The Montreal shuffle: Inside the Airbnb hustle taking homes off the market
This new short-term rental scheme is earning big money for entrepreneurs and property owners — and leaving renters homeless
City for sale: Airbnb scam quadruples rents, replaces long-term tenants with ghost hotels
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
Pushing climate refugees into migrant worker programs
by Chris Ramsaroop Jul 6, 2023 10 min read Share In 2017, wildfires in B.C. captured headlines around the world. Canadians from coast to coast donated generously … Read More
“We will be back”
by New Union Movement Research Group Jul 6, 2023 11 min read Share At the pro-democracy march on New Year’s Day in 2020, 40 new unions took … Read More
Who is a prisoner?
by Lydia Dobson Jul 6, 2023 12 min read Share Mass incarceration is the norm in Canada. In 2021/2022, nearly 150,000 people were incarcerated in prisons, which … Read More
Graphic novels for leftist readers
by Julie Han Jul 6, 2023 5 min read Share From classic theoretical texts to the constant news cycle, leftists read a lot. While the reading is … Read More
What is Cash Back? A settler FAQ
by Rob Houle and Briarpatch Staff Jul 6, 2023 5 min read Share Madeson Singh There is a common misconception that Canada and settlers give money to … Read More
Black radical love in Waterloo
by Phillip Dwight Morgan Jul 6, 2023 8 min read Share Between 1820 and 1867, free and formerly enslaved Africans settled the largely unsurveyed area between Waterloo … Read More
Indigenous policy is foreign policy
by Cassandra Kislenko Jul 6, 2023 4 min read Share The Canadian left is losing elections and party policies. We have enough people – the number of … Read More
Jasper, Alberta has hundreds of Airbnbs, but not a single place to live
‘Desperate to find housing’: In resort towns, landlords are pulling units from the long-term rental market to convert them to short-term rentals
With Olivia Chow, Toronto might be worth fighting for
But we must lead the change ourselves, and bring the new mayor along with us
How an ‘explosion’ of renovictions have been left unchecked in Quebec
More and more tenants are the victims of bad-faith maneuvers so landlords can hike up rents. A look at the rising phenomenon and its impacts on renters
Policing our way to safety: when inequality devolves to civic collapse
Toronto is about to elect a new mayor, and with it an opportunity to chart a new course toward equality
Outside the law: the new shadow rental market with no protections for tenants
Family evicted and describe harassment by landlord to leave long-term Airbnb