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

Eighteen years ago, we declared homelessness a national disaster
You don't have to go to Rio to witness a public health catastrophe
This is what NIMBY sounds like
To solve Canada's housing crisis language matters
Spotlight on homeless deaths
The dark side of Toronto's shelter conditions
Secrecy around homeless deaths is grotesque because so many are preventable
My six wishes for 2016 for housing and homelessness
Seven steps toward a national housing plan, take two: Lights, Camera, Action!
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