The morning after deep cleaning began at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) cafeteria in Kingston, Ont., a crew arrived to find a rat “convulsing in death throes” on a cart in the dish room.
It was Aug. 14, 2022 and a plan to spend three days scrubbing and disinfecting in order to reopen the Cadet Dining Hall (CDH), where a battle had been waged against a pest problem for weeks, was about to end in retreat.
An email from a shift supervisor paints a grisly picture.
It describes another rat dead in a trap by the juice machine, a large pool of blood and spatters under the
