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Where in Vancouver is the best place to spot a PBR-swilling 20-somethings god … – Straight.com (Blogs) (blog)

Where in Vancouver is the best place to spot a PBR-swilling 20-somethings god … Straight.com (Blogs) (blog) They are an infestation worse than bedbugs could ever be. And, while we've never had to fumigate our houses against a plague of tight pants and beardos, …

Halloween came early this year – Times and Transcript

Halloween came early this year Times and Transcript … than the reason for an encroaching infestation of bedbugs, those blood-sucking leeches of yore. Writing in the Globe, Vancouver's Marsha Lederman, …

Chicago Ninth In Bedbug List – MyFox Chicago

Chicago Ninth In Bedbug List MyFox Chicago Next were Manchester, NH; San Francisco; Durham, NC; Vancouver and Chicago. No. 10 was Denver, where bedbug problems have become so bad in recent years that … and more »

Insight Pharmaceuticals Cites Top 10 Bedbug-Infested Cities in North America – Benzinga

Insight Pharmaceuticals Cites Top 10 Bedbug-Infested Cities in North America Benzinga The Big Apple's war on bedbugs has been well documented. A group of concerned citizens started a NYC bedbug advisory board whose efforts recently ended in … and more »

Don’t let the bed bugs bite – www.kamloopsnews.ca

Don't let the bed bugs bite www.kamloopsnews.ca It held a seminar here in 2008 to provide information on identification and control of bed bugs. “It's popping up a lot more in Kamloops. In Vancouver it's …

Events for June 24-July 1 – OregonLive.com (blog)

OregonLive.com (blog)

Events for June 24-July 1 OregonLive.com (blog) Livingscape Nursery, 3926 N. Vancouver Ave.; $25; www.livingscape.com or 248-0104 SLUGS AND BUGS: NATURALLY MANAGING YOUR GARDEN PESTS: 10 am-noon. … and more »

Fiorito: Army on the frontlines of the bedbug war – Toronto Star

“We got our first shipment a month ago. They went quickly. We got more.”

Ron Farr is a Salvation Army captain. He works at the Warehouse Mission in Cabbagetown.

The shipment?

Mattresses and box springs, donated after having been used, however briefly, by the athletes of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Ron said, as he loaded a small van, “We’re going to deliver five today. We’re taking three to 55 Bleecker.”

That’s public housing, a seniors’ building; bedbugs all over that place; old people being eaten alive in there.

I do not exaggerate.

Ron said, “Any time someone asks for a mattress, we ask how many times they’ve been sprayed . . . we make sure people have been sprayed at least twice . . . I’d love to get some bug-proof covers.” That’s because plastic shipping bags are not exactly bug-proof.

With mattresses in the van, there was no room for me. I walked to 55 Bleecker with Ron’s wife, Linda Farr. She, too, is an Army captain. She said, “When people throw their old mattresses out, they sleep on the floor.”

Seniors, sleeping on their floors.

When we got to 55 Bleecker, the van had already arrived. Ron was unloading his cargo along with Andrew, the volunteer driver. A social worker was also pitching in. I asked the social worker if that was in her job description. “Ha, ha,” she said without a smile.

There was a problem: 55 Bleecker is a big building, but only one of the elevators was working.

A seniors’ highrise.

One elevator.

Not everyone was happy to wait while the mattresses were being jammed in. Not everyone was happy that it stopped on every floor on the way up — and we stopped because tenants were getting on to go down, even though we were going up; that’s how it works with one elevator — you get on, no matter what.

A tenant muttered, “People have appointments. They have to go out.” Then a man with long white hair and a happy red shirt squeezed in. He had a plastic bag filled with kaisers. “Got room for me and my buns?”

Everyone thought that was funny. It’s a good thing because, if not for the levity, some people might have been at other people’s throats.

The last of the mattresses was delivered to the apartment of a man named John, who said, “They sprayed in here last week. I was sprayed last year eight times, maybe more. They spray, and the bugs come back. I got this armchair for my birthday and Christmas. They sprayed it. I’m betting next week they’ll be back.”

He meant the bugs. In his chair.

“I’m 75. I got a bad heart. I want them to come in and spray. I got these little marks. My feet, my ankles.”

Linda looked at John’s old mattress closely. She said, “This is infested.” Ron said, “I’ll put it on the balcony.”

John said, “I was an apartment super for 40 years. I never came across this. We never had this. They started three or four years ago, around the time I had my first heart attack; all of a sudden I was itching and scratching. Everybody in here has them but some people aren’t saying.

“That’s the problem. You got to clean the whole building. I got them coming up from the floor, which means the guy underneath me has got them.”

Listen closely:

If you thought Toronto was getting the bedbug problem under control, you’re wrong.

The solution?

Ron said, “I don’t know the solution. We do what we can.” Good for the Army. We need them to do what they can. But we need more than that.

Help, dammit.

Bound to fail in Kamloops, BC Canada: Trying to Get Rid of Bed Bugs with Algae

[Bound to fail, trying to battle bed bugs in Kamloops, BC Canada with Algae]

The province has a reputation of breaking down the hard cases and making them residences for people who need a helping hand off the street.

Housing and Social Development Minister Rich Coleman said Friday during an announcement in Kamloops that bed bugs and rats were among the factors facing housing officials and renovators at the Backpackers Inn on Vancouver’s Downtown East Side.

Coleman called it a “cesspool of crime and bad behavior.”

