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Bed bugs at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec »

Bed bugs have infested rooms in McGill student housing buildings the New Residence, the MORE house at 522 Pins, and now in Solin Hall, the McGill Daily reports.
Student Aaryn Secker finally moved out after battling bed bugs in Solin Hall for months:
Secker notified Howard Zinman, Services Coordinator for Solin Hall, after discovering tiny red bites […]

More on Canada’s laws re: bed bugs and tenants: province by province »

Our FAQ on who pays for tenants’ bed bug treatment just got a little more complete. Since this is a really helpful resource, I am blogging it too.
Courtesy of the CBC’s links from its fine story on bed bugs (which remains the best television clip on bed bugs to date, hands down, in my […]

Les punaises de lit: bed bugs en français »

Here’s a hearty welcome to (well, to our knowledge, anyway) the first bed bug blog en français!
Out of Montréal, in fact: La Cibole de Cimex. The author is named Corinne and has had bed bugs. Deux fois. Merde!
(I only get to swear in French, because Bed Bug Helloise is […]

Snapshot: a few hours of Bedbugger.com visitors tells us something about the spread »

You can click here to see a map of the last 90 or so visitors to the site. It will look different from what I describe below, because I am writing about what I saw there about 4-5 hours ago. Now it’s almost midnight in New York, and the Aussies are starting to […]

Comment dites-vous le bed bugs en français? »

We just heard about the recurring bed bugs at the Ryerson dorms in Toronto. Now another Canadian University, McGill in Montreal, is seeing red (well, rust-colored bugs, anyway), as reported by the McGill Daily. Students in MORE House (a brand new building) are battling a bedbug infestation that’s been in the same […]

FAQ: tenants, landlords, owners, and bedbugs »

One of the first questions renting tenants, co-op owners and condo owners ask, when confronted with bed bugs, is: who’s responsible for paying for their elimination?
The laws vary. We are not lawyers, but we’ve collected all the resources below to try to help you figure this out.
If you are a tenant (renter), please find […]