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

Vote for the cure. Vote for housing.
Neoliberalism's attack on Canada's nurses
Where have all the nurses gone?
Housing disaster ignored by federal and provincial budgets
Budgets ignore the housing disaster but so do advocacy groups
Spring is like a global refresh button, unless you are homeless.
No room at the inn: How ageism and sexism drive health care for elderly women
Death on the streets of Canada
Social justice lies upstream from charity
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