But the redevelopment resulted in gutting the building, even using a type of algae to rid walls of bedbugs. Today it is home to 40 people who have moved off the street.

“Our guys are prepared to take some gambles and do something different,” Coleman said.

That philosophy helped the province turn the former Whistler Inn tenement house in Kamloops into the Henry Leland House for the hard to house. And it will convert the former Rendezvous Inn strip club into a 24-hour homeless shelter for men and women.

The bar was a focus for drug dealing, prostitution and crime in Kamloops.

Following renovations it will house about 50 temporary shelter beds starting next year. The commercial kitchen will be retained and the upstairs converted to 10 transitional housing beds.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if we spend $500,000 at the end of the day (on renovations),” Coleman said.

There will be no net increase from the number of shelter beds operated here today. But Coleman said the new project will offer 24-hour help and centralized social services

The transition beds will be used to “fill the gap” between temporary and long-term housing.

Before any of that happens, however, Kamloops council must approve a rezoning for the property. The city has a history of controversial public hearings over social housing, including at Georgian Court on Fortune Drive.

“I know there were concerns,” said Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake, a former city mayor.

“When you look and see that beautiful building has improved the neighbourhood in many ways. There’s no negative impacts that I’m aware of.”

The rezoning to allow neighbouring New Life Mission’s building on West Victoria Street was also contentious, with neighbouring residents and business owners arguing strenuously against it.

“I know how emotional those hearings can be,” Lake said.

Mayor Peter Milobar said he has not heard concerns from residents or businesses in the area about the proposed shelter.

BEDBUGS FORCE PATIENTS OUT OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY SERVICES CENTRE – C-FAX 1070

BEDBUGS FORCE PATIENTS OUT OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY SERVICES CENTRE C-FAX 1070 PATIENTS HAVE BEEN MOVED OUT OF THE ARCHIE COURTNALL PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY SERVICES CENTRE TEMPORARILY BECAUSE OF BEDBUGS. THE VANCOUVER ISLAND HEALTH …

Lower Mainland home to some hotel horror stories – News1130

Lower Mainland home to some hotel horror stories News1130 "One of the quotes from a Trip Advisor traveller 'one bed had spots of blood on the blanket, the other blanket had cigarette burns all over and bed bugs! …

Shelters that house 600 scheduled to close next week – Vancouver Sun

Shelters that house 600 scheduled to close next week Vancouver Sun "Last year BC Housing offered me a room at the Balmoral [Hotel] for $450 a month. It's worse than here. You are paying rent so you can live with bedbugs, … and more »

Recycling super-depots under scrutiny – Bowen Island Undercurrent

Recycling super-depots under scrutiny Bowen Island Undercurrent … officials don't want to face lawsuits if a "reusable" toaster starts a fire at its new home or a discarded couch brings along an army of bedbugs. … and more »

Advocates for homeless plan to ruffle a few feathers – The Province

Advocates for homeless plan to ruffle a few feathers The Province … are infested with bedbugs, roaches and fleas, which don't promote for human occupants some of the "five freedoms" to be enjoyed by Vancouver poultry. … and more »

A happy and safe Easter to you and your families – Lakes District News

A happy and safe Easter to you and your families Lakes District News The other day while watching the news, I heard there is an epidemic of bedbugs in Vancouver. Let's hope they keep them there. They are terrible and so hard …

COMMENT: The Olympic Slum – Rossland Telegraph

COMMENT: The Olympic Slum Rossland Telegraph … which carry a high likelihood of TB exposure in inadequately ventilated room[s], along with risks of bedbugs, scabies, and lice infestations. … and more »

Pioneer Pest Management Earns Coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award – PR Web (press release)

Pioneer Pest Management Earns Coveted Angie's List Super Service Award PR Web (press release) The company provides both residential and commercial pest control removal including bugs and rodents such as bed bugs, bees, rats, roaches, carpenter ants, … and more »

Acceptable housing for the mentally ill urgently needed – BCLocalNews

Acceptable housing for the mentally ill urgently needed BCLocalNews Karley Smith talks about the “bedbugs, drugs and other problems” in our local shelters. However, many people live their lives in places that are just as …

Vancouver’s Pest Mascot: The Bed Bug – St. Louis Post-Dispatch (blog)

Vancouver's Pest Mascot: The Bed Bug St. Louis Post-Dispatch (blog) That's made for businesses such as Vancouver Bed Bug Control Inc., which exists to try to eradicate the blood-sucking mites that can make an itching misery …

Bedbug spray won’t poison you – Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

Bedbug spray won't poison you Chicago Tribune The good: Not having a ready supply of bedbugs, I didn't know how to test this. I wanted to write on the subject, because Vancouver, site of the Winter …

Vancouver putting on its Sunday best a month before Games opens – The Canadian Press

Vancouver putting on its Sunday best a month before Games opens The Canadian Press The local office of Orkin Pest Control, which uses a specially trained dog to sniff out bed bugs and other critters, says calls have spiked over the past … and more »

Blazing a trail for safe housing – Longview Daily News

Blazing a trail for safe housing Longview Daily News In March, police will host evening training workshops for landlords on Section 8 housing, how to get rid of bedbugs, evictions, case-managed tenants and …

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside hopes people see hope, not despair at 2010 Games – The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside hopes people see hope, not despair at 2010 Games The Canadian Press Rising needs butting heads with rapid development have created a fear that's become as pervasive as the bed bugs that gnaw on the mealy mattresses of the … and more »