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November 2, 2023
Cascades Recovery+, a city contractor that sorts recycled material from curbside collection in Calgary, confirmed the presence of Norway rats at its facility in southeast Calgary.
January 20, 2021
CALGARY -- Alberta saw a spike of rat reports in 2020, double what is received in a typical year but it turns out its not as bad as it sounds. Out of 481 reported rat sightings in 2020, only 26 year were confirmed to actually be rats. More often than not, the reported sightings have turned out to be other rodents – mostly muskrats - as opposed to Norway rats or roof rats. Karen Wickerson, specialist at Alberta’s Rat Control Program says that they usually receive a couple of repo...
January 19, 2021
Posted: Jan 19, 2021 4:00 AM MT | Last Updated: January 23 Rats like these arent welcome in Alberta. The province launched a new email address last year, 310RATS@gov.ab.ca, to report sightings of the rodents — dead or alive.(Sanjay Kanojia/AFP via Getty Images)