Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · Jun 17

They adopted Soviet-style war posters, hosted radio shows about the dangers of ignoring rats, and sent community educators to run town halls. One chewed on warfarin-treated oats while taking questions to assuage residents' concerns about the pesticide, so they'd stop throwing out treated traps.

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Deena Mousa · Jun 17

This required a willingness to spend a lot of money (C$1.75M), time, and effort on what would seem to many to be a nuisance problem. It's hard to imagine most local governments rallying the resources necessary to do something this today.