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.

TORONTO — A woman from Maple, Ont. said her home was shot at after she shut down an unauthorized party thrown by one of her Airbnb guests.

An analysis released on Wednesday by Royal Bank of Canada economist Robert Hogue concludes Toronto needs a package of policy measures – such as offering tax incentives to encourage more rental construction and regulating Airbnb short-term rentals – to improve the city’s apartment inventory.

Five friends and I rented a house on Airbnb in Provincetown this past summer for a weeklong Cape Cod vacation. We should have paid more attention to the note in the listing that mentioned a camera.

More than a third of the city’s 21,000 Airbnb listings would disappear if the city’s short-term rental bylaws take effect. Those are the units operated by landlords with multiple listings that violate a key provision that would require hosts of short-term rentals to be the principal occupant of the home, according to the testimony of […]

Allowing property owners to use secondary suites as short-term rentals would encourage more landlords to convert their units to Airbnb-style rentals, rather than providing homes to long-term tenants. And that would exacerbate an already tight rental market and high rents, a policy expert with the city has testified at a planning tribunal.

There were broken chairs scattered around the floor. Torn carpets peppered with cigarette butts. Some puddles of vomit.

Toronto’s real estate regulations are the slowly boiling water, and we are the frog.

Airbnb has caused plenty of controversy since it first arrived in Toronto.