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 leads the country with inaction on homelessness
Toronto 'robs from the poor': OCAP report
How can Toronto possibly be considering hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games?
A winter of discontent and homeless deaths
What's a homeless life worth?
Open the federal armouries for shelter
Let's walk the talk and actually build some housing
Eighteen years ago, we declared homelessness a national disaster
You don't have to go to Rio to witness a public health catastrophe
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