News and Updates

IOCC 2010 Olympic Oversight
Interim Report Card 3

The IOCC has released it’s third Olympic Games interim report card Approximately half of the Inner-City Inclusive Commitments were not met to a sufficient standard by VANOC and its government partners. Public relations and marketing approaches seemed to carry greater weight and substantive evaluation did not occur in some areas.

2010 Homelessness Hunger Strike Relay—1 Year Anniversary

The 2010 Homelessness Hunger Strike Relay began December 29th in Vancouver and it has been gaining momentum ever since. What can be done about homelessness? What’s the one percent solution? Take a look at this video.

vancouver free speech zone

Check out Am Johal’s blog:
vancouverfreespeechzone
.wordpress.com. Am Johal is the chairperson of the IOCC board.

Impact on Community Coalition

The Impact on Community Coalition (IOCC) is an independent, non-partisan and community-based coalition that is dedicated to maximizing the positive impacts of the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Games for the host city and surrounding regions, while minimizing the negative impacts.

Learn more about the IOCC and how you can get involved.

2010 Olympic Impact Update

Vancouver 2010 is going to cost an Olympic amount... At what expense? What’s happening with the 2010 Winter Games Inner-City Inclusive Commitment Statement? See the Impact on Community Coalition's update on YouTube.

Watchdog group files human-rights complaints over 2010 Olympics

A 2010 Olympics watchdog group has filed two human-rights complaints with the United Nations against the governments of Canada and B.C. and the Olympic organizing committee, VANOC.

The Impact on Community Coalition say hundreds of renters will face the threat of eviction prior to the Olympics because of "loopholes" in tenancy legislations.
—Carmen Chai, The Province, 10-Aug-2009, story...

Did you know...

From 2007 to date, 448 units in of low-income housing have been lost in Vancouver due to the closure of 9 buildings—Vancouver Low-income housing closures

Olympic watchdog-groups in Vancouver say they’re not being consulted about how security plans for the 2010 Olympics will impact civil liberties.

Leaders of various community groups complained Tuesday that games organizers VANOC, and the RCMP, which is putting the security plan together, haven’t consulted with them.
—John Bermingham, 25-Mar-2008 The Province...

Gov.-Gen. Michaelle Jean got an up-close look at the many faces of the housing crisis in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside yesterday: the touching, the determined and the outraged.
—Christina Montgomery, 24-Jan-2008, The Province...

Long-time antipoverty activist Jean Swanson told the Straight she “never really had any confidence or faith” in the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics.
—Matthew Burrows, 24-Jan-2008, straight.com...

Politicians at city hall and the legislative assembly must make an Olympic-sized commitment to preserve housing created by the 2010 Games, according to critics.
—Dharm Makwanna, 24-Jan-2008, 24 Hours...

...unless Mayor Sullivan and B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell radically reshape their response to North America's fastest-growing homelessness crisis, the number of Greater Vancouver homeless will easily exceed the 5,000 athletes and officials expected to participate in the 2010 games.
—Monte Paulsen, 28-May-2007, The Tyee...

...the link between mega-events and adverse housing impacts is so clear and so consistent that housing concerns can no longer be ignored when these events are planned and staged.
—p. 14, Fair Play for Housing Rights: Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, (COHRE), Geneva, Switzerland.

What can I do?

There are several ways you can support the IOCC: as a member; by contributing funds; helping with research and projects. For more information, please contact us.