Jul 30, 2017
We don't need more studies on homelessness and health -- we need action
Cathy Crowe
Despite decades of research showing homelessness is bad for your health, the gap between research and action has only widened.
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 11, 2017
Toronto leads the country with inaction on homelessness
Cathy Crowe
A recent outpouring of advocacy calling for City Hall action on homelessness still leaves people without shelter.
Apr 26, 2017
Toronto 'robs from the poor': OCAP report
Cathy Crowe
Activist group the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty shows that the City is holding back $18 million dollars from homelessness programs.
Mar 27, 2017
How can Toronto possibly be considering hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games?
Cathy Crowe
Once again, Toronto politicians and entrepreneurs decide to focus on big circus events instead of the social good.
Feb 27, 2017
A winter of discontent and homeless deaths
Cathy Crowe
This winter the emergency of homelessness collided with the opiate overdose crisis
Jan 24, 2017
What's a homeless life worth?
Cathy Crowe
Citizen advocacy for emergency shelter exposes shocking and negligent inaction of politicians.
Dec 13, 2016
Open the federal armouries for shelter
Cathy Crowe
While we wait for a national housing program the federal government should give us their armouries for emergency shelter.
Nov 27, 2016
Let's walk the talk and actually build some housing
Cathy Crowe
The federal government's report "Let's Talk Housing," released on National Housing Day, regurgitates what is already known about the housing and homelessness crisis in Canada.
Oct 8, 2016
Eighteen years ago, we declared homelessness a national disaster
Cathy Crowe
In October 1998, the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee declared homelessness a national disaster. Eighteen years is a long time to wait for a national housing program.
Aug 12, 2016
You don't have to go to Rio to witness a public health catastrophe
Cathy Crowe
You don't have to go to Rio to witness contaminated water, food shortages and opportunistic diseases and infections. We have it all here in Canada.
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