Hallmark Events, Evictions and Housing Rights: The Canadian Case

This paper examines hallmark event-related evictions, community action and housing rights in three Canadian cases - Expo '86 in Vancouver, the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics and the rejected proposals for the 1996 Summer Olympic games in Toronto. The study takes into account the common frame of reference for research and dissemination of information on evictions and the right to housing. While the study focuses on housing issues, an effort was made to set the discussion of housing impacts in a broader economic, cultural and political context.