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City for sale: Airbnb scam quadruples rents, replaces long-term tenants with ghost hotels
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City for sale: Airbnb scam quadruples rents, replaces long-term tenants with ghost hotels

July 27, 2023

Landlords partner with illegal Airbnb operators to evict long-term tenants, raise rents and inflate property values. Everyone wins — except people who need a place to live

With Olivia Chow, Toronto might be worth fighting for
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With Olivia Chow, Toronto might be worth fighting for

July 2, 2023

But we must lead the change ourselves, and bring the new mayor along with us

Outside the law: the new shadow rental market with no protections for tenants
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Outside the law: the new shadow rental market with no protections for tenants

June 22, 2023

Family evicted and describe harassment by landlord to leave long-term Airbnb

EXCLUSIVE: Quebec housing minister lobbied by real-estate business partner
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EXCLUSIVE: Quebec housing minister lobbied by real-estate business partner

June 16, 2023

Minister’s recent business partner is president of company that owns hundreds of rental units in Quebec, and has active lobby mandate with the ministry

EXPLAINER: How Airbnb and short-term rentals have decimated housing in Canada
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EXPLAINER: How Airbnb and short-term rentals have decimated housing in Canada

June 16, 2023

From Quebec to B.C., what is being done to demand accountability?

Brandi Morin: On the ground with Indigenous communities fleeing a climate inferno
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Brandi Morin: On the ground with Indigenous communities fleeing a climate inferno

June 13, 2023

First the oil sands, then the wildfires. Three days behind the evacuation lines in northern Alberta

Investigating Airbnb: Short-term rentals and the housing crisis
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Investigating Airbnb: Short-term rentals and the housing crisis

May 17, 2023

We’re hiring award-winning journalists across Canada to tell the story of short-term rentals, and investigate why politicians have proven unable to regulate the industry

Renoviction is the ‘landlord playbook’ in Toronto
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Renoviction is the ‘landlord playbook’ in Toronto

May 11, 2023

In one building, tenants are organizing to fight their corporate landlord and stop the evictions

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Who is the NDP for?

May 10, 2023

by Haseena Manek   May 8, 2023   16 min read   Share Ryan Olbrysh “You’re only allowed to participate in the system if you’re acceptable and if you’ve gone … Read More

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Pushing pipeline ownership onto First Nations

May 10, 2023

by David Gray-Donald   May 8, 2023   11 min read   Share In 2018, Husky Energy asked Stephen Mason, who has years of experience developing oil and gas projects … Read More

Growing discontent among frontline health care workers on Vancouver Island
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Growing discontent among frontline health care workers on Vancouver Island

May 10, 2023

Comments from an internal forum show employees pushing back against claims of workplace excellence

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Fighting fascism in feminism

May 10, 2023

by Chanelle Gallant   May 8, 2023   8 min read   Share I was first introduced to the power of far-right ideologies within feminism through the work of so-called … Read More

Photojournalist takes on RCMP in fight for press freedom
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Photojournalist takes on RCMP in fight for press freedom

April 15, 2023

Amber Bracken and The Narwhal to take national police force to trial in 2024

Conflict With China Won’t Help Canadian Workers
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Conflict With China Won’t Help Canadian Workers

April 11, 2023

Affixing a progressive industrial program to a bellicose foreign policy won’t promote working-class interests.

Brandi Morin: For the Wet’suwet’en, latest RCMP raid confirms that reconciliation is ‘dead’
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Brandi Morin: For the Wet’suwet’en, latest RCMP raid confirms that reconciliation is ‘dead’

April 6, 2023

‘They don’t care about the land. All they care about is the money’

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