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Who is responsible when a bed bug infestation is discovered in my apartment?

If you have a problem with bed bugs or other insects or pests, you should immediately inform your landlord, your superintendent or property manager, or someone else who is responsible for ensuring homes are pest-free. As a tenant, you are responsible for cooperating with your landlord's efforts to control bed bugs.

It is the landlord's responsibility to maintain the rental unit so that is fit for habitation and complies with health standards.

What if your landlord fails to take action?

If a landlord refuses to help when a tenant notifies them of a bed bug problem, tenants may obtain assistance or advice from a legal clinic or from the Landlord and Tenant Board.
Another option available to tenants whose landlord does not maintain their building properly is to file an application about maintenance with Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB). If the Board finds that the building or unit is not maintained adequately, there are several remedies that can be ordered. These include an abatement of rent, an order requiring the landlord to conduct the necessary repairs, or a rent freeze until the problems are resolved.

If you are interested in filing an application with the LTB, you can contact the Board by telephone at 1-888-332-3234 (416-645-8080 in the Toronto area), or visit its website at www.ltb.gov.on.ca.

(1.1) Any day during which an applicant for citizenship resided with the applicant’s spouse who at the time was a Canadian citizen and was employed outside of Canada in or with the Canadian armed forces or the federal public administration or the public service of a province, otherwise than as a locally engaged person, shall be treated as equivalent to one day of residence in Canada for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) and subsection 11(1).

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1- Can I use my new passport to travel without my Canadian citizenship card?

A Certificate of Canadian Citizenship is not a travel document. A Canadian passport is the only reliable and universally accepted travel and identification document available to Canadians for the purpose of international travel. Canadian citizens returning to Canada who present other documents instead of a Canadian passport may face delays or be denied boarding by transport companies.

2- If I need to re-place or re-apply for my lost Citizenship Card, where can I start, which is the steps, and does it cost me money?

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states that it is illegal to import drugs from any other country, including Canada, except under very specific circumstances. The only case where importation is allowed is when all four of these conditions are met: the drug is needed to treat a serious condition, is not advertised in the U.S., does not present “unreasonable risk” and is not available in the United States. You are allowed to physically carry a 3 month supply of medication for personal use across the border, but you are not allowed to have medication shipped to you from across the border. More information can be found on the FDA Office of Regulatory Affairs website. You may also want to review the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy information on “Buying Medicine Online”.

As well, pharmacists in Canada are not legally allowed to fill prescriptions from physicians that are not licensed to practice medicine in Canada. This means that in order to get a prescription filled from a pharmacy in Canada, a prescription from a U.S. physician has to be signed again (or co-signed) by a Canadian physician. Some pharmacies offer to have your prescription co-signed by a Canadian physician for you. The problem is that physicians who do so are not considered to be meeting all the standards of care set out by their medical regulatory bodies because they are signing prescriptions for patients they have never met. It is generally considered unprofessional to write or sign prescriptions without establishing a valid physician-patient relationship that has included an in-person physical examination. The Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada “believes that physicians should only prescribe (including telephone prescribing, Internet prescribing, countersigning of prescriptions and electronic prescribing) in the context of an established patient-physician relationship to assure continuity of care and ensure appropriate information is transmitted to the patient” 3. The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) “strongly opposes” the participation of physicians in the co-signing of prescriptions for patients from other jurisdictions in Canada or abroad.