The Vancouver Sun reports,
Bedbug complaints in Metro Vancouver, which first started in 2003 with 40 complaints, have doubled each year for the past five years, said local expert Shelley Beaudet.
That means there were:
40 bed bug complaints in 2003,
80 in 2004,
160 in 2005,
320 in 2006,
640 in 2007, and
1280 in 2008.
That’s a total of 2,520 in five [...]

Wendy Stueck writes in today’s Globe and Mail that a new Vancouver apartment building is going to have a sauna for decontaminating bed bug-infested items. Talk about planning ahead:
. . . a housing complex under construction in Vancouver will include what’s been dubbed the “bedbug sauna,” a room where furniture, clothing and other belongings [...]