Jan 24, 2017
What's a homeless life worth?
Cathy Crowe
Citizen advocacy for emergency shelter exposes shocking and negligent inaction of politicians.
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
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.
Jun 28, 2016
This is what NIMBY sounds like
Cathy Crowe
The NIMBY homeless variety is pure and simple discrimination. If we hear it, we should stop it.
May 28, 2016
To solve Canada's housing crisis language matters
Cathy Crowe
If we're serious about solving homelessness we need a real national housing program not just a smoke and mirrors strategy.
Apr 30, 2016
Spotlight on homeless deaths
Cathy Crowe
Naheed Dosani
Investigative journalism makes a difference in the court of public opinion and social policy.
Mar 5, 2016
The dark side of Toronto's shelter conditions
Cathy Crowe
Jessica Hales
For 30 years Toronto has allowed overflow homeless shelters to break all rules meant to protect health and safety.
Feb 21, 2016
Secrecy around homeless deaths is grotesque because so many are preventable
Cathy Crowe
The sheer scope, circumstances and secrecy surrounding homeless deaths in Toronto, and undoubtedly across Canada is scandalous.
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