This episode features an interview with author and Street Nurse, Cathy Crowe. This event, called Strategies for Change: Tackling Homelessness in Canada, focuses on activists’ calls for real change to end homelessness across the country.
Cathy Crowe is a long-time Street Nurse and is the author of Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out; and A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse. She was a Distinguished Visiting Practitioner based in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University.
In this episode, from Social Justice Week 2021, she discusses her work as a street nurse and the recent encampment evictions by police of unhoused people who were living in Trinity-Bellwoods park in downtown Toronto.
Host: Kiké Roach
Editor: Eunice Addo