Pest company fined $130,000 after students at cockroach-infested school sickened

A pest control company has been fined $130,000 for applying insecticides that left some kids and staff at Charles H. Hulse Public School sick, shutting down the Alta Vista elementary school for more than a month.
Rentokil Pest Control Canada Ltd. and employee Luc Lortie pleaded guilty Thursday to one count under the Pesticides Act in the April 2015 incident. Rentokil was fined $130,000 plus a victim fine surcharge of $32,500; Lortie pleaded guilty and was fined $2,400 plus a victim fine sur