City hires hit-birds to chase gulls from Trail Road dump

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OTTAWA — The city spends more than $75,000 a year to hire birds to assassinate other birds at the Trail Road landfill, a detail revealed in a routine contracting report. The bill for Predator Bird Services Inc. of London was $95,386 last year and is another $72,309 this year. The work is described as “Professional services to undertake the Raptor Program at the Trail Waste Facility”. It’s one of dozens of small contracts city officials sign without asking for city councillors’ specific permission and are revealed in a densely packed report delivered to council each quarter. Councillors ordinarily receive it without asking any questions.

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