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SHARES David Wesley lives in the Colonial Hotel, a SRO building in Gastown. He says the building’s rat problem is so bad that he never sleeps with the light off.
Photo by Jen St. Denis.
David Wesley hasn’t slept with the light off since he first moved into the Colonial Hotel three years ago. Night is when the rats come out of the walls, through the holes they’ve gnawed under the sink.
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