Love didn’t keep Captain and Tennille together

Treat the disease

I understand there are valid concerns regarding specific short term rentals (STR) in Winnipeg. However, the article raised other alarms for me.

Winston Yee, the city’s manager of licensing and bylaw enforcement, stated the purpose of the new requirement (reporting 911 calls for STR) is “so we can become aware of issues.” So he isn’t aware of “the issues” yet? Are there not systems in place to obtain this information? Doesn’t the city know which addresses have high calls for emergency service? I sure hope the city’s systems aren’t so antiquated that it can’t cross-reference emergency calls with the STR registry.

I think the focus needs to be on the behavior, rather than the ownership structure. Part of the proposed solution to “parties, noise, violence, vandalism and other criminal activity” is to require owners of STR to advise the city when an emergency responder attends the property.

I am a retired Transport Canada manager and an aviation and airports management consultant who devoted my career serving the principal goal of making air travel and civil aviation operations safe, efficient and cost-effective. I had the pleasure of working with so many colleagues in the airports and aviation industry who shared that same goal.

I think I can speak for most of us in saying I am concerned with the latest trial balloon floated by Prime Minister Mark Carney — that our four largest airports could be turned over to huge investment funds and multinational corporations to operate as airport authorities replacing the local, non-profit authorities now in place.

Concerns have already been voiced about increased costs for air travel.

These huge investors care only about return on investment, and so they will certainly be looking at ways to maximize profit.