Jan 1, 2016
My six wishes for 2016 for housing and homelessness
Cathy Crowe
2016 could be the year we win a national housing program but in the meantime we must also insist on the right to shelter. Social justice means more than charity.
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
Nov 29, 2015
Seven steps toward a national housing plan, take two: Lights, Camera, Action!
Cathy Crowe
Canada's national housing program began with veteran activism after the Second World War. They won a national housing program that existed until its demise in 1993. Now it's time for Take 2.
Sep 27, 2015
The homeless right to vote and home
Cathy Crowe
The Fair Elections Act has made it harder for homeless people to vote. This election is not proving it will be any easier for them to get affordable housing.
Aug 20, 2015
Join the call for a national housing strategy
Cathy Crowe
Two street nurses write an appeal to the nation to help them put housing on the agenda in this federal election.
Aug 16, 2015
Join our call for a national housing strategy
Cathy Crowe
Two street nurses write an appeal to the nation to help them put housing on the agenda in this federal election.
Aug 9, 2015
Ten years later: Does Maclean's still think homelessness is 'Canada's gangrene'?
Cathy Crowe
Homelessness and housing is sadly missing from the Maclean's list of issues for this election. In a 2005 Maclean's article called "Canada's gangrene," John Ralston Saul outlined the problem.
Jun 21, 2015
Vote for the cure. Vote for housing.
Cathy Crowe
In her Honourary Doctor Of Law address to UofWindsor nursing and kinetics grads Cathy implored them to care about social welfare hotspots and vote for housing.
May 12, 2015
Neoliberalism's attack on Canada's nurses
Cathy Crowe
Nursing as a whole needs to wake up from its obsession with professionalization to equip young nurses with skills like political literacy for the real world.
May 11, 2015
Where have all the nurses gone?
Cathy Crowe
While RN jobs continue to disappear, nursing as a whole needs to wake up from its obsession with professionalization to equip young nurses with skills like political literacy for the real world.
Apr 30, 2015
Housing disaster ignored by federal and provincial budgets
Cathy Crowe
Both the federal and Ontario budget this week were lacklustre when it comes to housing, but so were the NGO and union responses.
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