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1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 17:23:56 EDT Adam

   Rats, not even once. The stirring story of how Alberta became the only rat-free territory in the world.

   https://edmontonjournal.com/news/canada/the-stirring-story-of-how-alberta-became-the-first-place-in-the-world-to-banish-the-rat/wcm/75ab7ca8-d1d7-48b7-b6e0-179e0423bfcc

   1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 01:15:14 EDT Bob Jonkman

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      Makes me think of #Elmira, #Ontario (where I live now). In the late 1950's it declared itself "Canada's first weed-free town", courtesy of the local Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops who were dispatched to douse every lawn with 2,4-D... Imagine, dozens of 8-10 year olds with pesticide spray applicators... Of course, 2,4-D was a locally made herbicide, straight from the same plant in the north of town that would be producing Agent Orange a few years later. Today, we get all our water piped in from a neighbouring community, since all Elmira's groundwater is contaminated...