After a fire, bed bugs “rain down from ceilings” into other apartments
If the Thai train infested with bed bugs does not have you thoroughly skeeved, Joe Fiorito has a new article today in the Toronto Star on 55 Bleecker, a Toronto Community Housing (public housing)...
View ArticleMore Toronto bed bug stories from Joe Fiorito
Our favorite Canadian journalist is back on the bed bug trail. In this article, he shares the story of Marg, a single mother battling bed bugs and the ensuing mountains of laundry. She’s killed three...
View ArticleToronto Star: there are endless numbers of depressing bed bug stories
… but we can learn something from each and every one of them. Take this article from Joe Fiorito in the Toronto Star today. Fiorito describes a heavily infested building at 444 Lumsden, where the...
View ArticleBed Bug Monday in Toronto: Joe Fiorito weighs in
In advance of today’s Bed Bug Project Update in Toronto, Joe Fiorito, the Toronto Star journalist who I am quite sure has written about bed bugs more than anyone else in the mainstream media, anywhere,...
View ArticleToronto landlord fights bed bugs, stays friends with tenants
Joe Fiorito has a great story today in The Star about a landlord (David Brown) and his super (Eric Marshall) and their battle with bed bugs, which started when Eric inspected a unit where the “walls...
View ArticleToronto Star Editor-in-Chief retires
J. Fred Kuntz has been The Star’s Editor-in-Chief for 26 months and he writes in this article that he is retiring this week. How is this bed bug news? Easy: The Star has had the most persistent...
View ArticleJoe Fiorito on thermal, DDT, and public health
Joe Fiorito has an excellent new article today, and it represents a departure from many of his past bed bug stories, which focused on individual stories of life with bed bugs, often focusing on...
View ArticleBed bugs in Toronto public housing
Joe Fiorito has a new story in the Toronto Star today about Bill Huddlestone, who suffers from bed bugs in his Toronto Community Housing apartment on Lawrence at Morningside. To say Huddlestone has a...
View ArticleBed bugs in Toronto public housing: the city does not have it together
When it comes to bed bugs, many folks have the idea that Toronto has its act together. Why? Because it has a task force (the Toronto Bed Bug Project), initiatives like Bug and Scrub, a Public Health...
View ArticleRecent bed bug press from all over Canada
The press in Canada is aflutter with the current bed bug media frenzy. This CBC story picks up the findings of the 2010 Comprehensive Global Bed Bug Study done by the University of Kentucky and the...
View ArticleToronto Public Health now has a Bed Bug Action Committee. Action, people.
The following post Toronto Public Health now has a Bed Bug Action Committee. Action, people. appeared first on Bedbugger.com. Joe Fiorito has another bed bug story in the Toronto Star today. He starts...
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