One of the first things that struck Joseph Brockman about the Airbnb where he was staying in Montreal were the windows — there were, in fact, none.
“I literally said to my friend, ‘this is a freaking fire trap,'” he recalled.
Brockman and a friend spent a weekend in the small apartment in August 2022.
The apartment had a single exit, the front door, and the air conditioning unit pumped air into the building’s hallway, he said.
“I thought it was maybe just the old — you know, the fact that it’s a heritage building. But I was saying, like there’s no way this
