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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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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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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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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Seek help in battling bed bugs, Scarborough meeting told
insideTORONTO.com
Seek help in battling bed bugs, Scarborough meeting told. A Toronto health inspector holds a jar of dead bed bugs during a recent public education session. Staff photo/MIKE ADLER – You can confirm their identity through a pest control company, …

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Bed bugs beware the Beagle
The Suburban
He says his is the first company in Quebec to use bed bug detecting dogs certified by the World Detector Dog Organization (WDDO). “There are about 350 certified dogs out there doing hotels on a daily basis in the United States. They're in Toronto, …

Guelph-area health unit gets funding to get after bed bugs
Guelph Mercury
He and colleagues at Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health intend to find out, with more than $91000 in funding from the Ontario government's $5-million fund to combat bedbugs like those infesting Hamilton and the Greater Toronto Area. …

Reported incidence of bed bugs increases at UW, WLU
Waterloo Record
… co-ordinated effort to fight bed bugs. The money is part of the provincial government's $5-million initiative to help public health units across Ontario combat the problem which has re-emerged in many urban centres. Toronto is especially hard-hit. …

No bedbugs at Galaxy Cinemas
Regina Leader-Post
Perhaps most famously, during last year's Toronto International Film Festival, a tweet claiming there were bed bugs in one of the theatres to be used for screenings caught on like wildfire and spread to The Hollywood Reporter and other North …

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Province funds bug battle
YorkRegion.com
There hasn't been a formal program prior to this, he said, adding, in York Region, incidents of bed bugs are minor when compared to Toronto. “But we want to be proactive,” he added. Bed bugs are oval-shaped insects that feed on human blood and are most …

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found in Bedbugs
Wired News
Researchers in Vancouver, BC have found bedbugs there carrying drug-resistant staph, MRSA, and vancomycin-resistant enterococci, VRE. In the June issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Christopher F. Lowe of the University of Toronto …
Bedbugs as Vectors for Drug-Resistant BacteriaInfection Control Today
New research finds bedbugs are carriers of antibiotic-resistant bacteriaExaminer.com
Bedbugs with drug-resistant bacteria foundCBC.ca
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Dog the newest tool for detecting bed bugs
Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
The dogs have the advantage because they are trained to pick up the bug's scent. Goldman's dogs were used to sniff out bed bugs last year during the Toronto International Film Festival after reports that a filmgoer was bit. "It's a worldwide epidemic …

Bed bugs' bite also carries liability risk: Lloyd's
Canadian Underwriter
In Toronto, Toronto Public Health has noted a dramatic increase in infestation reports, from 46 in 2003 to more than 1500 in 2009. Ontario's provincial government recently announced a $5 million investment to support the fight against bed bugs. …

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Auditor's probe of TCHC 'put a little box around' subsidiary firm
Globe and Mail
The firm has won contracts to provide a diverse range of services to outside organizations, among them two consulting sessions on bed bug eradication to Ottawa Community Housing. “They conducted training for us and it was very effective,” OCH chief …

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Short & Sweet film festival launches in Toronto
blogTO (blog)
Bed bugs in Toronto The posts from MDPest should be removed as spam! He's only trying to drum up business for himself. Shame on you! Anyone reading his posts should wonder…If he's doing this… Phil Villeneuve takes his two-step to the TTC I think …

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insomnia and bedbugs: Pick a bedtime story
Montreal Gazette
Insomnie, born in English, as Insomnia, by Toronto's Daniel Brooks in collaboration with Guillermo Verdecchia, starts tonight at Place des Arts. Bedbugs will premiere tomorrow night at the Freestanding Room, an offbeat performing space located in a …

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Pests taking it to the sheets
The Kingston Whig-Standard
In Toronto, bed bug reports to the public health department have skyrocketed from 48 in 2003 to more than 1500 in 2008. Ottawa, Hamilton, Windsor, London and Wasaga Beach have also raised concerns about the infestations, prompting the Ontario …

Fiorito: Source says TCHC audit reveals lavish spending
Toronto Star
Tenants of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation get bedbugs, while TCHC staff get chocolates from Holt Renfrew. That, according to a Star source, is just one of the outrageous expenses highlighted in the …

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Good Shepherd project tackles bed bugs, homelessness
B.C. Catholic Newspaper
After months of planning, Good Shepherd CARES began tackling Toronto's bed bug problem in subsidized housing units downtown in mid-January. The social enterprise's goals are less about making money than they are about providing a needed service to the …

Winnipeg's nasty bedbug problem really bites
Winnipeg Free Press
Saturday's column on bloodthirsty bedbugs provoked some passionate responses, including one from an expert in the field. But the column also resulted in a …

Bedbugs: The new mosquito
Winnipeg Free Press
Mayor Sam Katz has declared bedbugs a top priority here and the City of Toronto is calling for a national strategy to deal with these little buggers …

Bed bugs the least of cops' problems
Winnipeg Sun
In Toronto, our police brethren tragically lost an officer in the line of duty to a rampaging snowplow thief. So being asked for comments about how bedbugs …

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Health unit wants a piece of bed bug pie
Orangeville Banner
Reports of bed bugs are on the rise, according to the ministry, which cites Toronto as an example. In 2009, there were more than 1500 complaints to Toronto …

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Sherbourne identity
National Post
Strip clubs, bed bugs, and homelessness loom over Sherbourne Street. Of all locations in Toronto to build a sleek, mostly glass condo complex, Sherbourne is …