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Farkus MacLean's avatar

Great piece, but the government of the day was the "Social Credit Party," not the "United Conservative Party" (which is party of government today).

Isaac Kellogg's avatar

Technically they were “SoCred in name only,” the original Douglasites having been usurped by pro-bankster successors by then

Nobody's avatar

This seems very un Canadian. Have any of the rats tried claiming that they need asylum?

Gustavo José Zambrano's avatar

Border quarantine at biological scale is such a rare success story. Maintaining a zero tolerance perimeter takes decades of boring, disciplined institutional execution. We touch on systems design and deterministic rules in our English section: https://gzambrano.substack.com/s/english

Jess Nash's avatar

"Indigenous Canadians in particular were not fans of rats" - interested to know more about this, would any sources or further reading be available?

Mike Wong's avatar

In BC and the larger Canadian cities, rats are walking around in broad daylight.

The banning of certain older poisons to avoid poisoning wildlife is making it harder to reduce the rat and mice population.

Love to see a practical solution to reduce the number of these perennial pests.