The Star (Toronto): “Yule tales aside, mice are not nice.”
…although bedbugs may not be quite so widespread a problem in Toronto yet, they actually bite us and “when you have little children or babies with bedbugs on them, it’s just plain gross.”
David Hayes needs to read Star columnist Joe Fiorito more often. From his […]

Monty (cartoon) on bed bugs, December 22, 2007 by Jim Meddick.
Bed bugs as the subject of a Monty cartoon, this week.
Thanks go to meckman for pointing this out in a forum post!

Bed bug podcasts, bed bug news:

Pest Management Professional - Continued technological and educational advancement in pest detection, identification, treatment and control methods. | Web Exclusive | 10 Questions with Jerome GoddardTen Questions with Jerome Goddard (Pest Management Professional Podcast)–includes interesting discussion of whether bed bugs are potential transmitters of disease, or not. From 9/06, […]

Today’s bed bug news:

CBBC Newsround | UK | Look out, there are bedbugs about How to scare the children, from the Children’s BBC. Remember it was just a few years ago when the CBBC thought bed bugs were the same as dust mites. We’ve come a long way, babies.
San Jose Mercury […]

winnipegsun.com - Manitoba Government releases report calling for Housing ‘overhaul’“The report reads more like a business school case study in organizational behaviour than the bedbugs-and-mould horror story critics may have been expecting, but it still …a fairly sour picture of the way things are run at the public housing authority.”

Fixing up a ‘Crappy Apartment’ — amNY.com
amNY has a series called “Fixing up a ‘Crappy Apartment.’” Perhaps a bedbugger will get in touch, though our problem is both too complex and too simple to make a good fix-em-up story. “Get rid of bed bugs” is the simple–but not easy–fix.

Apartmentratings.com is a way to check what other tenants are saying about your building. It is not widely used, but like anything else, can be another tool, along with the bedbugregistry.com. Don’t forget to leave your review and warn others. There are 623 posts today featuring “bed bugs.” Don’t forget to search […]

Tropicana struggles to rebuild public image (note: allegations of bed bugs = bad for business)
Travel agent elucidates how bed bugs are bad for hotel business: “One of my customers requested Tropicana. Knowing what I knew, I felt I must tell them. God forbid if they got there and there were bedbugs,” (Sis Butler, sales rep., […]

Orphanage alumni take one more trip to Coney Island
Life in a NYC orphanage in the 20s and 30s included bed bugs: “He spent his childhood in New York orphanages - writing letters to Santa that were never answered, or dragging his box spring outside to burn off the bed bugs each spring.”
(tags: inpassing bedbugs history)
BeyondChron: […]

OHRL addresses bed bug concerns in residence halls - Pace Press
Bed bugs in dorms at Pace University in New York
The Portland Mercury | Blogtown, PDX | Rent Down At Grove Hotel
Speculation about bed bugs in Portland SRO. People are talking about bed bugs–this has got to be good.

globeandmail.com: Tenants in ‘Pandora’s boxes’ face mountain of troubles
Article referencing 2255 Pandora Street in Vancouver, BC, where, the author claims, “Bedbugs are a given.”

Hawai’i: Kamehameha housing project infested with bed bugs
“Eight people share a two-bedroom apartment in Leslie’s family. . . . Recently, they had to get rid of three beds and a sofa infested by bedbugs — ‘My kids were eaten alive!’ Most of them have been sleeping on the floor until donated beds arrive, but ‘we
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