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Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁
@cathycrowe.bsky.social
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Longtime 🇨🇦 street nurse|✍️Dying for a Home & Knapsack Full of Dreams|✍️on urban issues.
Fighting for a national🏡 program.
www.cathycrowe.ca
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Crisis in the City. I am sharing the media release. It's certainly good to see this style of action happening again. David Walsh was a co-founder of #Toronto Disaster Relief Committee with extensive ability to support out of the box solutions. #urban

Why aren't we doing this? @mayoroliviachow.ca
Media release for event that is bringing in RVs to raise awareness of shelter/housing need in Toronto.
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Today, #toronto 25-yr-old monthly #homelessmemorial coincides with Remembrance Day. The connection? WWII vets fought for our national housing program. PM @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social budget does not include the $$ for his housing promises.
Black and white photo of men in trench coats holding signs calling for shelter for homeless vets. A memorial with names on it and flowers.
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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This year same artist.
Pumpkin carves as a baseball and World Series trophy. Same. Same.
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Yup.
A pumpkin carved with the Blue Jays logo.
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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You don’t negotiate with a psychopath. #cdnpoli
Text from a Globe and Mail article by Andrew Coyne. “The art of no deal: Canada’s only winning move is not to play.”
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Google pixel phone found this am at east end of Biidassige Park near Lasonde Art trail. Message me if it’s yours.
Front of black cell phone. Rear of cell phone.
October 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#bluejays as in the bird.
My birding friend Judy C is a wonderful photographer and she will be at these upcoming arts and craft sales and she has some pretty beautiful pieces of art including #bluejays. A truly Canadian gift idea or memory for yourself. #GoJays
Front covers of coffee table books portraying a Canada Goose and a duck. Also images of greeting cards with various birds. A blue jay photograph and text describing upcoming art and craft sales.
October 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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By @theomoudakis.bsky.social
Blue Jay image and red heart.
October 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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@bluejays.com
A young Vladdy in a Montreal Expo uniform and today as a 26 yr old in a Blue Jays.
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Which is why I’m glad I devoted a chapter to him in my memoir A Knapsack Full of Dreams. books.friesenpress.com/store/title/...
Text of page Text of chapter.
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Yup.
October 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Who knew? #canada #baseball
Newspaper article with photo of a sign advertising Beachville, home of first baseball game in 1838.
October 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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@230fightback.bsky.social rallies today for 230 Sherbourne sitting empty 17 years to be #socialhousing not a money grab by #KingSett to mine the sky. #Toronto and @mayoroliviachow.ca office ineffective in resolving this cash grab at the epicentre of Toronto’s homelessness disaster.
Several people speaking at a rally in front of a fenced in empty property. Signs: Social Housing etc. Sign advertising a block party for social housing. Sign from an older rally: We’ll Keep Shouting Til You Build Housing!
October 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Such contrasts in our city #toronto and the mayor’s office priorities. #fashion #urban #homeless @mayoroliviachow.ca

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An unhoused woman sleeps at a bus shelter with her belongings in bags and a walker. One leg is poorly bandaged.
September 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Fighting to protect democracy in Ontario schools.
An opinion piece by former and current school trustees.
September 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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#emmys
The dresses were rich, the fake fundraising not so much.
@variety.com @thr.com
News media pic of Emmys Host with children on stage. Text describing 5,500 Boys and Girls Club. The $350000 provided by CBS and host if divided up would deliver $64 per club.
September 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Remembering.
Remembrance of a fire at Tent City with two injured on 9/11.
September 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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So this happened. #TIFF stars visiting #toronto take note. #advocacy #humanrights #righttoshelter #urban #homelessness
@oliviachow @SHJNetwork
A description of the mayor of Toronto giving the key to the city to Sarah Polley noting that Ms. Polley, who has a long history of homeless advocacy, called for more shelters.
September 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Great deals including Displacement City. #urban #toronto #homeless #cdnpoli Why housing needs to be a nation-building plan.
Graphic of people holding signs and a banner “We want homes”. List of over 25 contributors to book. Bright orange and yellow on black graphic of a tent encampment. In background a hospital and tall buildings.
August 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Too good to not share. By @justinling.ca
Screen shot of an article about the American fascist prez.
August 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I can’t wait. 🥵
Cream carton with BB date Oct. 5.
August 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Adding to #nursing archives @torontoarchives.bsky.social
#homelessness #tentcity #activism #tuberculosis #Sars #nursingoutreach #cdnpoli #toronto
Listing of items donated ranging from anti-apartheid work to SARS, TB, homelessness, nursing outreach. Woman stands beside a cart of archival boxes. Two archivists’ hands pulling files from a cabinet v Files in a cabinet: Nursing, Politics, Social Justice themes.
August 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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My buddy Rafi Aaron received the King’s Coronation medal. He has been a tireless advocate and provider of emergency shelter also pivoting to provide thousands of meals per week (for years) in #toronto to folks denied shelter by @toronto.ca Here he is with former MPP and advocate Jill Andrew.
A smiling woman and man holding a medal. A medal and red, white and blue ribbon. A profile of King Charles on the medal. The medal document.
August 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Early peek tonight at Biidaasige Park at sunset. It is fun, fun and more fun and beautiful. #toronto #urban

Biidaasige means “sunlight shining toward us” in Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwemowin.
A zip line. Carved wooden bear. A large climbing owl structure where you can make music inside it.
July 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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#toronto. One of a few H20 trucks. At City Hall. 1 pm. In middle of a heat wave. What a waste. Wrong location.
July 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM