Ford administration accepts provincially-funded nurses to fight bed bugs
National Post
Toronto's budget committee is taking the provincial government up on its offer to pay for public health nurses to help combat bed bugs, after Mayor Rob Ford led the charge against a previous offer for nurses earlier this year. …
Budget committee okays bed bug nursesToronto Sun
Toronto likely to accept 2nd offer of free nursesCBC.ca
A nurse don't come for freeNOW Toronto
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How to properly check for bed bugs in a hotel
News1130
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Seattle hotels have seen a 500 per cent increase in bed bugs this year; several other tourist hotbeds are reporting spikes as well. Mark Amery with Vancouver Bed Bug Control says there are several ways people can keep the nasty …

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Toronto 'desperately' needs nurses to battle bed bugs
Toronto Star
Five pilot projects through the Toronto Community Housing Initiative are investigating methods for controlling, reducing and preventing bedbugs. The bugs can travel through walls, so eliminating them is particularly difficult when infestations occur in …
Toronto seeks help to fight bedbugsBizjournals.com (blog)

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City will consider Ontario's offer for more nurses
CityNews
“But I can't imagine that they want to go to their constituents and say that they rejected money to help with the bed bug problem.” In a July report, Dr. David McKeown, Toronto's medical officer of health, wrote that a very limited funds for bed bug …
Nurse battle redux? Province offers Toronto three moreToronto Star
Three More Nurses Offered to City Cost-Free by ProvinceNewstalk 1010

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Bedbug infestations growing in certain settings, survey finds
Washington Post
(Carolyn Kaster/ AP ) – In a study released Wednesday, Canadian scientists detected drug-resistant MRSA bacteria in bedbugs from three hospital patients from a Vancouver neighborhood. By Lena H. Sun, Just as students head back to college and families …

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Bullied tenants forced to buy methadone from slumlord: claim
CTV.ca
Both buildings are at the centre of a city of Vancouver investigation into bylaw infractions, and have been served with more than 20 compliance orders since 2010. City inspectors found evidence of bedbugs, roaches and rats in many residential suites. …
Vancouver non-profit to renovate two hazardous SROsTheTyee.ca (blog)

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A disturbing walk down motel lane
Vancouver Sun
We got a bit hysterical when Sandy dubbed it the GT bed in honour of its mobility. When the laughing died down we did a three-way, oddman-out rupee toss resulting in Ken's assignment to the GT. It was a lousy deal for Ken who awoke covered in bed bug …

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Bed bugs make a comeback
Niagarathisweek.com
Health Canada also cautioned people against accepting secondhand items such as furniture and mattresses. Inspect and clean them before bringing them into the home. Killing off bed bugs is no easy task: the NPMA survey found 73 per cent of exterminators …

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Don't let the bedbugs bite
Niagarathisweek.com
Peter Jekel, manager in the environmental health division, said increased travel which can spread infestations, and limited pesticide use, have resulted in increased bed bug activity. Health Canada said in an increasingly global world, bed bugs are …

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Spreading bed bug problem 'hell' for Nanaimo residents
Canada.com
Ellsmere recommends checking for small reddish stains on the mattress and along seams and bed frame screws where bugs can tuck in. The spread can also be laid at the door of weak pesticides. Potent chemicals like Diazonon were banned from Canada …

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Pesticides necessary
BCLocalNews
Lyme disease from ticks, the spread of West Nile Virus and the increase in bedbugs across Canada and the US – bedbugs carrying a dangerous form of bacteria. It has been determined that bedbugs can and have carried two types of drug-resistant bacteria. …

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More Information About Pests is Available on Metro King Pest Control Inc. Website
PR.com (press release)
The company web site address is http://www.metrokingpc.ca that offers pest control services related to bed bugs control, mice control, cockroach control, bird control and other pest related services. The new website has been designed by keeping the …

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EMSL DNA Testing Lab Helps Solve Mysteries
Environmental Expert (press release)
In recent years, bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) have become a big concern for homeowners and hotel travelers. The increasing activities of bed bugs are related in part to the changes in pesticide usage and global travel. A rapid qPCR method for detecting …

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Hackathon Brings Together Techies To Help The City
Village Voice (blog)
The comedian was asking a question about bed bugs. Another team came from Manhattan. Manhattan, Kansas, that is. "We're the crazies that came from Kansas," Kyle Gach, 26, said as his team started his presentation of a new visual design for the city's …

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'Are you going to get somebody to do that for $10.25?'
Toronto Star
“I clean bedbugs. I clean scabies. Are you going to get somebody to do that for $10.25 an hour?” O'Brien, 34, and co-worker Christopher Idrovo, 30, appeared before council's government management committee which is reviewing consultants suggestions to …
Heavy duty cleaners make a pitch to keep city jobsToronto Sun

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Bedbugs Found Carrying Drug-Resistant Bacteria
National Center for Policy Analysis
Marc Romney, one of the study's authors and a medical microbiologist at St. Paul's Hospital, an inner-city hospital in Vancouver, noticed a rise in bedbugs and of cases of MRSA. To check the connection, researchers collected five bedbugs from patients, …

Vancouver Goes after Notorious Slumlords
The Epoch Times
Tenants at the two SROs allege that not only do they have to contend with mice and rats, cockroaches, bedbugs, and mould, but also a tyrannical landlord who has power to control their homes, their work, and even their health. After hearing from tenants …

Board of Health wants province to continue funding bed bug program
insideTORONTO.com
Toronto Board of Health wants Province of Ontario to continue funding bed bug program. Staff photo/MIKE ADLER SCARBOROUGH – Toronto health inspector Wayne Fletcher is telling people bed bugs can hide behind their… Councillors on Toronto's Board of …
Toronto Public Health Prepares Bedbug Battle PlanThe Epoch Times

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A colourful history of Americans in Paris
Vancouver Sun
"After years of living in Paris, James Fenimore Cooper said he still struggled to adjust to a country comprised of 'dirt and gilding . bedbugs and laces.' " The seductive lure of the city was, however, as strong as it remains today, and each traveller …

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Councillors to tackle bed bugs
Toronto Sun
Toronto city councillors will tackle a bed bug control strategy next week at City Hall. (AFP file photo) Toronto Public Health will unveil its bed bug control strategy for the city next week. But health board chairman …

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Apartments Rules on breaking lease over bedbugs
Chicago Tribune
The good news is that bed bugs do not transmit disease." But this common wisdom may be evolving. In an advance electronic publication of an article slated to appear in Emerging Infections Diseases, researchers in Vancouver, Canada, reported the …

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Filth, pests and mould greet family in BC rental home
CTV.ca
An Ontario family is out $1800 after they arrived at what was supposed to be their new Vancouver Island home and discovered that it was littered with rat feces, bedbugs and even a syringe. Penny Sandirfer and her husband saw their new Nanaimo rental …

Don't let creepy crawly bed bugs ruin your summer vacation
CanadaEast.com
The Bed Bug Registry is a free, public database of user-submitted bed bug reports from across the United States and Canada. Founded in 2006, the site has collected about 20000 reports covering 12000 locations. Go to bedbugregistry.com. …

Province Releases New Grant Program in Fight Against Bedbugs
Portage Daily Graphic
Healthy Living, Youth and Seniors Minister Jim Rondeau announced the new Bed Bug Grant Program along with the Bed Bug Prevention Materials Program which will be the first of its kind in Canada. "These new programs are vital pieces of our …

Getting the bedbugs out
Victoria Times Colonist
As the season changes to summer, the calls to local pest control companies change from rodents and ants to wasps and bed bugs. "They are the pests of the season," says Al Vaudry, manager of Professional Ecological Services. "We get calls for rats and …

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