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City of Vancouver staff asked to talk to PR team before responding to citizens
By ThinkPol Staff City of Vancouver staff are asked to talk to the city hall’s army of well-paid spin doctors before responding to citizens on social media, according to information released through a Freedom of Information request. “A reminder: please
VISTRO-reported Airbnb listings are disappearing, but who’s behind their removal?
By Nick Valka At least 19 illegal Vancouver Airbnb listings have been taken down after being reported by VISTRO, but the question remains as to who is actually removing them. Vancouver’s Illegal Short Term Rental Operators, known as VISTRO[1]https://twitter.com/vistro11 on
Krishna’s report to the Council on short term rentals, Airbnb-commissioned report done by her former lobbying company show similarities
By ThinkPol Staff ThinkPol has obtained an unpublished report by Kaye Krishna’s former lobbying company that show similarities to the report the Vancouver official presented to the council on the impact of short term rentals. Vancouver’s General manager of Development,
Pressure mounts on City of Vancouver’s Kaye Krishna to resign over Airbnb fiasco
By ThinkPol Staff Pressure is mounting on Kaye Krishna to stand down as the Vancouver official responsible for the Airbnb file. Critics allege that she has not done enough to crackdown on short term rentals mushrooming in a city grappling
Vancouver official denies Airbnb involvement, defends decision to stop taking Twitter complaints
By Lisa Tanh The head of Vancouver’s Development, Buildings, and Licensing department says tweeting about illegal short-term rentals in the city raises security and privacy issues. As of yesterday, the city of Vancouver’s VanConnect[1]http://vancouver.ca/vanconnect.aspx desktop and mobile app, added a