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But perhaps the worst housing idea Rustad has shared is his pledge to create a new tax deduction of up to $3,000 per month for mortgage and rent payments that would cost the provincial treasury $3.5 billion in foregone revenue

New legislation that takes aim at rapidly expanding short-term rentals in British Columbia will increase badly needed long-term rental housing, Premier David Eby said after the act was introduced in the legislature on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.

New York City just introduced regulations that will cut Airbnb and Vrbo down to size, and help its beleaguered renters in the process. Canadian cities should consider doing the same — and the federal government should help.

B.C.’s Cortes Island is making housing history as the first community in the province to tax short-term holiday rentals and have all the funds directed to affordable housing projects, said Mark Vonesch, the area’s Strathcona Regional District director. 

More provinces should follow Quebec's lead in seeking to hold short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb accountable for uncertified listings, advocates say.

The Quebec government's crackdown on Airbnb has upended Montreal's short-term rental market, leading some to welcome the changes and others scurrying to evade the new rules.

One of the world's largest short-term rental websites is inviting the Trudeau Liberals to create a regulatory regime for the burgeoning industry — something its critics have long advocated and raising pressure on the government to set rules in the market.

Vancouver has legalized short-term rentals, and has become the first city in Canada to sign an agreement with Airbnb to regulate the market.

National Observer will be honoured by the Hillman Foundation on March 28 in Toronto along with its media partners, the Toronto Star and Global News and four journalism schools - Concordia University, Ryerson University, the University of Regina and the University of British Columbia - for their unprecedented investigative series, the Price of Oil.

Heather Szilagyi was on a British Airways flight with her seven-year-old daughter and fiancee on Oct. 10 when she said they noticed what appeared to be bedbugs crawling out of the seat in front.

A constituency association in southern Alberta is standing behind the area's embattled member of the legislature. who has resigned from his party's caucus following a bevy of negative headlines.

The United Conservative Party MLA, described by the CBC as a "fiscal firebrand," is due back in court this September on the hit-and-run charge. He announced he was leaving his party on Tuesday night.

"I should have been more careful in reviewing them before signing off," said Alberta MLA Derek Fildebrandt."I take the custodianship of taxpayers money with the utmost seriousness."

Fildebrandt started out the day in a defensive posture, saying there was nothing wrong with renting out his subsidized Edmonton apartment through Airbnb when he wasn't using it. He later apologized.