A video of a large group of rats near the Burrard SkyTrain station in downtown Vancouver has sparked concerns about a rise in pests in the region and a debate about whether changes in regulations ...

Rats have always been a global disease threat, but these oft-scorned creatures are surprisingly understudied. Hop on board the Rat Van with a team of pioneering Vancouver scientists as they ...

CBC, The National, Feb. 2024 When the sun goes down, a swarm of rats emerges in downtown Vancouver (online) The Canadian Press, Feb. 2024 Lack of schooling in Olympic village, Rats in Vancouver, & ...

Some are sweet. “I’ve had a wild rat crawl right into my hand,” says Dr. Kaylee Byers, a scientist who has researched Vancouver’s rats. Others are anxious, playful, or ruthless and scrappy.

Our research has found that most rat complaints to the City of Vancouver are actually complaints about situations involving poor environmental hygiene, where rats are invoked by complainants to ...

On his website, the Vancouver artist maintains that public ... uproar when he declared he would drop a large cement block on a rat named Sniffy near the corner of Burrard and Robson streets.