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Investigating Airbnb. Over the course of 2023, Ricochet dove deep into coverage of Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, and their impact on the housing crisis.
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The Dark Reality of Airbnbs in Quebec: Loopholes Exposed
Nov 11, 2024 · An investigation by Ricochet has found that more than 1,500 entire homes and apartments across Quebec, registered with the government as primary residences, are likely being rented out as commercial operations on Airbnb by real-estate agents, hotel businesses, convicted criminals, and some of the province’s wealthiest citizens as of late this summer.
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Investigating Airbnb Archives - Ricochet
Nov 15, 2023 · Over the course of 2023, Ricochet dove deep into coverage of Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, and their impact on the housing crisis. The investigation kicked off in March, in the wake of a deadly fire in Old Montreal that killed seven people. Ricochet was the first to identify the man operating an illegal Airbnb network out of the building that burned, tied the building’s owner ...
How taxing the rich can help fix the housing crisis - Ricochet
Nov 30, 2024 · Ahead of next year’s federal election, there’s still time for Canadians to avoid the trajectory of our southern neighbour. We can cast a vote to tax the rich instead.
We don’t need your shock, we need reparations and Land Back
Jun 28, 2021 · With the many harms continuing today — the destruction of our environment, the persistence of colonial laws that criminalize Indigenous land defenders, more Indigenous children in the child welfare system than went to residential school, persistent land theft for resource development and urban sprawl — the decolonization process to help Indigenous peoples heal from genocide has yet to start.
Brandi Morin: On anniversary of my arrest, I've emerged as a …
Jan 10, 2025 · One year ago today, the bitter Edmonton winter bit deeper than usual as I found myself in handcuffs – arrested for doing my job as a journalist covering a police raid on an Indigenous homeless encampment. The irony was stark: an Indigenous journalist detained on ancestral lands while documenting ...
How the far-right nearly took over B.C. - Ricochet
Oct 28, 2024 · Canada needs to pay close attention to what has just happened in British Columbia. A conservative party running a hastily assembled slate full of freedom convoy cheerleaders, die-hard Trump supporters, and outright bigots – led by a guy with some buggy ideas including that climate action is a plot to depopulate the Earth – has come within a centimetre of forming government in Canada’s ...