The house listed on Airbnb at 1 Toba Dr. in North York looks like a typical product of 1960s upper-middle class suburban living – a brick and siding structure with a steep driveway on a corner lot next to a ravine park. Inside is a very different scene: Room after room is filled with racks […]

A Toronto teen who was shot at an Airbnb mansion party is incredulous about new safety measures the company recently announced.

The condo on the 32nd floor of a Queens Wharf development where four men were shot — three of them killed — late Friday is exactly the type of “ghost hotel” property that City Hall and activists groups (such as Fairbnb) have been trying to stamp out.

A shooting at a Toronto Airbnb that left three men dead Friday night has led to renewed calls for action aimed at cracking down on the short-term rental units.

TORONTO — A condo in downtown Toronto that was the scene of a fatal shooting Friday night is planning to end short-rentals at the building as city regulations around the rentals face an appeal.

A provincial planning tribunal has rejected an appeal by Airbnb landlords and upheld the city’s short-term rental rules in a decision that is being touted as a “major victory for tenants across Ontario.”

Read: You can’t buy an empty condo in CityPlace and rent it out year-round for extra cash. Not anymore.

An Ontario tribunal has upheld Toronto regulations on short-term rentals that will restrict the most prolific hosts on Airbnb and other home-sharing services.

A recently launched fundraising campaign from SickKids Foundation in which a replica ICU room is rented to donors through Airbnb has attracted criticism that it’s disrespectful to families who have needed services at the hospital.

A provincial planning tribunal hearing an appeal of the city’s short-term rental rules has wrapped nine days of hearings. But there is no deadline by which Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) adjudicator Scott Tousaw must deliver his written decision on whether the new zoning bylaw and licensing program will ever take effect.