Officers were called to Burma Drive, in the area of Park Lawn Road and The Queensway, at around 7:10 a.m. by a citizen who made a call about an impaired driver.

A mansion in Toronto’s affluent Bridle Path area is the site of a police investigation after a man was shot during the house’s use as an Airbnb rental.

A coalition of hotel and tenants’ associations is calling on the City of Ottawa to regulate short-term rentals by commercial hosts like Airbnb, arguing they’re negatively impacting Ottawa’s long-term housing market.

More than 1,000 homes could be put back on Ottawa’s housing market if the city cracked down on owners who have converted their properties into “ghost hotels” on Airbnb, a new report suggests.

Some full Ottawa homes being run as “ghost hotels,” on Airbnb, are hurting the city’s vacancy rate, which sits at just 1.6 per cent.

Downtown, the suburbs, the hills around Wakefield, the heartland of Nepean — so-called short-term rentals are everywhere. Most of them are illegal but, as we learned with “disruptive” innovations like Uber, rarely prosecuted, a fact that probably fuels the proliferation.

A Centretown resident says her landlord attempted to evict her from her rental unit on Cooper St. alleging he wanted to turn it into an Airbnb.

MEDIA ADVISORY March 13, 2019 Rally to Stop the Eviction of 28-30 Langley Ave Residents Tenants fear the conversion of their affordable housing into Airbnb-type ghost hotel units Join Ward 14 Councillor Paula Fletcher, local residents as well as members of Fairbnb Canada, ACORN and East End Legal at a rally to stop Langley Arms […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AIRBNB’S UN-ADDRESSED COMMERCIAL OPERATOR PROBLEM KEEPS ENDANGERING TORONTO’S RESIDENTS “Chair girl” latest Airbnb-related event of endangering residents in this city? Toronto, ON – February 13, 2019 – Today, 19-year-old Marcella Zoia of Toronto has been charged with mischief endangering life. This charge follows an incident in one of Maple Leaf Square’s countless […]