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Cathy Crowe

Street Nurse (non-practising as of 1/1/23)
Read why here: 
rabble.ca/columnists/im-stopping-ive-had-enough/

Homelessness/housing activist
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Author

World Nurse Collective podcast with Cathy.
January 2022.



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New Podcast with Cathy
University of Pennsylavania
​Amplify Nursing
NOW AVAILABLE...

A Knapsack Full of Dreams
Memoirs of a Street Nurse

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In A Knapsack Full of Dreams, Cathy Crowe details her lifelong commitment as a nurse and social justice activist—particularly her thirty years as a Street Nurse—with passion, grace, and fortitude.

Presented through the lens of someone dedicated to the power and beauty of film, A Knapsack Full of Dreams will move you, then inspire you to act.
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“[Cathy Crowe’s] tale is powerful and affecting, and reminds us of the gross injustice we’ve committed as a society in leaving so many people without a home.”
-Linda McQuaig, journalist & author
“Cathy Crowe’s reporting from the streets of Toronto and beyond is vivid. A must-read if you care about cities.”
-Shawn Micallef, Author, Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness; Toronto Star columnist, co-founder Spacing Magazine
“This memoir is a powerful call to action for all nurses, nursing students, and educators; a lesson in tenacity, advocacy, and translating theory to practice.”
-Hannah Stahl, Co-founder of Nursing Students for Social Justice
Listen to Cathy Crowe talk about Memoirs of a Street Nurse on The Art of Resistance
(broadcast from CIUT89.5FM studios at the University of Toronto.)
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“I want to inspire and engage Canadians from all walks of life, to empathize and respond to the injustice of homelessness in their community and motivate them to become involved in calling for the solution – a national housing program.”
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– Cathy, on receiving the Atkinson Economic Justice Award
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