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May 19, 2020

City of Toronto finally commits to physical distancing standards in key court settlement for city's homeless people

Cathy Crowe

It took a lawsuit at the Superior Court level to push Toronto to commit to enforceable physical distancing in shelters.

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Apr 28, 2020

Fifty days into the COVID-19 pandemic, and homeless people are still in a desperate situation

Cathy Crowe

Homeless people across the country remain at risk in the pandemic, necessitating legal action by Toronto advocates.

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Mar 30, 2020

This is not a game. Hotels are the only defence for homeless people in a pandemic

Cathy Crowe

Around the world hotels are being used to shelter homeless people from COVID-19.

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Demand that the most vulnerable in Canada be protected during COVID-19 outbreak

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The underfunding of the public sector is having an impact.

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Mar 9, 2020

Toronto's homeless people deserve a COVID-19 plan

Cathy Crowe

Public health officials have so far failed to develop a plan for homeless populations amid the global COVID-19 outbreak.

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Mar 2, 2020

Shelters are like a petri dish waiting for COVID-19 to arrive

Cathy Crowe

Public health officials continue to reassure that Canada is at low risk for virus spread. But what about the homeless?

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Feb 7, 2020

There is no 'Winterlicious' festival for Toronto's homeless people

Cathy Crowe

While Toronto is in the midst of a culinary event called "Winterlicious," homeless people in Toronto's warming centre receive brown bag meals.

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Jan 21, 2020

What would Florence Nightingale say about this new coronavirus?

Cathy Crowe

The homelessness emergency and shelter overcrowding demonstrate lessons have not been learned since the 2003 SARS outbreak.

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Dec 28, 2019

Canada's brutal decade of homelessness

Cathy Crowe

Cities across the country are evicting people from outdoor tent encampments. Without a national housing program or municipal support for shelters, the homelessness crisis has become an emergency.

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Nov 20, 2019

Toronto needs to declare homelessness an emergency to prevent more deaths and suffering

Cathy Crowe

Toronto's Shelter and Housing Justice Network takes an extreme measure and calls for the mayor to declare a state of emergency on homelessness.

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