy Crowe
Health Providers Against Poverty analyzes Ontario party platforms with an equity lens.
Apr 27, 2018
Art plus politics times wit equals cheek: Artists remember Toronto's Tent City
Cathy Crowe
Jon Alexander
The Department of Public Memory collaborates with the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee in a hands-on archive to remember their joint campaign for affordable housing.
Mar 29, 2018
Anatomy of a shelter campaign: What it took to win
Cathy Crowe
This winter an unprecedented array of tactics were necessary just to achieve basic emergency shelter in Toronto.
Jan 22, 2018
Time to do something about Toronto's homeless-shelters mess
Cathy Crowe
A perfect storm created the conditions for the chronic shortage of shelter beds in Toronto, which can no longer be ignored.
Jan 21, 2018
Toronto's shelter catastrophe was decades in the making
Cathy Crowe
A perfect storm created the conditions for the chronic shortage of shelter beds in Toronto, which can no longer be ignored.
Dec 18, 2017
Federal government offers armouries for shelter. Toronto Mayor Tory says no.
Cathy Crowe
Even the federal government recognizes we need the armouries. It's called disaster relief.
Nov 30, 2017
Please Mayor Tory, will you open the doors?
Cathy Crowe
For two winters in a row, Torontonians have been begging their Mayor to open the federal armouries for shelter.
Oct 30, 2017
Bandaids don't fix a sub-standard shelter system
Cathy Crowe
Toronto's recent announcement of winter only respite centres for people chronically homeless neglects the humanitarian disaster.
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