His stuff looked like an in-store Ikea room mock-up, complete with Warholesque Marilyn Monroe print on the wall and patterned rug. Looking quite unlived in, there were no knickknacks, clutter or any of the usual signs of our messy human lives…

Suppose you spent a week throwing rocks through your neighbours’ windows, and then you spent the following week selling everyone burglar alarms and vandalism insurance. Once they knew what you were up to, nobody would pat you on the back for saving the neighbourhood…

In her otherwise quiet residential neighbourhood, Erika Hennebury was surprised to hear pulsing music and shouts from dozens of young partygoers late Saturday night. When four gunshots rang out, she said she couldn’t believe it, at first thinking they were firecrackers…

TORONTO — A city committee has voted unanimously to disallow short-term Airbnb-style rentals in separate units like basement apartments…

Unmoved by pleas from desperate homeowners, some Toronto councillors want self-contained basement apartments banned from Airbnb and other short-term rental services…

A Toronto lawyer warned city councillors Thursday it will be easier to register to host an Airbnb-style short-term rental unit in Toronto than it is to acquire a residential parking permit, but councillors made no changes to their draft rules…

Sometime in September, residents on leafy Spruce St. grew alarmed after noticing a parade of suitcase-toting Airbnb guests coming and going from a recently sold elegant three-storey Victorian-era home…

Su Alexanian is Airbnb’s prototypical home-sharing host who knows the good and bad side of the booming short-term rental market…