{"id":546222,"date":"2026-03-19T06:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546222\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:50:19","slug":"building-owner-charged-in-deadly-2023-old-montreal-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546222\/","title":{"rendered":"Building owner charged in deadly 2023 Old Montreal fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Multiple charges, including manslaughter, have been laid against 63-year-old Emile Haim Benamor, the owner of a heritage building in Old Montreal where seven people died in a March 2023 fire. The building was filled with illegal Airbnb rentals. Touria Izri explains what Benamor is being accused of, and how the tragedy led to sweeping changes to short-term rental rules in Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple charges, including manslaughter, have been laid against 63-year-old Emile Haim Benamor, the owner of a heritage building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[212875,49,48,212873,212874,2338,200214,89039],"class_list":{"0":"post-546222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-airbnb-rentals","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-emile-haim-benamor","12":"tag-heritage-building","13":"tag-montreal","14":"tag-old-montreal","15":"tag-touria-izri"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}