Mar 28, 2015
Spring is like a global refresh button, unless you are homeless.
Cathy Crowe
Spring brings the promise of warmth, life and renewal but evidence indicates conditions for people who are homeless this spring are dire.
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
Feb 8, 2015
No room at the inn: How ageism and sexism drive health care for elderly women
Cathy Crowe
"We have no beds" is the refrain heard all too often by older women trying to utilize our public health care system.
Jan 9, 2015
Death on the streets of Canada
Cathy Crowe
The death of two homeless men within a day of each other in the City of Toronto, in the middle of a bitter Arctic cold spell, was a stark reminder of decades of social policy neglect.
Dec 17, 2014
Social justice lies upstream from charity
Cathy Crowe
The Upstream Downstream parable guided Cathy Crowe in her work as a street nurse. She shares a simple formula for how to act on social justice issues such as homelessness that goes beyond charity.
Dec 11, 2014
Socks are not enough: Social justice lies upstream from charity
Cathy Crowe
The Upstream Downstream parable guided Cathy Crowe in her work as a street nurse. She shares a simple formula for how to act on social justice issues such as homelessness that goes beyond charity.
Sep 24, 2014
Support Olivia Chow, I do
Cathy Crowe
Cathy Crowe supports Olivia Chow in the upcoming Toronto mayoral election. Here's why you should too!
Sep 24, 2014
Why I will vote for Olivia Chow
Cathy Crowe
Olivia Chow is an important community-builder in Toronto and we need her strengths more than ever says Cathy Crowe.
Mar 13, 2014
Olivia Chow's 'My Journey' is the antidote to political despair
Cathy Crowe
Olivia Chow's memoir 'My Journey' brings hope to the currently jaded Canadian political climate. Chow's successes and hardships inspire readers to believe in the power of community.
Jan 27, 2014
A tale of two Toronto warming centres
Cathy Crowe
With the extreme weather in Eastern Canada, warming shelters were erected for the ice storm and for the continued cold. The ice storm centres were impressive, the others, seriously lacking.
Dec 31, 2013
The ice storm is an emergency: Toronto should call it what it is
Cathy Crowe
Allison Kemper
Days before Christmas, ice built up on branches and wires in record thickness, and across the city, trees fell like jagged Jenga pieces, leaving some of Toronto's most vulnerable living in the cold.
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