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Bedbugs

Judy Haiven: Senior forced to live in bedbug-infested apartment for years thankful for support from our readers

Judy Haiven: Senior forced to live in bedbug-infested apartment for years thankful for support from our readers

April 3, 2020

A grim story with a happy ending. Gary Aitchison, the senior who lived for years in an apartment riddled with bedbugs and cockroaches, is thankful for the support of all those NS Advocate readers who wrote him letters of encouragement, and to those who donated to help him out.

Judy Haiven: A victory for one! Housing authority finds new place for senior who fled bedbugs-infested apartment

Judy Haiven: A victory for one! Housing authority finds new place for senior who fled bedbugs-infested apartment

February 19, 2020 2 Comments

Gary Aitchison has a new bedbug-free place to live! After Judy Haiven and the NS Advocate exposed how a senior was forced to flee his bug-infested apartment all of a sudden the Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority found him a new place. Too bad it took seven years.

Bedbugs drive senior out of his public housing apartment

Bedbugs drive senior out of his public housing apartment

January 29, 2020 20 Comments

Judy Haiven writes about a senior citizen who is camping out in a Halifax hotel because his public housing apartment at the Gordon B. Isnor Manor is infested with bedbugs.

′I still can′t sleep′ – When bedbugs infest your apartment

′I still can′t sleep′ – When bedbugs infest your apartment

June 27, 2018

New author Kathryn Jones Cleroux with a touching story about a mother, her daughter. bedbugs and landlords.

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